Back from Wales

After a busy few weeks at work I spent last week on lots of family days out and a long weekend in North Wales. The radio and small loop antenna went with us, but there was not much time for listening. I did manage to hear Calimero, Havanna and Witte Tornado while I was tuning around but, despite being in a remote farm location, there was annoyingly plenty of noise to contend with.

I'm back at home now and I've been listening around tonight (Monday) when there were some nice catches. Boomerang isn't on MW too much these days, but he was on air on 1625 kHz tonight with a fine signal:



Paul McCartney and The Frog Chorus caught my attention towards the end of the evening on 1611 and it turned out to be Radio Daniel. I think he had been on the frequency for a few hours with a programme, but when I heard him he was qsoing with Amigo:



Earlier I heard some music coming through on 1668 kHz. After a few inquiries I found out it was Blue Star testing his audio with just 20 watts. He was peaking with a sinpo of around 35433 which was a great effort. He continues to be regularly active on 747 kHz as well, but I've yet to hear him or any other Dutch pirate on that part of the band. I will keep on trying!

Here are all of the logs for Monday night, plus some others to bring the record up to date:

Monday, November 2, 2015

1629          1737         Belladonna 22432-34433 music programme

1611          1738         Zwarte Boekanier 45554 music programme

1640          1859         Veronica 45344 music programme

1625          1945         Boomerang 55444 testing

1648          2013         Armada 45444 music programme

1668          2019         Blue Star 35443 audio test

1638          2310         Calimero 55444 music programme

1617          2332         Amigo 45444 qsoing

1611          2335         Daniel 24222-34443 qsoing

Thursday, October 29, 2015

1645          1711         Digitaal 35343 qsoing

1620          1714         Johnny Camaro 25232, 35333 at 1739 music programme

1635          1714         Boogschutter 25222-35333 music programme

1625          1808         Zwarte Panter (North Holland) 25222 music programme

Sunday, October 25, 2015

1629          1551         Meteoor 35333 qsoing

1647          1551         Witte Tornado 55444 music programme

1620          1555         Monza 35333-45444 qsoing

1629          1558         Brandaris 35333 qsoing

1655          1605         Hooiberg 25222-35333 qsoing

1638          1818         Calimero 44444 music programme

1645          1943         Wadloper 42432-54444 music programme

Saturday, October 24, 2015

1636          1653         Keizer en Keizerin 44444 at 1930 music programme

1655          1654         Hooiberg music programme

1615          1803         Batavier 35333 music programme

1648          1827         Mustang 55444 music programme

1646          1925         Zwarte Bizon 54444

1648          1926         Moby Dick 55444 music programme