My AM Archive: April 2005

APRIL 10, 2005 was the 100th day of the year 2005 in the Gregorian calendar.

I spent that day - A Sunday - Listening to Medium Wave and here are the results of what was heard that day.

The previous post in this thread, My AM Archive: Winter 2004-2005, 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 2005 : Medium Wave

• 10 April [2005]: 0948 UTC: 603 kHz: BBC Radio Four Good-fair-good reception. 2 kW via Wrekenton, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Omnibus edition of 'The Archers'. Emma gives birth.
• 10 April: 1010 UTC: 648 kHz: BBC World Service Poor to barely audible reception. Transmission site: Orford Ness, Suffolk, 500 kW. Male and female voices.
• 10 April: 1027 UTC: 666 kHz: BBC Radio York Good to fair reception via Fulford, York, 0.5 kW. Man on telephone from Australia! Websites for Scarborough and Scarborough Beach, Perth, South West Australia. James Watt (host), Tel: 0845 300 3000, Text: 07786 203000, email address.
• 10 April: 1249 UTC: 675 kHz: Arrow Classic Rock Excellent-good-fair reception via Lopik, Holland, 120 kW. Music: Roxy Music 'Virginia Plain' ID, news: Monaco Royalty. Hilversum, Amsterdam Arena (sport). Music: Santana ft Rob Thomas 'Smooth', Lynard Skynard 'Sweet Home Alabama'.
• 10 April: 1321 UTC: 693 kHz: BBC Radio Five Live Excellent reception 'Sport on Five' Masters Golf, Tiger Woods in the lead. Interview with Martin O'Neil, Manager of Celtic Football Club. Masters Golf update. Football: Tottenham Hotspur - Newcastle United.

BBC Radio 4 artwork for new schedule
announcement, April 1998.

• 10 April: 1356 UTC: 720 kHz: BBC Radio Four Fair-good-fair reception. News at 1400 UTC (3pm BST): Michael Howard (Conservative), Tony Blair (Labour) and Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat) on the General Election campaign trail. MG Rover closure.
• 10 April: 1428 UTC: 756 kHz: BBC Radio Cumbria Excellent to good reception via Carlisle, 1 kW. Rugby League: Whitehaven 20 - Halifax 6.
• 10 April: 1623 UTC: 810 kHz: BBC Radio Scotland Fair reception 'Cover Stories' programme. Trailer for 'Be Bop to Hip Hop'. Trailers for Wednesday. ID 'Values Added' programme: Pope John Paul funeral; Marriage of Charles Prince of Wales to Camilla Parker-Bowles.
• 10 April: 1644 UTC: 837 kHz: BBC Radio Cumbria Good to fair reception via Barrow in Furness, 1 kW. Anne Hopper 'Music Box'.

Time has moved on in the fifteen and a half years between that day and this; Transmitter closures over a recent period means it is most likely you would now not hear BBC World Service and BBC Radio York on the above frequencies. If you now tune to 648 kHz, a former frequency of the BBC World Service, you will hear Radio Caroline, broadcasting its albums stream on a Community Radio license.

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