Sat Dec 15

4026 0950 Laser Hot Hits. Mike Andrews show. Supertramp "Goodbye Stranger" then the Rah Band. Good with strong peaks but quick fading. SINPO 44433.

6198 1020 Radio King SW (tent). Modulation still very poor not helped by strong SSB QRM on 6200. Result, a noisy mess! SINPO 32432.

6210 1400 Radio AC-DC. Queen "Fat Bottomed Girls," good signal. SINPO 44433.

6266 1510 Radio Python. Arctic Monkeys "When the Sun Goes Down," fair signal. SINPO 34333.

6280 1442 Radio Luxemburg. "As Long AS You Love Me", "What's Going On", occasional ID jingles. SINPO 54444.

6290 1450 Radio Odynn. Dutch music, greetings, moved from 6285 to avoid Luxemburg. SINPO 34333.

6290 1410 Radio SWR. Polka, ID. Fair but some ute QRM. SINPO 33333.

6295 1125 NMD Radio. Monkees "I'm A Believer," and Eurythmics "Love is a Stranger. SINPO 34333.

6305 1145 Telstar Radio. Dutch music and IDs. Fair signal. SINPO 34333.

6305 1340 Radio Merlin Int. The Pogues "Fairytale of New York," ID and greetings. strong. SINPO 54444.

6325 1225 Delta Radio (Gelderland). ID, greetings, Peter Gabriel "Sledgehammer", running 30W, strong. SINPO 54444.

6355 1526 Radio Ronex. ID and email address, Queen "It's A Kind of Magic", splash from strong utilities. SINPO 42432.

6375 1517 Radio Sonic. Bronski Beat "Smalltown Boy" and Prince "Purple Rain." Good signal. SINPO 44433.

6425 1153 Radio Zwarte Panther. Dutch music, IDs, strong signal. SINPO 54444.

6920 1430 Trans Europe Radio. "All Fall Down," IDs and greetings. Strong signal. SINPO 54444.

6937 1006 IMR. Country rock, fair reception. SINPO 34333.

7760 1010 Misti Radio. Weak signal with music occasionally lifting out of the noise. SINPO 24332.

Fri Dec 14

4026 1758 Laser Hot Hits. Simon & Garfunkel "The Boxer," fair signal. SINPO 34333. 

4507 1555 Misti Radio. Testing on unusual frequency, using less than 10W. Fair signal on Twente SDR receiver. SINPO 34333. 

6285 1520 Radio Altrex. "Graceland" Paul Simon, some QRM from SSB and utilities. SINPO 33333.

6299 1528 Radio Luxemburg. REM "Losing My Religion," ID jingles, Robbie Williams "Angels," splash from strong utility on 6305. SINPO 54444.

6304 1600 Radio Underground. Ce Ce Peniston "Finally", ID and greetings, fair. SINPO 34333.

6937 1545 IMR. Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman "Stumbling In," fair with good peaks. SINPO 34333.

Thurs Dec 13

6305 1440 Radio Merlin Int. Bon Jovi "Living on a Prayer," ID by Jackie Frost then off. SINPO 44433.

6553 1550 Radio Pink Panther. Wizzard "Merry Christmas Everyone"  then "In the Heat of the Night," good signal with strong peaks. SINPO 44433.

NordAM broadcast

Hi there, friends around the globe,

As it is only a few weeks to go till Christmas, we thought we could send you some warm vibes of well-choosen music through the magic of international airwaves. As you might remember, NordAM is a little free-radio project, broadcasting via Radio 700's transmitting station in Kall-Krekel, Germany.

In last June, we announced to take a break for about a year, so until we return fully restored next August (yep, we're talking of August 2013 which seems to be a very long time!) on the radio, we bring you a "light version" of NordAM, which will be a little bit shorter than usual and consist of less talk, but more music. We hope you will enjoy it!

