Corné
Stations Heard: 207
The last couple of days I have made several sweeps of weak stations to 'see' what's out there. Yesterday evening at about 20.00 local time (GMT+2) I started a MW sweep from top to bottom. Using all the information that I gathered at the pervious sweeps I was able to identify a lot of stations in a relative short time (about 2 1/2 hours). Distance record so far 3668 km (2279 miles) BSKSA General Arabic, 2MW on 1521kHz from Duba in Saudi Arabia.
One of the challenges is all the different languages. Languages heard so far:
Dutch
German
English
Russian
French
Spanish
Portuguese
Italian
Turkish
Greek
Swedish
Chinese (CRI Luxembourg)
Slavic (Czech ,Croatia, Bulgaria, ...)
Arabian (Tunisia, Algeria, Saudi Arabia)
Hindi (Sunrise Radio in Great Britain)
The radio has a width of 190mm (7.5 inch) and the depth is 161mm (6.3 inch). The antenna coil is made from 50x0.071mm Litze wire and has a diameter of 80mm (3.15 inch). Because I didn't have a suitable fine tuning capacitor I made one myself from a small 2x6-selector switch with a plastic cover. I removed the contacts and replaced them with two brass plates. I can't measure the capacity but I suspect the maximum is in the 5pF to 10pF range.
The metal can behind the right 49 contains both inter stage and output transformers and the 0.22uF capacitor and one 1M resistor. The resistor and capacitor make the 1:2 ratio inter stage transformer behave like a 1:3 transformer. For convenience I've mounted the 9V B+ battery under the chassis.
Controls:
Top left to right:
* Headphone jack
* fine tune
* main tuning using 4:1 reduction
* regeneration control
Bottom left to right
* audio gain select 20dB, 26dB, 14dB only works in 2AD mode
* 1AD/2AD switch
* Low frequency switch (added later, seen in top picture)
* on/off switch
* 9kHz filter select switch
The fine tuning works really well. Zero beating a carrier is easy and tuning for SSB works fine too.
Corné
Log
Location: Eindhoven The Netherlands
Note:
* If a 'D' follows the frequency (1611D) it's a digital
transmission which sounds like very strong white noise.
Transmitter information from FMSCAN.ORG
time freq country abbreviation + station + Pdir + Tpwr + distance
7/27/08 GMT+2
001 18:12 549 D Deutschlandfunk Nordkirchen Münsterstr. 34 Piekenbrock 16d 100 147km
002 18:14 621 BEL RTBF La Première Wavre - 300 99km
003 18:17 648 G BBC World Service Orfordness 1990d 500 277km
004 18:20 603 F France Info Lyon/Tramoyes - 300 621km
005 18:21 675 HOL Radio Maria Lopik - 100 68km
006 18:22 711 F France Info Rennes/Thourie - 300 640km
007 18:23 720 D WDR 2 Langenberg (Velbert) Rommelsweg - 63.5 116km
008 18:26 747 HOL Radio 747AM/Radio 1 Zeewolde (Flevoland) - 400 103km
009 18:28 828 HOL CAZ! Heinenoord - 20 79km
010 18:30 891 HOL Radio 538 Hulsberg/Emmaberg - 20 69km
011 18:35 927 BEL VRT Radio 1 Wolvertem - 300 97km
012 18:36 1008 HOL GrootNieuws Radio Zeewolde (Flevoland) - 200 103km
013 18:45 1233 BEL RTBF Pure FM Liège/Rocourt 5d 5 88km
014 18:47 1251 HOL Radio 747AM/Radio 1 Hulsberg/Emmaberg - 10 69km
7/29/08
015 20:25 1611D CVA Vatican Radio Santa Maria di Galeria - 25 1169km
