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I caught just a bit of this while driving at about 18:30z, seemed to be mostly Hungarian language, there was sport on 88.2 + 88.5, any quiet channel had some up to 93.4 which was as far as I got. 87.6 had "Budapest" in the speech.

The only RDS I saw was BLANIK on 87.8 but I've no idea what that was

Chesterton Fen (1197) and Greenside Scalp (Dundee) (1242) are also reported off now
I guess the channels to watch are 1197, 1233, 1242 and 1260

The closures are now in progress. Guildford (Pirbright) (1260), Hoo (1197) and Swindon (1233) have gone. Droitwich is reported to be carrying announcements advising you to use another medium, maybe other main tx have been doing the same but I've not been listening. Check out your nearest Absolute re...

A quick bandcheck just now finds ee oldies show on 6160, with announcements "Test transmission for a new English service on 6160"
I guess this is related to Laser Hot Hits or R. Mi Amigo
QRT 16:00z

I called into Tesco to see if they have those clever AM/FM/USB radios that Pe1etr was describing (they didn't and I don't know if there is another UK supermarket that might have them). I saw they still have the RAD113B (now £10). As I said before these are not a dx machine but I love the freedom fro...

It's a dying art, but nice to see there's still a few.
About 9 years ago I did a Sussex bandscan inland from Brighton, and logged 12 pirates
http://ukradio.info/Skywaves/Keymer.txt

After a year or more of streaming, Cannock Chase Radio has been granted a Community Radio license, two in fact: 89.6 and 94.0, "launching early in 2018"
http://cannockchaseradio.co.uk/

Andy and Tim will lose a few dx regulars

Droitwich 198
Don't know what programme they are carrying right now, it's not R4

Goodness, it's an SRF-59 with a speaker! Googling around, I see that the ICF-P26 is the successor to the ICF-S10. The receiver circuit now uses the CXA1019S device, while the SRF-59 uses the CXA1129N - I must find the datasheet

On second thoughts, it is likely that the heavy rain had reduced the qrn from the HV powerlines which normally limits what I can hear. They are at thier most noisy in strong sunlight

There was thunder here last night so I put on a LW rx to listen for lightning and conditions seemed unusual, not that I often tune across LW these days The two European regulars were particularly clear on 183 & 234, while on 252 IRL was in the clear, with ALG only heard by careful nulling on the por...

While on a recent family holiday in Houlgate I took the opportunity to do a daytime bandscan on MW using an available car radio (rear window antenna) and on LW using a Realistic DX-260 small analogue portable for LW. During the day the majority of stations were from the UK. On LW there were of cours...

A family gathering drew me from the comforts of home, out to a caravan rented on le Camping La Vallée near Houlgate. I cycled from the ferry, travelling light with a pocket-size L-M-S-VHF analogue radio, but the family car had an excellent RDS radio with adaptive filtering. To my delight it rained e...

To add to the discussion of 1008kHz, I see that the Flevoland tx is due to qrt on 1st September this year. The tx site will be dismantled

Is there any way to use FMLIST on an android phone? It always tells me "email oder Passwort falsch!"
I suppose I could try "Jetzt registrieren" and create a new account. Would that work?

Thanks PFM907, that is very helpful.
I see that Radio Travel Tirana is online at http://radiotravel.al/
Do the other tx carry the same progrmme?

To use the telescopic ae or an external antenna on MW you should 'scan' down from 1711kHz until you get to 630kHz, then save that setting in memory, as per the procedure on http://ukradio.info/Degen/, but to use inductive coupling from a wire I suggest one or two turns around the radio with its ferr...

You had a bit of capacitance coupling, not inductive, to whichever of the two antennas you were using. I assume you were using the usual setting which selects the ferrite loop antenna for MW/LW, so the effect would have been much more noticeable if you had selected the telescopic rod antenna To bene...

Wonderful! Any sign of Alençon?

It sounds like a competent portable for dx, Peter. I won't buy one right away, I'll wait 'til you buy a 'Play' and post a comparison