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Es and Tropo on 144 MHz.
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#3552 |
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Someone who works for Scarborough lifeboat told me that Humber coastguard were getting Dutch stress signals though their radios meaning they must use the same frequencies.
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Marine Band is worldwide.. CH16 (156.800) is monitored continuously.
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Belgium are now taking over the band here with a station that has replaced Radio538 on 102.1 been the strongest.
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We're getting a nice bit of lift in Northamptonshire!
Kiss FM UK, on 106.4FM, is barely audible at all normally, unless I position my radio "just so", on top of my wardrobe, with the aerial fully extended and horizontal. Even then, it's not very good. Today, tuned into 106.4FM and instantly got Kiss 106.4 DOWNSTAIRS with the aerial fully extended, and even when the aerial was only half extended. In the car I managed to get 106.2FM, which is Heart London - this is usually only intended for the M25, so certainly not Northamptonshire! I'll try and get a list of everything I can receive on my Eton E5 this evening on FM. |
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#3556 |
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Someone who works for Scarborough lifeboat told me that Humber coastguard were getting Dutch stress signals though their radios meaning they must use the same frequencies.
Channel 16 is the international calling channel as well as emergency, and was full of messages not relevant to the local area. I did hear some salty , impatient comments about the situation!
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Well, that was fun, but also a bit of a chore...
All of the following being received on an Eton E5 in Northamptonshire: Key: CCI - Co Channel Interference HP - aerial in Horizontal Polarization DP - aerial in Diagonal Polarization 88.30 BBC R2 88.60 BBC R2 88.80 BBC R2 88.90 BBC R2 - CCI (best on 88.92) 89.10 BBC R2 89.30 BBC R2 89.70 BBC R2 90.10 BBC R2 - Local/Main Station for the area (from Peterborough) 90.40 BBC R3 - Slight hiss 90.50 BBC R3 90.90 BBC R3 91.10 BBC R3 91.50 BBC R3 91.70 BBC R3 - Hissy 91.90 BBC R3 92.30 BBC R3 - Local/Main Station for the area (from Peterborough) 92.70 BBC R4 92.90 BBC R4 CCI 93.00 BBC R4 CCI 93.10 BBC R4 93.30 BBC R4 93.50 BBC R4 Hissy 93.70 BBC R4 93.90 BBC R4 94.10 BBC R4 Hissy 94.50 BBC R4 - Local/Main station for the area 94.90 BBC Lincs 95.20 BBC Oxford - DP 95.70 BBC Cambridgeshire, slightly hissy 95.90 BBC, unknown location, hissy 96.30 Corby Radio 96.60 Heart Northants - Local Station For Area 96.90 Heart Bedfordshire CCI with Viking FM also on 96.9FM 97.20 Connect FM Irchester - Local Station For Area 97.40 Heart FM Thames Valley - Hissy, DP 97.60 Heart FM Luton - Hissy, DP 97.90 BBC R1 98.20 BBC R1 CCI 98.30 BBC R1 98.50 BBC R1 98.90 BBC R1 99.10 BBC R1 99.30 BBC R1 99.70 BBC R1 Local/Main Station For Area (Peterborough) 100.10 Classic FM 100.40 Classic FM, Slightly Hissy 100.50 Classic FM 100.70 Unidentified (checked and it wasn't Heart West Mids), Hissy 101.10 Classic FM, Hissy 101.50 Classic FM 101.90 Classic FM, Local/Main Station for area (Peterborough) 102.20 Lincs FM 102.40 Heart, could be Norfolk? Hissy, HP 102.60 Heart Thames Valley 102.70 Heart Peterborough, CCI 103.00 Heart Cambridge 103.30 Heart Milton Keynes 103.60 BBC Northampton Geddington 103.80 BBC 3CR, Hissy, Possible CCI 104.20 BBC Northampton, Kingsthorpe, Local Station For Area 104.50 BBC 3CR 104.90 BBC Leicester 105.20 Absolute (ex. Kerrang/Planet Rock), West Midlands 105.40 Capital Leicestershire 105.80 Capital (Yorkshire?!) 106.00 GEM 106 East Midlands 106.40 Kiss FM Mendlesham 106.60 Smooth FM East Midlands, DP 106.80 Connect FM Peterborough, Slightly Hissy 107.40 Connect FM Geddington 107.60 Banbury Sound, Very Hissy, DP 107.70 Kiss Peterborough, Hissy 107.82 Inspiration FM Northampton, Hissy, DP, CCI (should be 107.80 FM). That concludes the very long list of radio stations I could pick up about an hour ago! I am currently listening to Kiss FM on 106.4, and even without the aerial up, the signal was fine (though it is starting to get slightly hissy now). Expecting reception to get worse overnight. |
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Lift still present, though not as much as yesterday
Still getting interesting results. Didn't check the whole band but: If aerial VP, I can get Intobeats on 106.5 If aerial HP, I can get MK FM on 106.3 If aerial DP, I can't get either. However, if I slightly adjust the tuner to ±0.2 MHz, I can still get Kiss on 106.4. |
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Had a few French stations last night up to rds levels. This afternoon the Dutch stations are showing rds and noise free stereo!
