My AM Archive: August 2015

 REPORTING From The Fox Tower presents memories of Medium Wave radio broadcasts, heard August 2015.

The previous post in this thread, My AM Archive: July 2015, 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.

August 2015 : Medium Wave

• [Sunday] 23 August [2015]: 1240 UTC: 1170 kHz: TFM 2  Music: Bobby Brown 'Every Little Step'; Billy Ocean 'Caribbean Queen'; ID for TFM 2. Fleetwood Mac 'Everywhere'.
  [Note: 'This is TFM 2, formerly Magic Radio'] Male speech: 'Greatest 80s music, back in a moment' - Ad break; ID.
  1300 UTC news: Sussex air show crash; Search for victims continues. British hostage released.
  Sport: Athletics: Jessica Ennis-Hill. Football: Manchester City.
  ID: 'The greatest hits for the north east'. Music: The Vapors 'Turning Japanese'; The Proclaimers '500 Miles'.
  Good reception; 320 watts via Stockton-on-Tees for Teesside.
  ID; Music: The Human League 'Mirror Man'; Dire Straits 'Walk of Life'; Kate Bush 'Cloudbusting'.
  Logged to 1316 UTC.
• 23 August: 1324 UTC: 1215 kHz: Absolute Radio  Ad break; ID. Music: Queen 'Hammer To Fall'.
  Good to fair reception; Up to 200 kW via Moorside Edge, West Yorkshire.
  Music: James Bay.
  Logged to 1331 UTC.
• 23 August: 1359 UTC: 1242 kHz: Absolute Radio  Music: The Waterboys 'The Whole of The Moon'. Fatboy Slim 'Praise You'.
  Good to fair reception; 1 kW via Stockton-on-Tees.
  Two males speaking, live from the Edinburgh Fringe.
  Logged to 1409 UTC.

[ 23 August: 1435 UTC: 1341 kHz: Unconfirmed log of BBC Radio Ulster, Lisnagarvey, County Down (100 kW). Fair to poor reception. Male speech at a sporting event? Logged to 1444 UTC. ]

• 23 August: 1603 UTC: 1557 kHz: BBC Radio Lancashire  Music: Piano and vocals.
  Fair reception; 250 watts via Oxcliffe, Lancashire.
  Logged to 1613 UTC.

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