Well its been a while since I've done any Shortwave / AM / MW scanning and documented it. I'm always listening with the sony out the back with a hot cuppa coffee and when camping, but I've been slack documenting my encounters. Today while sitting at home, I remembered I had my old SONY XR-5100 AM/FM/SW in car stereo sitting in the cupboard. and thought hey why don't I hook it up to a set of speakers and use it with the Slinky external antenna.
After finding power supply and testing it out to see how compatible or not the antenna impendance matching was going to be from the 50/75ohm slinky, I was quiet pleas with its performance. So waiting for dark to fall, I'm now sitting here with a large scotch, and started at my scanning.
Start down at 531 kHz, Here is my report :) Especially hearing Tasmania's 7BU 558 AM Burnie, it inspired me to document my nights encounters.
BTW I've used the following link [List of radio stations in Australia] for my source of Station ID, but I do try and confirm station ID were possible.
time | Frequeny (kHz) | Station | SINPO | Description |
1102z | 549 | ???? | 44444 | |
1108z | 558 | 7BU | 43344 | |
1144z | 576 | Radio National - ABC (formerly known as 2FC) | 55555 | Talking about Monkey brains and 3D. |
1147z | 594 | ABC Western Victoria - ABC | 55535 | Music - Tambourine Man Covered version by "The Birds". Host starts talking about "Redundancy". |
1152z | 603 | ABC ?? | 33333 | Male talking about storm / wild weather, like an old broadcast or story. - Night Share |
1156z | 612 | 4QR - ABC Brisbane | 44444 | ABC - Talking about Redundancy |
1158z | 621 | 3AR - Radio National Network - Radio Electric | 44444 | Story of little girl in the boat. |
1202z | 639 | Radio 639 and ABC North/West SA | 44444 | Mostly ABC, but Coffs Habour Radio 639 came in strong for a minute, but ABC won. |
1205z | 648 | ABC New England - Tamworth | 55545 | ABC news / weather |
1207z | 666 | ABC Canberra | 55555 | Segemnt on "Global Zero" (Sunday Profile) - |
1207z | 684 | ABC and ??? | 43444 | Segemnt on "Global Zero" (Sunday Profile). Could hear asian singing in background. |
1211z | 693 | 3AW - Fairfax Media, 4KQ (possible) | 43444 | Guys (like commentators) yapping - trivia. Music / singing fading in little. |
1215z | 702 | ABC - Sydney (formerly known as 2BL) | 54555 | Segemnt on "Global Zero" (Sunday Profile). Fading a little, but came back strong |
1217z | 729 | ABC - Adelaide | 54555 | Bloke taking about recording sounds. |
1220z | 738 | ABC - Mid North Coast | 54555 | Segemnt on "Global Zero" (Sunday Profile). Fading a little, but came back strong |
1222z | 756 | ABC - National ? | 54555 | Talking about some guy and his photography |
1223z | 765 | ABC - National ? | 54534 | Music, fades a little, but nothing replaces it. |
1226z | 774 | ABC - Mid North Coast | 54544 | Segemnt on "Global Zero" (Sunday Profile). Fading a little, but came back strong |
1227z | 792 | ABC - National (Brisbane) | 54555 | Talking about some guy and his photography. bit og static dump. |
1227z | 810 | ABC South East NSW - (Bega / Cooma) | 54445 | African American in the Space Program - (Speaking Out). There was some fade and music coming in. Static Dumps |
1235z | 828 | ABC Gippsland - (Sale) | 54555 | African American in the Space Program - (Speaking Out). Static Dumps |
1238z | 836 | ABC - National (Canberra) | 55555 | Still talking about sound/photography and the concious. |
1240z | 873 | 2GB - Macquarie Radio Network | 55544 | Music, a bit of fading |
1243z | 883 | 3YB - Part Of The Ace Radio Network 4BH - Fairfax Media (Easy Listening) | 53333 | Fading in both Stations, but could hear 4BH music and 3YB classical singing or similar. 4BH has just come in strong and clear. |
1243z | 891 | ABC Adelaide - ABC | 55555 | Some static dumps |
1250z | 900 | 7AD - Grant Broadcasters (id) | 54434 | 7AD ID and Music clear. When fades you can hear some form of electrical humm and other station (???) |
1254z | 918 | 2XL (Cooma) (ID) | 54434 | 2XL identified, fading, Another station coming in |
1256z | 936 | ABC Hobart - ABC ABC NewsRadio - (Brisbane) | 54434 | Both equal signal and doubling over each other |
1256z | 954 | 2UE (ID) - Fairfax Media - News / Talk | 54555 | Cherri - Tarrot Reading. Some fade, static dumps. |
1303z | 963 | ?? | 22222 | Channel has too many stations at one time. Hard to pull one out |
1303z | 972 | NewsRadio - (Adelaide) | 53333 | There is another station there during fadeout, but not sure if its 2DU (Dubbo NSW). |
1308z | 981 | 2NM (Muswellbrook) | 53333 | Music, fading a bit, news comin in. |
Well I got just under half way through the band scan. I'm knackered andof to bed. But from the above you can see a stack of ABC News, National Capital City and Regional Stations. Some music stations. But Hey I could hear stations from south (Tassie) and to the north (Brisbane, QLD).
Night All
Mark