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For those who like interval signals..

SomeRadioGuy

SomeRadioGuy

Most days, most broadcasters just crash start and crash end with program audio in progress.

But over the last few days, I’ve caught the BBC WS 9410 broadcast at 0500 via Ascension signing on at 0458 with a minute of Big Ben followed by program audio kicking in with the program promos at about 04: 59:30.

Thought those who like interval signals might be interested to know this.
 
@ SomeRadioGuy
Though I'm nowhere near being the avid short-wave follower that you and many are, I *was* a fan of those backtime sound intervals.
Such a fan that I suggested one to be played at Noon on our LPFM. You would be able to say if your dial travels ever found it used. I suspect if at all it was used, it would be effective* in the tropics .... South America, Caribbean, Metro Bermuda Triangle, and especially Brazil. Here's the link.
Just one click anywhere on that eye chart should suffice.


Typical roots/palm tree music lilt. Supposedly a it's a traditional chant to lure fish closer to the surface. As most Mendes bossa nova-ish tunes have it, no harmony; it's not needed. And it's not Mendes playing the huge pipe organ toward the end; it's some gal whose name escapes me.
Let it ride past the 'sounder' part intro for a while. It's only 3 minutes.

* I insisted that our noon sounder was more effective than the lunch whistle across town that had been going off at 11:57 Noon for years -- really. It's undergone
adjustment and for a few years now the siren has been been tooting at 11:58.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
Go look at Tristan Da Cunha, @Mediafrog+
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I suspect there is some backstory to your clip of Atlantic FM.🤔😆

Decades ago Tristan da Cunha was considered the hardest DX catch on shortwave, with a 40 watt signal on 3290 kHz. The station moved to 93.5 FM sometime around 1993.

capedx.blogspot.com

TRISTAN DA CUNHA - ZOE Radio Tristan 3290 kHz - A rare QSL from the world's most remote inhabited archipelago.

Google Earth Image of Tristan da Cunha showing Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, the only major settlement on the island. Tristan da Cunha, the m...
capedx.blogspot.com capedx.blogspot.com

swling.com

Ultra-Rare Tristan da Cunha QSL: The Art of the Hunter-Killer QSL Pursuit

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares the following guest post: Ultra-Rare Tristan da Cunha QSL: The Art of the Hunter-Killer QSL Pursuit by Dan Robinson Those in the QSL…
swling.com

swling.com

ZOE: More Tristan Da Cuhna QSL cards in the wild–?

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares the following guest post: SWLing Post readers may recall the story we published last year about the appearance of a rare QSL card fr…
swling.com
 
Mediafrog+ said:
I suspect there is some backstory to your clip of Atlantic FM.🤔😆

Decades ago Tristan da Cunha was considered the hardest DX catch on shortwave, with a 40 watt signal on 3290 kHz. The station moved to 93.5 FM sometime around 1993.

capedx.blogspot.com

TRISTAN DA CUNHA - ZOE Radio Tristan 3290 kHz - A rare QSL from the world's most remote inhabited archipelago.

Google Earth Image of Tristan da Cunha showing Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, the only major settlement on the island. Tristan da Cunha, the m...
capedx.blogspot.com capedx.blogspot.com

swling.com

Ultra-Rare Tristan da Cunha QSL: The Art of the Hunter-Killer QSL Pursuit

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares the following guest post: Ultra-Rare Tristan da Cunha QSL: The Art of the Hunter-Killer QSL Pursuit by Dan Robinson Those in the QSL…
swling.com

swling.com

ZOE: More Tristan Da Cuhna QSL cards in the wild–?

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares the following guest post: SWLing Post readers may recall the story we published last year about the appearance of a rare QSL card fr…
swling.com
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There is.... i emailed them when i discovered they had an FM station, asked if they could somehow record it for me... they said sure, i maield them some cassette tapes and some $ to cover postage

I lost the tapes, but that clip survives, and atlantic fm is no longer in use

ive seen that swling.com article before. read the first user comment on the page
 
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SomeRadioGuy said:
atlantic fm is no longer in use
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I have not heard about any closure of Atlantic FM. Still listed in the 2024 WRTH, but no schedule given. The 2022 edition has a Sunday morning broadcast with British Forces Broadcasting Service as additional filler. Earlier editions show operation three evenings per week in addition to Sunday.

The 93.5 FM was originally 15 watts, later 25 watts, both of which are adequate to cover the settlement on TDC. Shows that even a minimalist transmitter facility can do the job in certain situations, as KSKO can attest.😀
 
As kids back in Queens, we'd count almost anything. Within reason.
There was a pirate on 1620 out of Brooklyn (WFAT); with no X-Band then they got out a bit past their nominal 'COL'. Some radio club people might know their wattage.
'WEJP', a pirate on 1460 from South Queens I found one night, would sail across Jamaica Bay to the Rockaways, but we didn't count them on 1460. I called a buddy, who thought that 1460 was a curious choice for a NYC pirate to call home. He found their louder parent signal on 730. Xmitr leak? Bad filtering? NO filtering? One of the lads found a weak second (?) harmonic around 2920.
(We didn't have LED dials then, but we once *did* paint a substantial-looking second base in the street ..... some northbound truck came by and promptly installed dimming harmonics of it halfway to 109th Avenue. And since we didn't use those second bases, we didn't count WEJP 1460. Or 2920. Or 5840 ......)

Further East on Long Island was a real off-frequency (but on-topic) mystery: a weak WGLI 1290 signal on analog 1160 or 1162. Day and night -- with the same wicked directional characteristics as the licensed signal. In the car, on portables, from table radios.
There was only one other AM on at night on the entire Island (WGBB 1240) and that was in Nassau County. So it couldn't've been those mixing and spur effects like with the horizons of red blinking lights in the NJ Meadowlands.

Even though the WGLI 1160 signal was there for a few years, we never did come up with a mathematical answer. It HAD to've originated at the main 1290 site, though, no?
 
Mediafrog+ said:
I have not heard about any closure of Atlantic FM. Still listed in the 2024 WRTH, but no schedule given. The 2022 edition has a Sunday morning broadcast with British Forces Broadcasting Service as additional filler. Earlier editions show operation three evenings per week in addition to Sunday.

The 93.5 FM was originally 15 watts, later 25 watts, both of which are adequate to cover the settlement on TDC. Shows that even a minimalist transmitter facility can do the job in certain situations, as KSKO can attest.😀
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I no longer have the emails, but im almost certain I Was told it was off air years ago.

When you dont have alot of ground to cover, low pwoer is fine
 
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