On the Radio : February 2015

I listened to the Medium wave band for a couple of hours, during the evening of Monday 23 February. Here is what I heard. Times in UTC (GMT), frequencies in kiloHertz (kHz). The station names contain a link to their website.

• 2106 UTC, 900 kHz, Radio Popular / Herri Irratia, Spanish language broadcast from Bilbao, Spain. Speech and music, including Whitney Houston 'The Greatest Love Of All'. Moderate reception. To 2124 UTC.
• 2134 UTC, 909 kHz, BBC Radio Five Live, 'The Tuffers & Vaughany Cricket Show' with Phil Tuffnell, Michael Vaughan and Mark Chapman. Topic of conversation is the current Cricket World Cup - England recorded their first win of the tournament over Scotland. The Test Match Special team are based in Canberra. Scotland's next match was against Afghanistan; The Afghan team coach - An Englishman - is interviewed. This transmission is up to 200 kiloWatts - The highest power broadcast is from Moorside Edge, West Yorkshire. Moderate reception. To 2148 UTC.
• 2213 UTC, 945 kHz, Smooth Radio, Music: The Style Council 'You're The Best Thing'; Berlin 'Take My Breath Away'. Varying levels of reception. ID? Soul track. The Pretenders 'I'll Stand By You'; Bee Gees 'How Deep Is Your Love'; REM 'Everybody Hurts'. Moderate reception: This transmission is from Sussex - The Bexhill transmitter, 700 Watts. To 2236 UTC.
• 2243 UTC, 954 kHz, CRo Plus, Czech language broadcast from Brno, Czech Republic. Female speech, with other male and female voices. 200 kiloWatt transmission. To 2300 UTC.

Whilst visiting the websites for the broadcasts above, the website for CRo Plus, operated by Czech Radio, based in Prague (Czech Republic), has an English language portal, which can be accessed here.

I also 'screen grabbed' the frequencies page from the website, which has a Google Street View image of the transmission site in the Czech Republic, which I heard here in the UK. Yes, I am an anorak. Here is the image:

Enjoy.