This weekend's MW log

[Kai]

Hi everyone!

My wife, my daughter and I were visiting my parents this weekend, and although we were primarily there to see family, I found time for some listening ...

The signals were slightly weaker and the noise level significantly higher than on Lista (where Arvid and I had a ‘pirate DX-pedition’ in September) – but I managed to hear a lot of interesting stations anyway! (Unfortunately, Radio Atlantis was very weak, and there was no sign of Radio 0511 and WMBR.)

All times UTC (to avoid confusion because of the change to winter time ...). S as in SINPO.


Fri Oct 29

1815 1665 Armada with a report for Zeelandia. S5!
1816 1675 Orion West ending a music broadcast. S4!
1819 1620 UNID station with non stop music. ‘Je zegt het wel, maar je doet het niet’, ‘Marie Louise’ … Sterrekijker? S4
1821 1663 Zeelandia (I think) with a report for Armada. S3
2207 1690 UNID Greek station with non-stop music. Mentioned Radiofonia Veteranos at 2235 UTC. I don’t know if that was him, or if he was talking about another station. S3
2224 1700 UNID Greek station QSOing with a slightly weaker station. Mentioned Superstar (which is indeed a Greek pirate). S2


Sat Oct 30

0710 1643 Barcelona met rapporten S2-3
0718 1638 Ome Jan met rapporten S2-3
0724 1636 Alpenjager vroeg om verbinding. S2-3
0727 1659 Hertog Jan met rapporten S2-3
1156 1620 Wipkikker met liedjes en groeten. S2-3
1158 1645 Vriendschap met rapporten S2
2200 1656 Barones is always nice to listen to! Even my wife likes Radio Barones, and she’s no pirate listener… S5
2319 1738 UNID ‘radio hooligan’ talking to a weaker station. Mentioned Ukraine. (Radio hooligans on 1754 and 1765 as well.) S2


Sun Oct 31

0710 1512 Zanussie with his regular weekend broadcast. S3-4
0710 1630 Radio Utopia with a music show. Good to hear Wim again. Haven’t heard him since 2002! Unfortunately Bartje came on air on top of Utopia at one point, making it impossible to listen. (I guess it wasn’t a problem in the Netherlands, as Bartje and Utopia have different coverage areas at daytime. C/d at 0910. S3
0710 1620 Zonnester with his Sunday morning broadcast. S4
0819 1620 Blauwe Piraat met rapporten. S3
0825 1647 Brandaris met rapporten. S2
0827 1638 Nostalgica met rapporten S3
0828 1650 Rode Ster vroeg om verbinding. S4
0830 1612 UNID station with non-stop music. ‘Xanadu’, ‘Have You Ever Seen the Rain’. Later 1613 and 1614. S3
0834 1566 Bavaria (presumably) was audible for a short while (most of the time I could only hear the British station(s) on the frequency). Played ‘Waarom droom ik elke nacht van jouw, Bianca?’
0846 1653 JB met rapporten. S4
0849 1636 Alpenjager met rapporten S4
0852 1620 Scotland met rapporten S4
0920 1646 Jeneverstoker (I think) met rapporten. S2
0932 1521 Radio Atlantis hard to hear because of the British station on the same frequency. I guess I’ll just have to stick to their web stream - http://www.atlantisradio.tk/ (a very good station!). S2
1019 1630 Bartje (Batavier) played a varied selection of music. I liked ‘Dit is de zender van illegal Joop’! S3-4
2142 1690 UNID Greek station QSOing. Mentioned Sylvania (a Greek pirate). S2
2145 1700 UNID Greek station with music and telephone calls. S2
2148 1690 UNID Greek station (possibly Sylvania) QSOing. S3
2254 1691 UNID Greek station (the one I heard on 1690 on Friday, I think). Mentioned Radiofonia Veteranos. S4
2314 1705 UNID station playing ‘Another Brick in the Wall’. S1


Any help with the UNIDs highly appreciated!

RX: Sangean ATS 909
100m beverage (BOG, unterminated) at 290/110 degrees (USA, Russia, Greece …)
100m beverage (BOG, unterminated) at 20/200 degrees (Western Europe)
QTH: Grimstad on the south coast of Norway (the exact location was a few kilometres from the coast)
Sunrise Sat Oct 30: 0638 UTC
Sunset Sat Oct 30: 1545 UTC

73

Kai in Norway

[fabien]

Hello in Norway.
you are lucky to have space enough for beverage antennas.

And you have possibly identifications for stations from Greece. That's good. I should be glad if I could have a full identification too, but until now I was unable to understand one.

Good continuation.
73's from France.

[Jan Willem]

[quote="Kai"]Hi everyone!

My wife, my daughter and I were visiting my parents this weekend, and although we were primarily there to see family, I found time for some listening ...

The signals were slightly weaker and the noise level significantly higher than on Lista (where Arvid and I had a ‘pirate DX-pedition’ in September) – but I managed to hear a lot of interesting stations anyway! (Unfortunately, Radio Atlantis was very weak, and there was no sign of Radio 0511 and WMBR.)

All times UTC (to avoid confusion because of the change to winter time ...). S as in SINPO.


Fri Oct 29

1815 1665 Armada with a report for Zeelandia. S5!


Hallo Kai

Thank you for your Reception Report
73 Jan Willem - Radio Armada

[gerrie]

hey kai thanks for your greetings Raport radio sterrekijker/ astronomer

[Andy Richards]

Great logs Kai.

It would be nice if we at Alfa Lima could do more MW Logs.


I have tried but find it too difficult to ID stations on MW,except for the ones that look for an International audience.


That's the thing with MW,most broadcasters do MW to be heard in their own country.Which is fair enough.


Maybe more logs from Dutch,Greek and "Yugoslav" listeners would be welcome.


Andy Richards.

[Zeewolf]

Andy,

I do agree with you that the MW pirates are difficult to identify because the long programs without any ID.
With the possibility of an international audience with the conditions that are getting stronger the coming years, we should present the ID more often.

Greetings from,
Herman,
Zeewolf AM
1647 kc