MONDAY, December 9, 2013 was the date of the evening I spent listening to the Medium Wave band at home.
The previous post in this thread, My AM Archive: April 2013, 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 2013 : Medium Wave
- [Monday] 9 December [2013]: 2016 UTC: 630 kHz: [Tentative] BBC Three Counties or BBC Cornwall English language, speech between male and female, lost to propagation.
- 9 December: 2022 UTC: 639 kHz: RNE 1 Speech from males and a female.
Good to fair reception. Spanish language via multiple transmitters.
Music: Coldplay 'Yellow'. Sports programme or a sports update. Time signal at 2030 UTC.
Logged to 2030 UTC. - 9 December: 2033 UTC: 639 kHz: CRo2 Praha (Prague) Czech Republic. Females in discussion, including telephone caller.
Good to fair reception, speech in Czech language.
Speech regarding Nelson Mandela, who passed away Thursday 5 December 2013.
Logged to 2042 UTC.
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| BBC Radio York postmark, May 1991. |
- 9 December: 2106 UTC: 666 kHz: BBC Radio York 'The unmistakable sound of Queen - Freddie Mercury, John Deacon, Brian May and Roger Taylor' - 'A Kind Of Magic'.
500 watts, via Fulford (York), carrying the Mark Forrest show - BBC Introducing, stargazing, giving and receiving aid gifts.
Fair reception.
Music: Human League 'Don't You Want Me'.
Logged to 2117 UTC. - 9 December: 2126 UTC: 675 kHz: Radio Maria Male speaker in a clear channel.
Radio Maria, broadcasting from Lopik, The Netherlands, Holland.
Propagation present. Excellent to fair reception. Dutch language.
Beautiful music, male and female speech, Church organ plays in background. Music from a Choir.
Logged to 2140 UTC. - 9 December: 2146 UTC: 684 kHz: RNE 1 Seville, 600 kW. Nice, steady level of reception.
- 9 December: 2153 UTC: 693 kHz: BBC Radio Five Live Live football: Swansea City v Hull City 1-1 Full Time at the Liberty Stadium, Swansea. Steve Wilson was the commentator, Steve Claridge was the summeriser, Mark Chapman is the studio presenter.
Dominant broadcast expected to be Droitwich, Worcestershire, 150 kW, with Stagshaw, Northumberland, 50 kW.
Cricket: Paul Nixon is the studio guest; Geoffrey Boycott's reaction to England falling 2-0 behind in the Winter Ashes series in Australia, after the first two test matches at the Brisbane Gabba and the Adelaide Oval.
Excellent - Good - Fair reception.
Logged to 2209 UTC. - 9 December: 2225 UTC: 702 kHz: NDR Flensburg, Germany. Music and speech, overspill from BBC Radio Five Live on 693 kHz.
- 9 December: 2230 UTC: 711 kHz: France Info French speaking males in interview.
France Info via Rennes. 300 kW transmission. Excellent to good reception.
Speech regarding the French President.
Logged to 2245 UTC.
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| A nice note from France Info. |
- 9 December: 2250 UTC: 720 kHz: BBC Radio 4 News from an American correspondent.
Not good reception. - 9 December: 2258 UTC: 738 kHz: RNE 1 Cello music, followed by male speech to the top of the hour (2300 UTC), ID for RNE 1, Barcelona, 500 kW.
News: Memorial Service for Nelson Mandela.
Excellent to good reception.
Logged to 2310 UTC.
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