A third mail from us within a week, quite unusual. Yesterday I reported about mailbox problems. In the mean time this issue has been solved! Happy...
On the contrary: we at FRS feel totally unhappy and disappointed about last Sunday's broadcast. In the past years almost all Summer Sunday evenings broadcasts produced a good response from all over Europe, partly due to good signals.
Things in 2019 are different! Already on July 28th we were confronted with unusual poor propagation in the evening hours. For that reason we repeated the broadcast two weeks later on Sunday August 11th. That one was slightly better, still not good.
Last Sunday we had good hopes for a satisfactory broadcast, our 39th anniversary. There was an interesting line up of programmes with interesting topics and all of our team was motivated to produce a great show.
But unfortunately things were even worse than in July. What never happened: 7700 was almost inaudible in areas where usually a good signal is produced. In several areas 5810 did better than 7700. But that was only during part of the broadcast. In some areas both signals couldn't be received at all. Signals were unstable and faded in and out. After 21 CEST we 'scored 'S9 in Slovenia and Poland. But: in areas we usually provide fair/good signals (almost) nothing was to be heard. And thus in our target areas there was little to enjoy.
For all of us very frustrating... With such unpredictable, unreliable conditions a repeat doesn't seem to be a solution. Finally it's possible that next weekend conditions are the same as they were last Sunday. We have to praise our engineer for doing the utmost to put out decent signals. But you cannot win from nature...
This evening and in the upcoming week there will be a number of streams on the Internet. See below!
Streaming
Choosing for ‘the best of both worlds’ FRSH goes for broadcasting on short wave in good old AM and digital high quality web streaming. That means that listeners can make their choice out of two separate streams: [http://laut.fm/jukebox] & [http://nednl.net:8000/frsh.m3u].
Please refer to our website (frsholland.nl)for full details. At this moment I have already contacted the responsible ‘streaming persons’.
[http://nednl.net:8000/frsh.m3u] Wednesday Sept. 4th 17:00- 21.00 UTC/ 19:00- 23:00 CEST.
[http://nednl.net:8000/frsh.m3u] Sunday Sept. 8th 15:00- 19.00 UTC/ 17:00- 21:00 CEST.
[http://laut.fm/jukebox] Saturday Sept. 7th 15:00- 19:00 UTC/ 17:00- 21:00 CEST
[http://laut.fm/jukebox] Sunday Sept. 8th 08:00- 12:00 UTC/ 10:00- 14:00 CEST
[http://laut.fm/jukebox] Thursday Sept. 12th 16:00- 20:00 UTC/ 18:00- 22:00 CEST
Any reports for last Sunday's 39th anniversary are welcome.
73s Peter V.
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