Last year I received a QSL from Port Said Radio on 2187.5 kHz. Prior to that my only QSL from Egypt was from the Middle East News Agency (MENA) for a 1993 reception report. In those days I built a small RTTY converter connected to my first PC allowing me to decode these messages. It was quite common for news agencies to have an RTTY outlet on shortwave. It resulted in a nice QSL letter:
Despite many attempts I’ve never been able to get a QSL from Radio Cairo. But a DX friend of mine, Paul Flanagan, triggered me to give it another shot as he received what he described as a “pre-QSL email”. So I tried again and indeed, within a day I received this “pre-QSL email”:
So now I have to wait and see if that elusive e-QSL will arrive in my email inbox one day…
I listened to a Turkish program from Radio Cairo on 9900 kHz. They seem to have broadcasts in English, French, German on the 31 meter band as well, but I have the impression that it is a bit erratic. And when I receive them the signal is often strong, but a poor modulation compromised reception quality. Below a clip of my recent reception with time announcement.
