Audio snippets

This is a collection of audio recordings of me working various DXpeditions, new countries/slots and other interesting stations. The quality of these recordings varies, I started off just taking the audio directly out of the radio and saving it but for a while now I’ve been normalising the volume.  In most of them my audio sounds quite harsh, that’s because when I’m trying to break a pileup, I use my Heil headset with the HC4 insert which is tailored for DX working. You generally won’t hear my initial call because that’s made using the voice keyer within the TS-590 and that doesn’t get saved.

How the recordings are made

The Kenwood TS-590 with the voice module is continually recording the last 30 seconds of audio.  After a QSO I hit the button which stores these 30 seconds and then I play the audio from the radio into the Audacity software running on my computer.  I trim each recording to length then normalise the levels so that the whole thing is nice and loud.  Finally I add a short ‘fade out’ at the end and export the audio to an mp3 file.

ZD9CW (Tristan da Cunha) on 17m RTTY, QSO date: 13/10/2018

OJ0C (Market Reef) on 20m, QSO date: 24/08/2018

3B7A (Agalega and St Brandon) on 17m CW, QSO date: 09/04/2018

Z60A (Kosovo) on 80m RTTY, QSO date: 11/02/2018

Z60A (Kosovo) on 20m CW, QSO date: 24/01/2018

Z60A (Kosovo) on 20m, QSO date: 23/01/2018

3C1L (Equatorial Guinea) on 17m CW, QSO date: 01/11/2017

9Q0HQ (Democratic Republic of the Congo) on 15m, QSO date: 20/03/2015

VU7AG (Lakshadweep Islands) on 12m, QSO date: 09/12/2013

5J0R (San Andres & Providencia) on 15m RTTY, QSO date: 03/11/2013

TN2MS (Republic of the Congo) on 17m, QSO date: 15/10/2013

KG4HF (Guantanamo Bay) on 12m RTTY, QSO date: 12/10/2013

HH5/KC0W (Haiti) on 15m, QSO date: 09/07/2013

A25RJ (Botswana) on 15m RTTY, QSO date: 17/06/2013

HD8A (Galapagos Islands) on 17m, QSO date: 24/05/2013

NH0J (Mariana Islands) on 15m RTTY, QSO date: 29/04/2013

V25PM (Antigua) on 20m, QSO date: 29/04/2013

TJ3AY (Cameroon) on 10m, QSO date: 28/04/2013

8Q7KP (Maldives) on 17m, QSO date: 27/04/2013

TZ6BB (Mali) on 15m, QSO date: 21/04/2013

C91RF (Mozambique) on 12m, QSO date: 19/04/2013

VK9CZ (Cocos Keeling Islands) on 15m, QSO date: 10/04/2013

9M4SLL (Spratly Islands) on 15m, QSO date: 13/03/2013

TX5K (Clipperton Island) on 15m, QSO date: 08/03/2013

TX5K (Clipperton Island) on 17m RTTY, QSO date: 06/03/2013

XT2TT (Burkina Faso) on 17m, QSO date: 02/03/2013

J52HF (Guinea-Bissau) on 15m, QSO date: 24/02/2013

XT2TT (Burkina Faso) on 15m, QSO date: 24/02/2013

9U4U (Burundi) on 12m, QSO date: 21/02/2013

9U4U (Burundi) on 17m, QSO date: 21/02/2013

9U4U (Burundi) on 15m, QSO date: 21/02/2013

9U4U (Burundi) on 17m RTTY, QSO date: 21/02/2013

9U4U (Burundi) on 20m, QSO date: 19/02/2013

5T0SP (Mauritania) on 15m, QSO date: 09/12/2012

5T0SP (Mauritania) on 20m, QSO date: 07/12/2012

PT0S (St. Peter and St. Paul) on 20m, QSO date: 14/11/2012

PT0S (St. Peter and St. Paul) on 17m, QSO date: 11/11/2012

AA4VK/CY0 (Sable Island) on 15m, QSO date: 24/10/2012

XX9THX (Macau) on 15m, QSO date: 21/10/2012

VK9XM (Christmas Island) on 12m, QSO date: 10/10/2012

3D2C (Conway Reef) on 20m, QSO date: 02/10/2012

NH8S (Swains Island) on 17m, QSO date: 09/09/2012

D64K (Comoros) on 10m, QSO date: 10/08/2012

CY9M (St. Paul Island) on 17m, QSO date: 29/07/2012

CY9M (St. Paul Island) on 20m, QSO date: 27/07/2012

1A0C (Sovereign Military Order of Malta) on 17m, QSO date: 04/07/2012

1A0C (Sovereign Military Order of Malta) on 15m, QSO date: 03/07/2012

1A0C (Sovereign Military Order of Malta) on 10m, QSO date: 02/07/2012

1A0C (Sovereign Military Order of Malta) on 12m, QSO date: 01/07/2012

1A0C (Sovereign Military Order of Malta) on 20m, QSO date: 01/07/2012

A5A (Bhutan) on 17m, QSO date: 01/06/2012

A5A (Bhutan) on 15m, QSO date: 01/06/2012

6O0CW (Somalia) on 20m, QSO date: 16/05/2012

6O0CW (Somalia) on 17m, QSO date: 13/05/2012

7O6T (Yemen) on 10m, QSO date: 05/05/2012

7O6T (Yemen) on 15m, QSO date: 04/05/2012

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