My Medium Wave Archive, Autumn 1995

1995 is where this visit to my radio listening archives takes us, to October and November of that year. These logs focus only on the Medium Wave band.
Before the logs, housekeeping notes: Times in UTC (GMT), frequencies in kiloHertz (kHz). Transmission power in watts or kiloWatts (kW). Logs transcribed from the original notes.

October 1995: Medium Wave

• 24 October [1995]: 1905 UTC: 531 kHz: Leipzig, Germany, 100 kW transmission, music, male and female voices.
• 24 October: 1908 UTC: 549 kHz: DLF (Deutschlandfunk) News broadcast in German via Thurnau transmitter, Germany, 200 kW. Listening on a Hitachi TRK 5854 E receiver.
• 24 October: 1912 UTC: 558 kHz: RNE 5 (Radio Nacional Espana 5) Sports broadcast.
• 24 October: 1915 UTC: 567 kHz: RTE Radio 1 500 kW transmission from Tullamore, Republic of Ireland. Interference from Berlin (100 kW) and RNE 5 (Spain). RTE programming: Music 'Fairground' Simply Red. 'The Arts Show' with Mike Murphy.
• 24 October: 1950 UTC: 567 kHz: RTE Radio 1 Music from U2 'Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me'.

• 24 October: 1951 UTC: 585 kHz: BBC Scotland [BBC Radio Solway] Football: Rangers - Aberdeen.
• 24 October: 2020 UTC: 603 kHz: BBC Radio 4 via Tyneside (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) transmitter. 'Science Now' Interference. Peter Evans the host. Telephone 0800 044 044. Announcement regarding Long Wave Transmitter problems.
• 24 October: 2050 UTC: 612 kHz: RTE 2FM Music from Oasis: 'Wonderwall' taken from the album '(What's The Story) Morning Glory ?' Dave Fanning. Sleeper 'What Do I Do Now' Boo Radleys, Smashing Pumpkins. Ads: HMV, Top 30 Request Show. 21 UTC News: Gerry Adams, John Huhme, site for sale in Cork, 26000 in employment, heavy rain. Rugby: Ireland 6, Cook Islands 12. Coca-Cola Cup, Scottish football: Rangers 0 - Aberdeen 0.
• 24 October: 2120 UTC: 648 kHz: BBC For Europe (BBC World Service) via Orfordness, 500 kw transmission. 'Britain Today' followed by 'Meridian'.
• 24 October: 2145 UTC: 666 kHz: BBC Radio York Music: Fleetwood Mac.
• 24 October: 2150 UTC: 675 kHz: Radio 10 Gold Lopik, Holland. Music: Toni Braxton 'Breathe Again'. Bryan Adams '(Everything I Do) I Do It For You'. KC & The Sunshine Band 'Please Don't Go'. Smokie 'Living Next Door To Alice'.

• 24 October: 2215 UTC: 693 kHz: BBC Radio 5 Live via Droitwich, 150 kW. Saatchi & Saatchi.
• 24 October: 2225 UTC: 720 kHz: BBC Radio 4 'The World Tonight' via Lisnagarvey, Northern Ireland, 10 kW.
• 24 October: 2245 UTC: 963 kHz: Radio Finland Music from Dallas Wayne & The Dimlights. Finnish environment. UN is needed more now. Finnish President. Israel.
• 24 October: 2306 UTC: 1053 kHz // 1089 kHz: Talk Radio UK James Whale, Ann on the phone, Alan from London. Ads: TeamTalk, 'Breakfast With Bates' Simon Bates.
• 24 October: 2325 UTC: 1179 kHz: Radio Sweden via Solvesborg, Sweden. 600 kW.
• 24 October: 2330 UTC: 1215 kHz: Virgin Radio Annie Lennox 'No More "I Love You's"', Ad break, The Rembrandts 'I'll Be There For You', Kate Bush 'Babooshka'.

November 1995: Medium Wave

• 28 November [1995]: 2135 UTC: 1179 kHz: Radio Sweden Excellent Reception. 'Sixty Degrees North': Swedish Ministry allegedly took political donations in connection with Thai Shipyard; Young people committing suicide in Sweden increases; Music: Sandra Anderson investigates changes in music including work by a producer with ABBA. Sound manipulation; North Sweden descends into 24 hour darkness.
• 29 November: 1720 UTC: 1179 kHz: Radio Sweden Strong to good reception. 'Sixty Degrees North': Swedish Government arranges a congress designed at stamping out child porn; Swedish Defence minister writes that Swedish troops do not need to join the Bosnian NATO force; 'Money Matters' with Al Simon: Swedish Krona. Welfare state: Interview with an economist.

