few logs from the netherlands

[jan]

receiver yaesu frg8800 antenna 40 meter longwire
time UTC; local time is UTC +2 hour

sunday 14/8

1657.7khz 2.39h 55555 unid, Bandung , country music
1638.3khz 2.43h 32222 unid, nonstop music
6826.4khz 8.52h 33343 Unid France , nonstop music
6380khz 9.02h 23333 Unid (UK)
6239.4khz 9.04h 33333 BRI
6295khz 9.11h 23222 Unid
6266khz 9.51h 23222 Radio Scotland
6300.5khz 9.58h 11121 Blackbird
6280khz 10.06h 23333 WNKR
6266khz 10.11h 23332 (UK) Silentkey radio, music Kraftwerk Autobahn

Very low signal levels on my receiver this morning at daylight, even LHH sometimes below the noise level, more people with this problem or is it local, receiver or antenna malfunction

greetings jan

edit: Silentkey radio
edit: removed Pirate Music add Unid France

[Radio Scotland]

Hi Jan,

Amazing! signals on 48 were VERY strong here this morning. LHH: S-9+15...
R.U.I on 6311 s-7/8 with only 20 watts.
This on such a short distance between us! strange band, SW is'n it?

Albert.

[Guest]

receiver yaesu frg8800 antenna 40 meter longwire
time UTC; local time is UTC +2 hour

sunday 14/8

1657.7khz 2.39h 55555 unid, Bandung , country music
1638.3khz 2.43h 32222 unid, nonstop music
6826.4khz 8.52h 33343 unid (FR), nonstop music
6380khz 9.02h 23333 unid (UK)
6239.4khz 9.04h 33333 BRI
6295khz 9.11h 23222 unid
6266khz 9.51h 23222 scotland
6300.5khz 9.58h 11121 blackbird
6280khz 10.06h 23333 WNKR
6266khz 10.11h 23332 unid, music kraftwerk autobahn

Very low signal levels on my receiver this morning at daylight, even LHH sometimes below the noise level, more people with this problem or is it local, receiver or antenna malfunction

greetings jan

Not Jan, very strong noise not local, reception wath good to 9H00 UTC and at 9H00 very strong noise and poor signal for my contry in N-E France.
6826 Khz is Pirate Mucic from Italy.
Greetings from Marcel

[silentkey radio]

interesting report
yes conditions have been up and down all day I thought things were very bad until I discovered I had an antenna failure. Built a 24 metre dipole today in about 45 minutes. It is very low not more than 7 metres above ground level.

That's why I am pleased to confirm that i was the unidentified station playing Autobahn on 6266 at he time you quoted. I would be interested to know where in Germany you were listening.

I am based in the very far west of the UK.

Danke!

[Guest]

Oef, Germany, that makes Jan not very happy It's Holland, and if I'm right, in de northern parts.

[silentkeyradio]

apologies.. what part of the Netherlands!!

[silentkeyradio]

piraat, I realised what I had done as soon as I had pressed the send key. But you spotted it before I could post the correction

still not bad for 40 watts into a crap antenna - that's QRp in Holland

[jan]

hello everybody,

Thans for all your comments, i am going to check the antenna probebly some bad connections what is the cause of my reception problem.
The noise was sunday at daytime down to S0, normal is for me S4 ~ S6

My reception location is in the centre off the north of the neterlands a small village called Veenhuizen, very known by the pirates here in the netherlands.
Check the following webside : http://www.gevangenismuseum.nl/index.html
The side is not finnished yet, the english button dosn't work, but for the dutch readers is it allready very interresting. (PS I am not the maker from this webside.)

About the mistake from Germany, it dosn't matter for me.
I was born many years after WWII and I dont care about football

greetings jan

[Guest]

Op vakantie naar veenhuizen, op tijd je nat en droogje, soms beter dan bij moeders thuis, tralalalala

Bedankt voor de link Jan, leuk om te zien

For all English readers, the above was just a line from a famous pirate song, On vacation to Veenhuizen, on time your drink and food, sometimes it's better then at home. O well, in Dutch it sounds better.

