Memories of Medium Wave: My AM Archive, April 2001

AFTER two years of posting My DX Archive, Reporting From The Fox Tower re-tunes to the Medium Wave band for My AM Archive, bringing you memories of Medium Wave broadcasts, this time from April 2001.

To rekindle the Medium Wave thread on this blog, a previous post, My AM Archive: The Year 2000, can be found here.

Housekeeping notes: Times in UTC (GMT), frequencies in kiloHertz (kHz). Transmission power in watts or kiloWatts (kW). Logs transcribed from the original notes.

April 2001 : Medium Wave

• 1 April [2001]: 1936 UTC: 1179 kHz: Radio Sweden Poor-Good-Poor reception. English to Europe, Africa, Middle East via Sölvesborg, Sweden, 600 kW.
  'In Touch With Stockholm' Email system. Music. Letter from Ukrainian listener. Phonecall: Michaela of London.
• 2 April: 2005 UTC: 1107 kHz: Radio Free Europe Fair-Good-Fair reception. English "This is Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, Praha". Testing of synchronous transmitter network in Lithuania.
• 8 April: 1946 UTC: 1179 kHz: Radio Sweden Excellent to good reception. English to Europe via Sölvesborg, [Sweden] 600 kW (254 m).
  'Sounds Nordic' Interview with female vocalist of 'Sheband'. Email: sono @ radiosweden . org , Post: SE 105 10 Stockholm. The host was Gaby Katz. Music: Roxette 'Milk, Toast & Honey'.
• 15 April: 1932 UTC: 1179 kHz: Radio Sweden Fair reception. English to Europe via Sölvesborg, [Sweden] 600 kW.
  'Sounds Nordic' Gaby Katz interviews guitarist of April Tears; New single: 'Model, Actress, Whatever'. Swedish Top 5 singles.

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