Free radio pirates on medium and short wave messageboard of alfa lima

Fine weather and fair propagation this Sunday.
Some stations heard :

0753 6220 55545 Mystery Radio
0809 5815 43443 Orion Radio
0832 6882 45444 Pirate Music
0841 6421 35433 Laser Hot Hits
1056 12257 34433 WR International - 1105 : end
1106 6325 45434 Radio Merlin Int
1123 6210 45544 Radio Borderhunter
1136 6400 45544 Weekend Music Radio
1148 6310 43433 Radio Condor - co-channel with Radio l'Arboç - 1153 : end
1155 6305 55545 Radio Boomerang - very strong signal - 1159 : end
1325 6300 35433 Unid
1357 6310 44544 Unid - tent : Radio Malaisy
1844 6220 43533 Mystery Radio

Good listening, by Toutatis !

Hello Toutatis,

thanks for the log.

Hi Toutatis,
Many thanks for the logs of WR International for this Sunday 13-01-2008.

Dave Jones.

Tnx for the logging.

It seems latest antenne is working rather nice for 'DX', however (as expected) local signal is a bit troublesome.
(but this could be more related to the poor local propagation nowadays)
Unfortionally my neighbour does need his acres again when spring arrives.

Can you confirm if you were the Unid station at 1155 on 6305 kHz ?
What type of antenna were you using ?

Greetings
Toutatis

Yep, that's correct.

Technically spoken, I was using a collinear array of two end-fed full wavelenth radiators.
It seems to work very nice for the long(er) distances, but local signals are somewhat disappointing.

But that's the principle of antennas: With equal power, when signal is increased in certain directions/distances, the signal in (some) other directions/distances has to be lower in strength.

With nowadays bad local propagation this seems just the right type of antenna to use.