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The Broadcast DX Log

6th June 2016

88.0MHz "NPO R2"

87.7MHz "RADIO 10" Radio 10 from Lelystad TX

30th May 2016

107.6Mhz " T S K " - Unknown station - Sporadic E

9th July 2015

87.6Mhz "SNOOPER" - Again I suspect that this was an in car FM Transmitter rebroadcasting Arabic style music.

8th July 2015

87.6Mhz "Sonichi" - I suspect that this was an in car FM Transmitter rebroadcasting Arabic style music - I had heard a shortburst of Talksport on the same frequency a few minutes before

28th May 2015

87.7Mhz "CAPITAL"

27th May 2015

87.6Mhz "RDS"

9th July 2013

88.0Mhz "Radio 2"

19th June 2013

87.5Mhz "R ITALIA"

87.6Mhz "HRT-HR 1"

88.0Mhz "ZITOUNA"

17th June 2013

87.7Mhz "Antena 1"

87.6Mhz "COPE"

89.1Mhz "CAD-100"

89.6Mhz "RFM"

14th June 2013

E's are Good! - there have been some classic Sporadic E openings on the FM Broadcast Band on the drive home this week. Lots of Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic voices and music in short snatches.

Not a lot were strong enough to register on the RDS Display but the following did:

87.9Mhz "RNE 5-J"

87.9Mhz "RNE 4"

95.1Mhz "OND-CERO"

26th July 2012

A Slightly different offering this time - I was on holiday on the south coast at the Hampshire - Dorset border. This picturesque cliff top location offerred some great views of the Solent and the Isle of Wight.

The Holiday Kit consists of an Asda DAB228 DAB/FM Receiver. This is a tiny device - about twice the size of a PP3 battery. At sub £25 3 years ago I was a little dubious of it's quality. The branch offer a money back guarantee. The headphones were very tinny but having replaced them with some sony earbuds I've found the radio to be a reasonable performer. It's DAB and FM Radio with RDS. sure the display is basic but the receiver is pretty good on both bands if not a little battery hungry on DAB.

Having been to this location with this radio I know what to expect. The southern half of the country was enjoying blue skies and hot weather thanks to a high pressure system holding the low and it's associated poorer weather off to the north.

Nothing spectacular on DAB but for a short while a multiplex with BBC Devon was audible.

87.6Mhz French speaking

87.8Mhz French speaking

89.2Mhz French speaking

89.8Mhz French speaking

90.1Mhz French speaking

91.5Mhz "CULTURE"

91.8Mhz French speaking

92.3Mhz "MUSIQUE"

92.7Mhz French speaking

93.4Mhz "TENDANCE"

94.1Mhz French speaking

95.0Mhz "BLEU.COT

95.4Mhz French speaking - two stations - classic example of the FM Capture effect

95.6Mhz "MUSIQUE"

96.6Mhz French speaking playing prog rock. ident sounded like AgFM

97.4Mhz French speaking

97.9Mhz "SKYROCK"

98.9Mhz French speaking

99.3Mhz "NRJ"

99.6Mhz "INTER"

99.8Mhz - Arabic Sounding Music

100.1Mhz French speaking - Dance North East?

100.7Mhz "BLEU.COT"

101.1Mhz French speaking

101.5Mhz "RCF"

102.6Mhz "BLEU.B.N"

102.9Mhz French speaking Radio Rock?

103.5Mhz French speaking

104.7Mhz French speaking

104.9Mhz French speaking

105.6Mhz French speaking

106.7Mhz French speaking

107.5Mhz French speaking

A quick bash on 2 metres with ICOM T8E Handheld and Telescopic Aerial netted:

M0LUS/P @ Durdle Door approx 25 miles away on 0.5 watts

F/ON7EQ/M Jean near Granville approx 130 miles away on 0.5 watts

 

8th June 2012

18:00Hrs Sporadic E opening

95.1Mhz RDS display "HRT-HR 1" - Croatia

107Mhz RDS display "R.Maria" - Italy?

107.3Mhz RDS display "OTVORENI" - Croatia?

87.7Mhz RDS display "HRT-HR 1" - Croatia

89.5Mhz RDS display "Bayern2" - Germany?

