My AM Archive: Spring 2006

 

MARCH and April 2006 are from where the following memories of Medium wave radio broadcasts, as heard by myself at the time and noted in my logbook, come.

The previous post in this thread, My AM Archive: Winter 2005-2006, 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.

March 2006 : Medium Wave

• 10 March [2006]: 2041 UTC: 756 kHz: BBC Radio Cumbria  Fair to poor reception via Carlisle, 1 kW.  Football commentary: Coca-Cola League Two: Northampton Town v Carlisle United, live from Sixfields, Northampton. Half Time: Town 0 - United 1 (Karl Hawley, 21 minutes). Commentary by Derek Lacey and Mike Corry.
  [Full details of the match can be found here.]

April 2006 : Medium Wave

• 14 April: 1417 UTC: 1314 kHz: NRK Euuropakanalen  Fair reception via Kvitsoy, Norway, 1200 kW.  Norwegian speech, female and male voices. Music. Male speaks to male on telephone.
• 14 April: 1450 UTC: 1323 kHz: BBC Radio Ulster  Fair to poor reception via Lisnagarvey, Co Down, Northern Ireland, 100 kW.  Music: Mamas & Papas 'California Dreaming'. George Jones. Telephone: 0845 955678. ID.  15 UTC news: Newcastle flight disruption. Baby illness.
• 14 April: 1757 UTC: 1368 kHz: Manx Radio  Excellent-good-fair reception via Foxdale, Isle of Man, 20 kW.  Music: Bryan Adams 'Everything I Do I Do It For You'. Sponsored weather report: Freedom Travel Isle of Man. Sport: Football: Sven Goran Eriksson, Ashley Cole.
• 14 April: 2014 UTC: 1422 kHz: DLF Deutschlandfunk  Excellent to good reception via Heusweiler, Germany, 600 - 1200 kW.  Music: Jazz - Blues programme, German language. Male host. Music, English language songs.

Please note the log for BBC Radio Cumbria, 10 March, features a link to the TablesLeague website, which has full details of the Northampton Town - Carlisle United football fixture, as reported in the log.

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