1656khz

[radionortheast]

what is this station, I know that it is dutch, it is really strong on a night, I just found it funny last night he was sending a shout out to Nigel, there was someone on here with that name. Anyway you could hear everything he was saying, it was in dutch so you couldn’t understand it, apart from when he was talking about Nigel I liked the old eurotops that was playing on 1629 the other night too, the polka that is coming over desi radio too. It is quite sad in away in the uk, lot of the people who used to set up pirates didn’t bother after the year 2000.

[outis]

I listed to it too. Except 1656, here were others on 1611, 1620, 1629 all Dutch apparently.
In the UK the scene was - as I understand - different.
Now there are only a few listeners and there may be legal consequences.
In Europe, while the listeners are also not many, there are hardly any legal consequences making the hobby worthwhile for those attracted to it.

[FMEnjoyer]

1656 is definitely one of the stronger ones along with 1630, funny how we all show a different frequency all those
not quite fully stable rigs. They come in well at the moment high SFI lots of sun spots facing us at the moment
helps all those hops even the short ones.

Nigel might be the MW Dutch pirates blogger, he seems to know as much as there is to know about them.

The more we listen the more they will be on, at least some one is still bothering with real pirate radio.

I am sure they have clocked our enthusiastic posts on Radionecks as well given the numbers reading them.

[LeeCavanagh]

Anything on? I’m not getting anything, should these be listenable in the nw of england?

[FMEnjoyer]

Main times are evenings UK time 7pm onward, remember clocks go forwards on Sunday though, as soon as the sun sets that is a good time to start listening. Mornings you will not hear much.

Main evenings seems to be Sat and Sun but might be something on this evening not sure. Nothing heard yet this evening.

Yes you should be ok to hear them given decent conditions anywhere in the UK.

[outis]

Nothing on 1656 so far, but the Dutch on 1638 with German folk/polkas is audible right now although the signal is weak and often fading, it usually gets progressively better and goes off air around 11pm GMT.

[LeeCavanagh]

i hear voice of hope on that frequency, in arabic 1638
Scratch that, nothing on 1638, the sbove was 6138

[outis]

i hear voice of hope on that frequency, in arabic 1638
Scratch that, nothing on 1638, the sbove was 6138

Right now I can hear the "usual Dutch" on 1611 & 1620 playing pop and the mentioned above on 1638 - then the music 1638 went quiet and the same music was heard on 1629. Nothing on 1656, reception from the Gatwick area(Surrey), on a Roberts RD25 - the ferrite rod antenna is sufficient but for better sound I use an active antenna.

[FMEnjoyer]

Evening, yes 1612, 1622, 1636, and 1656 I can hear, they seem to be the strongest overall I hear those on the ferrite rod Sony
in the south east here. Not very clear right now though. As with most skip some days better than others.

1636 stromgest and sounding quite good at the moment some kind of 50's cowboy style song with harmonica

[FMEnjoyer]

1636 doing well, good voice sound with an echo

[LeeCavanagh]

I must get an outdoor am antenna , sometimes just plugging any old wire works but i’m getting nothing on those frequencies, on my SDR , will find my portable am radio and see if that has better luck , post any clips if you have any

[radionortheast]

heard him play albatross at 19:50 last saturday, not heard that song except for in my own collection, i’ve not heard him since then, seems to gone abit quiet, maybe lighter evenings, not the mad stuntman but the mad dutchman , I could hear something around 1683 at the sametime, but couldn’t tune to it because it wasn’t on the 9khz spacing.

[FMEnjoyer]

beutiful track, quite a sad one.

[outis]

This evening the 1656 is on, as well as a Dutch on 1647, and the regular one playing German music, on 1629 tonight.
Much fading in all freqs.