 

Later on around 21:00Hrs (GMT)

10Mtrs Sporadic E opening stations heard in France, Italy, Montenegro,Spain, Switzerand and Ireland plus American stations working through a repeater on 28.620Mhz

 

24th March 2012

Not posted anything for a long time

I've not heard any broadcast DX for a while.

However around 6PM reception of TV from Belmont became very difficult, the freeview box however received the following:

ZDF, 3SAT, ZDFinfo and neo/KiKA, the multiplex was on UHF Channel 35.

12th October 2010

The high pressure continues - Central TV's weather girl Lucy Kite was explaining the effect on radio waves on the early evening news.

It would appear that listeners were complaining about reception of foreign stations and interference.

87.8Mhz threw up RTE's Radio 1. The RDS showing "RTE R1"

2 mtrs found a QSO with Andy M0STN in Northampton from the A617

 

11th October 2010

Plenty of Broadcast stations from Holland from early morning through to tea time.

87.8 No RDS - Ireland's RTE Radio 1

2mtr FM contacts were made whilst mobile to:

Orpington & Maidstone Kent

Atherstone Warwickshire

Cardiff

Isle of Wight

The repeater DXers were having a field day on GB3CF during the morning

145.6625Mhz threw up a repeater with main Dutch, German, Belgian and French hams chatting.

 

10th October 2010

Steve M0SAG reported lift conditions on Band II

Lucy M0LUY reported good lift conditions on 2mtrs

Tony G8YMW reported working SQ1GU (Poland) on 2mtr SSB

 

9th October 2010

Foggy conditions and high pressure loitering over the North Sea

Nothing of note on the broadcast band but whilst driving through the Vale of Belvoir contacts were made on 2 mtrs (FM) with Wisbeach, Oxford, Canterbury, Milton Keynes, Bedford and the Chiltern Hills.

 

19th July 2010

87.7Mhz Kiss FM - Direct Line advert in Spanish or Portugese

88.1Mhz C.FIESTA

87.5Mhz Spanish or Portugese with following scrolling RDS "un por taller neuvo logia dto mensaje tu coche slam logia 30x Ciento por citar es slam tu coche"

90.3Mhz RNE5-M

15th July 2010

87.5Mhz Subasio

9th July 2010

87.5Mhz Reggae - English Speaking

87.7Mhz HRT_HR1

15 June 2010

88.2 Mhz RDS "YLE YKSI"

87.9 Mhz RDS "SR P1"

92.6 Mhz "YLEX"

91.3 Mhz "SR P1"

92.1 Mhz "SR P2"

92.6 Mhz "YLEX"

92.9 Mhz RDS "SR P1"

88.5 Mhz RDS "SR P1"

14 June 2010

88.0 Mhz RDS "RNE 5-H"

88.1 Mhz RDS "RAIGRPR"

88.5 Mhz RDS "DEE JAY"

87.5 Mhz RDS "R MARIE"

87.0 Mhz RDS "POLSKIE"

87.7 Mhz RDS "FUNRADIO"

11 June 2010

88.0 Mhz RDS "RADIOLINA"

87.6 Mhz RDS "RADIO CAPRI"

10 June 2010

87.6 Mhz RDS "COPE"

87.6 Mhz RDS "DWOJKA"

88.0 Mhz RDS "RNE 5-H"

 

26 May 2010

87.6 Mhz "DWOJKA"

 

1st July 2009

There has been a lot of Tropo and Sporadic E around of late. A generous helping of Italian, Portugese and Spanish stations, not a lot of success with the RDS though. Here are a few scribblings from this mornings commute.

87.6 Mhz Very Strong French - No RDS - Interlaced with Dutch

87.9 Mhz Strong Dutch - No RDS

106.4Mhz "Kiss"

The 2 metre repeater GB3LM in Lincoln has a very strong French station unintentionally accessing it. The station was just detectable on the input in Mansfield

17th July 2009

87.7Mhz RDS "R-VENERE" Classic Sporadic E from Italy

10 minutes later an english speaking station with the RDS "PANJAPAN" appeared broadcasting information about Zimbabwe

 

12 May 2008

87.5 RDS "MYSTERY"

Steve 2E0FKH reports hearing the Yorkshire MXR DAB multiplex for the first time in Newark