016 20:29 1602 HOL Radio Seagull Leeuwarden - 1 201km
017 20:30 1593D D WDR 2 Klassik Langenberg (Velbert) Richard-Tormin-Str.3 Hordt - 10 116km
018 20:31 1575 D Voice of Russia (AM)/Oldie Star (AM/DRM) Burg/Brehm - 250 452km
019 20:36 1575 F Radio Nouveaux Talents Meudon/Tour Hertzienne - 5 375km
020 20:39 1566 G BBC Radio Bristol & Somerset Sound Taunton - 0.63 597km
021 20:43 1557 G Gold (network)
022 20:40 1557 F France Info Nice/Fontbonne - 150 866km
023 20:46 1548 MDA TWR/Voice of Russia/China Radio Int. Grigoriopol/Maiac 300d 150 1787km
024 20:46 1539 D Evangeliumsrundfunk Mainflingen/Mainhausen Steinweg - 700 295km
025 20:48 1530 CVA Vatican Radio Santa Maria di Galeria - 600 1168km
026 20:52 1521 ARS BSKSA General Arabic/Call of Islam Duba 2000d 2000 3668km
027 20:54 1494 F France Info (network)
028 20:56 1494 F France Bleu/Radio Corsa Frequenza Mora Bastia/Serra di Pigno - 20 1018km
029 20:58 1485 E SER (network)
030 21:00 1476 AUT Radio Austria Int./Radio 1476/Radio Afrika Int'l Wien-Bisamberg - 60 856km
031 21:01 1467 F Trans World Radio/Vatican Radio Roumoules (3AM4) 1000d 1000 853km
032 21:02 1458 G Sunrise Radio Brookmans Park/4 wire T aerial 250d 125 391km
033 21:03 1449 I RAI Radio1 (network)
034 21:03 1440 LUX RTL Radio / China Radio International Marnach 480d 1200 162km
035 21:04 1431 D Voice of Russia Dresden-Wilsdruff/Birkenhainer Höhe - 250 561km
036 21:05 1422 D Deutschlandfunk Heusweiler/Am Sender-Nähe Schwimmbad 950d 600 256km
037 21:07 1413 E RNE R.5 (network)
038 21:08 1404 F France Info (network)
039 21:09 1395 HOL Radio London (Big L) Lelystad/Trintelhaven - 30 132km
040 21:11 1395 ALB Radio Tirana/Voice of America/Trans World Radio/China Radio Int'l Fllakë - 500 1550km
041 21:14 1386 RUS Voice of Russia/Russian Int Radio/Universelles Leben Bolshakovo - 1200 1145km
042 21:15 1359 G BBC Radio Solent Fern Barrow - 0.85 521km
043 21:18 1350 LVA Radio Tatras International Kuldiga - 50 1233km
044 21:19 1341 HNG Magyar Katolikus Rádió
045 21:21 1341 G BBC Radio Ulster Lisnagarvey/Blaw-Knox mast - 100 841km
046 21:23 1332 CZE Ceský rozhlas 2/6 Domamil (Moravske Budejovice) - 50 774km
047 21:25 1323 D Voice of Russia/Russian International Radio/Universelles Leben Wachenbrunn/Themar Rittersrain 250d 800 372km
048 21:26 1314 E RNE R.5 (network)
049 21:27 1305 BEL RTBF Pure FM Marche-en-Famenne 10d 10 140km
050 21:28 1296D G BBC World Service Orfordness 560d 70 277km
051 21:29 1287 E SER (network)
052 21:30 1278 F France Bleu Strasbourg/Sélestat 240d 300 383km
053 21:31 1269 D Deutschlandfunk Neumünster/Ehndorf Ehndorfer Moor 300d 300 412km
054 21:34 1260 G Gold (network)
055 21:36 1260 E SER (network)
056 21:37 1242 G Virgin (network)
057 21:39 1224 BUL BNR Horizont/R.Bulgaria/R.Free Europe Vidin/Gramada (RPS1) - 500 1533km
058 21:41 1215 RUS Voice of Russia/Russian Int Radio Bolshakovo - 1200 1145km
059 21:42 1215 G Virgin 1215 (network)
060 21:43 1206 SRB Radio Majdanpek Majdanpek - 1 1451km
061 21:44 1197 G Virgin 1215 (network)
062 21:45 1188 D MDR Info Reichenbach/Bandmachergasse 1 - 3 650km
063 21:46 1179 S Sveriges Radio 1/Radio Sweden Intl Sölvesborg/Björkenabben 600d 600 787km
