On Friday 17th of April 2009 I got mail from Finnish pirate station Old Time Radio!They asked me to inform European pirate-listeners of their high-power broadcast on three bands on the coming weekend!!
This session was very unique on pirate-radio scene because they did broadcast on three bands during the weekend 18-19.4.2009 (First time ever in pirate-history?):
On 19 mb (15065 kHz, 200 W), 48 mb (6270 kHz, 1 kW) and even on MW 1670 kHz (500 W)! I was told that they used the same transmitter all the time!
Signal was very strong here in Naantali on MW but skipped mostly over on 48 mb and was silent on 19 mb.
19 mb-broadcast was heard in Athens, Greece. 48 mb broadcast was so strong in Europe that the listeners there were sure that it was relayed by some Dutch-station!!! 1670 kHz was not received in UK or Holland (because of local interference?) but in Germany it was weakly on.
I just got video-clip of Old Time Radio's broadcast on 18.4.2009. Views of the tx and being on the air.
You can SEE the power !! Download this video from here (3.5 Mb wmv-file)
2 comments:
Lots of stations have done that, FRSH - Holland
Radio waves - France
Radio Fax - Ireland
Is it really so!!?? Did Radio Waves really have broadcasts also on Medium Wave??? Never heard! Or Fax? I thought they were never above 48mb - or even close to 19mb???
19mb is the thing that makes this case different. There you can have really long skips a little bit easier.
-harri-
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