Christmas greetings from members and friends of the Arctic Radio Club

It's that time of the year again.... Here are some Christmas messages from near and far, from members of our club and our friends. First out is our friend Sietse Brouwer and his radioship Jennie Baynton:

Desde Colombia y La Voz de tu Conciencia/Alcaravan Radio:

Greetings from our member Odd Påg and Santa Claus at Sandvattnet:

Another of our members, Hasse Mattisson, sent this picture of his Christmas Smorgasbord:

From all of us to all of you: A Very Merry Christmas!

Live broadcast from Morokulien

In addition to the previously published schedule there will be another broadcast from Arctic Radio, Morokulien, starting at 14.00 SNT (13.00 UTC) on January 6. This time the programme will be live from Morokulien and presented by the president of this tiny nation, SM4SXQ Odd Westby. Do tune in!

ARC Newsflash: New RSL station: Arctic Radio, Morokulien

ARCTIC RADIO MOROKULIEN

In the Peace Kingdom Morokulien, located right on the border between Norway and Sweden, just northwest of Charlottenberg, ARCTIC RADIO CLUB will be starting a new radio station (RSL-restricted special license) on mediumwave on December 28, 2009 thanks to good cooperation with the chairman of Arim, Amateur Radiooperators in Morokulien.
Arctic Radio Club of Sweden and the Peace Kingdom Morokulien jointly celebrate their 50th anniversaries by these broadcasts.

The radio station's main frequency is 1584 kHz, but some test broadcasts will also be carried out on 1602 kHz. The power is approximately 400 watts. The coordinates of the transmitting station is: N 59 degrees, 56 min, 15 sec. E 12 degrees, 12 minutes, 30 seconds. All information about transmissions, frequencies and possible additional test transmissions will be announced in our ARC News Flash.

Official broadcast schedule: 28.12.2009 00:00 - 01:00 28.12.2009 14:00 - 15:00 30.12.2009 09:00 - 10:00 06.01.2010 09:00 - 10:00 10.01.2010 14:00 - 15:30 10.01.2010 21:00 - 23:00
All times are Swedish Standard Time (UTC + 1 hour).

Programmes will be in Swedish, with some parts in English. Station identification will be in both languages.

ARC concludes its celebration with broadcasts on Sunday 10 January, 2010.

For those interested, a unique QSL card will be printed. This is of course, a QSL card for the first medium wave transmission from the Peace Kingdom Morokulien.

See more on the Peace Kingdom Morokulien:
a movie made by Swedish TV this year: www. svtplay.se/v/1695307/varmlandsnytt/morokulien-50-ar http://www.morokulieninfocenter.com/ http://www.fredsmonumentet.com/ / index.html

Please contact the ARCTIC RADIO, PO Box 5050, SE-350 05 Växjö, Sweden. Email: arctic.radio.morokulien@telia.com
Reception reports are welcome to the above addresses and if you request a printed QSL-card for the correct reception report, please include 2 stamps, IRCs or $ for Swedish domestic postage.If you want to be notified of further commemorative broadcasts in 2010 please send us your email address.

ARC/SWB meeting at Kaneberg, Halmstad

This weekend the Arctic Radio Club and Shortwave Bulletin had its annual meeting at the Kaneberg cabin, close to Halmstad in southern Sweden. Before the hurricane Gudrun swept over the area bringing down most of the trees that used to carry the antennas there used to be a lot of DX-ing at these gatherings. This time a couple of shorter antennas were erected but due to some powerful electrical disturbances most listening had to be made on FM. Still it was a nice meeting and it was great to meet many of the wellknown ARC/SWB signatures in person.

ARC, the Arctic Radio Club, used to be somewhat of a secret circle and new members had to be recommended by a present member. This was mainly because there were a lot of fake loggings made by unscrupulous 'DX-ers' but today anyone who's interested can join the club. It may have kept a low profile over the years but long before the Internet it provided a very fast information service through its printed bulletin, MV-Eko (The MW Echo). This bulletin is still issued in printed form and with a deadline on Monday you will have the bulletin in your letterbox by Wednesday! Who could beat that - and who really needs the Internet? Actually, ARC has been running since 1960 and several of the original members are still active. Many of Sweden's most successful DX-ers are to be found as members of ARC and SWB and the MV-Eko has been full of exciting loggings due to this season's great propagation conditions. Also, members of the clubs are regularly providing information for the World Radio TV Handbook.

As we all know the number of stations on short wave and in the tropical bands is being drastically reduced every year but fortunately there are still lots of new finds to be made in the medium wave (AM broadcasting band). Still the SWB will continue to come out albeit less frequently. As for the MVE it will continue to be published as a printed bulletin for the time being. It is really an impressive work which is done by the editors of both bulletins and these publications are a must for the active DX-er.

Next year Arctic Radio Club will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary and we will get back to that. Below are the radio enthusiasts of ARC and SWB who attended the meeting.