My AM Archive: Winter 2005-2006

 

Letter of verification from Magic 1170, for broadcast heard 5 December 2005.

WELCOME to Winter 2005-2006 for this selection of Medium Wave memories, as heard by myself at the time and noted in my logbook. An element of this hobby is to contact the broadcasters heard, relay to them what was heard, with technical and programme details. Thank you to the many broadcasters who responded; Some of the items sent through the post feature in this blog, including the letter from Magic 1170, featured above.

The previous post in this thread, My AM Archive: October 2005, 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.

December 2005 : Medium Wave

• 5 December [2005]: 1927 UTC: 1170 kHz: Magic 1170  Fair reception via Stockton, Teesside, 320 watts. Music: Mike & The Mechanics 'The Living Years'. Queen 'Thank God It's Christmas'. Host: Richard Allen 'Mellow Magic'. Music: Van Morrison. Christina Aguilera.
• 5 December: 2009 UTC: 1179 kHz: Radio Sweden  Excellent reception via Solvesborg, Sweden, 600 kW. English to Europe, 254 metres. 'Blood Diamonds'. 'Spectrum of the Arts'. Bill Schiller.
• 5 December: 2052 UTC: 1197 kHz: Virgin Radio  Poor reception. Music: Dire Straits 'Walk of Life'.
• 5 December: 2105 UTC: 1206 kHz: France Info  Excellent-good-fair reception via Bordeaux, France, 300 kW. Male and female speech.

February 2006 : Medium Wave

• 28 February [2006]: 1932 UTC: 1206 kHz: France Info  Good to fair reception via Bordeaux, France. Male and female hosts, news headlines: Baghdad. Sport: European football: Arsenal, Barcelona.
• 28 February: 1950 UTC: 1215 kHz: Virgin Radio  Excellent to good reception. Music: K T Tunstall 'Another Place To Fall'. Ben Jones. 'Phone call: Natasha in Norwich, request for Rowan: Soul Asylum 'Runaway Train'. Ad break: Diet Coke, Neil Diamond LP.

Virgin Radio QSL card, 2004 onwards.

• 28 February: 2200 UTC: 1269 kHz: DLF  Deutschlandfunk  Excellent reception via Aarpsdorf / Neumunster, Germany, 300 kW.  Male host, news from New York. News from German Parliament. News: Baghdad, President Bush, Iraq, Ankara, President Putin, Iran, Afghanistan.

That concludes the logs for Winter 2005-2006 (December 2005; February 2006).

This blog was created in October 2005 and, I'm pleased to say, the archives of this blog do include posts of radio receptions in a much more basic format.

The previous post in this thread brought memories of Medium Wave broadcasts from October 2005. From Monday, November 7, 2005, the post One Man & His Wireless covered the above mentioned Medium Wave broadcasts, along with Short Wave broadcasts, heard November 6, 2005. That post can be read here.

From Monday, December 19, 2005, From the Radio to the Web covered the broadcasts featured in today's post, though the original post also included a "Tentative reception of a broadcast from Ain - Salah, Algeria" heard on 1161 kHz and a Short Wave log of Adventist World Radio, heard Saturday 10 December 2005. That post can be read here.

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