[radionortheast]

I heard alot last saturday, he played the original of Cambodia, sounded like some Jean Michel Jarre, went on for ages had no fades, think it would of been strong enough for autoseek tunning to lock on to it. I also heard others on 1647, 1636, 1629 was the other strong one the others had decent fades, it was also still daylight about 18:50, Saturday is a good time to listen. He is on again tonight the fades aren't as good, I heard pretty woman

[Nige from Brum]

what is this station, I know that it is dutch, it is really strong on a night, I just found it funny last night he was sending a shout out to Nigel, there was someone on here with that name. Anyway you could hear everything he was saying, it was in dutch so you couldn’t understand it, apart from when he was talking about Nigel I liked the old eurotops that was playing on 1629 the other night too, the polka that is coming over desi radio too. It is quite sad in away in the uk, lot of the people who used to set up pirates didn’t bother after the year 2000.

That would have been me he was talking about!

I have direct contact with quite a few stations, and I'm also on a few private whats app groups, so I can get reports in & send video's of reception to them that way.

I had the privilege of visiting 3 stations earlier this month. You would be amazed at the size of the home built transmitters in use. One of the stations I visited, when fully modulated has a peak power of 4 KW!

Yogi Bear, Turftrekker, Blauwe Koe and Digital all play large chunks of modernish music and other music in english. It's not all "Piraten Hits", Polka & Schlager music. Over the years I've discovered quite a few records that were big in Europe that never made it over here.

[Alex728]

I've the Dutch MW pirates in Suffolk during dark evenings in winter (although I tend to "cheat" by using UTwenteSDR and then checking to see if I can receive them here in Blighty on my XHDATA-D808). I often have to stand outside in the weather to get a signal (maybe I will try one of those magnetic loop antennas).

I get the impression from reading Dutch local news that RDI are concentrating their resources on busting the larger pirates on FM as they get complaints from the Hilversum stations, local broadcasters and owners of places used for unmanned TX sites, whereas those on MW aren't really bothering anyone these days - NL has abandoned commercial and PSB MW broadcasting so pirates don't cause any issue to legal broadcasters

[Albert H]

Just like Alex, I can hear many of the Dutch AM pirates from my East Anglian place. I hear the ones up the west coast better in East Anglia than I do at my place in Limburg! Some of the stations run serious power, and the majoroty of them are smart enough to process their audio sensibly, and keep their transmitted bandwidth to the appropriate standards to avoid causing interference.

As in the UK, the most common reason for a raid is complaints (usually about interference), but also many of the licenced stations complain about their loss of audience (and revenue!).

[radionortheast]

That would have been me he was talking about!

I have direct contact with quite a few stations, and I'm also on a few private whats app groups, so I can get reports in & send video's of reception to them that way.

I had the privilege of visiting 3 stations earlier this month. You would be amazed at the size of the home built transmitters in use. One of the stations I visited, when fully modulated has a peak power of 4 KW!

Yogi Bear, Turftrekker, Blauwe Koe and Digital all play large chunks of modernish music and other music in english. It's not all "Piraten Hits", Polka & Schlager music. Over the years I've discovered quite a few records that were big in Europe that never made it over here.

Hi, I did see some videos on facebook of some, I heard a station on 1611 last week before 8 o clock interesting there was some skywave activity i’m not hearing them on an evening at the moment, i’ve mostly been listening round on fm. It is a shame there are no high power pirates on fm, think afew people in the uk did hear them. I’ve been hearing some of the licenced stations on fm afew days ago, interesting it usually favours ireland here, 87.7,88.0,91.8,92.6,93.9 are common I might add 90.5 to list, afew seem quite regular you do get a fade now and again, 93.9 seems like an easy listening station. I don’t know if they’ve lowered the power on sutton coldfield seems more fluttery than it used to be, I was getting a mix of dance and classical, I thought might be from the uk I heard a foreign voice.
I’ve not heard any pirates not from any of the cities nearby for a few years now, do miss tuning to them, have to admit, i’ve always liked the ones where usually set up by one dj in record shop, a tape would go round with songs that would repeat, get excitement waiting for a song, hearing him announce this is such and such a station, alot of djs together could get really out of hand, it was more professional, more a style I just liked. I think alot of the dutch stations share something simliar been only one person, playing music they like creating a buzz.

[Nige from Brum]

1611 was most likely Radio Delfzijl