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My DX Archive: Summer 1993

WELCOME to memories of July and August 1993, courtesy of Short Wave and Medium Wave radio logs of the time. Memories of June 1993 can be found here. The broadcasts included here were received on a Hitachi TRK-5854 E.
[Housekeeping notes: Times in UTC (GMT), frequencies in kiloHertz (kHz), MegaHertz (MHz) and/or metrebands (m). Logs transcribed from the original notes.]

July 1993

• 9 July [1993]: 1030 UTC: 9410 kHz: BBC World Service Rock Music with Tommy Vance: AC/DC "Money Talks", Faith No More "Epic", Deep Purple "Burn", Foreigner "Jukebox Hero", Metallica "Enter Sandman" and Bon Jovi "Livin On A Prayer".
• 14 July: 1745 UTC: 6195 kHz: BBC World Service Music: Tears For Fears "Break It Down Again". 'Sports Roundup': Des Walker returns to British Football, Cricket.
• 14 July: 1801 UTC: 7269? kHz: Radio Australia "International Report" Japanese elections, report from Tokyo. Japan's Prime Minister tours earthquake sites. To 1816 UTC.
• 14 July: 1828 UTC: 9730 kHz: Radio Finland "Compass North" Business news, heavy interference.
• 14 July: 1855 UTC: 9760 kHz: Voice of America Special English, 19 UTC news: Somalia, Pyongyang, Russia, Israel, Greece, USA, India. 1910 UTC: "Newsline" on VOA: Bosnia.
• 14 July: 1915 UTC: 9750 kHz: BBC World Service "Outlook" Interview with Eric Clapton. 1930 UTC: "Omnibus" British girls working in a French nightclub, featuring Kate Weston, who recently left school, becoming a topless cancan dancer. Kate Weston, giggles a lot, originates from Clacton*. To 1941 UTC.

• 14 July: 1945 UTC: 9760 kHz: Voice of America "Concert Hall". 20 UTC news.
• 14 July: 2003 UTC: 9820 - 9880 kHz: Radio Moscow "News And Views" Italy asked to withdraw its General from Mogadishu. Report of the Israeli Prime Minister. Economic reform in Russia. To 2020 UTC.
• 14 July: 2030 UTC: 9920 kHz: China Radio International Feature regarding Asthma, American Baritone to host a concert in China. "News & Current Affairs" 'Learn to speak Chinese' Lesson 15/16.
• 14 July: 2047 UTC: 9950 kHz: All India Radio 'Press Review' India launch a satellite from Russia, with the support of President Clinton & President Yeltzin. 'Light Music'. 21 UTC News: Ukrainian President meets India's Foreign Minister.
• 14 July: 2114 UTC: 11 MHz: Radio Moscow 'Focus On Asia & The Pacific' Korea will not allow inspectors in to Nuclear sites, China's Foreign Policy in review.
• 14 July: 2125 UTC: 12095 kHz: BBC World Service 'Newshour'.

• 14 July: 2218 UTC: 15330 kHz: Radio Bulgaria A Bulgarian Children's Choir tours Japan. 'Economy & Farming' at 2230 UTC.
• 15 July: 1210 UTC: 5955 kHz: Radio Netherlands 'Media Network' [Good to poor reception] Information of broadcasts from Eritrea received in Finland. New book regarding UK transmitting station Woofferton. Listeners discuss their receivers, Japanese listener discusses his Sony receiver. Mike Bird's propagation report.
• 16 July: 1618 UTC: 6175 kHz: Radio France Internationale News programme: Troops in Mogadishu (Somalia), The French mourn Jews killed in World War II. Success in a river blindness campaign in Africa.
• 18 July: 1151 UTC: 13730 kHz: Radio Austria International. [Strong to good reception] 'Austrian Coffeetable' Jazz Music on a Sunday lunchtime.