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now my car radio is the best and most sensitive i have so want to try get the best out of it.
now the question is- with a general wip car antenna is it better (reception wise) for the antenna to be straight vertical, straight horizontal or diagonal? if diaginal what amount of degrees should it be at? secont thing is would size of antenna help much? would longer be better or shorter? |
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Fully vertical and around quarter wavelength long which is about 75 cm.
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Fully vertical and around quarter wavelength long which is about 75 cm.
![]() Perhaps you were you thinking of Band II FM? With DAB frequencies being around 200MHz, a quarter wave works out at about 37.5cm. |
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Well, I've never had tropo weakened by e skip before! Conditions are amazing here this afternoon
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The poster doesn't say which band unless in an earlier post. ,,,around 38 cm for DAB. It won't make tremendous difference + or - quite a bit. 5/8 wavelength can be used with a bottom loading coil. http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Techn...df/8009022.pdf
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Just flicked through the presets in the car in Exeter, and managed to get Wave 105.
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Very strong signals on FM and DAB from Belgium and the Netherlands again this evening.
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Yes, very strong Dutch signals on FM in my area of Norwich, but surprisingly no audio on DAB (though the station names are there).
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Some good tropo this morning to NE and eastern France, the SR, WDR and MDR regions of Germany, Luxembourg and Norway (NRK Petre on 91.1). I had a mystery transmitter of France Musique on 101.6 too which replaced Breeze Four Marks. There is a transmitter listed in the Vosges department 688 km away but it is vertical and only 250 watts. I find it difficult to believe that a low-powered vertical would be received so well on a horizontal beam at that distance.
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surprisingly no audio on DAB (though the station names are there).
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Yes, very strong Dutch signals on FM in my area of Norwich, but surprisingly no audio on DAB (though the station names are there).
It's because all the Dutch DAB services now use DAB+. Standard DAB radios will usually do as yours is doing (just show the stations names). Chris. (Lincoln, UK). |
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Very sensibly, they're 100% DAB+ over there, which means that you won't hear anything on a plain vanilla DAB radio.
![]() I was getting excellent signals from the Netherlands and Germany on Monday and it sounds miles better than British mono DAB.
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Yes, very strong Dutch signals on FM in my area of Norwich, but surprisingly no audio on DAB (though the station names are there).
Sorry Catherine just seen your response to another poster - not sure why no audio then. Was very good on DAB+ a couple of days ago here in N.E.Lincolnshire. Went to sleep listening to Radio Seagull on DAB+ and got woken by Radio Seagull in the morning sadly a few hours later it was no more. |
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My DAB radio has DAB+.
I was getting excellent signals from the Netherlands and Germany on Monday and it sounds miles better than British mono DAB. |
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For a minute tonight Denmark came in with 100% signal strength just like the transmitter was down the road and then faded on 12C.
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, impatient comments about the situation!