Our broadcast will be on the air on December 16th 2012, 2230 UTC on 3955 kHz and probably also on 1593 kHz. We expect 3955 kHz to be audible in many parts of Europe and maybe beyond even, while 1593 kHz can currently only be heard in parts of Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium.

Furthermore, you can tune in via our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/nordamradio and at www.shortwaveservice.com (click on "Play" on the right hand side and select 3955 kHz).

If you like, you can send us your thoughts and reception reports via email at nordam @ shortwaveservice.com. Probably there will be some QSL cards (in electronical or regular form) soon. :-)

We hope you will all enjoy some nice December days!

All the best,

Daniel and Torben (who cannot be part of the broadcast this time actually but sends his warmest greetings)

Wed Dec 12

3905 1625 Radio Baken 16. Human League "Mirror Man," and Stranglers "Golden Brown." Fair signal with good peaks. SINPO 34333. 

6305 1200 Radio Merlin Int. Jackie Frost show. Spandau Ballet "Gold," fair-good signal with strong peaks. SINPO 34333.

6325 1209 Radio Telstar. Instrumental music and signing off, fair signal. SINPO 34333.

Tues Dec 11

3905 1555 Misti Radio. BZN songs, fair signal. SINPO 34333.  

3930 1742 Radio Batavia. Jingles and IDs, but then signal disappeared, maybe closing down or just a peak. SINPO 34333.

6305 1335 Radio Osaka. Dutch songs, ID. Fair signal. SINPO 34333.

6325 1440 Radio Rockefeller. Polka and Dutch songs, good reception. SINPO 44433.

6554 1345 Radio Pink Panther. Simple Minds "Alive and Kicking." SINPO 34333.

Mon Dec 10

4026 2300 Laser Hot Hits. Tony James show. Tune by Air, then talk about great storm of 1987, then David Cassidy song. SINPOO 34333.

6300 1555 Radio Blackbeard. ID and email address, Blur "Song 2," fair signal, some splash from 6305. SINPO 33333.

6303 1607 Unid. Inner City "Good Life" then Tom Petty "I Won't Back Down." Fair-good signal. SINPO 34333.

6305 1600 Radio Rockefeller. Polka, ID and said closing down. Good signal. SINPO 43433.

Sun Dec 9

0426 0854 Laser Hot Hits. Pulp "Do You Remember the First Time," reading emails. SINPO 44433.

6200 1105 Radio AC-DC. "Sweet Home Alabama", slight het. SINPO 33333.

6205 0850 Radio Orang Utan. Oldies, polka, ID and email address, splash from 6210. SINPO 33333.

6210 0930 Radio Marabu. Rock music, strong signal but overmodulated. SINPO 54444.

6219 1022 Rado Zeewolf. Report for Scotland. SINPO 44433.

6220 1005 Radio Scotland Int. Instrumental music, great signal and clear audio. SINPO 54444.

6220 1033 Voice of the Netherlands. QSO with Zeewolf/Scotland. SINPO 44433.

6240 0900 Radio Waves Int. The Carpenters "Close to You," fair signal. SINPO 34333.

6240 1015 Radio Condor. ID, instrumental, co-channel RWI. SINPO 43433.

6245 1530 Sluwe Vos Radio. Rolling Stones "Jumping Jack Flash," off 1540. Strong signal. SINPO 54444.

6255 Radio Sluwe Vos. Oldies, ID, greetings, said closing down. Fair-good signal. SINPO 34333.

6259 1040 FRS Holland. Associates "Party Fears Two," promo for FRSH's Christmas broadcasts. Strong. SINPO 54444.

6266 1215 Radio Blackbeard. Relaying Paul Stewart on Laser Hot Hits, pop music. SINPO 34333.

6279 0855 Magic AM. ID then The Doors "Light My Fire." Good signal but splash from strong ute on 6275. SINPO 43433.

6295 0910 Radio Nachtpiraat. Dutch music, fair signal. SINPO 34333.

6295 1115 NMD Radio. QSO with another station, maybe Nachtpiraat. SINPO 34333.

