London Calling.

Post by **Andy Richards** » Sun May 11, 2008 20:08 pm

The weather across Europe has been superb this week.
27 degrees in London today!But a little humid.(As is often the case in these islands).
Sunshine seems to have a bad effect on SW conditions,but this weekend was not as bad as the last few weeks.
No fade out from Borderhunter on 76m at all............but he faded out,temporarily,on 48m!
To be fair,all signals were fading in & out.Every station I heard today faded right out at one point.
I began to think the weekend would be OK when the PRI signal began to boom in last night with some superb music.
Then Borderhunter came in with his usual "Armchair quality" reception on 76m............some great jingles & trailers Frans!
Sunday morning began with Orion Radio,as it often does with me,and no gentle relaxing tune.........The Sweet's "Blockbuster"!
The stage was set for the day.Radio Scotland rocked as usual,Radio Borderhunter had a nice mix of tunes,but pretty uptempo,with plenty of techno & Rock too.Great to hear Alfred back on the air via
VOTN............lots of Hard Techno & driving Rock.
The music was lively but short lived as conditions soon got worse.
All stations had good mod today,none were bad.But I have to say that whilst Radio Borderhunter's mod was superb and clear as usual,Radio Shadowman's mod was exceptional.
The problem with really good mod is that it often
leads to splatter.This was not the case with Radio Shadowman.Excellent mod & no splatter.

Saturday 10/05/08

3905Khz - 2202-2207 - Radio Borderhunter - 55445 - Good jingles & trailers.
No fade out.........solid till closedown at 2338.
6400Khz - 1437-1442 - UNID - 35232 - Dutch.Techno.
6880Khz - 1712-1717 - PRI - 35232 - "Boom Boom" - John Lee Hooker.
6880Khz - 2030-2035 - PRI - 45434 - Rock'n'Roll,Blues & Jazz.Summermeeting
Ads.Excellent music.

Sunday 11/05/08

5815Khz - 0755-0800 - Orion Radio - 35343 - "Blockbuster" - Sweet.Closedown at
0842.
6200Khz - 0806-0810 - Radio Scotland - 35433 - Multilingual announcements.
Closedown at 0810.
6210Khz - 0820-0825 - Radio Borderhunter - 45434 - "Walking on sunshine",Very
funny sketch on a Pirate raid,"Dust in the Wind".Faded right out at 0850.Back by
0913.Closedown at 1020.
6270Khz - 1010-1015 - UNID - 35232 - Rod Stewart.Later Bob Marley & Kiss.Dutch.
6275Khz - 0811-0816 - Voice of The Netherlands with Alfa Lima - 45434 - Techno
then Hard Rock.
6305Khz - 0908-0913 - Radio Shadowman with Radio Blackfoot - 44434 - "Lola" -
The Kinks.Superb mod.Slight het.

Andy Richards.

andyrichardz@msn.com

Borderhunter · Post by **Borderhunter** » Sun May 11, 2008 20:24 pm

Hi Andy,
Thanks for the (always) intresting comments and logs.
Nice to know I was not fading out last night on 76 as last weeks.
(I was a little worry about that)
And today it was all by all not so bad.

73
Frans.

Post by **JoJo** » Sun May 11, 2008 21:35 pm

Hello Andy,

thanks again for this interesting post. Always nice to read.

Radio Scotland · Post by **Radio Scotland** » Mon May 12, 2008 12:05 pm

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the log and comments.
By the way: fantastic weather overhere too..
Albert

playbackinternational · Mon May 12, 2008 15:29 pm

Hi Andy ...
We are really Happy, 'cause quite alot of people have enjoyded the Jazzy and Blues' week-end.

THANK YOU

We will replay it probably in two weeks time.

PRI = Playback Radio International ?
I normally used PBi =PlayBack International .... I get confused for a while

We was 6882 as usual.

Have a nice week and than's alot for your reports.

JJ and crew