My AM Archive: February 2015

 BROADCASTS on Medium Wave from the UK and Europe, heard Monday, 23 February, 2015.

The previous post in this thread, My AM Archive: December 2014, 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.

Receiver used: Roberts R881.

February 2015 : Medium Wave

• [Monday] 23 February [2015]: 2106 UTC: 900 kHz: [Presumed] Radio Popular / Herri Irratia  Speech in the Spanish language - British DX Club shows Bilbao on this frequency, plus co-channel interference.
  Fair to poor reception.
  Logged to 2124 UTC.
• 23 February: 2134 UTC: 909 kHz: BBC Radio Five Live  'The Tuffers and Vaughany Cricket Show' with Phil Tufnell, Michael Vaughan and Mark Chapman. Topic of conversation is the current Cricket World Cup - England have recorded their first win of this tournament over Scotland.
  The TMS [Test Match Special] team are based in Canberra at the moment.
  Scotland's next match is against Afghanistan. The Afghan team coach [Andy Moles] is interviewed on BBC Radio Five Live.
  Excellent to fair reception. Up to 200 kW via Moorside Edge, West Yorkshire.
  Logged to 2148 UTC.
• 23 February: 2213 UTC: 945 kHz: Smooth Radio  Music: 'You're The Best Thing' The Style Council; Berlin 'Take My Breath Away'.
  Smooth Radio via Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex (700 watts) [Possible co-channel broadcast from Gold, Quarndon, Derby - 200 watts]. Poor to fair reception. Presumed ID for Smooth Radio.
  Music: The Pretenders 'I'll Stand By You'. Bee Gees 'How Deep Is Your Love'; REM 'Everybody Hurts'.
  Logged to 2236 UTC.
• 23 February: 2243 UTC: 954 kHz: CRo Plus  Speech carrying well on this frequency - Female lead voice, with male and female voices (Czech language).
  200 kW via Brno, Czech Republic.
  Logged to 2300 UTC.

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