My Short Wave Archive: July 2010

 THIS post is unique as part of my radio listening logs; The following broadcasts are from one station, over the course of under one hour.  The reason: A specialist outside broadcast.

The previous post featuring Short Wave broadcasts, My Short Wave Archive: June 2010, 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.

July 2010 : Short Wave

• [Monday] 19 July [2010]: 1420 UTC: 9595 kHz: Radio Tour de France via Radio Nederland Wereldomroep [RNW]  Excellent to good reception.  Dutch language to Great Britain and Ireland.
  Speech from studio-based male, male on telephone.  ID jingle 'Radio Tour de France'.
  Short piece of music, female vocalist.  Male speech from the studio, handing to male reporters on the course.
• 19 July: 1430 UTC: 13700 kHz: Radio Tour de France via RNW  Excellent to good reception.  Dutch language to France, Spain, Portugal, Balearic Isles, Greek Isles, West Turkey.
  1430 UTC news update, ads, trailers.  ID trailer: 'Sports Radio NOS, Radio Tour de France' jingle.  Male speech, listing places of riders in the lead and the peloton.
  
• 19 July: 1440 UTC: 7235 kHz: Radio Tour de France via RNW  ID jingle 'NOS Radio'.
  Excellent to good reception.  Dutch language to Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary.
  Music, male vocalist.  Male reporters with placings of the riders in the lead and the peloton.
  Slight deterioration in signal level to fair.

[Scheduled broadcast on 13825 kHz to Scandinavia not heard]

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