My name is Bill Wolverton, I currently live in Denver, Colorado, USA and I am a licensed Ham Radio operator holding the ham radio call sign of KI7F. I have posted a list of shortwave radio stations as well as standard AM radio stations I have heard here in the Denver area as well as some ham radio contacts I had made while I was operating 10 meter mobile in Southern California back in the late 80's and early 90's.

Monday, August 25, 2003

KI7F/M6 10 meter Log from July, 1988 to August 1991

The following is a Past log record of amateur radio stations I had talked to on the 10 meter ham band operating mobile from my car as KI7F/Mobile 6 in the Los Angeles, California area from July 10th, 1988 to August 20th, 1991. I mostly operated from the L.A. South Bay area, such as Redondo Beach, Torrance, etc. and I used a Ranger AR-3500 10 meter multimode 30 watt transceiver using an 8 foot 1/4 wave whip or a mag mount antenna on the car and mostly operated SSB.

( I AM CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF COPYING THIS INFOMATION FROM MY LOG BOOK AS TIME PERMITS.)

Below is a photo of the Ranger AR-3500 10 meter transceiver I used and also
a photo of my old 1978 Chrysler Cordoba I operated from

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N7FYP Jerry near Seattle, Washington, USA. ............... USB 28.590 22:02 UTC July 10th, 1988

VK4BKC John at Labrador, Queensland, Australia ................ USB 28.430 22:20 UTC July 10th, 1988


KE6NA Kenny in Torrance, California, USA ............... FM Mode 29.600 23:01 UTC July 10th, 1988

NH6JC Mitch at Kauai, Hawaii, USA ................ USB 28.440 23:25 UTC July 10th, 1988

KB2FVQ Jim in Wellsville, N.Y., USA ................ USB 28.400 18:14 UTC August 8th, 1988

KB4YFJ Phil in Stuart, Florida, USA ................ USB 28.400 22:16 UTC August 8th, 1988


WB6EDU Clarence in Culver City, California, USA ........... USB 28.400 18:10 UTC August 22, 1988

N6RQW John in Whittier, California, USA ............... USB 28.400 18:17 UTC August 22, 1988

WA6DEL Tom in Los Angeles, California, USA ............... USB 28.386 21:13 UTC August 22, 1988 (Tom was using an AEA ten meter H.T. radio running only 2 watts!)

KJ6HI Leo in West Los Angeles, California, USA ................. USB 28.386 21:31 UTC August 22, 1988

W2ICI Art in Punta Gorda, Florida, USA ................. USB 28.355 23:57 UTC August 22, 1988

N6WY Dave at Palos Verdes, California, USA ............... FM Mode 28.500 18:28 UTC September 5, 1988

KZ8S Sy at Beckley, West Virgina, USA ................. USB 28.413 19:36 UTC September 5, 1988

WB2REM Jim in Trenton, New Jersey, USA ................. USB 28.413 19:49 UTC September 5. 1988

WA4GNR Mike in Quincy, Florida, USA ................. USB 28.413 19:53 UTC September 5, 1988

KC4EOE Al in Brooksfield, Florida, USA ............... USB 28.413 20:05 UTC September 5, 1988

KR0J/M8 Lost contact due to fade and QRM ................. USB 28.413 20:26 UTC September 5, 1988

KC4FSH John in Atlanta, Georgia, USA ................. USB 28.419 20:55 UTC September 5, 1988

K1TKL Paul in Lawndale, California, USA .............. USB 28.419 21:06 UTC September 5, 1988

WA8EZT Cliff near Detroit, Michigan, USA ............. USB 28.447 18:12 UTC
September 6, 1988

W8UPH Bob in Toledo, Ohio, USA .............. USB 28.447 18:18 UTC September 6, 1988

KB4WPL Pat at Charlotte, North Carolina, USA .............. USB 28.422 22:16 UTC September 6, 1988

WA8UNW John in Cleveland, Ohio, USA .............. USB 28.422 22:24 UTC September 6, 1988

KC2JF/4 Dick at Raleigh, North Carolina, USA .............. USB 28.422 22:31 UTC September 6, 1988

KA8VKY John in Oscoda, Michican, USA ................. USB 28.422 22:39 UTC September 6, 1988

kA3PVD Paul in S.W. Penn, USA ............... USB 28.422 22:43 UTC September 6, 1988

KB5FST Bill at Ocean Spring, Mississippi, USA ............... USB 28.422 22:54 UTC September 6, 1988