Veenhuizen is a jail, famous in the 70s and 80s, because most pirate operators who got jail time, were send to Veenhuizen to serve time.

Thanks again Jan for the URL

[Guest]

Wow Jan mostley 1's, and i thought after long times lets go on air and play some music, but for who i was playing, formyself????

I was testing thismorning toa friend of mine who is on vacation in North Danmark.
From 09 till 12 hour local time my signal was great there all the time a 45554 so i was very happy with this test result.
Because i never had a reception repport from Danmark.

So now and then i come in your neighbourhood, i have a MFJ antenne analyser, so if you would to check your antenne it is no problem for me to drive by.
Give me a call via e-mail and we can arange something.

Greetings Johan Black-Bird.

[JoJo]

Hello Johan,

If it is not his antenna, that's short wave. But Also Jaroslav copied your signal fair. I was also on air before You start, on 6297kHz, possible You didn't hear me because of the variable conditions? After closing down, I didn't hear you either on 6300,4 or 6300,5kHz!

[Guest]

Hello John, i look very often to your signal if you write it here on the forum, but till now i have received you only one time.
That was a copple off weeks ago when i was on my second location, there i have a G5RV wire antenne, and this was the first i heard you to my surprise at home i never heard you, there i have a dipole 2x11 meter.

Sunday i got some calls from Tjechie, France and Germany but signals here in Holland where bad also in Germany it was not that good as some months ago.
But that's shortwave you never know how propegation is.

But my 25 watts still go strong.....
Have already some parts for a mudulator as you wrote a copple of months ago, so this winter i hope to be with a little more power from the SK-010.

Greetings Johan.

[JoJo]

Hello Johan,

Almost the same name so I almost made a type mismatch. Yes your 25 watt goo's strong. Well thats shortwave, but with some 10kw the problem will be gone.

Hope to hear you soon with the modulator.

[jan]

Hello everybody,

I have taken a closer look at my antenna but there wasn't a problem with, all the conections are ok so it must have been the conditions on shortwave .

The reception of dutch stations close to me was always difficult, becouse of the groundwave .
The transmitting frequency, the skywave angle, the length of the skip zone and the groundwave can also affect reception conditions. If you are in the no-man's land beyond the range of the groundwave signal range and less than one skywave hop's distance from the sender site, reception will be virtually non-existen
copy from : http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/medi ... ences.html
Last sunday I coult copy silentkey radio from the UK with 40W better then Radio Scotland who is running much more power and from a closer distance, so that is shortwave very different from mediumwave.
If you want to broadcast for local listeners use mediumwave not shortwave, for international listeners use shortwave .

greetings jan

[MARCEL]

receiver yaesu frg8800 antenna 40 meter longwire
time UTC; local time is UTC +2 hour

sunday 14/8

1657.7khz 2.39h 55555 unid, Bandung , country music
1638.3khz 2.43h 32222 unid, nonstop music
6826.4khz 8.52h 33343 (Italy) Pirate Mucic, nonstop music
6380khz 9.02h 23333 unid (UK)
6239.4khz 9.04h 33333 BRI
6295khz 9.11h 23222 unid
6266khz 9.51h 23222 scotland
6300.5khz 9.58h 11121 blackbird
6280khz 10.06h 23333 WNKR
6266khz 10.11h 23332 (UK) Silentkey radio, music kraftwerk autobahn

Very low signal levels on my receiver this morning at daylight, even LHH sometimes below the noise level, more people with this problem or is it local, receiver or antenna malfunction

greetings jan

edit: Pirate Music and Silentkey radio

Hello Jan, I receive on Mail from Pirate Music, 6826,4 Khz wath not PM
I gave for you this extrait:

MANY THANKS for your apprecciate reception report , as usually always
correct EXPECT 6826.5khz It WASN'T ME, i've listen to this broadcast in the past days in north of Italy (at the border of Switzerland) with a Signal
varyng fron 4 to 9 during the day, i suppose it is a Franch station.
By the way today i'll start again to broadcast repeating from the web a
radio of a friend of myne.
The frequency, around 6860 Khz.
Best wishes
Adriano , operator of P.I.R.A.T.E. Music

Greetings Jan from Marcel N-E France