I was speaking to Radio Barones today, as I do from time to time. He happened to mention that he'd noticed how Radio Digitaal nearly always has a good signal at my place, which is impressive considering his transmitter output power is considerably less than many of the Dutch MW pirates. We concluded it must be down to an optimal distance between his location and mine, and that the Digitaal antenna must favour my direction.
That got me thinking about how there are so many variables involved, not only in getting a hobby radio station on air but then getting that signal to cover a wide enough area to make it all worthwhile. Incredible really, then, that on a normal Tuesday I was able to receive nearly 20 such stations today!
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
1620 1554 Spanningzoeker 35333 (q)
1611 1623 Utopia weak signal (q)
1636 1628 Pontiac 35333-45444 (q)
1625 1700 Mosfet 35333-45444 (q)
1658 1713 Concorde 25232 (q)
1621 1716 Pontiac 45434 (q)
1640 1720 Casablanca 45444 (q)
1616 1723 Skywire weak signal (q)
1662 1724 Concorde 25222-35333 (q)
1693 1724 Digitaal 35333-45444 (m)
1645 1743 Wegpiraat 35333 (q)
1653 1743 Telefunken 25222 (q)
1645 1805 Akai 35333 (q)
1620 1809 Avia 25322 (m)
1617 1825 Black Molly 35443 (t)
1655 1854 Belladonna 35443 (m)
1611 1902 Admiraal 23332 (q)
1611 1906 Monza 35333 (q)
1617 1931 Marianne 45444 (m)
1625 1937 Bluebird 45444 (m)
1648 2214 Pereboom 35333 (t)
(m) = station was broadcasting a music programme
(q) = station was qsoing
(r) = station asking for a reception report from another station
(t) = station was testing
Observations
Now I work from home full-time I often take a look at the Enschede SDR at the times when Dutch MW pirates aren’t audible at my location. And today there I found a voice I hadn’t heard for a while, with Zwarte Panter from Twente testing out a new microphone. It was working very well, and his audio sounded top-notch.
It was very busy on the band during the early part of the evening with a mass of stations qsoing before calming down after dinnertime with Marianne and Bluebird entertaining listeners with music programmes on 1617 and 1625 kHz.
Special thanks to Radio Avia for getting in touch with me today to let me know he was on air on 1620 kHz and spinning a few records. I recently found out he was first active all the way back in 1970 and although he left the scene during his middle years when he was busy with family, he's back and enjoying his hobby once again. He sent me these pictures directly from the studio while he was on air:
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