Skywaves DX Forum

I was listening to Absolute 80s yesterday & the presenter mentioned about UK DAB recently getting a a power increase of transmitters. The initial aim I presume apart from extending national coverage & minimizing signal dropout is to get new listeners to digital radio. To what I have seen online, it ...

China on 1377 & 1521 kHz very strong this evening.

Yesterday evening the tropo was a shadow of what it was in the morning. Only some strong national French stations remained. Strange this is that while others were reporting Germany & Switzerland being received, I had neither at the same time. I did get Germany up until lunchtime yesterday though. My...

Germany - Hornisgrinde relays in now, 96.2 & 98.4 good here.

One of the standout catches for me was Radio Caroline from Rennes @ 1 kW on 90.8, right next to the BBC R3 local Rowridge relay on 90.7. Good thing the SDR was invented, otherwise no way could I have got this as I was using narrow filters & had to tune on a very precise frequency which I doubt a con...

Germany in this morning, Aachen & Langenberg heard in the early hours here. France still here but less than yesterday.

France taking over the FM band. Still waiting for DAB.

Was receiving Today FM on 101.8 on the way home this evening. Now I'm back, French signals are very dominant. No show up on DAB so far.

Received during a tropo lift over the weekend. Last time I got them they were on 105.6...

https://youtu.be/nIVJSt9brBY

Paris signals gone here, but Luxembourg now with good reception on 100.7. Ireland still here on 92.2 & 94.4.

French signals back again here & so is Ireland. Paris DAB is trying again now, still not good enough for audio. Eiffel Tower FM relays doing very well here, 87.8 Inter & 90.4 Nostalgie.

Edit: Paris DAB 5 MUX now clear @ 1152 hrs BST

France I think its INTER 93.5 on my FM radio built into my mobile phone. Headphone lead as the antenna. it changes to radio 4 Wrotham depending where I stand in the garden. It is Inter from the Rennes relay @ 100 kW. A regular here during tropo lifts from France. France has intensified here with mu...

Ireland has just come in, Mullaghanish relay. RTE2 on 92.2 & RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta on 94.4. No Germany here, but had RTBF 21 on 87.6 very strong earlier on. Even better than the regular Egem VRT relays. Also what I presume was a London pirate on 93.8. According to the transmission zero list, it i...

any one know this 96.5 / 98.4 there was an id on 98.4 heard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrGyWUzOScY Also 88.8? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwWYszJuemE And 97.0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ2DlhhoMsY 90.6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1csFian19m8 93.2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A...

Poor - lack of exciting & new signals. Best opening was from Greece which I could receive RDS. Austria was alright as well. But even regulars like Italy, Iberia & north Africa were average compared to other seasons. Frustrating - if I am away from home, I tend to have my SDR on for remote access dur...

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29 Jul 2018 18:33

UK Bass seems to be on tonight on 88.9, weak here with drum & bass and shouting MC.

Yes it was them. They were doing a very rare live show...

https://youtu.be/wbvrQazyxj8

Nothing on B2 for some time, but just a heads up that I have just received a couple of signals from eastern Europe on 6m. Hopefully this will go further along the band.

Edit: Just heard a German language station on 87.6 @1456 hrs UK time, very brief though.

No Canaries here on 87.7, instead presumed Algeria.

Fair enhancement from northern France. Receiving Fun Radio on 88.9 from Boulogne-sur-Mer/Mont Lambert. Normally it is France Inter from Le Havre which I am also receiving as well taking turns with Fun Radio.

Ireland gone. I wonder for how long it was in, as last night there was not much. Must have been overnight buildup. Also BBC relays have dropped too, a few still good.