London Calling.

[Andy Richards]

Whoaaa!!!!

Sorry,I just read the logs from Ian in France..........AMAZING!!!!

Again,stations fading in and out.Good for DX,not so good if you were trying to listen to a programme!

My logs are not as long as Ian's.But as you can all see,SW Pirates are alive and well!!

Radio Borderhunter faded in weakly at first and then peaked to a huge signal before fading out completely twice.During his fade outs I could hear stations on 6205 & 6215.

I seem to be the only one to log Radio Friesian on 6325,did I get the name wrong or was there really a Radio Friesian on?

Nice to hear a new(For me) UK station on,and from London too!Radio Argus claimed to be on MW too,but were not announcing the frequency.I had a bit of a tune and could not hear them.
Good programmes and good music too.The name Radio Argus seems familiar to me.Back to the 80's I think.I wonder if this was the same people?

The 76m band seems to be working well right now,I am regularly hearing stations during the day.
This used to be a night time band only for me.

EMR had a nice live programme this afternoon with some very good current music.
Shame to hear that Ulbroka is going from 100Kw to only 5kw.That's not much more power than some of The Dutchies...............................

Laser were a good solid signal today,but I didn't hear Playback at all!!

Best signal?Boomerang as usual,but Borderhunter ran him close.


Saturday 20/12/08

3900Khz - 1530-1534 - Radio Boomerang - 45434 - Queen.Mentioned Orion Radio.
3905Khz - 1520-1523 - Radio Boomerang - 45434 - In QSO with Skyline & Orion.
3910Khz - 1518-1519 - Skyline Radio Int - 45434 - In QSO with Boomerang.
3930Khz - 1524-1529 - The Bogusman - 35433 - The Crash Test Dummies.
6205Khz - 1020-1025 - UNID - 35533 - Techno Music,"Fame",Techno/Dance tune.
6215Khz - 1025-1030 - UNID - 25533 - The Scorpions.
6310Khz - 1030-1035 - Radio Altrex - 34433 - Classic Soul.

Sunday 21/12/08

3925Khz - 1217-1222 - Radio Argus - 45434 - Al Stewart,Brownsville Station.On MW in London too.
4025Khz - 0830-0835 - Laser Hot Hits - 34434 - Steve Roberts playing The Kinks - "Waterloo Sunset".
5815Khz - 0835-0840 - Orion Radio - 44434 - John playing Bing Crosby - "White Christmas".
6205Khz - 0950-0955 - DRP Radio? - 34333 - "Dancing Queen".
6210Khz - 0845-0850 - Radio Borderhunter - 55434 - Queen,"Rock'n'Roll Xmas","Driving home for Xmas".
6215Khz - 1005-1010 - UNID - 23332 - Old style jingle.Unusual mix of music.
6265Khz - 0930-0935 - Premier Radio Int - 34433 - "From the West Coast of Ireland".Playing "White Xmas".
6265Khz - 1230-1235 - Radio Altrex - 35333 - French Song.
6290Khz - 0855-0900 - Radio Jingle Bells - 34433 - German.Playing "Only Dutch Music".
6290Khz - 1240-1245 - Radio Saturnus - 35333 - Dutch Instrumental Music.
6305Khz - 1020-1025 - Radio Boomerang - 55544 - Genesis,Sandie Shaw,U2.
6310Khz - 0935-0940 - Radio Free Delta - 23332 - Child's voice announcements."We are Family".
6310Khz - 1328-1333 - Studio 52? - 32332 - Country Music & Oldies.
6325Khz - 1025-1030 - Radio Friesian - 35433 - Dutch Music.
6400Khz - 1013-1018 - Radio Caroline Eiffel - 33332 - German.Xmas Rock'n'Roll Song.
9290Khz - 1415-1420 - European Music Radio - 55544 - Mike Taylor with The Mailbox Programme.
Playing Pendulum,The Script and The Kooks.


Andy Richards.

[Altrex]

Hi Andy,

Thanks again for your logs...
Lot of stations on air this weekend, and you did hear a lot...

best regards,

Radio Altrex

[saturnus]

Hi Andy,thanks again for your loggings!
Today i used a little tx with only 15 watts,nice too see that there is not much difference between 15 or 100 watts.....thats shortwave!
Wish you happy holidays!

[ukdxer]

Hi Andy,

Nice lot of loggings there. I think the station you heard on 6325 was the Shortwave Cowboys - a new one for me. ID came thanks to tip from Radio Freebird in Iann's chatroom.

Argus was coming in very well here but I think it was an old programme - as DJ mentioned an RNI RSL that was on air at the same time.

Incidentally the Radio Free London programme hasn't gone down too well with some people - looking at comments on my blog for that day, including one from Andy Walker. The view seems to be that it was 'fake' tribute station.

Let's hope for good conditions over Christmas!

73s

[JoJo]

Hello Andy, Still a lot stations loged thanks