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27th Jan 2016, 3:20 pm | #21 |
Nonode
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: 1966-1976 Coverack in Cornwall and Helston Cornwall. 1976-present Bristol/Bath area.
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Re: Any European Stations still on MW??
There is still quite a lot to be heard on medium waves and as a DXer, after the recent high powered European close downs, the European countries that can still be heard at night, using a reasonable portable radio, of any age, are; Belgium France, Germany (AFN), Spain, Portugal,Italy Slovenia Hungary, Czech Republic, and sometimes Romania and Greece From the Middle East Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran and Syria can sometime be heard and from North Africa Algeria Tunis and Morroco.
The Belgium RTBF signal on 621Khz is now the only European station that I can pick up during the day.
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28th Jan 2016, 12:16 am | #22 |
Rest in Peace
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Location: Kings Lynn, Norfolk, UK.
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Re: Any European Stations still on MW??
I suppose it's a shame that the broadcasters are leaving the MW bcb in droves, but if you take the time to rig a tuned loop and sit your radio in the middle, there's a lot of interesting stuff coming through, now that the blowtorch stations are closing. Since november I have been receiving some U.S / Canadian stations on a homebrew 3 transistor re-gen, and loft mount flat top aerial, I've never managed THAT before.
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1st Feb 2016, 9:00 am | #23 |
Retired Dormant Member
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Re: Any European Stations still on MW??
Well, here in the the centre of Stockholm I have not been able to hear anything on MW for the past 12 years, other than the occasional Russian station. R4 on LW was receivable, but only after midnight when a Russian station sharing it's frequency went off the air.
But doing a quick MW band scan last night on a small pocket radio and I was surprised to hear Talksport coming through on both it's main frequencies. No sign of R5Live though. There was also some English music based station close to them, but I didn't have time to identify them. |
8th Feb 2016, 11:12 pm | #24 |
Triode
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Edinburgh, UK.
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Re: Any European Stations still on MW??
Medium wave still busy at night here. I have made a video using my SDR radio showing stations in just about every 9 kc/s channel. It is at:
https://youtu.be/5ME5N3vGT_w |
9th Feb 2016, 1:34 pm | #25 |
Hexode
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Cornwall, UK.
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Re: Any European Stations still on MW??
BBC Radio Cornwall is still on mid band MW can't find the freq though. Shame Arrow Classic Rock from Holland is now QRT, they were on 675 kHz and we used to get them in East Anglia loud and proud!
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9th Feb 2016, 7:22 pm | #26 |
Hexode
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Weymouth, Dorset, UK.
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Re: Any European Stations still on MW??
Listen on 1377 1386 1395 Kc for Easter Europe. 1377 and 1395 are from Yerevan, Armenia and 1386 from Sitkauni, Lithuania. Powers are around 500kW.
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10th Feb 2016, 7:22 pm | #27 |
Octode
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: West Midlands, UK.
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Re: Any European Stations still on MW??
I woke up in the small hours and so flicked on the bedside set - a 29 year old Grundig - onto MW to tune to R5. With this thread in mind I tuned the length of the band and I recall few, if any, gaps in signals. I could hear a lot of Spanish.
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