KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - WEDNESDAY 8th MAY 2013

 

MW LOGS :

1010 SS 0330 - 0400 8/5
1180 Unid slow music and YL presenter. No sign of ID, and not like Rebelde I don't think
1310 unid SS 0401 8/5 poss id, but too fast for me.
1320 Unid like Cadena ??? International del Peru or something 0403 8/5
1350 around 0355-0405 lists of frequencies, 0358 snded like nacional brazil or similar....8/5
1470 Radio Capital, Peru 0400ish, 8/5
1520 Jamming / Warble sound on 1520 8/5 around 0400

 

 

KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - SATURDAY 4th MAY 2013

 

NORTHERN SPAIN - CLOSEDOWNS WERE A DAMP SQUIB:

There was meant to be a mass closedown on the mw band on 30th April from the Euskadi stations, as well as powerhouse Radio Vitoria, on 1602.

Frequencies effected were the main powerful clear channel signals on 1386 and 1476, as well as 1197. Radio Euskadi also closed from 756, 819, 963. Maybe it is the start of a SS abandonment of the MW band. We can only hope as mw dxers.

But despite the so called sign off, on the night of the 1st of May, they were still going strong. But on checking on Thursday night, the frequencies were again clear. The Basque stations moved onto clear 1476 and 1386 a few years back, and more or less blocked 1386 and 1476 for dxing. Low powered pirates also used 1476 and 1386 from time to time.

This area of Spain falls in the "common" zone for FM sporadic e logs (mainly) in the summer months.

I did record a number of Perseus files from the evening of the supposed closedown, but I ended up deleting them, since the stations never closed. I do like trying to keep close downs of transmitters. A piece of European radio history supposedly being saved there, in the shape of a recording of the full mw band.

 

RARE CAPITAL RADIO QSL CARD:

I found the following on ebay recently, from the King David ship, 1970. Another part of this site that needs to migrate to the offshore section in the dx archive area.