Andreas Ibold                                                   Alpen, 3^rd January 2019

P.O. Box 1105

46515 Alpen 

GERMANY      aibold@aol.com

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU !

   I'm very pleased to inform you that I was able to hear a transmission from your station

– MRCC Odessa – here for the very first time.

   I'm a 55 year old man and I'm working as an engineer on a coal-mine. My hobby is short-

wave-listening and I like to listen to the transmissions from all over the world. And I do

really like to collect verifications of what I had received. So I hope to put your reply to

my collection.

   I live in Alpen which is in the northwest of Germany, about 70 km north-east of Cologne

on the countryside. The state is named "Nordrhein-Westfalen". Alpen is a small city with

about 12.000 inhabitants, which are all very friendly.

    Now I like to give you a report of reception about the quality of the reception on your

station here in Alpen/GERMANY.

Station  :  MRCC Odessa               MMSI     :  002723660

Frequency:  2187,5 kHz                Time UTC :  03:16 hours UTC/GMT

Date     :  3^rd January 2019            Mode     :  DSC (GMDSS)

The signal strength was good (S=7) and I have had no problems to receive your station. Some

atmospheric noise and fading on the frequency

.

Details of the transmission: 

(HF=2187,5 MHz) <Selective call to a particular individual station>

Called MMSI station address: 002723660 [Coast station: MRCC Odessa] (Ukraine)

Category: Safety

MMSI self-identifier: 002723660 [Coast station: MRCC Odessa] (Ukraine)

Telecommand 1: Polling

Telecommand 2: No information

Neither RX/TX frequencies nor position supplied

Check Sum: OK

Date and time of decoding: 03/01/2019 03:16:32

My receiver is the SDR PERSEUS (SDR = Software Definied Radio). My antenna is a 40 m longwire

hanging in 10 m high. The direction is north-north-east--south-south-west. For decoding DSC

transmissions I use the software MultiPSK (reg. version).

I would be very happy if you can verify my report with by email. Please mention the details

like Station Name with MMSI, frequency, date, time and mode .

Any further information is highly appreciated.

Any further information is really highly appreciated!

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Kindest regards and many greetings,

Andreas