MW Dutch top end of band and SW pirate listening thread...

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Re: MW Dutch top end of band and SW pirate listening thread...

Post by EFR » Sat Oct 26, 2024 8:20 pm

Radio Lowland on 6285kHz, S7 here.
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Re: MW Dutch top end of band and SW pirate listening thread...

Post by EFR » Sun Oct 27, 2024 12:54 pm

Btw, if you have space for 20m long dipole, do you have space for fullwave loop for eg 48m band?

It isnt that big, and has much lower noiselevels on urban area.
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Re: MW Dutch top end of band and SW pirate listening thread...

Post by FMEnjoyer » Tue Oct 29, 2024 10:12 am

It might be just about possible but 48M band I listen to only occasionally the 20m dipole can do very well on 48M, I am a casual listener who does more than most mainly for MW pirates - outdoor antenna and a ham radio. MW has quite low noise here when horizontal and many nights I am hearing them up to S9, with the CME the band was knocked out and SW extremely noisy...for any but the best RX antennas.

I had that Scottish pirate that comes on 48M here 20dB over at times on SW. SW is hard work to listen to, the fast phasey sounding fading means it is really hard to listen to even with very strong signals, tiring on the ears most of the time. MW fading is more slow and gentle, more acceptable I find.

By 10PM I could hear the MW pirates on a portable with a ferrite in bed ! Just bad luck/timing, that is the nature of HF radio.

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Re: MW Dutch top end of band and SW pirate listening thread...

Post by LeeCavanagh » Tue Oct 29, 2024 11:01 am

Do you not mean ‘good luck/timing’ rather than bad? S urely, if you were able to listen in bed on ferrite that’s a good thing (or do you mean it stopped you listening to a local)
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Re: MW Dutch top end of band and SW pirate listening thread...

Post by EFR » Tue Oct 29, 2024 8:16 pm

Yeah, I have quite big antenna farm at my backyard, mainly due i'm located here very north part of EU, not in UK.

I just like to hang around here on RN, seems to be most active pirate radio forum in whole internet.

Normally it is quite hard to listen Dutch MW pirates here, lots of strong russian ones drifting up and down on 1610-1800kHz.

150м Band (2000-2200kHz) seems to be nowdays quite empty, not much euro or russian stations.
2400-2600kHz is some pirates, mainly russians, but some stations with weaker signal and euro music.

2900-3300kHz (100m/Troyka) seems to be quite active nowdays, even some music pirates, I think they run old mil rigs, drifting up and down with very narrow audio.

I like to stay between 2-7Mhz...
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Re: MW Dutch top end of band and SW pirate listening thread...

Post by LeeCavanagh » Tue Oct 29, 2024 10:07 pm

I get a lot of Chinese or Japanese stations strong. But yeah those Russians get everywhere too.

My Dave is 6-7 but I also like the 27mhz bands and usually get the d x users on usb or lsb , seems to pull them in whereby am fm are too noisy with cross channel interference , lsb seems to suffer less and help tune the others out
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Re: MW Dutch top end of band and SW pirate listening thread...

Post by FMEnjoyer » Wed Oct 30, 2024 9:48 am

LeeCavanagh wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2024 11:01 am Do you not mean ‘good luck/timing’ rather than bad? S urely, if you were able to listen in bed on ferrite that’s a good thing (or do you mean it stopped you listening to a local)
To listen to MW pirates on a ham radio I have to connect 20M of coax out of my house to the centre of the antenna so it is not permanently set up. It's a small job to do it and the radio is not permanently set up either. It only takes 15mins but a lot more work than switching a portable radio on. So it was bad luck I had prepared and let it be know I was going to listen on this forum in case pirates were interested for a report, given it has 100,000 + views some would appear to be checking.

Unfortunately the conditions were poor and that was the bad luck. But that is HF or approaching LF (MW) radio, completely unpredictably.

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