Wednesday, November 5, 2025

My AM Archive : April 2020

 WARM welcome to a continuing thread of Medium Wave radio broadcasts heard by me. This post brings a single log of a broadcast heard on a Sunday afternoon in April 2020, during the UK-wide Covid-19 lockdown.

A previous post of Medium Wave logs, dated February 2020, can be found here.

Housekeeping notes: Times in UTC (GMT), frequencies in kiloHertz (kHz). Logs transcribed from the original notes. Transmission power in watts or kiloWatts (kW).

Receiver used: Sangean ATS-405.

April 2020 : Medium Wave
  • [Sunday] 19 April [2020]: 1254 UTC: 1485 kHz: BBC Radio 4  Collection of voices: Female on a telephone, male and female voices. This programme is 'The Listening Project', with 'The Power of Conversation' as the subject, presented by Fi Glover.
    Top of the hour time 'pips' followed by female voice "BBC News..."
    BBC Radio 4 via [Brisco] Carlisle, fair to poor reception. 1 kW via [Brisco] Carlisle.
    Male and female speech [parallel to BBC Radio 4 on 92.5 MHz FM] - Programme on air is 'Gardeners' Question Time', styled as 'GQT At Home', due to the Covid-19 lockdown. Peter Gibbs hosts the show from home.
    Logged to 1312 UTC.

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