KH0/JH1BXH(Mariana Islands) on 40m LSB!!!

KH0/JH1BXH(Mariana Islands) on 40m LSB!!!

JH1BXH  Japan Takashi - kat - Kato Shimorenjyaku Mitaka City Tokyo Japan [+] Mailing label
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20121130 1015UTC 7078kHz KH0/JH1BXH
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Tinian ( /ˈtɪniən/ or /ˌtiːniˈɑːn/) is one of the three principal islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Geography

Saipan, Tinian & Agiguan.

Tinian is about 5 miles (8 km) southwest of its sister island, Saipan, from which it is separated by the Saipan Channel. It has a land area of 39 sq.mi. (101.01 km²). Together with uninhabited neighboring Aguijan Island (2.74 sq mi, or 7.09 km²), it forms Tinian Municipality, one of the four constituent municipalities of the Northern Marianas. The total area of the municipality is 41.74 sq mi (108.1 km²). Tinian's largest village is San Jose. The island has a variety of flora and fauna, and limestone cliffs and caves. The Tinian Monarch is the island's only endemic bird species and it is threatened by habitat loss. There is a variety of marine life and coral reefs surrounding the island. Its clear, warm waters are ideal for snorkeling, scuba diving and sport fishing.

Tourist destinations

Tinian has two gas stations and a casino. The village of San Jose has several smaller hotels and restaurants and bars. The airport is small and serviced by two airlines, Freedom Air, which operates daily scheduled flights, and Star Marianas Air, which operates by charter. The ferry boat service that operated twice daily between Tinian and Saipan ran at a loss estimated to be US$1 million a year, and has now ceased. The island has the only intact Shinto shrine on the Mariana Islands.

Much of the local economy is dependent on tourism. The largest employers on the island are the government and the casino. As of March 2006, the island has plans to put in four new casinos.^{[citation needed]} The 2010 census showed a population of 3,136^[1] for the island.

[edit]House of Taga

Main article: House of Taga (Mariana Islands)

The House of Taga is a Latte stone site, one of the largest such structures in the Marianas. The stones are quarried limestone, each approximately 20 feet (6.1 m) in length. Of the twelve large Latte structures, only one is still standing.

LZ1YQ(Bulgaria) on 40m CW!!!

LZ1YQ(Bulgaria) on 40m CW!!!

LZ1YQ  Bulgaria HRISTO ZDRAVKOV 9 ' Mesemvria' str. Plovdiv 4000 Bulgaria [+] Mailing label
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20m, 17m,15m,12m, 10m, 9el. ACOM Antena/new design/ 35m. up

6m , 3el yagi 37m. up

20121129 2052UTC 7009.54kHz LZ1YQ

Date : 29/Nov/2012 2052UTC 
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Bulgaria ⁱ/bʌlˈɡɛəriə/ (Bulgarian: България, IPA: [bɤ̞ɫˈɡarijɐ]), officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country located inSoutheastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south and the Black Sea to the east. With a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi), Bulgaria is Europe's 14th-largest country. Its location has made it a historical crossroad for various civilisations and as such it is the home of some of the earliest metalworking, religious and other cultural artifacts in the world.^[6][7][8][9]

Prehistoric cultures began developing on Bulgarian lands during the Neolithic period. Its ancient history saw the presence of theThracians, and later by the Greeks and Romans. The emergence of a unified Bulgarian state dates back to the establishment of theFirst Bulgarian Empire in 681 AD, which dominated most of the Balkans and functioned as a cultural hub for Slavic peoples during the Middle Ages. With the downfall of the Second Bulgarian Empire in 1396, its territories came under Ottoman rule for nearly five centuries. The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 created the Third Bulgarian State, which became independent in 1908. The following years saw several conflicts with its neighbours, which prompted Bulgaria to align with Germany in both World Wars. In 1946 it became a Socialist state with a single-party system. In 1989 the Communist Party allowed multi-party elections, following which Bulgaria transitioned to democracy and a market-based economy.

The population of 7.36 million people is predominantly urban and mainly concentrated in the administrative centres of its 28 provinces. Most commercial and cultural activities are concentrated in the capital Sofia. The strongest sectors of the economy are heavy industry, power engineering and agriculture, all relying on local natural resources.

The current political structure dates to the adoption of a democratic constitution in 1991. Bulgaria is a unitary parliamentary republic with a high degree of political, administrative and economic centralisation. It is a member of the European Union, NATO and theCouncil of Europe, a founding state of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and has taken a seat at theUN Security Council three times.

AH0J(Mariana Islands) on 40m LSB!!!

AH0J(Mariana Islands) on 40m LSB!!!

AH0J  Mariana Islands KATSUMI YOSHINUMA PO BOX 502571 SAN JOSE, MP 96950 USA [+] Mailing label
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20121129 2015UTC 7145kHz AH0J
Date : 29/Nov/2012 2015UTC 
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The Mariana Islands (also the Marianas; up to the early 20th century sometimes called Ladrones Islands, from Spanish Islas de los Ladrones meaning "Islands of Thieves") are an arc-shaped archipelagomade up by the summits of fifteen volcanic mountains in the north-western Pacific Ocean between the12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th meridian east. They are south of Japan and north of New Guinea, and form the eastern limit of the Philippine Sea. The islands were named after Spanish QueenMariana of Austria in the 17th century, when Spain started the colonization of the archipelago. They form the northern part of the western Pacific subregion of Micronesia, and are composed of two U.S. jurisdictions: the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and, at the southern end of the chain of islands, the territory of Guam.