 

19th February 2008

87.7 Unidentified Dutch and French Stations mixing.

87.8 Unidentified French

102.4 Radio Broadland?

102.6 Classical music mixing with 102.6 Fox FM (Oxford TX Site) (Google Earth)

103.6 BBC Radio Northampton

104.1 BBC Radio Sheffield (Usually get this one but it's a lot weaker than normal)

104.2 BBC Radio Kent (Swingate TX)(Google Earth)

104.3 BBC Radio York

104.4 BBC Radio Norfolk

 

18th February 2008

87.5 Unidentified English RDS "COM/IOOB" "RADIO1" Digital Spy Forum Member Mr R F Burns thinks this is Essex's "UK Obsession"

87.7 RDS "Classic" - Arrow Classic Rock from the Netherlands

87.8 No RDS - Ireland's RTE Lyric FM (Clermont Carn TX Site?) (Google Earth)

87.9 OMROEP ZEELAND RDS alternates "OMROEP" "ZEELAND" RDS then switched to 104.4

88.2 Dutch statition mixing with BBC Radio 2 and winning!

102.6 Fox FM (Oxford TX Site) (Google Earth)

103.3 Horizon Radio (Bow Brickhill TX) (Google Earth)

103.4 BBC Radio Devon (North Hessary Tor) (Google Earth)

103.9 BBC Radio Suffolk (Manningtree TX) (Google Earth)

104.00 BBC Hereford and Worcester (Malvern TX)(Google Earth)

104.2 BBC Radio Kent (Swingate TX)(Google Earth)

104.4 OMROEP ZEELAND

104.8 Unidentified Dutch

106.4 KISS (Mendlesham TX) (Google Earth)

105.7 Smooth Radio - Birmingham Area Adverts

107.8 Unidentified German

13th February 2008

Not reported much for a while. Having changed vehicles last October and not been able to use the retro fitted Alpine CD/Radio I had wondered if I would hear much in the way of Broadcast DX. The Alpine had a very sensistive (and selective tuner) and always seemed to beat other cars installations hands down. Anyway I'm now using a standard built in unit with lots of nice features but not really sure about it's sensitivity.

This morning found the following while making the commute along the A617 - nothing earth shattering but stuff I've not heard before along this route.

95.7 BBC Cambridgeshire - 103.6 BBC Northampton - 103.5 BBC Essex and Rutland on 107.2MHz.

19th June 2007

Not heard much of any note for a while but this evening's drive threw up a couple of Spanish and Italian Sounding stations plus on 107.00Mhz English speaking station with RDS "POWER NET", no idea where this is from.

7th November 2006

87.9Mhz "ZEELEPD"

98.6Mhz "RADIO 2" not the UK version & 91.7Mhz "RADIO 1" again not the UK version. Unidentified Dutch and French stations on 93.4, 102.1 & 102.9. Also heard French stations on the 2 metre ham band.

 

26th July 2006

88.9Mhz "MUSIQUE" , 87.5Mhz "PARA TI" & 87.5Mhz "CURRAMOS"

20th July 2006

16:45 87.7Mhz RDS "KISS_FM"

17:50 87.5Mhz RDS "RPIMOMAR"

18th July 2006

The last month or so has been pretty good for sporadic e openings, the last week has thrown up a lot of French, Spanish and North African stations, in a lot of cases not strong enough for RDS display. I have heard Dawn FM run by Karminia Institue on 107.6 in Nottingham on a few occassions beleiving it to be a strong station from France or North Africa until the RDS kicked in.

This morning offered some interesting Tropo. A lot of different repeaters evident on 2 mtrs and 70cms. I tried several calls on 145.500 without success, simplex contacts can be hard to find at the best of times, but Tropo seems to get the activity going even more than usual on the repeaters.

I heard these stations from Kings Mill in Mansfield

105.2Mhz Kerrang , 104.7Mhz Minster, 103.7 BBC Radio York, 102.7 Hereward FM, 106.1 Touch FM and 100.7 Heart FM. Nothing really exotic but not stations I'd normally get there.

7th July 2006
Another interesting day for Sporadic E. 13.30 ish in Ilkeston found Arabic and Spanish on 87.6 and 87.7Mhz.

