kilokat7 said:This site has helped me find internet streams of various Euro broadcasters:
http://www.listenlive.eu/index.html
stormy01 said:Tincap, Armenia would be great DX even at 1MW! Last night in my area of No. Illinois there was too much static to make listening for 'split channels' worthwhile.
About what time UTC are you hearing the Euros coming in? I have noticed that the hets start about an hour or so after my local sunset (approximately 0045 UTC) but before local midnight (0600 UTC) the heterodynes are gone. The only confirmed audio has been Croatia on 1134, and that only lasted about 15-30 minutes a few nights (around 0130-0200 UTC), and sometimes audio would reappear later in the evening, but not for as long. 693 gave me audio very briefly for less than 5 minutes about 3-4 nights ago, but I couldn't definitely confirm what it was, though I suspected the BBC/UK. So despite the theoretical window of reception over TA distances being a complete path of darkness, in reality there are only narrow intervals of time within a all-darkness path that the signal strength is sufficient for audio to be intelligible. With a ferrite loop or an approximately 100' long wire antenna, it's not going to happen often, being in the Midwest US. I really need to consider at least a box loop or an amplified vertical... Beverage antenna... well, I need to ask a farmer if I could use his field since I live in a suburb...
Tincap said:Ding! Ding!
France Bleu is coming through. First time catch from them. The signal is coming from their 300kW transmitter located near Paris.
Streaming link can be found here ~> http://players.tv-radio.com/radiofrance/playerfrancebleu.php?tag=france_bleu_ile-de-france_mp3
Happy hunting!
~BG
glenn said:I saw this post yesterday and thought I would give the three stations mentioned (693-864-1134) a try last night and at 01:11 UTC I copied the 693 and at 01:15 UTC the 864 both very strong but only static on 1134.The language on 864 sounded definetly like french to me although I don't know any forieghn languages !! The announcer on 693 sounded like some version of french and something else....no idea what. These where my first true TA's and it was exciting to receive such distant signals. I was using my SW-8 and QX loop--what sources are available to ID these forieghn broadcasts? I have a copy of both WRTH as well as Passport but as of yet have done any research in either of them...will do that today.
73's
glenn (buckeyeair)
glenn said:The announcer on 693 sounded like some version of french and something else
stormy01 said:For a frequency list, http://mediumwave.de/ or fmscan.org As for online streams to verify a station you are hearing, in your WRTH, most of the international broadcasters do have a website, and many of these also have an online stream. Some of the posters to this thread have also noted online streams they have found that are third-party and there's dxtuners.com or http://www.globaltuners.com for a listen closer to the transmitter site.
kilokat7 said:glenn said:The announcer on 693 sounded like some version of french and something else
I have to be careful with 693 as I often get French programming on 690 (CINF Quebec), which can sometimes bleed through to 693 causing false hope of something more exotic. As for more information and online resources, I would suggest pouring over the recent threads here concerning recent TA catches. There are some excellent resources given in those threads (station lists, radiation patterns, etc.)
Happy DX!
glenn said:is there a way to change the background color on the mediumwave freq. list as that brown or whatever makes it diffucult for these old eyes to read the list (LOL)----
glenn (buckeyeair)
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glenn said:is there a way to change the background color on the mediumwave freq. list as that brown or whatever makes it diffucult for these old eyes to read the list (LOL)