On my Xmas travels my local pirate much to my surprise seems to be getting out +/- 12 miles each side of there rough location which I obviously won't be saying anything about. Quite surprisingly that. Was a good listen on my travels in the car. Spreading the Xmas cheer on the dial.

Hope Xmas doing ok where you are.

Always nice to hear. It's not all doom and gloom on the free radio front.

Still a good amount of stations running a 24/7 service and a few popping up over the holiday season.

Yes hopefully Of*om are too stuffed full of Brandy and Christmas pud to bother.

I do have a secondary signal a bit lower down the dial by 1.4 mhz. But it is not getting through local noise in my listening chill out zone.

A shame can only get it in 1 spot exactly in the another room here with antenna gymnastics and extentions, and that was with a cut off strip of silvered bubble wrap acting as the second side of a dipole giving some extra gain, "Ghetto GAIN TM" 3db according to the radio meter. If you insulating tape a small 75cms wire off the back of a tecsun as close to the screw for the telescopic antenna it does act as a signal booster in many cases, makes it like your portable has a full dipole.

entertaining myself with anorak receiver bits. It all helps drag em in I suppose.