PRELIMINARY

SUMMARY REPORT ON TRANSMISSION

FROM GRIMETON RADIO/SAQ ON 17,2 KHZ

Transmission 2015-06-28 “Alexanderson Day” and “90 years” at (09:00 and) 12:00 UTC.

COUNTRY LOCATION READABILITY SOURCE COMMENTS

Australia Melbourne Unheard VK3YJQ/

Stephen Bentley

Only heard via Twente

websdr

Austria Roggendorf RST579

Clear and strong

signal

Hans Pammer Kindest regards from

Austria

Austria Wien-West RST559 OE1KHU/

Karl Hengl

Austria Nussdorf 25dB

above noise

OE5MZO/

Reinhart Mazur

Thank you for this

very interesting

transmission!

Austria Wolfsberg RST599 OE8AJK/

Alfons Joebstl

Nice transmit from

SAQ

Belgium 20 km from Brussels Load and clear ON2DLT/

Leo Jacobs

Greeting and thanks to

all of you

Belgium Pellenberg 63dBuV/m ON6BE/

Felix Elsen

One of the strongest

signals I ever heard

from SAQ

Belgium Gouy-Lez-Pieton +-4dB

above noise

ON6YI/

Daniel Limbourg

Belgium Brussels RST479 ONL12088/

Manoel

da Silva Casquilho

Good to hear a 100-

year old station

Belgium Kapellen Unheard Patrick Wargée Used kit bought at

Grimeton shop

Canada Near Granby,

QC

VE2CRG/

Granby Amateur

Radio Club

Thank you for the

thrilling opportunity

to copy VLF signal

Canada Near Vancouver,

British Colombia Unheard VE7FRP/

Frank Simonsen

Czech Rep. Lhota pod Radcem RST589 Milos Holy

Thank you for nice

listening experience

Czech Rep. Kromeriz RST479 Mojmir Horak

Czech Rep. JO70AE RST599 OK1CJN/

Jiri Nemejc

Congratulations for

fast repair of antenna

Czech Rep. Praha RST599

clear and strong

OK1CJN/

Jiri Nemejc

Congratulations for

fast repair of antenna

system

Czech Rep. Hradec Krávolé RST579 OK1MGW/

Petr Kolman

Czech Rep. Near Teplice Very good signal OK1TP/

Tom Stepnicka

Good job

Czech Rep. Zlin RST589 OK2BMA/

Pavel Cunderla

Thank you very much

for the nice

transmission

Czech Rep. Ostrava RST579 OK2STO/

Jarda Tomek

Czech Rep. Prague RST338 OK9DAF/

Daniel Smid

Czech Rep. Jablonec nad Nisou RST589 Zdenek Elias

Greetings from Czech

Republic

Denmark Esbjerg RST549-579 OZ1CWP/

Bjarne Schmidt

Hope to hear you at

Christmas Eve

Denmark Sönderborg RST599 OZ6AQ/

Werner Carlsen

Good summer

Denmark Hundested RST579 OZ7HX/

Mogens Petersen

Denmark Branderup RST599 OZ9DR/

Ib Jörgensen

Nice to hear you back

after all this afternoon

Denmark Varde RST569 OZ9QL/

Kaj Keller

Good signal

Finland Porvoo, Porlammi Jesse Hynniken

Finland Near Turku RST559 OH4KW/

Holger Kinzel

Finland RST599 OH4RM/

Risto Korhonen

Finland Simpele RST569 OH5MC/

Kauko Liimatainen

France Montauban, near

Toulouse

30dB

above noise

F1VL/

Xtian

Many thanks for this

transmission!

France Boisset

Les Prevanches

F4HBT/

David Prijac

Best regards and

congratulations for

your work

France Toulon Unheard F5ROL/

Manu Aft

France Near Paris 28dB

above noise

F6AGR/

Jean-Louis

Congratulations to all

those who maintain

this beautiful

machine!