August 1993

• 8 August: 2030 UTC: 1179 kHz Medium Wave: Radio Sweden [Strong to good reception] 'In Touch With Stockholm' featuring Björn Ulvæus of ABBA, presenting 'ABBA Quiz Winners'. News headlines: Accident at an airshow. Alan Pryke introduces Bjorn, who discusses 'The Emigrants', 'Chiquitita', 'Does Your Mother Know', 'I Have A Dream', 'The Winner Takes It All'. 1st Prize: ABBA 'Gold' CD, Amnesty CD & Radio Sweden T-Shirt. Letter from Merseyside, England. Discussion of Swedish musicians Roxette, Ace of Base, Dr Alban. Letter from Cambridge, England featuring British newspapers 'News of the World' and 'Sunday Mirror'. Telephone call: Fred from New York. Letter from Northern Ireland, telephone call from Scotland.
• 12 August: 1145 UTC: 5955 kHz: Radio Netherlands 'Media Network': WSHB, WCSN, KHBI, Forces Radio in Russia, earthquake in New Zealand. IRRS transmitter struck by lightning! CRI change frequency. WWCR, St Helena, Transworld, Luxembourg, Freisland. Mike Bird's propagation report. News at 1230 UTC.

The 'Brussels Calling' team.

• 31 August: 2119 UTC: 1512 kHz Medium Wave: B R T Brussels [Strong to good reception] Music, 'P O Box 26' the letters programme of 'Brussels Calling'.

That concludes the Summer 1993 logs.

As we are now at mid December, I plan to post over the festive - New Year 2018 period, taking a look at Reporting From The Fox Tower's most popular posts of 2017 and rounding up Carlisle United Football Club's results for the month of December. At this point, may I hope your festive plans are going well.

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* I SO wanted to meet her at the time...

My DX Archive: June 1993.

JOIN me on another journey down memory lane, to my notes of radio broadcasts received June 1993. Click here for an extensive post of logs from Spring (March - April - May) 1993.
The broadcasts included here were received on a Hitachi TRK-5854 E, tuning the Short Wave bands.
[Housekeeping notes: Times in UTC (GMT), frequencies in kiloHertz (kHz), MegaHertz (MHz) and/or metrebands (m). Logs transcribed from the original notes.]

June 1993

• 5 June [1993]: 2148 UTC: 17790 kHz: HCJB Quito, Ecuador. Good reception. 'Musical Mailbag' Letter and reception report from England. Laurie from Canada writes.
• 14 June: 1730 UTC: 6065 + 9645 kHz: Radio Sweden Interference. News: Mogadishu, Olaf Palmer killed 1986, Swedish unemployment. '60° Degrees North': UN conference. Sport: Interview with football managers.
• 15 June: 1754 UTC: 6040 kHz: Voice of America 'Request Line' Music, Eddie Murphy fan club address. News: President Clinton talks about Somalia. Italy talks about Mogadishu. Azerbaijan. Bosnian ceasefire.
• 15 June: 1843 UTC: 9730 kHz: Radio Finland 'Compass North', 'Faith in Finland', summer religious festivals, Catholics pilgrim in Finland.
• 15 June: 1903 UTC: 9760 kHz: Voice of America News headlines: Dalai Llama, Azerbaijan, ballots in Malawi, India launches offensive against Kashmir. 'Newsline' on VOA.
• 15 June: 1917 UTC: 11630 / 11760 kHz: Radio Moscow 'Commonwealth Update', Estonia. CIS economies and currencies. News in Brief, followed by details of music by Mario Lanza.

• 15 June: 1958 UTC: 12095 kHz: BBC World Service 'Development 93', news: United Nations conference to press for action in Bosnia, conference takes place in Vienna, Austria.
• 15 June: 2024 UTC: 13635 kHz: Swiss Radio International 'Dateline' Address: Swiss Radio International, English, 3000 BERNE 15, Switzerland. Racism in Germany and Switzerland. Via Gabon transmitter relay site.
• 15 June: 2054 UTC: 15665 kHz: Monitor Radio via WCSN. Book review: 'Mad Monks on the Road'. World news with an American angle: President Clinton reviews the situation in Somalia. Wall Street. Heavy shelling in Sarajevo. NASA.
• 15 June: 2118 UTC: 15590 kHz: BBC World Service MP interviewed regarding Azerbaijan.
• 15 June: 2131 UTC: 17790 kHz: HCJB 'Mountain Meditation' Quotes from Corinthians, New Testament. 'Glorious Intentions'.
• 23 June: 1179 kHz Medium Wave: Radio Sweden 'Sixty Degrees North': 'Money Matters': Euro - US Free Trade talks. Station announcement: Radio Sweden regrets their French and Spanish services are to end soon.

Until the next time, Happy Listening!

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