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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

Now on air, fair signal here with RDS CHEADLE
Wild variations in mod level

There is no sign of them on FM here, 4km away and I've not heard any test tx. The website https://cheadle.fm/ claims they have started today, but no longer names the host of the first show, and the online feed is some sort of looped test with news on the hour.

some of them claim having PLL synthesizers, would this be actually better than traditional ones? Car radios have been fully synthesised for about the past 40 years, nothing earlier is worth considering. The amazing selectivity and resistance to overload came in rapidly after 1990 and all are good o...

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21 Apr 2020 11:30

If you are a forum / site administrator, why you are not in the group Adminstrators?

Dunno, I think they threw me out The 'Members' page shows who I am!

I'll take a listen tonight on 5900

Well, I'm not awake at 02:00UTC but if you are in France, 02:00 will be 04:00 local time.
I expect their website is correct, but you can also check on https://www.shortwave.am/

Stick with it John! A theoretical location half-way between your present and anticipated homes would have a 2½ mile error. No-one can be /that/ fussy