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London Calling.

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 21:35 pm
by Andy Richards
Time to find a new hobby?


Gardening? - Still prone to the weather & the sun,just like radio,so no.

Fishing? - Still has days with plenty of catches and others with few,just like radio,so no.

Stamp Collecting? - That's it! - Receive stamps from all over the world in perfect condition - not affected by the weather or sunspot activity! - No,just doesn't do it for me.I Guess I'm just a radio freak!

To be fair,the bad days help to make the good ones more enjoyable.Part of the joy of radio is how unpredictable it can be.

But the last two days have been really terrible,haven't they?I can't remember a worse weekend.And I can't believe that I didn't hear Borderhunter or Orion!!They are normaly rock solid signals here.I Guess their signals just skipped right over London & what was
left was drowned out by the noise.

It was a nice quiet morning,but the noise hit me at 0920...........just as I was getting interested in Dr.Tim's programme.

I kept returning to the radio but the noise remained till about 1100,by which time I guess most operators had decided it wasn't worth warming up their rigs.


Saturday 01/03/08


4025Khz - 1712-1717 - LHH - 33333 - Unknown Pop.
6275Khz - 1242-1247 - UNID - 35433 - "Maria",Dutch song.
6275Khz - 1442-1448 - Radio Calypso - 35433 - "Butterfly"(German),Dutch song,
English song.
6325Khz - 1450-1455 - Skywire Radio 35434 - Oldies.
6882Khz - 1105-1110 - Playback Radio Int - 25433 - 80's Disco,Aha.
9290Khz - 0940-0945 - Radio Joystick - 55534 - Disco music.German announcer.


Sunday 02/03/08


4025Khz - 0935-0940 - LHH - 34333 - 80's Pop.
6275Khz - 0849-0854 - UNID - 25433 - Hendrix.
6275Khz - 0910-0915 - Radio Dr.Tim - 35433 - German - radiodrtim@eonline.de.
Playing tapes of Radio Bobby,who died last year.
6300Khz - 1100-1105 - UNID - 35434 - "Drive","Black Velvet".
6310Khz - 1115-1120 - UNID - 35434 - Unknown Rock & Pop.Later Dance music.
6882Khz - 0841-0846 - Playback Radio Int - 35434 - Ballads,BTO,non-stop music &
jingles.


Andy Richards.


andyrichardz@msn.com

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 18:04 pm
by sciroccoam
6275Khz - 1242-1247 - UNID - 35433 - "Maria",Dutch song.

Was also Radio Calypso

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 18:22 pm
by JoJo
Thanks Andy for these reports. Indeed conditions where bad, also for the pirates there was almost no fun. Got some good receptions but most where bad or just nothing at all. Also the tx didn't liked it; around 0900utc it stoped working. later while repairing I saw I blew up one tube. After some work on the tx went back on air at 1530UTC for a short test on 5815kc and got a good reception reprot from france, sinpo 55444. seems to be conditions where back and/or tx was running well.

btw. If you decide to collect post stamps, just let me know, I could send you some from Holland ;)