17:00 in the Newark area produced "CATINFO" on 87.6Mhz and on 87.5 a flurry of activity with changing RDS including "CARAERA" "FATIMA" and "LUTIMO"

25th June 2006

87.5Mhz "SUBASIO" while driving in Lincoln

22nd June 2006

A quick jaunt through Nottingham found "87,SRADI" on 87.5Mhz

18th June 2006

Holly logged RDS Display "Subasio" on 101.7Mhz

 

13th June 2006

I had heard reports of a few Sporadic E and Tropo openings in the last few days but not noticed anything until today when the morning commute yielded:

87.7Mhz, bursts of Spanish Including RDS "Radio 4", Italian and French (RDS "MARITIMA" ) France Inter (RDS "INTER") from the Mont-De-Marsan TX Site. Also competing in the background was an English Speaking RSL.

88.0Mhz, Radio Union from Spain (RDS "R,UNION")

88.7Mhz, Spanish Speaking station

102.6 (RDS, "CANAL EX") Spanish. Canal Extremadura Radio

The journey home gave:

87.6Mhz Italian footy Commentary until around 17:55 when a stronger Czech station took over with RDS display "IMPULS"

87.7Mhz "FUNRADIO" on RDS playing a selection of Pop. Not a language I reconised, maybe Slovakian broadcaster.

2nd February 2006

The last few days have seen a high pressure system anchored over the UK. Conditions certainly have been interesting. Personally I have nothing spectacular to report for the FM Broadcast Band except for BBC Cymru on 103.4Mhz (Good Stereo and RDS) along the A617 between Newark and Mansfield 07:30 31/01 and 01/02. Have heard reports of Spain and France being very strong in other parts of the country.

Nothing noted on DAB or Digital Terrestial TV.

During the evenings of 31/1 and 1/2 distinct patterning and lines were noticeable on analogue signals from Waltham. A scan found signals on every channel between 29 and 45, Including Channel 4 from Sandy Heath on 21, BBC One South on 39.

The two metre ham band threw up some interesting simplex contacts mainly into North Yorkshire and The Black Country. Finding a clear frequency was the hardest part. I had a reply from G3NSY (Shropshire?) while passing Junction 25 of the M1 but we were unable to find a clear frequency and lost contact.

2nd November 2005
I have not noticed much in the way of broadcast dx of late however the conditions were pretty good on the 2mtr Ham Band during the afternoon.

I managed a few simplex contacts while mobile between Nottingham and Leicester to stations in the Stourbridge - Kidderminster area. Also worked through a repeater near Swindon while driving along the A46 near Newark. Around 5PM I did hear a few repeaters with a large number of Scouse accents and EI and GI callsigns suggesting that the conditions were favourable to the Northwest rather than the usual south west to north east line that occurs in the Trent Valley.

Nothing of note on FM Broadcast or DAB, I have yet to see a lift on DAB. The analogue TV did throw up a lot more channels, mainly local relays normally out of range. Channel Four (West Country Region identified by Teletext) was very strong around 10PM despite being on an adjacent channel to the local Belmont TX. As before no special aerials just a wideband beam pointing at Waltham.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As can be seen from the above picture the reception was not good enough for real use of Teletext but ok to help identify the region.Nothing noted on Digital Terrestial TV but the Kids did complain that the ITV Channels from Waltham were breaking up and freezing on the indoor aerial. The ITV MUX is the weakest I receive from Waltham.

7th July 2005
A bit of an opening between 07:20 and 08:00. (Sporadic E's?). A first for me, French Broadcast Stations coming through in the car around Mansfield. these were at the bottom end of the FM Broadcast Band but no RDS display although good stereo reception. However I did hear R Maria on 87.00Mhz with RDS. I'm yet to find out where this one is from.

Also logged on 107.5 an Italian speaking station with the RDS display of * RDS * Thought to be 107.5 - 'RDS' from Monte Faito, Naples

and also logged on 107.1 Radio 24 from Italy. Station Website Link

9th December 2004
Quite a bit of Tropo activity to report here.