France Saiguede 25dB

above noise

Lionel Loudet

Thanks to the whole

team for the excellent

job despite the

technical difficulties

Germany Schwaigern RST359

QRM

Bernd Weeber

Germany Eberswalde RST579/598

loud and clear

Björn Christen

SAQ transmission are

every time a big event

Germany Olfen 20dB

above noise

Christian Marbach

I wish you and your

team all the best!

Germany Magdeburg 15dB

above noise

Christian Wieduwilt

Great event. Thank

you

Germany Dillendorf

30dB

above noise

DC0VD/

Winni Schreiner

All the best to the

crew and friends of

SAQ

Germany Westerheim S9+25dB DC1MAK/

Micha Schroeder

Keep that alternator

on working

Germany Merzig -75dB DD3VH/

Franz Kai

Ronellenfitsch

Many thank for

activating the

alternator once more!

Germany Lemgo 20dB

above noise

DD4QU/

Juergen

Maritschnigg

Germany Dessau-Rosslau RST599 DE0MKH/

Michael Landherr

Germany Meerbusch 35dB

above noise

DF2JP/

Joe Proemper

Germany Kiel-Holtenau 46dB SNR DF3LP/

Peter Wilhem

Schnoor

Thanks for keeping

that old flute alive!

Germany Husum RST579 DF4FM/

Werner Hertig

Germany Karlsruhe RST579 DF8UO/

Daniel Kähny

Perfect reception this

afternoon

Germany Cranzahl RST549 DG0EW/

Walter Zapf

Germany Langenbernsdorf RS59+ DG0JN/

Gottfied Müller

Germany Lüneburg, 50 km

south of Hamburg

RST459 DG5DS/

Dirk Schrader

Thanks for keeping

the transmitter alive

Germany München 78dBm DG9MGC/

Fritz Simma

Germany Westhausen RST439 DH1AN/

Herbert Smudel

Germany Near Fronhausen RST589 DJ1ZB/

Ha-Jo Brandt

Germany Fulda S8 DJ7JE/

Klaus-Dieter

Schreiber

Germany Wennigsen,

near Hannover

RS33 DJ8MP/

Fritz Lauenstein

Germany Neumuenster RST579 DJ8OM/

Oskar Mayer

Keep SAQ alive!

Germany Anzing, 20 km east of

München

10dB

above noise

DK1OP/

Harald

Wickenhäuser

Pre-enjoying the next

event

Germany Darmstadt -70dB DK2XV/

Hans G. Diederich

Germany Bentwisch,

near Rostock

Very good

signal

DK3PM/

Peter Mohn

Germany Sainscheid-

Westerburg

RST599 DK4PB/

Ali Wolf

Germany Eggolsheim 10 dB

above noise

DK6DW/

Dirk W. Schubert

Carrier at 08:40

Germany Bützow RST549 DK7OM/

Rudolf Renkwitz

Germany Lengede,

near Salzgitter

RST1-2 3 9 DK8AR/

Henri Lüddecke

The signal was hard to

read by QRN and

QSB

Germany Hannover Weak signal

QRN

DL0OBJ/

Mannfred Reimann

I hope the machine is

ok!

Germany Chemnitz Only 1st trans-

mission hrd

carrier at 08:42

DL1JCI/

Klaus Erler

I had no opportunity

to receive the 2nd

transmission

Germany Ringethal, near

Mittweida, Saxony

RST559 DL1JIF/

Sven Spiller

This time a good

signal

Germany Neuhausen Unheard DL1XKA/

Dieter Anger

Too much QRM. I

will wait for the next

time

Germany Portable in a park near

Cologne

25-30dB

above noise

DL2KHU/p

Hans-Ulrich Eick

Germany Greifswald RST599 DL2KZA/

Uwe Hethke

Germany Near Friedrichshafen RST585 DL2MRB

Ralf Ballis

Germany Nuremberg 20dB

above noise

DL3NDW/

Bernd Katheder

This was my first try

to receive SAQ

Germany Near Hamburg RST579 DL4HG/

Olaf Goldbeck

Germany Kemtau,

south of Chemnitz

RST589 DL4JWU/

Jürgen Urbig

Thanks to those who

found the problem so

fast

Germany Postmuenster RST459 DL4RAJ/

Clemens Paul

Germany Bruchsal 25-30dB

above noise

DL5AB/

Klaus Göbel

Many thanks for

operating the

Alexanderson

alternator!