KA8ZXP Dave at Clarksburg, West Virginia, USA ............... USB 28.422 23:01 UTC September 6, 1988

N3APP Lee in Erie, Penn, USA ................ USB 28.600 23:10 UTC September 6, 1988

N6OU Edgar at Sylmar, California, USA ................ USB 28.501 October 2, 1988

WD6L/M6 Bob located 40 miles East of Los Angeles, California, USA ............ USB 28.404 October 2, 1988

I6FLD Tony at Pascada, Italy ................ USB 28.507 October 2, 1988

DJ6ZU Helmut in Germany ................ USB 28.624 October 2, 1988

K5AFL Doug in Austin, Texas, USA .............. USB 28.567 October 2, 1988

WG5E Jim near Dallas, Texas .................. USB 28.519 October 2, 1988

W0WKB Harold in Iowa, USA ............... USB 28.318 October 3, 1988

WB0CND Jim in Iowa, USA ............. USB 28.318 October 3, 1988

N6NKO Richard in Whittier, California, USA ............ USB 28.318 October 3, 1988

JA3AQW Yoshi at Himeji, Japan ............. USB 28.351 October 3, 1988

KA5AUK Vince at Ft. Worth, Texas, USA ................ USB 28.403 October 3, 1988

W5VHN Dick in Houston, Texas, USA ................ USB 28.575 October 4, 1988

ZL1ANX Art in Paeroa, New Zealand ............... USB 28.578 October 4, 1988












Wednesday, August 20, 2003

It is now Wednesday evening, August 20th, 2003 and I decided to sit down in front of the Grundig Satellit 800 radio at 9 PM this evening (03:00 UTC) to tune around the different shortwave radio broadcast bands and heard the following stations. "Voice Of America" with news commentary broadcasting on 9.575 Mhz at 9:10 PM MDT (03:10 UTC) Then I tuned into "China Radio International" at 9:40 PM MDT (03:40 UTC) on 9.610 Mhz as well as on 9.790 Mhz. I believe the 9.790 broadcast was coming from a relay transmitter up in Sackville, Canada and the 9.690 Mhz transmission was coming from a transmitter in Spain which was a weaker signal. Then I tuned in to "Taiwan Radio International" at 9:45 PM MDT (03:45 UTC) and they were on three different frequencies, 5.950 Mhz, 9.680 Mhz, both of which I believe are being retransmitted by WYFR in Florida and 15.215 Mhz (Which had seperate programming content ) which could be coming directly from a transmitter in Taiwan. All the signals were at a good S-9 level. The "BBC" World Service was very strong on 11.835 Mhz with a 10 Db over S9 average signal level at 9:55 PM MDT (03:55 UTC) They were doing some commentary program called Outlook.

At 10:00 PM MDT (04:00 UTC) I tuned into the three different frequencies given for Radio Israel on 9.435 Mhz, 15.640 Mhz and 17.600 Mhz and was not able to hear anything at all. The radio conditions this evening were not all that great! Radio Israel normally comes on the air at 04:00 UTC with an English Language broadcast for 15 mints. I then quickly tuned across the 20 meter Amateur Radio band and heard a number of SSB conversations going on and also heard some CW activity on the low end of 20 meters. Anyway, that is my report for this evening.

Sunday, August 17, 2003

My name is Bill Wolverton and I currently live in the Denver metro area. I am a licensed ham radio operator and my FCC issued ham radio call sign is KI7F. I am currently living in a small studio apartment and am not allowed to put up out side antennas, well, I did manage to connect a piece of wire to a metal down spout from the roof of my building to use for an antenna for my shortwave radio receiver and it seem to work fairly well. I currently am using a Grundig Satellit 800 shortwave Radio communication receiver for my shortwave radio listening activities and for my ham radio activites, I mainly operate on 2 meter FM using an Icom IC-2000H and have access to most of the Denver Metro area 2 meter FM repeater systems. I use an indoor 1/2 wave pico J antenna hanging from my apartment ceiling and I run about 10 watts of power with the Icom IC-2000H.

I will tell you what stations I am hearing on my shortwave radio as well as on the standard AM broadcast band and will report any other activity or items of interest pertaining to my ham radio and SWL hobby and will try to include any URL links of interest. My E-mail address is ki7f@yahoo.com and I do have a personal web site at http:ki7f.mixutah.com and I have a personal Photo Album on the Webshot site at: http://community.webshots.com/user/ki7f2

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