My AM Archive: Autumn 2003

 SPORT leads the way with these memories of radio broadcasts, from September and October, the Autumn of 2003.

The previous post in this thread, My AM Archive: Summer 2003, 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.

September 2003 : Medium Wave

• 21 September [2003]: 0920 UTC: 1458 kHz: BBC Radio Newcastle Good reception. 2 kW via Wrekenton, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Programme: 'The Great North Run - Live'.
• 21 September: 1335 UTC: 756 kHz: BBC Radio Cumbria Excellent to good reception. 1 kW via Carlisle 'Sport on Sunday' (MW only) Barrow Border Raiders are away at Keighley Cougars, West Yorkshire (RL) [Rugby League].

BBC Radio Cumbria promotional flyer.

• 23 September: 1950 UTC: 756 kHz: BBC Radio Cumbria Excellent to good reception. 1 kW via Carlisle 'Match Night Football': Penrith v Billingham, Workington v Bishop Auckland, Barrow v Runcorn.
• 30 September: 1840 UTC: 756 kHz: BBC Radio Cumbria Fair reception. 1 kW via Carlisle. Football: Carlisle United v Leyton Orient at Brunton Park, Carlisle. Commentary by Paul Newton and Mike Corrie.
• 30 September: 1850 UTC: 837 kHz: BBC Radio Cumbria Fair to barely audible reception. 1 kW via Barrow. Football: Southport v Barrow (837 kHz only).

October 2003 : Medium Wave

• 17 October: 1930 UTC: 1017 kHz: SWF Rheinsender, Germany. Excellent to fair reception. 600 kW. Male and female hosts, German language.
• 17 October: 2029 UTC: 1044 kHz: SER - Spain. Excellent-Good-Fair reception. 10 kW via San Sebastian. Spanish language, male host, fast speech about life in Spain.
• 17 October: 2039 UTC: 1044 kHz: MDR - Germany. Good to fair reception. 20 kW via Dresden, Germany. MittelDeutscheRundfunk 'Bundesliga' Live Friday night football. Male hosts, German language.

MDR [MittelDeutscher Rundfunk] QSL Verification Card.

• 17 October: 2052 UTC: 1053 kHz: TalkSport Excellent to good reception. News: Leicester shootings. Gordon Brown becomes Father to Son.

That concludes the logs for Autumn 2003.

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