Germany Kolbermoor,

near München Unheard DL5MCN/

Dietrich

Rechkemmer

Germany Leinefelde RST559

QSB

DL6ATI/

Hans Streich

Hope for the next

transmission

Germany Kiel DL6HAK/Walter

DO5GK/Gerlinde

You did really a great

job!

Germany Amerang RST579

UFB signal

DL6LM/

Michael Löw

Germany Berlin RST519-539 DL7LA/

Guenter Richter

Good to hear you

again

Germany Pirmasens RST589 DL8EB/

Jörg Blinn

Thank you very much

for the transmission

and the great message

Germany Neubukow -91dB

above noise

DL9GKJ/

Raik Hodam

Many thanks to your

team for the good job

Germany Oelsnitz RST599 DM2DIN/

Helmut Neidel

Many thanks for your

information and

transmission!

Germany Freital,

near Dresden

RST488 DM5ZW/

Klaus Bayer

Thanks for the

transmission

Germany Remscheid QSA3-4 DO9KKR/

Klaus Kremer

Germany Gundelfingen RST468 Ekkehard Schulze

Thank you very much

for your excellent

work

Germany Marienberg RST478 Frank Schubert

Thank you for putting

the transmitter on air

Germany Mannheim 15-20dB

above noise

Georg Grossman Hope to be able to

listen many more

times!

Germany Espelkamp SINPO23222 Georg Morawski

Germany Unheard

Too much noise

Günter Reichl Heard only via Twente

web.sdr

Germany Meiningen Very good Hagen Borrasch

Many thanks all

operators from SAQ

Germany Bad Langensalza Radio 2 Janik Hofmann

Germany Wunsiedel SINPO33333 Juergen Moesel

Germany Idar-Oberstein RST249 Klaus Fuchs

Germany Gera RST549 Lothar Frommhold

Germany Hanau,

near Frankfurt

RST339 Lutz Heinisch

Local man made noise

from building

Germany Augsburg Loud and clear Michael Weinl

Andreas Liebig

Germany Wackerow,

near Greifswald

12dB

above noise

Peter Oltmanns

Germany München -95dBm Reinhard Rueckriem

Well done, excellent

reception! Thanks to

all of you

Germany Magdeburg S4 Ronny Weiner

Germany Burgstaedt RST549 Stefan Richter

This is a great

tradition!

Germany Neu-Isenburg SINPO44454 Stephan Cremer

Thank you for the

beautiful event!

Germany Landshut RST455 Ulrich Haumann Keep the Old Lady

running!

Germany Tönisvorst RST376 Willfried

Knippschild

Great Britain High Wycombe 25dB

above noise

Very clear signal

G0OQK/

Nick Garrod

Receiving position on

the roof of BBC

Broadcasting House in

Central London

Great Britain Oxford Noise G0REL/

Richard Gaskell

Great Britain Barton on Sea RST579 G0VDI/

John Drake

Good to hear SAQ on

the air again

Great Britain Campton, 8 miles

south of Bedford

RST439 G3JNB/

Victor Brand

Congratulations and

thank you

Great Britain Near Leicester QSA5 QRK5 G3MCK/

Gerald Stancey

Many thanks for

keeping SAQ alive

Great Britain Reading,

Berkshire

13dB

above noise

G3TBJ/

Chris Webster

Well done, fixing that

short circuit in time!

