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.
How the recordings are made
My Kenwood TS-890 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.
CY9C (Saint Paul Island) on 30m CW, QSO date: 01/09/2024
CY9C (Saint Paul Island) on 17m, QSO date: 31/08/2024
CY9C (Saint Paul Island) on 12m CW, QSO date: 29/08/2024
CY9C (Saint Paul Island) on 17m CW, QSO date: 29/08/2024
CY9C (Saint Paul Island) on 10m CW, QSO date: 27/08/2024
CY9C (Saint Paul Island) on 20m CW, QSO date: 26/08/2024
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
