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When, approximately, did the clearance of national stations from the HF end happen, and above what frequency?
- Julian

Agreed, a complete farce. Even CR stations have become Corporate, as with Pure Radio, now Your FM with the Bertelsmann playlist
Who's left? Locally Silk FM, Revolution, and Dee 106.3
The BBC Locals remain genuinely Local!
- Julian

Good advice Dave. From practical experience and several threads on the old Skywaves group I can suggest that a small vertical Yagi will retain most of its rather modest directivity on a metal mast if mounted at the top of the mast. There is an optimum position but half way between dipole and 1st dir...

You get what you pay for Looking on eBay doesn't help, if we want a Malachite from Russia, all you find are various versions of the Chinese Malahit, but I'd have to look very closely at the details to see if they come with functioning s/w What appeals to me is that it looks like the usual 'dongle' ...

Has anyone tried the new 3.5" IPS Malachite SDR yet? The price tag around UKP 75 makes it look attractive for an "entry level" SDR

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Tropo is still as strong this morning. No sign of Germany which there was yesterday morning, but HOL is everywhere, with BEL and FR good. We will leave Buxton shortly, nice finish to the trip on this misty morning

Strong lift from the SE in Buxton now, many with RDS
More 538s than I thought was possible, and Q-Music
Hol. Classical on 101.6
Had to break for dinner

Good work Tim. We're spending the weekend in Buxton and the lift is good here. Clear view SE, car radio brings Lille perfect, SW Germans, Holland, and I haven't got above 89Mhz yet

back to R4 at 10:10 BST

- currently carrying World Service after a fault during the Daily Service. No-one seems to have noticed yet

Oh yes, just heard the Morse ID, thanks Stuart
Seems to have been more noisy than usual here lately

Is the Buxton 70MHz beacon currently active? I can find no sign of it when I check the OIRT band, so either they are off air or I have a problem

Tonight I was listening to R Wales on DAB as I moved round the house. Midway between the two radios I noticed there was a significant delay between the two, like about 4 sec. After much head scratching I asked both what mpx they were using. The kitchen radio reports it is on 10D NE Wales W Ches for ...

Cheadle FM ceased last Sunday, I suppose Lockdown and Bayside have also gone?

Good news for those of us who live close but still sad to lose old friends

Sorry, it wAS Dave Pierce who was being chatted to
Don't know why I started on this, sorry, I only came here to see what I'd missed on OIRT, nothing apparently, and I checked the band several times today

Nor can I explain why you heard it in the afternoon.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jphq
starts around 1:45
Tim Lovejoy was calling in from his bedroom in Brighton btw and he mentioned that he started out as a pirate DJ

Maybe a completely different interview...

It was the Janice Long show on BBC R Wales, it was on this evening, I was listening on DAB and I kept thinking 'I've heard this before'
You can listen again on Sounds
How it got on 89.6 I can't imagine, there isn't a R Wales allocation

Multipath signals are a greater problem for RDS than signal level or qrm, so you may get an improvement by offsetting the beam bearing