064 21:48 1170 BLR Belaruskaye Radio 1/Radio Minsk/Voice of Russia/local px Sasnovy 700d 700 1572km
065 21:49 1161 E Euskadi Irratia San Sebastián - 50 1063km
066 21:50 1152 E RNE R.5 (network)
067 21:52 1143 D AFN Power Network Mönchengladbach-Pongs/Pongser Kamp - 1 72km
068 21:54 1134 HRV HRT-HR 1/Voice of Croatia Zadar (Nin/Rasinovac) 1900d 600 1083km
069 21:56 1116 HOL Radio Bloemendaal Bloemendaal - 0.5 121km
070 21:57 1107 D AFN Eagle Grafenwöhr/südl.Gartenstr. Lager Grafenwöhr - 10 494km
071 21:58 1107 D AFN Power Network Kaiserslautern/Otterbach-Sambach - 10 270km
072 22:00 1089 G TalkSPORT (network)
073 22:02 1071 E Euskadi Irratia Bilbao/Monte Artxanda - 40 1105km
074 22:03 1062 CZE Country Radio Praha/Zbraslav - 20 648km
075 22:04 1053 G TalkSPORT (network)
076 22:06 1044 E SER (network)
077 22:08 1044 D MDR Info Dresden-Wilsdruff/Birkenhainer Höhe - 20 561km
078 22:15 990 E SER (network)
079 22:20 990 D Deutschlandradio Berlin Berlin-Britz/Waldkraiburger Str. 8d 100 557km
080 22:23 972 UKR Ukrainske Radio 2 (R. Promin)/Russian International Radio Mykolayiv/Kopani 100d 500 1979km
081 22:25 936 UKR Voice of Russia Lviv-Krasne 500d 1000 1314km
082 22:28 891 ALG Chaîne 1 Ouled Fayet - 600 1650km
083 22:30 846D I RAI Radio1 Roma/Santa Palomba - 50 1211km
084 22:31 828 D NDR Info Hannover-Hemmingen/Berliner Str. - 20 309km
085 22:32 810 G Radio Scotland (network)
086 22:33 801 D on3radio (network)
087 22:34 792 F France Info Limoges/Nieul - 300 690km
088 22:37 783 D MDR Info Leipzig-Wiederau (Pegau/Senderstraße) - 100 474km
089 22:39 774 E RNE R.1 (network)
090 22:43 765 SUI RSR Option Musique Sottens - 600 541km
091 22:45 729 E RNE R.1 (network)
092 22:45 711 D SWR Cont.Ra Ulm-Jungingen Senderweg 11 - 5 465km
093 22:48 702 MCO China Radio International Col de la Madone [F] 590d 200 864km
094 22:50 693D I RAI Radiodue Milano/Siziano - 25 734km
095 22:52 693 D Voice of Russia Zehlendorf (Oranienburg) Liebenwalder Str. - 60 561km
096 22:53 666 D SWR Cont.Ra Rohrdorf Meßkirch Holzwiesen 150d 150 462km
097 22:55 657 I RAI Radio1 (network)
098 22:58 639 CZE Ceský rozhlas 2/6 (network)
099 23:05 630 TUN RTT Radio Nationale Tunis/Djedeida - 600 1663km
100 23:07 621 E RNE R.1 (network)
101 23:11 612 BIH RTV Bosne i Hercegovine 1 Sarajevo - 600 1273km
102 23:13 585 E RNE R.1 Madrid/Majadahonda - 600 1414km
7/30/08
103 18:03 531 SUI DRS1 Musigwälle 531 Beromünster - 160 511km
104 18:05 558 E RNE R.5 (network)
105 18:07 576 D SWR Cont.Ra Mühlacker (Stuttgart) Senderstr. 70 Illinger Höhe 100d 100 369km
106 18:08 585 F FIP Paris/Radio Urgence Paris/Romainville - 8 358km
107 18:09 594 D HR-Skyline (network)
108 18:13 603 G Gold Littlebourne - 0.1 300km
109 18:16 630 D Voice of Russia Königslutter (Braunschweig) Scheppau Wohld - 200 373km
110 18:20 693 G BBC Radio 5 Live (network)
111 18:25 738 E RNE R.1 Barcelona/Palau de Plegamans - 600 1128km
112 18:27 756 D Deutschlandfunk Königslutter (Braunschweig) Scheppau Wohld 200d 200 373km
113 18:29 774 D WDR 2 Bonn/Robert-Koch-Str. 41 - 5 141km
114 18:31 792 D NDR Info Lingen/Am Sender (Damaschke) - 5 177km
115 18:34 819 F Sud Radio Toulouse/Gauré 50d 20 917km