6295 1207 Top Radio. ID jingles, Blondie "Denis Denis." SINPO 34333.

6301 0935 Radio Bonofox. Instrumental music, ID. SINPO 34333.

6305 1035 Cupid Radio. Greetings, rock song "I Don't Care About That," SSTV transmission. SINPO 54444.

6315 1122 Radio Ascona. Wham "Last Christmas", ID and said clsoing down. SINPO 34333.

6325 1158 Radio Golf Victor. Polka, ID. Fair signal. SINPO 34333.

6937 1000 IMR. Rock music, good signal. SINPO 44433.

Sat Dec 8

3904 1615 Radio Alice. Dance music, ID 1630. Fair signal. SINPO 34333. 

4026 0855 Laser Hot Hits. Renaissance "Northern Lights", good signal. SINPO 44433.

6296 0847 Radio Waldmeister. Free "All Right Now", fair reception. SINPO 34333.

6299 1025 Radio Underground. Justin Hayward "Forever Autumn", said closing but listening out for QSO. SINPO 54444.

6301 1550 Radio Tidalwave. ID and greetings, country rock, good to strong peaks but then started fading out (already!). SINPO 44433.

6325 0940 Radio Ronex. Queen "I Want to Break Free", ID and email, then "Stars on 45." SINPO 34333.

6937 0840 IMR. Amen Corner "Hello Suzy," ID then Humble Pie song. Good signal. SINPO 44433.

6985 1645 Lightning Radio. The Sundays, jingle ID, then Muse. Fair signal via the Twente SDR receiver. SINPO 34333.

Fri Dec 7

3460 lsb 2345 Unid. Dance music, talking in French. Fair signal. 34433. There has also been reports of a station calling itself Radio Caroline from Italy in SSB on 3495 kHz.  

3905 2100 Skyline International Radio. "Let's Twist Again," fair signal. SINPO 34333.

4026 2330 Laser Hot Hits. Earth Wind & Fire "Fantasy." Weak-fair. SINPO 24332.

Thurs Dec 6

4026 2250 Laser Hot Hits. Current pop, fair signal but quite fady. SINPO 34333. 

6295 1330 Radio Osaka. IDs and polka music. Fair signal. SINPO 34333.

6299 1555 Radio Underground. Dutch music, ID, greetings, "Mull of Kintyre." Strong but on way down and faded out by 1615. SINPO 54444.

6554 1550 Radio Pink Panther. "Fly Robin Fly," ID, greetings. Testing new 50W transmitter. Good signal. SINPO 44433.

Wed Dec 5

4026 2100 Laser Hot Hits. Paul Stuart programme. Olivia Newton John "Sam," reading emails. Signal good but suddenly faded away after 10 minutes. SINPO 44433.

Tues Dec 4

4026 2140 Laser Hot Hits. Stewart Ross programme. John Miles "That Was Yesterday." Listening via Twente SDR receiver. Good-strong signal, peaking S9+20dB. SINPO 54444.

South Herts Radio to close

Gary Drew writes: "Just a little update for you regards Laser Hot Hits. Some Sunday's the webstream is relayed by Radio Blackbeard on 6266 KHz. Tests of Laser on other wavelengths will be carried out soon.

I am closing South Herts Radio at the end of the year. I have been running this hobby station for 5 and a half years and I want to start a new station later in 2013 trying something new. Plans are being made already and I hope to launch a new internet station with relays from the stream on FM and SW. I will be in partnership with others and I hope it will be on air '24/7' on-line with relays mostly on Sundays.

A new name is being considered and it will be registered for the domain on the web. I'm taking my time to get it right so it may be a good 9 months before it takes to the air so let's hope it's worth the wait."

Gary Drew, BDXC-UK Yahoo Group

More information at: http://www.southhertsradio.com/

Many will know Gary from his soul/funk programmes and his Laser Goes DX shows on Laser Hot Hits.

Sat Dec 1

3907 1700 Radio Activity. Christmas music, "Do They Know It's Christmas" then "Brown Girl in the Ring." Fair signal. SINPO 34333.

