My AM Archive: April 2015

 "I SIT under a sky which is still very blue in the evening dark, complete with a bright, crescent moon.
It is 20:02 UTC and tuned to 954 kHz Medium Wave..."

April 2015 : Medium Wave

• [Wednesday] 22 April [2015]: 2002 UTC: 954 kHz: CRo Plus Brno, Czech Republic.  Fair reception. 200 kW via Brno, Czech Republic.
  Male and female speech, broadcast ident, Male speech.
  Logged to 2016 UTC.
• 22 April: 2034 UTC: 954 kHz: Onda Cera Radio  Live commentary of football.
  20 kW via Madrid (Spain).
  Male and female commentators, speech includes 'Champions La Liga' from the female; 'Sergio Ramos' from the male.
  Fair reception.
  Logged to 2043 UTC.

[22 April: 2053 UTC: 972 kHz. Unconfirmed log of Spain broadcasting via Lugo, north Spain]

• 22 April: 2116 UTC: 981 kHz: Radio Algerie  French language speech, mix of speech and music.
  Radio Algerie, Chaine 2.
• 22 April: 2125 UTC: 990 kHz: SER Bilbao.  Male speech in the Spanish language. Time check for 2130 UTC.
  10 kW via Monte Archanda (Bilbao) Spain.
• 22 April: 2136 UTC: 999 kHz: RAI Radio 1  Female and male voices speaking in RAI Radio 1.
  Co- Channel interference.
  50 kW via Volpiano, TO (Turin) Italy.

The RAI Radio 1 logo.

For the above posts:

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

Receiver used: Roberts R881.

The previous post in this thread, My AM Archive: February 2015, can be found here.

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An evening by the radio.

Wednesday 22 April 2015 : I sat in the bedroom of my home, under a sky which was still very blue in the evening dark, complete with a bright crescent moon. At 20:02 UTC, I was tuned to 954 kHz Medium Wave, ready to spend a couple of hours listening to whatever I would hear. Over the years I have collected much information about the broadcasts I could have heard, many frequencies were recognisable, though after a long day, there were moments of brain fade, so where I could not conclusively find the information I required in my own sources, I found information online which concurred with my notes. Here are the broadcasts I heard on that Wednesday evening - Times are UTC (GMT); Frequencies are kHz (kiloHertz) :

• 20:02 UTC, 954 kHz : CRo Plus, Male and female speech, with jingles, stabs and breaks. Czech language. Moderate reception via Brno, Czech Republic, 200 kW (kiloWatt) transmission. To 2016 UTC.
• 2034 UTC, 954 kHz : Onda Cero Radio, Live commentary of football. Spanish language. Onda Cero broadcasts from Madrid, Spain, 20 kW. Moderate reception. To 2043 UTC.
• 2053 UTC, 972 kHz : Radio Nacional, Spanish language, affected by propagation. Football commentary. Transmission from Lugo, Spain. To 2116 UTC.
• 2116 UTC, 981 kHz  - I was torn an confused. I was unsure of my languages and nations. My sources were contradictory; The old said Algiers - The language I could hear was French and the Algerians do speak French, don't they? The new said Czech Republic. The broadcast was a mix of speech and music, which to my ear was French. I heard Radio Algerie Chaine 2, which broadcasts around 300 to 600 kW. To 2125 UTC.
• 2125 UTC, 990 kHz : Cadena SER, Speech from two males in the Spanish language. Time pips at 2130 UTC. Cadena SER via Monte Archanda, Bilbao, Spain, 10 kW. To 2136 UTC.
• 2136 UTC, 999 kHz : Rai Radio 1, Female and male voices, live from Turin, Italy. Female is the dominant speaker.Propagation playing its part in reception. Relay of the Rai Radio 1 FM service via Volpiano, Torino (Turin). 50 kW. To 2146 UTC.

Sleep was calling me by that point, so at 2146 UTC (10:46pm BST), I signed off on 999 kHz. I enjoyed the evening listening to that busy band.

Goodnight.