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Great to see these Franco and Simon. Keem them coming!

Just noticed this

2019-06-29 19:56 G7RAU (IN79JX) 144.174.0 VO1CH (GN37PR) 3424 km Tropo IN79JX<TR>GN37PR loc

FT8 I presume.

BBC now saying that I should contact OFCOM - who told me the BBC are the ones who give THEM their orders.

F*** me.

Thanks Andy, I'll bear this in mind when I get round to getting one.

I've been up and down the street and also in a car park behind those houses with a Tecsun in hand. Nothing in the car park behind but loud round the front of the houses. I've pretty much narrowed it down to one house. Had a conversation with the BBC reporting system and got through to someone in Bel...

Thanks John. " We may agree to investigate interference to hobby radio where there are exceptional circumstances and where we are satisfied that the interference is ‘harmful’, outside your control and all reasonable steps have been taken to minimise the effect. In addition, we may send out a spectru...

Well, that day has come. After years of minor interference to the FM band I now have a serious problem going on every day now. This is a really strange one, so if anyone has any ideas feel free to add some insight. I have something transmitting garbled Chinese audio all over the FM band every mornin...

Hey folks,

I want to change out my ancient 19 inch LG computer monitor for something more modern and wide - anyone got any suggestions for something which wont fill the spectrum (HF or VHF) with interference?

Any suggestions on models or makes would be great.

Very nice Franco.

Weak signals on the digital pilot freqs from N. America - 60.31 / 66.31 and analog 67.25. 6m full of FT8 from US east coast @ 1500.

FM to Sweden Denmark @ 1300 local.

Denmark a rarity here.

weird opening, signals not very strong but getting up to top of band every so often.

Czechoslovakia 1973 - Radio (50th) and TV (20th) anniversaries. Don't think I've seen another stamp depicting a test card!

https://flic.kr/p/2ggaAGp

https://flic.kr/p/2ggb5Hv

Nice!

Too far west for it here. Could see Turkish and Ukranian signals on 50 mhz though. Both double hop from here. Was hoping Ukraine would pop up on OIRT but not a peep.

I remember borrowing a portable TV from my sister in the early 80s and fiddling about thinking "I wonder can I get anything from far away" - I used to look at the Pics published in Practical Wireless, but I had no understanding of how it all worked. The portable had a loop antenna on the top, maybe ...

It's certainly a very odd season. Yesterday was great at my location with good openings to Spain, Portugal, Madeira, Canary Islands - but it really was the first very good day. Everything else has been lack lustre with many days of little or no activity.

Openings to the east just aren't happening.

Love hearing those low powered Spanish stations at the top of the band. A new one for me:

From last night: Radio Municipal, Valga, Pontevedra region, Galicia.

https://youtu.be/oq8Pogb7IRI

CNR 88.8 / 90.0 still there at weak to fair levels @ 1906.

double hop or E + tropo to MDR and CNR starting now.

88.4, MDR

90 / 92.3 CNR

Well, seems like there is still some life in the ionosphere. This morning's signals from Iberia seem more like an E season. Decent MUF's and amazingly - after all these years - new stations logged from Portugal and Spain.