4026 1045 Laser Hot Hits. Ian Lawrence show. Chaka Khan "Eye to Eye" and Kim Wilde "You Came." SINPO 44433.

6304 1000 Radio Vendor. Bryan Adams "Run to You", ID. Fair-good signal. SINPO 34333.

6450 1010 Radio Polaris. ID and greetings, Finnish pop. Good signal. SINPO 44433.

6937 1005 Irish Music Radio. Frankie Vaughan then Martha & The Vandellas "Dancing in the Street." SINPO 34333.

Fri Nov 30

3905 2320 Skyline International Radio. Instrumental music and close down. Good signal. SINPO 44433.

Thurs Nov 29

4026 2300 Laser Hot Hits. Martin Scott with the mystery year. Bananarama and Belinda Carlisle songs. Good signal but deep fades, via the Twente SDR receiver. SINPO 44433.

SWR 7265 raid

Hallo zusammen,

wenn man davon ausgehen kann, dass der Spuk rund um die 7265 khz in den
 vergangen Wochen von einer Person ausging, dürfte das Ganze wohl nun erst
 einmal ein Ende gefunden haben. Ich habe läuten gehört, dass vor dem Haus
 desjenigen heute die freundlichen Herren von der BNetzA Aussenstelle Krefeld
 mit ihrem VW Bulli vor der Tür gestanden haben und weitere Aussendungen
 (fürs erste) unterbunden haben.

Alles weitere wird jetzt wohl der “Rechtsweg” klären, keine Ahnung, wie da
 Vorgehensweise und Strafen aussehen.

Wenn der Pirat jedenfalls so vorgegangen wäre wie heute morgen “Radio
 Scotland International” auf 6095 (der hat nämlich seine Sendezeit der von
 KBC angepasst, sodass man sich nicht ins Gehege kam), hätten ja vielleicht
 alle was davon gehabt. So wie jetzt war es nur ein Ärgernis für alle
 Beteiligten (inkl demjenigen, der die HHLR Sendungen gejammt hat und nun
 Ärger am Hals hat).

Info via A-DX via Achims Free Radio Desaster

I put this through Google translate:

Hi all,
If it can be assumed that the spook khz around 7265 in the past few weeks, was based on a person, the whole thing is probably only now come to an end. I hear ringing, that before the house day of that the friendly gentlemen by BNetzA outpost Krefeld stood with their VW bus at the door and hav more releases have stopped (for now).

Everything else is now probably clarify the "legal process", no idea how because Procedure and penalties look.

If the pirate would certainly be carried out such as this morning, "Radio Scotland International "in 6095 (the fact has its transmission time of the KBC customized so that you are not in the enclosure) came, had perhaps all of them had what. Just as now, it was just an annoyance for all
The person involved (including that has jammed the HHLR programs and now trouble at the neck has).

Can anyone confirm if the unofficial SWR relay on 7265 kHz has ended?

I wonder what the idea was behind this? Of course, once SWR was alerted to the fact that someone was running an unofficial shortwave relay of their station, its days were numbered!

Pirate broadcast of Sudwestrundfunk

SWR stopped broadcasts on 7265 kHz eight years ago but recently the station has been heard again on 7265 kHz.

Manuel Méndez of Lugo, Spain reports via the DX Listening Digest Yahoo group: "About the German station Südwestrundfunk SWR now on 7265 kHz Short Wave, that I picked it up 25th of November, this station has been out of the air since 2004 in this frequency. I send an e-mail in English to the Station to see if they confirm the come back to the air on Short Wave and here is the reply in German. Below is the English translation with the aid of Google translate."