116 18:35 837 F France Info Nancy/Nomeny - 200 291km
117 18:36 855D D Deutschlandradio Berlin Berlin-Britz/Waldkraiburger Str. 50d 50 557km
118 18:37 864 F France Bleu Villebon-sur-Yvette - 300 385km
119 18:39 873 D AFN Power Network Oberursel (Frankfurt) Am Weißkichener Berg 380d 150 262km
120 18:42 882 G BBC Radio Wales Washford 80d 100 613km
121 18:50 900 I RAI Radio1 Milano/Siziano 320d 200 734km
122 18:52 909 G BBC Radio 5 Live (network)
123 18:55 918 SVN Radio Slovenija 1 Ljubljana/Domzale (Radio Cesta) - 300 891km
124 18:57 945 F France Info Toulouse/Muret - 300 942km
125 18:59 972 D NDR Info Hamburg/Unterer Landweg 93 100d 100 390km
126 19:00 981 I RAI Trst A Trieste/Monte Radio - 10 886km
127 19:02 1017 D SWR Cont.Ra Wolfsheim/Mainzer Str. - 100 252km
128 22:20 1116 RUS Radio Rossii / GTRK Yantar Bolshakovo 150d 75 1145km
129 22:22 1125 BEL RTBF Vivacité Houdeng 10d 10 142km
130 22:43 1359 G Gold (network)
131 22:44 1404 F France Bleu/Radio Corsa Frequenza Mora Ajaccio - 20 1106km
132 22:51 1026 E SER (network)
133 22:54 1017 TUR TRT 1 Mudanya (Istanbul) - 1200 2165km
7/31/08
134 21:05 954 CZE Ceský rozhlas 2/6 (network)
135 21:10 1512 GRC ERA Net/ERA 2/ERA Sport Chania - 50 2310km
136 21:23 1548 G Gold London/Saffron Green 120d 97.5 395km
137 21:27 1377 F France Info Lille/Camphin-en-Carembault 1190d 300 202km
138 21:32 1125 G BBC Radio Wales Llandrindod Wells - 1 614km
139 21:37 999 I RAI Radio1 (network)
140 21:38 981 ALG Chaîne 2 Ouled Fayet - 600 1650km
141 21:42 963 FIN WYFR Family Radio (Tests) Pori - 600 1482km
142 21:47 945 G Gold (network)
143 21:50 540 HNG Kossuth Radio Solt - 2000 1110km
144 22:00 810 MKD Radio Skopje 1/FS/DW Ovehje Polje - 1200 1646km
145 22:02 819 I RAI Radio1 Trieste/Monte Radio - 10 886km
146 22:07 963 G Club Asia East London/Lea Bridge Road - 0.95 381km
147 22:09 999 MDA BBC/DW/Voice of Russia/TWR Grigoriopol/Maiac 1090d 500 1787km
148 22:13 1035 EST Tartu Family Radio Tartu - 100 1574km
149 22:16 1062 I RAI Radio1 (network)
150 22:25 1161 G BBC Southern Counties Radio Bexhill-on-Sea - 1 357km
151 22:34 1170 G Swansea Sound Winsh-wen (Swansea) - 0.58 649km
152 22:38 1170 G Magic 1170 AM Stockton - 0.32 571km
153 22:40 1368 G BBC Radio Lincolnshire Lincoln 4d 2 454km
154 22:43 1395 POL Twoje Radio 6 Plus / Polskie Radio Lublin Radzyn Podlaski - 1 1183km
155 22:47 1503 G BBC Radio Stoke Stoke-on-Trent - 1 547km
156 22:50 1521 G Gold Duxhurst - 0.64 395km
157 22:53 1584 G BBC (network)
158 22:57 1602 E Euskadi Irratia Vitoria/Cerro Estíbaliz - 25 1132km
8/01/08
159 20:38 1107 I RAI Radio1 Roma/Monte Ciocci - 6 1212km
160 20:58 1035 G BBC Radio Sheffield/BBC Asian Network Sheffield - 1 516km
161 21:29 1512 IRN IRIB Sarasarye Ardabil - 50 3618km
162 21:33 1521 E SER Castellón/Ctra. Valencia - 10 1344km
163 21:39 1449 LBY Voice of Great Homeland Misurata 0.08d 20 2257km
164 21:44 1413 SRB Radio Priatina 1 Priština - 1000 1512km
165 21:46 1368 G Manx Radio Douglas 8d 20 731km
166 21:48 1359 E RNE R.1/REE Arganda del Rey 0.9d 300 1418km
167 21:50 1350 F Radio Orient Nice/Fontbonne 1.6d 10 866km
168 21:52 1323 G Gold Southwick (Brighton) - 0.5 405km
