My AM Archive: Winter 2004-2005

RECEPTION from across Europe is reflected in this post of Medium Wave memories, dating from December 2004 and February 2005.

The previous post in this thread, My AM Archive: Summer - Autumn 2004, 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.

December 2004 : Medium Wave

• 1 December [2004]: 2042 UTC: 531 kHz: Swiss B C Beromunster Poor-fair-poor reception via Beromunster SUI Switzerland. Speech by male host, music, two tracks from female vocalist. Music: Chubby Checker.
• 1 December: 2106 UTC: 549 kHz: United Christian Broadcasters Fair reception via Irish Christian Broadcasters. Music: "I Found Jesus". Female host "Twelve minutes past nine". Female host: "Get your Bibles ready and the family tucked up in bed". ID for United Christian Broadcasters. Telephone: 01782 642000. Website.

February 2005 : Medium Wave

• 25 February [2005]: 2100 UTC: 567 kHz: RTE Radio One Excellent-good-fair reception. 500 kW via Tullamore, Ireland. RTE weather: Cold, frost. Ad: Grand Jeep Cherokee, Quinn Direct (car insurance). The Best of Rattleboy, interview: Jonathan Donaghue.

Logo of United Christian Broadcasters, heard 549 kHz.

• 25 February: 2155 UTC: 585 kHz: BBC Scotland Excellent-good-fair reception. 2 kW via Dumfries. Weather forecast: Drizzle, sleet, clear, 6°C. Hazardous travel. News: Soldiers jailed. Tel Aviv explosion. IRA expel 3 men. Pope recovers from operation.

That completes the logs for Winter 2004-2005.

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