Great Britain Lowestoft RST559 G3XGK/Carl

G4RLS/John

Many thanks to all at

SAQ

Great Britain Tetbury,

Near Bristol

S5 G4IHT/

Robert Riddington

Great Britain Withworth,

Rochdale

G4TMV/

Alan Gale

Great Britain Coventry G7III/

Lian Young

Will listen out again

for you on Christmas

Eve!

Great Britain Charmouth,

Dorset

G8JNJ/

Martin Ehrenfried

Thanks for preserving

SAQ and sending the

transmission

Great Britain Isle of Barra,

Outer Hebrides,

Scotland

RST599

Rock steady

signal

GM0OGN/

Richard Hall

Great Britain Bramley RST564 M0KER/

Robert Kerswill

Great Britain Walton-on-Thames RST569 M0VLF/

James Sales

Great Britain Hampton 5,9 M0WWA/

Juan Jose de Onate

Thank you for your

commitment and

dedication

Great Britain Oxford RST539 M1SLH/

Ken Taylor

Great Britain Buxton,

Derbyshire

SIO444 Nick Rank Thank for your speedy

repair. The event was

a success!

Great Britain Oxford 27dB

above noise

RS86946/

John Graham

Thanks for the

opportunity to listen

for this historic

transmitter again

Greece Megara RST599 SV1BPP/

Vasileios Pantazis

Greece Thessaloniki Readability

about 90%

SV2HWM/

Merkouris Gogos

Thanks for keeping

this old machine alive

Ireland Skerries,

CO Dublin

SIO131 Patrick McNally

Italy Genoa RST459

I1IMA/

Paolo Serravalle

Italy Torino RST539 I1PLX/

Mauro Pelissetti

Glad to have part also

in this year celebration

Italy Genoa RST599 I1UP/

George Torre

Congratulations for

the job

Italy Gerenzano,

Varese

RST465 I2-71022/

Antonio Olova

Italy Casalgrande RST549 I-3082/BO

Giuliano Carrozzi

Italy Tavarnelle,

Firenze

RST2/2/? I5XMN/

Marcello Manetti

Italy Buccinasco,

MI

RST323 IK2GFT/SWL1510

Mauro Giroletti

Thank you for your

commitment!

Italy Milano Good signal IK2PII/

Claudio Pozzi

Italy 10 km from Lake

Como

RST467 IT2021SWL/

Claudio Tagliabue

Good luck for the next

transmissions

Italy Podenzano,

PC

RST599 IU4ASI/

Murelli Daniele

Italy Turin IW1DTU/

Fer Paglia

Thank you for keeping

Grimeton at work,

your efforts are very

appreciated

Italy Martellago RST589 IZ3BTA/

Renzo

Italy Castelfranco, Veneto SINPO43444 IZ3NYT/

Treviso Andrea Marcon

Italy Ponte Buggianese,

PT

RST539 IZ5IOW/

Marco Cardelli

Italy Putignano,

BA

RST479 IZ7SLZ/

Domenico Lindo

Thank you for giving

all of us a very good

fun!

Latvia Ulbroka YL3HA/

Vilnis Luste

Lithuania Kaunas RST457 LY3AY/

Vitalis Rimsa

Malta Dwejra RST529

QSB

9H1CG/

Joe Vella Brincat

Malta Mosta RST569 9H1ES/p/

Fortunato Bonnici

Netherlands KR Welsum SINPO25522 E.J. Zijlstra

Netherlands Amsterdam SINPO55555 Jan Feenstra

Good luck for the

future

Netherlands Amsterdam 8dBuV, S4,5 Jarod Middelman

Netherlands Rijnsburg RST599 PA0ANK/

Jan Mullers

Good to hear the Old

Lady again

Netherlands Deventer RST589 PA0FEN/

Nico vanRossen

Netherlands Weert 29dB

above noise

PA0HMV/

Bert Veuskens

Thanks for the effort

to run this nice

“machine” transmitter

Netherlands Deventer RST579 PA0HRX/

Hans Reuderink

Netherlands Rotterdam S9

Without QSB

PA0ONO/

Onno Bakker

Very nice job!

