Free radio pirates on medium and short wave messageboard of alfa lima

Very noisy conditions here this weekend.
4000 to 4100 was very noisy.
5800 to 5850 was quiet.
6200 to 6220 was quiet.
6220 to 6450 was OK.
6900 to 7000 was terrible!
I'm guessing this was just local noise(Not surprising living in the London suburbs)
But,I'm curious as to the noise levels you had this weekend.Please post.

So,the noise did spoil my listening.But Orion and Merlin were OK and Scotland and Geronimo were so strong that they
overcame the noise anyway.

Strongest signal of the weekend here was Scotland,closely followed by Geronimo.Orion and Merlin were not as strong,but
were fine on fairly noise free frequencies.Scotland was much stronger here on 6400 than on 6285.

To be honest,besides KBC,all the rest were a struggle to listen to for me.

Saturday 26/11/11

6220Khz - 1043-1048 - Radio Merlin Int - 33333 - Disco Song,Boney M - "Brown Girl in the Ring".Jackie Frost.Still on at 1600.
6305Khz - 1030-1035 - Radio Vendor - 24433 - Pop Music.Weak,but clear on a clear band.Slight het.Later Accordian Music.
6325Khz - 1035-1040 - Radio Zeewolf Int - 33333 - Talking over "Dragonslayer".From NE.NL.CD 1041.

Sunday 27/11/11

4015Khz - 1038-1043 - LHH - 34333 - Pop Music.
5820Khz - 0927-0932 - Orion Radio - 45434 - Cover of Foreigner song.CD 1030.
6095Khz - 0955-1000 - KBC - 55544 - Hammond Organ Instrumental.The Who - "The Seeker".
6220Khz - 0937-0942 - Radio Merlin Int - 45434 - Mix of Pop Music.
6282Khz - 0942-0945 - Radio Shadow - 24332 - Music.Very weak.Lost signal at 0945,maybe off.
6285Khz - 1023-1028 - Radio Scotland Int - 45434 - Rolling Stones - "Miss You".Off at 1032.
6305Khz - 1010-1015 - Top Radio - 35433 - Dutch Music.
6325Khz - 0945-0950 - Misti Radio - 24332 - Music.Very weak.
6400Khz - 1043-1048 - Radio Scotland Int - 55434 - Dance Instrumental.The Clash - "London Calling".
6450Khz - 1015-1020 - Radio Universe - 35333 - Yes - "Wonderous Stories",The Bee Gees - "Massachusetts".
6930Khz - 0950-0955 - Irish Music Radio - 35333 - Music.Lots of noise.
6960Khz - 0932-0937 - Radio Geronimo SW - 45334 - Peter Verbruggen playing 80's Music.


Andy Richards.

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the reports, it's really a surprise te see that our signal on 6400 was stronger than at 6285. I use less power at 6400 because SWR is not ok there.
Optimal SWR is around 6280, only by using a ATU the SWR at 6400 is more or less accepteble.

Greetings, Albert
www.radioscotland.nl

hi andy
thanks for your logs
radio merlin was only using 10 watts on saturday and sunday,and not from the same qth but from a remote site on battries.Was timed to go off each day at 14:00hrs ,but something went wrong with the timer hence being on all day saturday until late sunday afternoon .
cheers
paul

Hello Andy; thanks for the log. Orion was running from the same studio; on the same freq. @ the same time using the same power as the Sunday before. So as you can read no so much news from this side.

Hello Andy,

Thank you for logging my station. I was using 20 Watts of power on 26-11-11
Greetings,
Herman.
Radio Zeewolf Int.