Sehr geehrter Herr Méndez,
der SWR betreibt seit 2004 keinen Kurzwellensender mehr. Zudem besitzen wir für diese ehemalige SWR-Frequenz auch keine Lizenz mehr. Momentan wird aber unser SWR3-Programm auf der Frequenz 7265 kHz ohne unsere Erlaubnis unrechtmäßig ausgestrahlt. Die Bundesnetzagentur ist über diesen Umstand bereits informiert und wir prüfen, ob wir rechtliche Schritte gegen Unbekannt ergreifen.
Für weitere Fragen stehen wir gerne zur Verfügung.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Udo Merzig

Dear Mr. Méndez,
SWR operates since 2004 no more with the short-wave transmitter. In addition, we have this former SWR frequency without license. Currently, however, our SWR3 program is broadcast illegally on the 7265 kHz frequency without our permission. The German Federal Network Agency has been informed of this fact and we check if we can take legal action against the unknown people who are transmitting our program.
 For further questions please contact us.
 Sincerely yours
 Udo Merzig

(via Hard-Core DX mailing list)

Harald Khul adds on the BDXC Yahoo group: "Hamburger Lokalradio is testing on 6190 kHz and 7265 kHz. However, there was a jamming station trying to interfer with these tests. Also the program of Westdeutscher Rundfunk WDR4 has been used for deliberate jamming of Hamburger Lokalradio on 6190 kHz and 7265 kHz."

( Via BDXC Yahoo group)

Sun Nov 25

4026 0935 Laser Hot Hits. Crosby Nash then Bryan Ferry songs. Fair signal. SINPO 34333.

5835 0955 Radio Thunderbird. Bob Dylan "Like A Rolling Stone," ID jingle. Fair with good peaks. SINPO 34333.

6180 0950 Radio Altrex. "Another Day in Paradise" (not the Phil Collins version). Fair reception. SINPO 34333.

6195 0833 Borderhunter Radio. Art Garfunkel "Bright Eyes", ID and greetings, Shakin' Stevens. Strong. SINPO 54444.

6205 0838 Radio Orang Utan. Jingles and oldies. SINPO 34333.

6205 1650 Borderhunter Radio. ID jingles, Dutch song then Madness. Strong. SINPO 54444.

6214 0900 Radio King SW. Jean Michel Jarre music, bad modulation. SINPO 34332.

6215 1517 Radio Witte Reus. ID jingles and off. SINPO 34333.

6215 1548 Radio Telstar. Fleetwood Mac song, ID. Fair. SINPO 34333.

6240 0843 RWI. The Fortunes "Caroline" then "Do You Wanna Dance." Fair. SINPO 34333.

6240 1556 Radio Underground. Altered Images "I Could Be Happy", ID and greetings, then Dutch songs. SINPO 44433.

6285 0855 Radio Focus Int. Lenny Kravitz "Are You Going My Way," then Ike & Tina Turner "Nutbush City Limits." SINPO 44433.

6300 1047 Top Radio. ID jingles, Abba "I Do I Do I Do", good signal. SINPO 44433.

6307 1534 Radio Joey. Blue Oyster Cult "Don't Fear the Reaper" then Sherbert "Howzat." Weak-fair. SINPO 24332.

6324 1510 Radio Zodiac. Rock music, fair. SINPO 34333.

6325 1105 Radio Sonic. Bob Marley "Is This Love," ID. Good signal. SINPO 44433.

6375 0850 Radio Rockefeller. Dutch songs, good signal. SINPO 44433.

6375 1009 Radio Ascona. Dutch music, ID and greetings, QSO with Rockefeller. SINPO 34333.

6450 1500 Radio Readymix. Dutch songs. Good signal. SINPO 44433.

6450 1544 Radio Lowland. Polka, ID and off. SINPO 34333.

6555 1700 Radio Joey. Men At Work "Who Can It Be Now", weak. SINPO 24332.

6937 0940 IMR. Dan Hartman "Instant Replay," fair. SINPO 34333.

9480 0945 Radio Atlantic 2000 via MV Baltic. The Stranglers "Always the Sun." Weak with fair peaks. SINPO 24332.

9480 1020 Radio Gloria via MV Baltic. "Bang Bang", talk in German. Fair reception. SINPO 34333.