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UPDATE TO THESE PAGES: There has not been much in the way of updates here in the last few weeks. Not a lot has been happening. A few good signals around mid month, and a few Latins being reported by other dxers, but I have not spent the time listing, due to being busy at other projects. Hopefully though, I will have a chance to at least produce a short audio montage of stations from 18th April.
LIFE CHANGING BAND PLAN: I found this interesting though for a radio enthusiast, rather misguided letter in an old Wireless World from WW2 time, 1943. Imagine if this joker's suggestion had been taken up. Most of us would have no doubt not drifted into the MW dxing hobby quite as seriously. Of course we can hear TADX on the Euro channels, but if all Euro channels were the same as those from North and South America, life would have been so much more difficult for all these years. Thank goodness for incompetence, as technically it probably was a good idea!!
WIRELESS OR WIRED RADIO: You can read the above letter as well as others on the interesting subject of cable radio instead of wireless radio in the following pdf file. NB - This is not the complete magazine, only a few selected pages, hence file size is only 8,161k. Unfortunately I don't have part 1 of the article from the previous month's edition.
NB: Never got around to finishing this entry!!!! MW DXING: This overdue updater sees a few decent signals around at 0500UTC. I have also added a few DLF items to the earlier recording at the bottom of the page.
MW DXING: The band was pretty lively today, and signals were reasonable from the common stations. There is still French talk being logged on 1410 from the recently moved Canadian, ex 1610. Not heard any calls yet, or ee ids.
MW UPDATE FOR 28/3: I have a more detailed log for 28th March here. Most stations were heard around 0500 - 0530, but sadly I did not record the full hour on this day. I have unid SS stations on the following channels.... I had some scribbled notes from that day, which a large blotch of oil or creosote has obscured, but either 1450 or 1480 had some kind of an ann / jingle that I couldn't get. I guess I should give the files another shot. 1320
Apollo 0530
AIRCHIE WHO?? There is a name I used to read about. Archie Pettigrew. I have given a couple of articles about his work. It includes CD quality in analogue tapes, and a development for FM broadcasting. I wonder if the latter has ever been implemented in any way in receivers??? The article on the left is from 1991 and probably from the Glasgow Herald. The article on the right is from the "Electronic Times" from 16th March 1989. There are articles on line about this chap.
There have been a few reasonable signals around during the last couple of days. I am not going to list log the whole band here, but I have made a montage of some of the better signals, from 11th and 10th. Nothing startling I know, but some dxers were reporting no carrier traces!! They are as follows: 10th 0500 - 1510
Boston 11th
0500 + 0530 130410_and_11th_montage.mp3
ITALIAN TIME SIGNAL ODDITY: This is not a newly reported station it seems, but the first I have actually heard of it, thanks to a "hot tip" from a fellow Scottish dxer. There is an Italian station broadcasting music and time signals on the time signal frequency of 10mHz, and the signals here in Scotland are superb. No EE ids noted, only Italian. It always makes for interesting listening when something unusual pops up. 130410_1958_10000_italian_time_stn.mp3
CHANGED DAYS - WATCHING OLD TAPES BEING TOSSED IN THE BIN: A pal of mine was clearing out the other day. Being binned were loads of his old music tapes. There were dozens that I simply looked at in his large bin pile. He had already burned some in a stove and succeeded in turning it red hot with the heat!! So that was given up as crazy..lol In days gone by, I would have lifted all the tapes. But I have so many kicking around, and I am piled to the ceiling as it is. I personally only use tapes in playback mode these days when converting to mp3.
JEP / PIRATE MEMORIES BIN OLD TAPES: I recently heard that JEP who used to trade under the name Pirate Memories in the 70's and 80's threw his old tapes in the bin as well. Now those I would have lifted out the bin. I would have liked a chance at them, as many would have been his master tapes recorded in Grimsby. What a crazy thing to do, destroy historical recordings. No matter what I copy to MP3, I still keep a hold of the original media. Phew... I may want it again. I was very surprised at John, as he used to trade a lot, and was interested in making a shilling. They could have been flogged on ebay as originals. Which brings me to another story of tapes. A few years ago I saw some reels being sold with old SE England priceless recordings. Where are these recordings now. Where is the seller who had copied them all to mp3, and where is the buyer? Is the radio world full of selfish oddities that never share or make recordings public?? All that holds me back is time time time. There are a lot more recordings to be made public on this site in the future.
REMEMBERING DEUTSCHELANDFUNK: The 1268 transmitter is still on the air, but remember the English service of Deutschelandfunk??? I found an old recording while looking for something else recently from 1980, some 33 years ago!! 1980_03_19_wed_1840_deutschlandfunk_1269_c90_64_kb.mp3
Further to the audio clip, below are the front and back of a QSL card from many years ago, and a pennant. They also used to supply listeners in England a frame aerial, made about the size of an LP I believe. This would have been a coil of wire, possibly like copper print, and capacitance of the exact value that was pretuned to 1269khz. It is possible these were issued because a number of listeners lived close to ILR activity on 1260 in England. A DFL aerial. I wish now I had sent for one.
WOLVERINE RADIO 24th MARCH: I came in on Sat night / Sunday morning 24th March pretty late and found Wolverine Radio on SW. This is one of the strongest North American pirates heard here in the UK. I can't find a note of the freq, though the notes will be around somewhere. My thoughts are around 6935ish?? Signal was good, though I never waited to see if they had SSTV pictures this time. wolverine_24th_march_13_0235.mp3
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