[HCDX] Radio St. Helena 2009

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It was interesting to read all the posts of little to no reception of
Radio St. Helena, especially in North America.


Here I was able to record the entire broadcast from 2000, although the
North American portion was by far the worst  reception and suffered
from the usual distortion as had been noted in the past.  An e-mail to
the station did not get anserwed no was the problem fixed as it had
been in the past.  RF getting back into the transmitter with their
antenna beam directly at the utility transmission tower on the RSH site.


2000 "crash started" with a couple of time pips and the National
anthem.  The first song was Hotel California and at 2020 the
"unoffical NA" St. Helena Island was played.  Throughout the first
couple of hours there was mention of a contest and winners were
selected at 0057 UTC.

Some other hilites was the pirate heard at 2254 UTC singing over the
ABBA tune about wanting to meet up wth a lady on St. Helena (not using
those words though).

Best reception was probably between the 2200 hour to Europe when many
Japanese listeners reported very good reception and received several
music requests.

Any of the pre-recored segments (with the Govenor, Commerace advisor,
or the young school girl that read a brief history of her school) just
did not have very good audio and was lost once it hit the shortwaves.

Useual "classic" pop/rock tunes from ABBA, Rush, The Carpenters, Joe
Cocker etc were played but during the North American broadcast I did
not recognize more than a couple of tunes and very little, if any
e-mails were read.


So, I suspect our choice of a log periodic helped reception, but the
beverages did do well early on as did the K9AY.  I was using an Icom
R72, while Don and Nigel used their Perseus.

By far the worst reception in recent memory of RSH day but by far not
a complete loss.

73
Mick Delmage
Sherwood Park

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