My AM Archive: April 2011

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Logs of Short Wave broadcasts are also on this blog, under the My DX Archive thread.

The previous post in this thread, My AM Archive: February 2011, 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 2011 : Medium Wave

• [Tuesday] 26 April [2011]: 2040 UTC: 801 kHz: Bayern Plus  Music: Glen Campbell 'Wichita Lineman'. Continuous music, ID, female vocalists. Music: Roy Orbison 'You Got It'.
  Fair reception. Time Signal at 21 UTC: Female with news update in the German language. World news: Japan Fukushima nuclear power plant.
  German language broadcast from Munich. 100 kW.
  World news from Kandahar, Afghanistan.
  Logged to 2110 UTC.

Bayern Plus logo.

• 26 April: 2115 UTC: 810 kHz: BBC Radio Scotland  Female host with political discussion with a male guest. Elections in Scotland.
  Fair reception.
  Female host was interviewing Scottish Labour leader. Political correspondent Raymond Buchanan reports.
  100 kW via North or Central Scotland.
  Logged to 2127 UTC.
• 26 April: 2140 UTC: 828 kHz: Radio 10 Gold  Music: Norah Jones 'Don't Know Why'. ID. Music: James Ingram [& Patti Austin] 'Baby Come To Me'; Jon Secada 'Just Another Day'.
  Excellent to fair reception.
  ID, music: Chris Rea 'Fool If You Think It's Over'; The Cars 'Drive'; Katie Melua 'Nine Million Bicycles'. Male host, Dutch language. Female speech. ID with male speech.
  Logged to 2158 UTC.

Contact details for broadcasters (These details may no longer be correct):

Bayern Plus (broadcasting on 801 & 729 kHz)

Bayerischer Rundfunk,

Bayern Plus,

Radio No 1,

80335  MUNICH

GERMANY

Radio 10 Gold (828 kHz)

PO Box 1056,

1200 BB  HILVERSUM

HOLLAND .

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