Sun Aug 12

Poor conditions today with a lot of deep fading and signals going from very good to poor within a matter of minutes. There has been very little on today - even now at 1940, the only stations I'm hearing is Mystery Radio with a good signal on 6220 and WMR on 6400 (but not 3945) also coming in well.

3926: West Coast Radio rounding off the weekend. Heard @ 2145 playing Pink Floyd with a S9 signal here, but quite a lot noise tonight. SINPO 44333.

5720: Orion Radio coming in well @ 0740 playing the song "No More Mr Nice Guy." SINPO 34433.

6200: Radio Rapido (tent) @ 0920 playing an Echo & The Bunnymen song, some splash from 6207. Signal faded out before could get ID. SINPO 33433.

6207: Radio Scotland Int playing "House of the Rising Sun" @ 0930. He said was testing transmitter after connector problem last night. Good signal. SINPO 44433.

6220: Mystery Radio with pop @ 0755, weak signal here. SINPO 24332.

6245: Britain Radio Int v JRRI with a Marine Offences Act special programme. Heard @ 0910 with a good signal. SINPO 44433.

6265: Radio Borderhunter back from his holidays, playing Boney M "Ma Baker" @ 0900. Sounds like weak station underneath (possibly Premier Radio). SINPO 43433.

6280: Radio Merlin with full ID and contact details @ 0914, asking for reports. Op said station was commemorating the 40th anniversary of the MOA with Radio London recordings and offshore radio documentaries. Reception conditions very varied. Currently a very good signal, peaking at S9+10dB. SINPO 44433.

6305: Radio Saturnus with an Abba song @ 0750. Fair signal. SINPO 34433.

6400: Weekend Music Radio with Jack talking about offshore radio @ 0800. SINPO 34333.


6540: Radio Ramona playing oldies @ 0950, sounded like he was testing his mic. Poor-fair signal. SINPO 24332.

(updated 21:55UTC)