The islands are part of a geologic structure known as the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc system, and range in age from 5 million years old in the north to 30 million years old in the south (Guam). The island chain arises as a result of the western edge of the Pacific Plate moving westward and plunging downward below theMariana plate, a region which is the most volcanically active convergent plate boundary on Earth. Thissubduction region, just east of the island chain, forms the noted Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Earth's oceans and lowest part of Earth's crust. In this region, according to geologic theory, water trapped in the extensive faulting of the Pacific Plate as serpentinite, is heated by the higher temperatures of depth during its subduction, and the pressure from the expanding steam results in the hydrothermal activity in the area, and the volcanic activity which formed the Mariana Islands.^[1]

7Z1RR(Saudi Arabia) on 40m LSB!!!

7Z1RR(Saudi Arabia) on 40m LSB!!!

7Z1RR  Saudi Arabia BANDER ALSUFYANI ALTHAGAFY jeddah JEDDAH Saudi Arabia [+] Mailing label
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20121129 1900UTC 7093kHz 7Z1RR
Date : 29/Nov/2012 1900UTC 
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Saudi Arabia (ⁱ/ˌsaʊdi əˈreɪbi.ə/ or ⁱ/ˌsɔːdiː əˈreɪbi.ə/; Arabic: السعودية‎ as-Su‘ūdiyyah or as-Sa‘ūdiyyah), officially known as theKingdom of Saudi Arabia (Arabic: المملكة العربية السعودية‎ al-Mamlakah al-‘Arabiyyah as-Su‘ūdiyyah  Arabic pronunciation (help·info)), is the largest Arab state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab world (after Algeria). It is bordered by Jordan and Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait,Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south. The Red Sea lies to its west, and the Persian Gulf lies to the east. Saudi Arabia has an area of approximately 2,250,000 km² (870,000 sq mi), and it has an estimated population of 27 million, of which 9 million are registered foreign expatriates and an estimated 2 million are illegal immigrants. Saudi nationals comprise an estimated 16 million people.^[7]

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was founded by Abdul-Aziz bin Saud (known for most of his career as Ibn Saud) in 1932, although the conquests which eventually led to the creation of the Kingdom began in 1902 when he captured Riyadh, the ancestral home of his family, the House of Saud, referred to in Arabic as Al Saud. The Saudi Arabian government, which has been an absolute monarchy since its inception, refers to its system of government as Islamic. The kingdom is sometimes called "The Land of the Two Holy Mosques" in reference to Al-Masjid al-Haram (in Mecca), and Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (in Medina), the two holiest places in Islam.

Saudi Arabia has the world's second largest oil reserves which are concentrated largely in the Eastern Province^[8][9] and oil accounts for more than 95% of exports and 70% of government revenue. This facilitates the creation of a welfare state^[10]although the share of the non-oil economy is growing recently. It has also the world's sixth largest natural gas reserves.

7P8D(Lesotho) on 40m CW!!!

7P8D(Lesotho) on 40m CW!!!

7P8D  Lesotho 2012 Lesotho DX pedition 7P8D DX Pedition P O Box 29169 Sunridge Park 6008 South Africa [+] Mailing label
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20m用のアンテナなのでGain不足です。
非常に薄い信号ですが、なんとか聞き取れるレベルです。

20121128 2008UTC 7026kHz 7P8D
Date : 28/Nov/2012 2008UTC 
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Lesotho (ⁱ/lɨˈsuːtuː/ li-soo-too), officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country and enclave, completely surrounded by its only neighbouring country, the Republic of South Africa. It is just over 30,000 km² (11,583 sq mi) in size with a population of approximately 2,067,000.^[1] Its capital and largest city is Maseru. Lesotho is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The nameLesotho translates roughly into the land of the people who speak Sesotho.^[4] About 40% of the population live below theinternational poverty line of US $1.25 a day.^[5]

Geography

Satellite image of Lesotho

Landscape of Lesotho

Main article: Geography of Lesotho

Lesotho covers 30,355 km² (11,720 sq mi). It is the only independent state in the world that lies entirely above 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) in elevation. Its lowest point of 1,400 metres (4,593 ft) is thus the highest in the world. Over 80% of the country lies above 1,800 metres (5,906 ft). Lesotho is also the southernmost landlocked country in the world and is entirely surrounded by the country of South Africa. It lies between latitudes 28° and 31°S, and longitudes 27° and 30°E.

[edit]Climate

Main article: Climate of Lesotho

Because of its altitude, Lesotho remains cooler throughout the year than other regions at the same latitude. Most of the rain falls as summer thunderstorms. Maseru and surrounding lowlands often reach 30 °C (86 °F) in summer. Winters can be cold with the lowlands getting down to −7 °C (19 °F) and the highlands to −18 °C (−0 °F) at times. Snow is common in the highlands between May and September; the higher peaks can experience snowfalls year-round.

Again V63EPO(Micronesia) on 20m RTTY!!!

Again V63EPO(Micronesia) on 20m RTTY!!!

V63EPO  Micronesia Masahiko Ishizuka JA7EPO Pohnpei Micronesia [+] Mailing label
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QSL: VIA JA7EPO DIRECT ONLY

20121128 0702UTC 14085kHz V63EPO
Date : 28/Nov/2012 0702UTC 
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