Message from
Lanta at
Tuesday, 23-Nov-10 05:22:36 GMTFor the DX freaks in the USA ho like to hear a Radio Station from North Africa in the USA yes. Try Medi 1 on 171 kHz LW. Country : Morocco (Norh Africa)
TX Power is about 2.000 KW daytime yes 2 megawatts (noraml tx power on LW haha many freaks like name this low power)
Local Time in Rabat, Morocco (Western European Time)
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=206
Transmissions are in French and Arabic. The have news on top of the hour. In Arabic on even hours(12,2,4 PM etc) French news at 1,3,5 pm etc. You can visit the website at
http://www.medi1.com/
A radio friend of me die pick this station up in the state Minnesota , Mid West USA , on a Icom Ic R 71 and a 150-200 m long wire in the winter of 2008
ps When you can pick up Medi 1 on 171 khz strong ?
than try also these LW station's to ?
182 khz "Europe 1" France Talk station (high power) TX site in Germany
198 khz "BBC Radio 4" UK station English many 4 or 5 tx's max power 300 kw ?
218 khz "RMC " (Radio Monte Carlo) Monaco France Taling station TX 2.000 KW
234 khz "RTL" France Talking and music (high power TX site in Germany
252 khz "RTE 1" Englich nantional stattion from Ireland (250 KW daytime)
252 khz "Chaine 3" France Music station Turkey 1.500 kw not sure ?
* the can mix with each other
This is a more or less good LW site
http://www.dxinfocentre.com/lw.htm
73 and good DX
Lanta or operator Herman from Gent in Belgium
Message from
RX-Hogger at
Tuesday, 23-Nov-10 05:55:00 GMTThose are good suggestions, here are a few corrections:
Europe 1 is on 183 kHz (Felsberg, Saarland, Germany)
RMC Info is on 216 kHz (Roumoules, France)
234 kHz RTL is in Beidweiler, Luxembourg
252 kHz Chaîne 3 is in Tipaza, Algeria
LW reception from Europe can be tried in the Saint-Jean HF receiver in Quebec, Canada or in the occasionaly active Albany, NY (currently offline) receiver.
73, AMFMLIST (Björn)
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Message from
Lanta at
Tuesday, 23-Nov-10 07:41:20 GMTyes your very right
252 kHz Chaîne 3 is Algeria and not in Turkey as i did write wrong
It was still to early in the morning when I did past it , and did't have a lot of coffee so I was not awake any more haha joke
So thanks Björn
73 Herman
Message from
Lanta at
Tuesday, 23-Nov-10 07:45:22 GMT ps i use
www.amlist.org many time
And I mail with Peer Axel to at times , a radio ham
Message from
NM8R at
Tuesday, 23-Nov-10 16:13:03 GMTLanta,
Thank you for your posting about Medi 1 on 171 Khz. During the winter evenings I can often hear it, here in Michigan, on my TS940 using an active whip antenna. It's signal strength can be surprising. I post my reception reports at:
http://lwca.org/community/YaBB.pl?board=bdLWBC
Here is a testament to its 2 megawatt signal. On January 31, 2009 LW conditions were outstanding, and I was able to tune R. Medi in on my Zenith Trans-Oceanic portable, using its internal ferrite rod antenna. It's signal was quite listenable, even on the portable.
73,
Scott
NM8R
Michigan
Message from
vitesse at
Tuesday, 23-Nov-10 23:20:03 GMTLW reception is really fun to do.
The most active station on my side seem to be Europe1 183khz broadcasting in French. RMC info came quite often too but not fallowing the same pattern as Europe1.
The most difficult part in NA is to get ride of Navigational Beacon interference.
Some receiver in USA are quite good too like albany and one in florida. Sorry, can't remember the name.
Luc
Saint-jean HF
Message from
nickstr1 at
Tuesday, 23-Nov-10 23:44:46 GMTEven here on the west coast some nice catches have been made on LW but from Russia as I have yet to hear a European station. The lowest was on 153 KHz and I have not quite identified it at this time but the highest one I have heard was on 279 KHz confirmed to be Radio Rossi from Yuznho Sakkhalin. Even below that reception of time stations is possible as well with DCF77 on 77.5 KHz from Germany being possible in the eastern US and JJY on 40 KHz from Japan in the case of the western US.
Message from
Lanta at
Wednesday, 24-Nov-10 00:18:23 GMTNick,
153 khz is Deutschlandfunk Germany
Not only Radio Rossi is on 279
279 kHz - Belaruskaje Radyjo 1 (BR1) - Sasnovy - 500 kW (Belarus) ?
maybe that is one you did hear ?
I have a clock go gets a singal from DCF77 77.5 khz
On BBC Radio 4 there is also a clock singal you dont hear like DCF 77 and there is also a clock on 162 khz France Inter (talk station)
http://wiki.mayson.us/wiki/List_of_longwave_broadcast_transmitters#279_kHz
It very nice to read all those nice postings from the US about Long Wave Radio from Europe and others. The Long Wave is very long band and the need a lot of tx power to get a signal out 500 kw is low power haha so 2.000 kw is a more or lessa normal power. And no I not in the mood to pay the (elec) power bill hihi
73 Herman
Message from
nickstr1 at
Wednesday, 24-Nov-10 00:45:37 GMTThe LW station on 153 KHz is in Russian not German determined from when I got some signal peaks on there.
Message from
RX-Hogger at
Wednesday, 24-Nov-10 00:59:13 GMThi Nick, if the audio on 153 kHz was in Russian, then only one station listed would be likely:
Radio Rossii (Regprogram Khabarovskoe Radio), Komsomolsk-na-Amure, 1200 kW
Taldom (Moskva) is inactive on 153 kHz, after Radio Yunost closed down many stations, including numerous MW frequencies.
73, AMFMLIST (Björn)
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