169 21:55 1251 LBY Voice of Africa Tarabulus=Tripoli 500d 500 2157km
170 21:59 1107 SRB Radio Beograd 1 Novi Sad 160d 100 1200km
171 22:00 1170 G Gold (network)
172 22:02 1143 I RAI Radio1 (network)
173 22:04 1143 RUS Radio Mayak (network)
174 22:14 963 TUN Radio Tunisia International Tunis/Djedeida - 100 1663km
175 22:17 936 D Radio Bremen 1 Bremen-Oberneuland/Am Hollerdeich 80d 50 299km
176 22:22 873 E SER (network)
177 22:24 855 E RNE R.1 (network)
178 22:34 783 E COPE Barcelona/Ctra. Consería - 50 1147km
179 22:46 585 TUN RTT Radio Nationale Gafsa - 200 1913km
180 22:48 576 E RNE R.5 Barcelona/Palau de Plegamans - 100 1128km
181 22:49 567 I RAI Radio1 (network)
182 22:53 540 E Onda Cero Radio Barcelona - 50 1147km
183 23:01 1098 E RNE R.5 (network)
8/02/08
184 23:00 1575 I RAI Radio1 (network)
185 23:08 1566 G County Sound Peasmarsh (Guildford) - 0.75 421km
186 23:35 1341 EGY ERTU Songs Radio Cairo - 100 3175km
8/03/08
187 00:05 1080 E SER Radio Huesca Huesca/Estrecho Quinto - 10 1118km
188 00:18 981 POR Radio Renascença Coimbra - 10 1642km
189 00:22 963 E Radio Euskadi Vitoria - 5 1135km
190 00:24 954 E Onda Cero Radio Pozuelo de Alarcón/Ctra. Carabanchel - 50 1417km
191 00:39 702 MRC SNRT B Sebaâ-Aioun - 140 2138km
192 00:40 702 D NDR Info Flensburg Trögelsbyhof Fuchsberg - 7.5 459km
193 00:43 684 E RNE R.1 Sevilla/Los Palacios - 300 1820km
194 00:46 666 E SER Barcelona/Sant Boi de Llobregat - 50 1147km
195 00:48 639 E RNE R.1 (network)
196 00:54 630 ROU Antena Satelor Voinesti - 400 1664km
197 00:56 531 E RNE R.5 (network)
198 01:16 1530 G BBC Radio Essex Southend-on-Sea 0.09d 0.15 329km
199 01:30 1161 G Magic 1161 AM Goxhill/Neatgangs Lane - 0.35 464km
200 02:01 612 LTU Radio Baltic Waves International Vilnius-Virauliakes - 100 1237km
8/04/08
201 22:33 1188 MRC SNRT C Casablanca - 1 2250km
202 22:40 1035 POR Rádio Clube Português Benavente/Belmonte - 100 1784km
203 22:44 999 E COPE Madrid/Majadahonda - 50 1418km
204 22:51 936 I RAI Radio1 Venezia/Campalto - 10 833km
205 22:56 819 MRC SNRT A Rabat-Temara - 25 2191km
206 22:56 819 EGY ERTU General Programme Batrah - 1000 3097km
207 23:05 630 NOR NRK 1/NRK 2/NRK Møre og Romsdal Vigra (LKA) - 100 1234km
Longest distance: 3368km (2279 miles) 026 29/7/2008 20.52 1521 ARS BSKSA General Arabic/Call of Islam Duba 2000d 2000 3668km
Shortest distance : 68km (42 miles) 005 30/7/2008 18.21 675 HOL Radio Maria Lopik - 100 68km
Highest power: 2 Mega Watt 026 29/7/2008 20.52 1521 ARS BSKSA General Arabic/Call of Islam Duba 2000d 2000 3668km
Lowest power: 100 Watt 110 30/7/2008 18.13 603 G Gold Littlebourne - 0.1 300km
Countries (43) where the received signals originated: * Germany * Belgium * Great Britain * France * The Netherlands * Vatican * Moldavia * Saudi Arabia * Spain * Austria * Italy * Luxembourg * Albania * Russia * Latvia * Hungary * Czech Republic * Bulgaria * Serbia * Sweden * Byelorussia * Croatia * Turkey * Ukraine * Switzerland * Monte Carlo * Tunisia * Bosnia Herzegovina * Slovenia * Greece * Algeria * Finland * Macedonia * Egypt * Estonia * Poland * Iran * Libya * Portugal * Morocco * Romania * Lithuania * Norway