Thank you very much for your reception report to our brand new
radiostation Sunlite. Please find attached your Sunlite E-QSL
letter.
Since the start of the shortwave broadcasts on December 4th at
14.00 hours UTC on 5955 khz, we’ve received hundreds of reception
reports. Unfortunately due to a lack of time at this stage I’m not
able to answer everyone personally, but in this email I hope to
answer most of the questions I got over the past few days from the
DX-community.
Sunlite is broadcasting at this stage with 75 watts carrierpower
using a borrowed transmitter manufactured in Greece on 5955 khz
from our TX-site in the village of Overslag near the Belgian town
of Zelzate. Overslag is part of a small area called Westdorpe and
that’s why sometimes you’ll read Overslag and another time
Westdorpe but it’s all the same. The tower is 100 metres high but
the inverted V-antenna has been mounted on a height of 30 meters
and consists of a Teflon 1:1 RF choke.
Before Christmas the transmitter will come on air that currently
is being specially manufactured for Sunlite by our Dutch
transmitter-engineer Johnny Tax. Also for us it appeared to a
problem to get transmitter components delivered in time. But all
the components are now in our possession and our eventual very own
Sunlite-transmitter will be ready for use in a week or 2. The
TX-power will then increase to 400 watts carrier.
Sunlite is part of RadioCorp; a Dutch mediacompany based in
Naarden in the Netherlands. Older DX-ers may like to know that the
premises of Sunlite is the same as the headquarters as offshore
radiostation Radio Northsea International in the early 1970’s, the
so called “Hofstede” in Naarden-Bussum, just outside Amsterdam.
Some listeners mentioned that they miss DJ’s. However, Sunlite is
primarily aimed at a domestic audience in the Netherlands and can
be heard all over the Netherlands on DAB+ and online. Sunlite is a
nonstop softpop musicstation without DJ’s but if there would have
been DJ’s these DJ’s would present in Dutch. Also, in the event
you’d love to hear Dutch DJ’s talking in Dutch, feel free to tune
in online to one of our other radiostations 100% NL (
target=_new href="http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect.php?http://www.100p.nl">www.100p.nl) or SLAM! (
target=_new href="http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect.php?http://www.slam.nl">www.slam.nl) and we’d be very
happy to serve you there.
I hope you’ll continue to enjoy Sunlite on 5955 khz.
73’s
Herbert Visser
Sunlite Radio"
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Manuel Méndez
Lugo, Spain