17:00 107.1 FM RDS Display showing "DLF". The 100Kw Bremen Relay of Deutschlandfunk

106.4 "VIBE" not usually heard in Mansfield

101.2 Dutch Station not identified

100.7 "Zeeland"

87.7 "Yorin FM" (still really strong at 20:45)

102.7 RDS Displaying "ND10S538" and "GEEN" Radio 538 website here

20:50 107.5 "FENRADIO" Fenland Radio from Wisbech not usually heard in Newark

9th September 2004
Things seem to have quitened down a bit after the excitement of the last few days. This evenings trip only yielded

87.9 Dutch station Zeeland with RDS display "ZEELAND"

88.00 not the usual suspect Radio Two this time. Sounded like dutch language not quite the same. A lot of references to places in Belgium. Perhaps a Flemish or Walloon speaking broadcaster.

8th September 2004
07:15-08:00: Conditions still up. The Main contenders are Yorin FM, Nordzee, Radio 2 from the Netherlands and BBC Cymru and an unidentified Dutch Station on 102.7Mhz (Probably Radio 358).

7th September 2004
17:00-18:30: Conditions still well up on the norm.

107.1Mhz German Station no RDS Display

100.7Mhz Noordzee FM crashing in with full RDS Display. The RDS constantly changes from "NOORDZEE" to "RTQ,NL" ,"FLITZER", "09009722", "100 7 FM", "AEX", "I MELD",

98.7Mhz Another Dutch Station Rebecca lots of Jingles for Classic Rock. No RDS Displayed but a lot of Classic Rock.

97.6Mhz Dutch station no RDS lots of reference to City FM and more Classic Rock

95.7Mhz Dutch Station with full RDS "RADIO ONE"

7th September 2004 07:45-10:30
Dutch Station Yorin FM. 87.7Mhz. Previously reported on these pages. Received along A46 Newark to Nottingham, then through the city and on to Mansfield. Heard using standard car equipment. I'm usually happy to hear Dutch stations but unfortunately Yorin FM was flattening local RSL Station Boundary Sound during their 2nd day of broadcasting.

103.4Mhz BBC Cymru at various locations around the Trent Valley

Another Dutch Station Radio 2 popped up on 88.00Mhz at around 08:00 and was a rock crushing signal. No noticable noise with the signal. RDS Display switching between "RADIO 2" and "R2 TROS". Receiver also displaying EON (Enhanced Other Networks) and TP symbols. Link to the official site.

106.4Mhz Vibe FM from Peterborough was very strong in Nottingham Town Centre.

5th August 2004 08:30ish
Dutch Station Veronica? 103.00Mhz. Heard using standard car audio equipment whilst travelling along the A617 between Newark and Mansfield. RDS Display showing "VERONICA", Would change about every 5 mins and cycle through "DE BESTE" followed by "80S 90S" then "HITS" before returning to VERONICA display. Quite a lot of Power Rock being played plus commercials quite a few bits of English in adverts. Link to Station Website

5th May 2004
08:30: BBC Cymru 104.3Mhz. Heard using standard car audio equipment whilst travelling along the A617 between Newark and Mansfield. RDS Display showing BBCYMRU,Link to Station Website

14th September 2003
TV2 (Denmark) 08:20.Good Colour. Full text and subtitles. Faded after 12 mins. Received in Newark Area. No Fancy aerials just standard analogue aerials for Waltham and Belmont.

Channel Four (South) 08:35. Good Colour and sound. Received in Newark. No Fancy aerials just standard analogue aerials for Waltham and Belmont.

5th August 2003
ZDF Television. 22:50hrs. UK TV Channel 24. Good colour but fading lasted until around midnight. No sound, the UK TV system is different. Some analogue text. Received in Newark Area. No Fancy aerials just standard analogue aerials for Waltham and Belmont.Link to Station Website

87.7Mhz "Yorin FM" From the Netherlands" Very strong from around 07:50 till around midday. Picked up again on the car radio. Driving between Newark and Mansfield. Periodically checked during the Morning. This station was heard for the following 3 mornings. RDS display switching between "YORIN FM" and "87.7 FM". Link to Station Website

17th July 2003
103Mhz "Radio Norba" from Naples. 3 PM in the afternoon. Picked up on the car radio near Grantham. Must have been a strong opening as not much else could be heard at the time including a lack of local stations. RDS displayed "R_NORBA". Link to Station Website