Netherlands Halsteren -70dBm PA0PVH/

Pam van Herel

Netherlands Hoogeveen 20dB PA1NL/

Lammert

Zwanenburg

Netherlands Middelburg RST599+10dB PA3ALX/

Herman Wolters

One of the strongest

transmission ever

heard

Netherlands Vlaardingen QRK5 QSA4 PA3DSJ/

Huib Barendrecht

FB on your effort and

of the volunteers

Netherlands ST Eersel,

NB Unheard PA3ECL/

Rene

Keep the good work

going

Netherlands Nieuwegein Good reception PA3GDO/

Harm de Wit

Netherlands Rozenburg 38,0 micro volt PA3GXB/

Hans van der

Pennen

Netherlands Utrecht RST569 PA3YZ/

Jan Terranea

Netherlands RST577

Excellent signal

PD0SWL/

Paul Bijpost

Netherlands Stramproy Signal 4 and 6 PE1CTK/

Joep Hendrikx

Hope to hear you still

many times

Netherlands PE1DCF/

Rommert Zonneveld

Netherlands Zwolle Received carrier

at 08:30

PE1FJN/

Marc Schijven

Could only listen to

the first transmission

Norway Trondheim RST439 LA9QV/

Stein-Olav Lund

I listen to you every

time

Poland Szczecin RST589 HF1D/

Jerry Najda

Poland Szczecin RST455 SP1WSW/

Tomasz

Dobrowolski

Good job in

Grimeton!

Poland Kramsk RST579 SP3UR/

Waldemar

Lewandowski

Poland Warsaw SP5SMK/

Wojciech Kazubski

Receiving location

was the historic site of

Babice VLF

Radio/AXO/AXL

Poland Wroclaw RST559 SP6RYD/

Sebastian Zarski

With great pleasure I

received SAQ

Poland Niepolomice RST599 SP9HSQ/

Mariusz Cieluch

Thank you very much

for your passion!

Poland Niepolomice RST589 SP9MOA/

Klub

Krotkofalowcow

Poland Kwidzyn S5 (15-20dB

above noise)

SQ2PHD/

Piotr Wasik

High local QRM

Romania Iasi,

northeastern part

RST339 YO8RHQ/

Cristi Jelescu

All the best

Russia Moscow RST589 Anatoly Klepov

Russia Moscow Unheard Vassily Kuznetsov

Slovakia Stara Tura Signal 5 Miroslav Kimlicka

Slovakia Valaska RST598 Vladimir Paprcka

Slovenia Novo Mesto RST559

Local QRM

S52AB/

Joze Konda

Slovenia Novo Mesto RST599 S52AS/

Roman Hocevar

Solvenia Bohinj Valley RST559 S51DA/David

S55YL/Eva

Keep up the good

work

Spain San Sebastián 25dB

above noise

EA2HB/

Federico Olaizola

Thanks for your work

Spain Benicasim,

Castellon

20dB

above noise

EA2HG/

Alvaro Bergol

Spain Pasaia Heard carrier

1st transmission?

