My AM Archive: October 2005

 I'M sat here on an October Sunday afternoon, bringing back memories of Medium Wave broadcasts heard on an October Sunday morning, 2005.

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

October 2005 : Medium Wave

• 30 October [2005]: 0734 UTC: 1053 kHz: TalkSport  Excellent-good-fair reception  'Fisherman's Blues' Phone-in regarding fishing.
• 30 October: 0749 UTC: 1062 kHz: Denmark Radio P3  Excellent-good-fair reception via Kalundborg, Denmark, 250 kW. Coastal waters and shipping forecast: 'Kirkwall... Aberdeen... Bridlington... Malin Head... Shetland... Humber'. Music. Male speech (Danish). 0800 UTC news, sport.
• 30 October: 0832 UTC: 1071 kHz: TalkSport  Good to fair reception via Wrekenton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1 kW. Mike Parry.
• 30 October: 0918 UTC: 1152 kHz: Magic 1152  Fair to poor reception via Greenside, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1.8 kW.  Music: Dusty Springfield 'Son of A Preacher Man'. Tel: 0845 113 2222.
• 30 October: 1000 UTC: 693 kHz: BBC Radio Five Live  Excellent reception.  BBC Radio Five Live is live at Warwick Road, Carlisle. Julian Worricker 'Five Live Report' Live from Carlisle Rugby Union FC. Local residents David Atkin and Joanne Griffith talk of flooding in Warwick Road, Carlisle, January 2005.

That concludes the logs for October 2005, representing autumn of that year.

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