I will be posting (hopefully) on a weekly basis, pictures of my handwritten log entries for my radio reception. Most of it is Shortwave DX, but I also listen to some AM DX and VHF/UHF in FM.
Here is a key for the abbreviations I use i my logbooks…
- UTC Date and Time: Date and Time in Coordinated Universal Time – note that for the pages 1-8 of my log, the dates are based on the date CDT (Central daylight time). But from page 9 onward, dates will be UTC.
- CDT Time: Central daylight Time (my time here in Oklahoma)
- RX LOC: Reception location (most often it will be home in far Northwest Oklahoma City)
- RX Equip: This is the equipment I used to receive the transmision.
- Eton: An Eton Traveler III Portable shortwave radio
- Eton+: The Eton Traveler III with a long wire alligator-clipped to the factory antenna.
- Bao: My Baofeng FM Dual-band transceiver
- TX Station: Name of the station that the transmission originates from
- TX LOC: Location of the transmitter
- S-R: Signal report (I varied this some i early reports, but now I rate reception in this way…
- 1: Completely un-readable
- 1-2: Picking up an occasional word
- 2: Barely readable, some words can be heard
- 2-3: A little better
- 3: Readable but with considerable difficulty
- 3-4: Readable with occasional difficulty
- 4: Readable with only rare difficulty
- 4-5: Very clear and readable
- 5: Perfect, easy to understand
- LANG: Language
- Genre & Notes: Description of the broadcast