EA2HI/

Hermán Martin

Izquierdo

Spain Galliners-Vilademuls,

Girona

RST599 EA3AER/

Francesc Sibila

Sweden Halmstad Strong and clear

signal

Hans Nilsson Homemade receiver

Sweden Karlskrona QSA5 QRK5 Marinens Radio/

Gert-Owe Eriksson

Sweden Göteborg SINPO45444 Nils Törnström

Sweden Göteborg RST599 SA6CLX/

Bo Sörensson

Thank for your effort

to keep the station

alive

Sweden Södra Sandby RST467 SA7ZZZ/

Olof Brandoné

Sweden Enskede QSA3 QRK4 SM0AOM/

Karl-Arne

Markström

Sweden Aheden,

south of Umeå

RST569 SM2GFU/

Börje Gustafsson

Thanks for the SAQ

transmission

Sweden Söderhamn RST549 SM3UWS/

Wolfgang

Finkbeiner

Sweden Filipstad RST579 SM4EFQ/

Stig Linnarud

Sweden Borensberg SM5BTC/

Sven Nilsson

Sweden 19 km north of

Motala

RST589

Very clear signal

SM5BVV/

Morgan Lorin

Sweden Åtvidaberg RST589 SM5BXC/

Karl-Axel Axelsson

Sweden Göteborg Good signal SM6ERS/

Ingvar Andersson

Antenna GP, 1,5 m

long

Sweden North of Tibro RS59+30dB SM6MSH/

Per Gotborn

Sweden Mölndal RST599+35dB SM6PPS/

Göran Sandin

Sweden Heard carrier at

09:45

SM7UCZ/

Johnny Apell

Sweden Bankeryd 22dB

above noise

SM7VRI/

Ebert Lööv

Switzerland JN18EQ

Portable in France

-70dB HB9ENP/

Jim F.

Finally after 3 years of

frustration, I could

receive SAQ today

Switzerland Riniken RST498 HB9EZF/

Wim Ton

Switzerland Solothurn RST459 HE9EFY/

Alexander Küffer

Switzerland Near Chur RST589 Paul Gantner

Thank you for keeping

alive this wonderful tx

Ukraine Kiev SINPO23442 Alexandr

Kostiukevich

It is always interesting

to receive it

Ukraine Ordzhonikidze US5ERQ/

Sergey Smolin

USA Wall Township,

New Jersey

Weak signal on

spectrum plot

KD2BD/

John Magliacane

USA Wassilla,

Alaska Unheard KL7L/

Laurence Howell

USA South of Missoula,

Western Montana Unheard W0AY/

Larry Jones

Great fun though.

Thanks to all

USA Lincoln,

Nebraska Unheard WA0AKG/

Richard Lorenzen

Gratulations for rapid

repair and successful

second transmission

USA Churchville,

Rochester, NY Unheard WA2OSA/

John Zima

Message:

CQ CQ CQ DE SAQ SAQ SAQ =

THIS IS GRIMETON RADIO/SAQ IN A TRANSMISSION

USING THE ALEXANDERSON

200 KW ALTERNATOR ON 17.2 KHZ =

90 YEARS AGO, ON JULY 2ND, GRIMETON RADIO

STATION/SAQ WAS INAUGURATED BY HIS MAJESTY

GUSTAF V, KING OF SWEDEN. NOWADAYS THE SITE IS

OPEN FOR EVERYONE AND BELONGS TO ALL PEOPLE

OF THE WORLD =

SIGNED : WORLD HERITAGE GRIMETON AND THE

ALEXANDER-GRIMETON VETERANRADIOS VAENNER

ASSOCIATION + =

FOR QSL INFO PLEASE READ OUR WEBSITE:

WWW.ALEXANDER.N.SE =

INFO =

WE ARE SORRY BUT THE TRANSMISSION AT 09.00 UTC DID

NOT WORK BECAUSE OF A SHORT CIRCUIT IN THE

ANTENNA AND NO TRANSMISSION WAS POSSIBLE =

DE SAQ SAQ SAQ @

Note:

Also some 189 listeners were listening to SAQ via WebSdr receiver in Twente.

All well done as a compliment, but the reports of only WebSdr reception are not valid for QSL-card.

Reports from:

Country Reports Unheard

Australia 1 1

Austria 4

Belgium 5 1

Canada 2 1

Czech Rep. 10

Denmark 5

Finland 4

France 5 1

Germany 70 3

Great Britain 18

Greece 2

Ireland 1

Italy 15

Latvia 1

Lithuania 1

Malta 2

Netherlands 20 1

Norway 1

Poland 8

Romania 1

Russia 2 1

Slovakia 2

Slovenia 3

Spain 4

Sweden 17

Switzerland 4

Ukraine 2

USA 5 4

SUMMA 215 13