Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:11:27 +0100
From: "Dennis" <Dennis.Hennig@gmx.de>
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Subject: LF: 2505km on 189kHz AM: Iceland heard last night :) :)
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Hi all!

As I'm struggling with a virus for some days now, there is a  lot of space for sleeping, weird dreams, and: I put my little home made LW-TRF-Radio beside the matress and hung up a abt. 4sqm wireloop on the balcony which is 80% outdoor, 20% indoor.

Usually listening to "Polskie Radio I" under the blanket, last night (17.I.9) I was on the go enough to tune the tuned-radio-frequncy to other longwave radio channels. Strolling around the broadcast band I found at least *something* beetween the local DLR 177kHz and BBC4 198kHz. 

Listening very carefully from 0:46UT there was Rock Music, short announcements in beetween,  followed by something which sounded like marine weather station reports (??). And yes, it definitely appeared to be   a nordic tongue speaking! Reception was Q2 to Q3 with local noise and interfering neighbour stations in the background. (The shape factor of one bandfilter - although carefully arranged litz-in-potcores - is not that dramatic ;)  ) 

At 1:00UT DLR's (177kHz) switchover to DRM modulation interrupted the reception with terribly broad band noise. The 177kHz-TX is only 29km away from my home.

Taking into account, that the list of LW-TX's lists only Icelands "Ríkisútvarpið" transmitting from Hellisandur on 189kHz, I see high evidence that I really was receiving this one! Distance from google maps distance calculator ist 2505km. Did not expect this to happen in the city center of Berlin and had/have phantasies to try this Hellisandur once portable, from a remote area, with a looooong beverage antenna or something like that. Surprise surprise!

Will do this again today night.

Regards
Dennis
DL6NVC







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