Re: [IRCA] TA's

[richtoebe@xxxxxxx]

Mike,

 

My wife and I were in Bavaria for 3 weeks from 8/18 to 9/9; I DXed while over there.

 

If this helps:

 

189 Iceland was all I heard

756 the DLF stations were slightly off sync; wierd effect which was not fixed while we were there

1008 and 747 were Holland; even heard well into the mornings though most of my listening was late at night

1134 Croatia was huge, 1125 // but much weaker; 1134 hung in there well into the morning (2 hours after sunrise)

1305 Belgium with a very strong signal, must be more than WRTH or EMWG suggest or it just gets out well.  They are pop music, // FM  check www.4fm.be and find streaming audio for //  I like the station, I actually tuned in and sat there for a while just to listen to the music.  They were also on 1233.

 

Station lists with powers are great and I really appreciated having the EMWG with me.  But power lists don't tell the story.  Why is Belgium on 1233, a regional station, so consistent yet no sign of RMC Cyprus with 600kW?  Signals were definitely cleaner, and I even heard stations under superpower stations like RTL on 234 and 1440.  It was also a kick hearing Djibouti on 1431, with Radio Sawa.  (No Frank Zappa jokes, please.)  DRM signals were loud, white noise.  But they did not bleed into adjacent channels.

 

Rich Toebe

Vacaville CA


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Stonebridge
Sent: Sep 25, 2004 10:23 PM
To: Pat Martin , IRCA Group
Subject: [IRCA] TA's

Hi Everyone:

 

There was a pretty fair opening to Europe last evening with many split frequencies producing carriers. They ranged from 153 on the longwave band to 1584 at the top end of the medium wave band. Many were producing hets on domestic stations. Some 17 frequencies produced audio with 1314-Norway being the best at S-8. A couple were tentatively new for me. Noise levels here are still high which makes any identification difficult. All times are UTC

 

162 France 09/26 Man and woman speaking French at 04:00

189 Iceland 09/26 probably the one here with faint music at 03:56

675 Unid 09/26 Faint music heard here at 03:28

747 Unid 09/26 Man talking at 0315. Too much noise to get the language, but probably Holland.

756 Germany 09/26 03:30 Various vocal records of men singing, some in English, with a man talking in German between them. Two stations listed in Germany on this frequency. New for me.

1008 Unid 09/26 03:05 with modern dance music, so probably Holland.

1035 Unid 09/26 03:39 with piano music followed by choral music. No speaking.

1044 Unid 09/26 04:05 with 2 men talking. Too faint to get language used.

1053 England 09/26 03:42 with 2 men talking about sport. Parallel to 1089.

1062 Unid 09/26 03:43 with a ballad by Elvis. Later on I heard a woman talking in what could have been the Danish language, so probably Denmark.

1089 England 09/26 03:42 with 2 men talking about sport. Parallel to 1053.

1107 Unid 09/26 02:54 Faint pop music heard here. Also a man talking but unable to get the language.

1125 Unid 09/26 02:52 Faint music heard here.

1134 Unid 09/26 02:50 Man talking in what sounded like Russian. Fair signal at times. One of the first to disappear so probably Croatia.

1215 England Virgin Radio 09/26 02:47 probably the one here with faint music.

1305 Unid 09/26 02:45 Faint music could be heard here.

1314 Norway 09/26 02:43 with a man speaking Norwegian and playing pop music. Great signal at times. Best heard in a long time.

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