SSB SWL contest summer 2025 rules

 This contest aims to encourage listening to the SSB single side band mode ((BLU in French) on the amateur radio bands and also on the 11 meter band. It will be necessary to try to listen to the maximum number of DXCC entities and world islands (IOTA). For radio amateurs and freebanders of the 11 meter they will be able to list their contacts as those who only listen. There will be diplomas sent by email. A diploma for the DXCC category and a diploma for the world islands. For the headphones they will be able to use receivers and antennas. For those who listen by their computer via WEB SDR or KIWI SDR they will be welcome but will have to listen during the whole contest from the same SDR. This contest will last all summer from June to the end of October so as not to miss the biggest contest of the year the CQ WW SSB 2025 where there are 35,000 radio amateurs who during 48 hours broadcast from many DXCCs. The bands to listen to will be 10 meter, 11 meter, 12 meter, 15 meter, 17 meter and 20 meter. The complete rules will be published in April 2025. It will be shared on many sites and Facebook groups as well as on my 3 blogs. Thanks and 73 from Frank SWL F14368 / F0DUW

Cheap price SSB receiver XHDATA D-808  https://www.facebook.com/xhdata.radios

I have received few BCL QSL cards

 

Nice SW radio receivers HEATHKIT from the past

 Nice SW radio receivers HEATHKIT from the past

Heathkit is the brand name of kits and other electronic products produced and marketed by the Heath Company. The products over the decades have included electronic test equipment, high fidelity home audio equipment, television receivers, amateur radio equipment, robots, electronic ignition conversion modules for early model cars with point style ignitions, and the influential Heath H-8, H-89, and H-11 hobbyist computers, which were sold in kit form for assembly by the purchaser.

Heathkit manufactured electronic kits from 1947 until 1992. After closing that business, the Heath Company continued with its products for education, and motion-sensor lighting controls. The lighting control business was sold around 2000. The company announced in 2011 that they were re-entering the kit business after a 20-year hiatus but then filed for bankruptcy in 2012,^[2] and under new ownership began restructuring in 2013. As of 2022, the company has a live website with newly designed products, services, vintage kits, and replacement parts for sale.^[3] In August 2023 Heath Company announced its acquisition by Kirkwall (company) as part of a planned expansion in North Dakota, and named former CIA officer and entrepreneur Will Cromarty as President and Chief Executive Officer.^[4]

Receiving and Transmitting Equipment

• AR-2 Communications Receiver
• AR-3 Communications Receiver
• AT-1 Amateur Transmitter
• DX-20 CW Transmitter
• DX-35 Phone & CW Transmitter
• DX-40 Phone & CW Transmitter
• DX-60 Phone & CW Transmitter
• DX-100 Phone & CW Transmitter
• DX-100-B Phone & CW Transmitter
• GC-1A "Mohican" General Coverage Receiver
• GR-91 General Coverage Receiver
• HA-10 "Warrior" Kilowatt Linear Amplifier
• HA-20 6-meter Linear Amplifier
• HP-10 Transistor Mobile Power Supply
• HP-13 DC "Mobile" Power Supply
• HP-23 AC Power Supply
• HR-10 Ham Receiver
• HR-20 SSB Mobile Receiver
• HW-10 "Shawnee" 6-Meter Transceiver
• HW-12 80-Meter SSB Transceiver
• HW-19 "Tener" 10-Meter Transceiver
• HW-20 "Pawnee" 2-Meter Transceiver
• HW-22 40-Meter SSB Transceiver
• HW-29A "Sixer" 6-Meter Transceiver
• HW-30 "Twoer" 2-Meter Transceiver
• HW-32 20-Meter SSB Transceiver
• HX-10 "Marauder" SSB Transmitter
• HX-11 CW Transmitter
• HX-20 SSB Mobile Transmitter
• HX-30 6-Meter SSB Transmitter
• KL-1 "Chippewa" Kilowatt Linear Amplifier
• KS-1 Kilowatt Power Supply
• MP-1 Mobile Power Supply
• MR-1 "Comanche" Mobile Ham Receiver
• MT-1 "Cheyenne" Mobile Ham Transmitter
• RX-1 "Mohawk" Ham Receiver
• SB-10 SSB Adapter
• TX-1 "Apache" Ham Transmitter
• VHF-1 "Seneca" VHF Ham Transmitter
• XC-2 2-Meter Converter
• XC-6 6-Meter Converter

https://web.archive.org/web/20080928080041/http://www.heathkit-museum.com/hvmham.shtml

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Catalogs/Allied-Catalogs/Heathkit-1967.pdf

FREE PDF BOOK HEATHKIT A guide to the Amateur Radio and SWL Products by WA7ZZE

 http://w8dyy.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Heathkit-AGuideToTheAmateurRadioProducts.pdf

http://heathkit.free.fr/

All the receivers are in this FREE PDF book

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-DX/Miscellaneous/ShortwaveReceiversPastAndPresent-2ndEd.pdf

29 Heathkit AR-1 ............................................................................... 157 AR-2 ............................................................................... 158 AR-3 ....... ............... ......................................................... 158 GC-1A, GCW-1A ........................................................... 159 GR-54 .......... ................................................................... 159 GR-64 ............................................................................. 160 GR-78 ............................................................................. 160 GR-81 .................................................................... ..... .... 161 GR-91, GR-91E .............................................................. 161 HR-10, HR-108 .. ............................................................ 162 HR-20 ................................. ............................................ 162 HR-1680 ......................................................................... 163 MR-1 ............... ................................................................ 163 RX-1 ........................... .................................................... 164 SB-300 ............... ........ .................................................... 164 SB-301 ........................................................................... 165 SB-303 ...................................... ..................................... 165 SB-310 ....................................................................... .... 166 SB-313 ............... ............................................................ 166 SW-717 .................................................. ........................ 167 SW-7800 ............................................................... ......... 

https://people.ohio.edu/postr/bapix/index.htm

https://www.dxing.com/rx/tindex.htm

https://www.heathkit-museum.com/hkham.html

https://xarc.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Heathkit-Amateur-Radio-Products.pdf

https://people.ohio.edu/postr/bapix/HLegacy.htm

https://www.rigpix.com/heathkit/heathkit.htm

DSWCI web site will close soon

 This site will be taken off the Internet on 5th March 2025.

But the web site is allready on WEB ARCHIVES

https://web.archive.org/web/20230324144648/http://dswci.org/

http://www.dswci.org/index.html

i was subscriber of this magazine and i think this SWL was one of the best in Europe.

Look also this very interesting list from 2024

https://web.archive.org/web/20240922054009/http://www.dswci.org/

TROPICAL bands on SW ???

http://www.pateplumaradio.com/genbroad/tropical.htm

Band	Frequency Range	Notes
120 metres	2300-2495 kHz	Only used in tropical areas. (Strictly speaking not a short-wave band but a medium wave one!)
90 metres	3200-3400 kHz	Only used in tropical areas.
75 metres	3900-4000 kHz	Not used in the Americas. Restricted to 3950-4000 kHz in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
60 metres	4750-4995 kHz	Only used in tropical areas

Free SW guide for BCL

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1luo44SIPrdtQ61RdCTgeHDl-e1rjhCAJ/view?fbclid=IwY2xjawHt2jVleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHRfQ0UQOOTaJI-UOYwszCy3p7cLPMJ3fMkCrgQ-yS0MsF-bulUvt3KGFwQ_aem_20SDgGiKi0yfarKZyU2Riw