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My FIRST Longwave Broadcast Station Log in Laramie, WY

SomeRadioGuy

SomeRadioGuy

252khz 0040UTC Wed Nov 20 in Laramie, WY
While doing a quick bandscan for beacons, I came across some jazzy chill-out type music on 252khz. A quick internet search found me the Radio Algeria Chaine 3 webstream and it appears to be a match.

252khz is pretty weak and static ridden here, but I'm pretty sure on this one!

EQuipment: Icom IC746Pro, 25 foot long by 10 foot tall Wellbrook ALA100LN loop and Zoom H1 handheld digital recorder
 
Oh, that's AWESOME! I have never heard LW broadcast here. The closest was a faint to fair het on 162khz one night before France Inter shut off. They still transmit the time signals on there but no voice transmission.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
252khz 0040UTC Wed Nov 20 in Laramie, WY
While doing a quick bandscan for beacons, I came across some jazzy chill-out type music on 252khz. A quick internet search found me the Radio Algeria Chaine 3 webstream and it appears to be a match.

252khz is pretty weak and static ridden here, but I'm pretty sure on this one!

EQuipment: Icom IC746Pro, 25 foot long by 10 foot tall Wellbrook ALA100LN loop and Zoom H1 handheld digital recorder
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Terrific--great catch!
 
I heard them here in the Chicago area last year. So far the only LW station heard here, which is mainly due to the extreme noise level on the LW band at my location. The other day I was tuning around on the Edinburgh, IN SDR and had good reception of 171 Moroco, 198 BBC, 207 Iceland and 252 Algeria. None of them were audible on my Drake and loop antenna. I am sure if the noise was lower they would all be audible.
 
Congrats, SomeRadioGuy! This is definitely the time of year for it. Almost exactly three years ago today is when I logged my one and only LW broadcast station, France Inter on 162 kHz.

Hope you and the rest of us are able to log more LW broadcast stations while they're still around.
 
CADXER said:
I heard them here in the Chicago area last year. So far the only LW station heard here, which is mainly due to the extreme noise level on the LW band at my location. The other day I was tuning around on the Edinburgh, IN SDR and had good reception of 171 Moroco, 198 BBC, 207 Iceland and 252 Algeria. None of them were audible on my Drake and loop antenna. I am sure if the noise was lower they would all be audible.
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Interesting, just tuned into this SDR and 171 Morocco is very strong at the moment. 198 and 207 are covered with noise and 252 has a US weather station. The noise level at my current location is much too high to hear any LW.
 
I logged Radio Algierienne's "Chaine 3" french language network via the 1,500,000 Day/750,000 Watt Night transmitter on 252khz in Tipaza, Algeria. I'm in Laramie, Wyoming 5400 miles away from the 252khz transmitter site. HEre's some audio from that logging.


Here's some jazzy chill-out type music from Tue Nov 19th at 636pm mountain time (0036UTC Wed Nov 20)

Audio:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16hAo3nlOoj45i8Ua6fV7wyFmZPcTazSv/view?usp=sharing

Here is a few odds and ends of some guys talking in french from Wed Nov 20 at 7:45pm mountain time (0145UTC Thu Nov 21)

Audio:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jFt9bzt3IGUt05AP89b40D3oig2FlqOe/view?usp=sharing

I use an ICOM IC746Pro, a 25 foot long by 10 foot tall magnetic loop antenna and a Zoom H1 handheld digital recorder (The headphone jack output of the radio is fed directly to my recorders line-in input)
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
I logged Radio Algierienne's "Chaine 3" french language network via the 1,500,000 Day/750,000 Watt Night transmitter on 252khz in Tipaza, Algeria. I'm in Laramie, Wyoming 5400 miles away from the 252khz transmitter site.
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I just heard that station on the Edinburgh, In receiver. Also, 171 from Moroco was coming in quite well.
 
Yes the LW reception on the Edinburgh SDR has been quite good in recent days. I wish I had such a quiet noise level at my location.
 
CADXER said:
Yes the LW reception on the Edinburgh SDR has been quite good in recent days. I wish I had such a quiet noise level at my location.
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One day this winter, I plan to go to a field or mountaintop outside Laramie on a Saturday late afternoon before sunset and spend say.... 3pm to like 8/9pm out there to see what i can log
 
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