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Sunday 26 July 2009

MW Band Scanning

G'day All,

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.






































































































































































































































26th August 2009
timeFrequeny
(kHz)
StationSINPODescription
1102z549????44444
1108z5587BU43344
1144z576Radio National - ABC (formerly known as 2FC)55555Talking about Monkey brains and 3D.
1147z594ABC Western Victoria - ABC55535Music - Tambourine Man Covered version by "The Birds". Host starts talking about "Redundancy".
1152z603ABC ??33333Male talking about storm / wild weather, like an old broadcast or story. - Night Share
1156z6124QR - ABC Brisbane44444ABC - Talking about Redundancy
1158z6213AR - Radio National Network - Radio Electric44444Story of little girl in the boat.
1202z639Radio 639 and ABC North/West SA44444Mostly ABC, but Coffs Habour Radio 639 came in strong for a minute, but ABC won.
1205z648ABC New England - Tamworth55545ABC news / weather
1207z666ABC Canberra55555Segemnt on "Global Zero" (Sunday Profile) -
1207z684ABC and ???43444Segemnt on "Global Zero" (Sunday Profile). Could hear asian singing in background.
1211z6933AW - Fairfax Media, 4KQ (possible)43444Guys (like commentators) yapping - trivia. Music / singing fading in little.
1215z702ABC - Sydney (formerly known as 2BL)54555Segemnt on "Global Zero" (Sunday Profile). Fading a little, but came back strong
1217z729ABC - Adelaide54555Bloke taking about recording sounds.
1220z738ABC - Mid North Coast54555Segemnt on "Global Zero" (Sunday Profile). Fading a little, but came back strong
1222z756ABC - National ?54555Talking about some guy and his photography
1223z765ABC - National ?54534Music, fades a little, but nothing replaces it.
1226z774ABC - Mid North Coast54544Segemnt on "Global Zero" (Sunday Profile). Fading a little, but came back strong
1227z792ABC - National (Brisbane)54555Talking about some guy and his photography. bit og static dump.
1227z810ABC South East NSW - (Bega / Cooma)54445African American in the Space Program - (Speaking Out). There was some fade and music coming in. Static Dumps
1235z828ABC Gippsland - (Sale)54555African American in the Space Program - (Speaking Out). Static Dumps
1238z836ABC - National (Canberra)55555Still talking about sound/photography and the concious.
1240z8732GB - Macquarie Radio Network55544Music, a bit of fading
1243z8833YB - Part Of The Ace Radio Network
4BH - Fairfax Media (Easy Listening)
53333Fading in both Stations, but could hear 4BH music and 3YB classical singing or similar. 4BH has just come in strong and clear.
1243z891ABC Adelaide - ABC55555Some static dumps
1250z9007AD - Grant Broadcasters (id)544347AD ID and Music clear. When fades you can hear some form of electrical humm and other station (???)
1254z9182XL (Cooma) (ID)544342XL identified, fading, Another station coming in
1256z936ABC Hobart - ABC
ABC NewsRadio - (Brisbane)
54434Both equal signal and doubling over each other
1256z9542UE (ID) - Fairfax Media - News / Talk54555Cherri - Tarrot Reading. Some fade, static dumps.
1303z963??22222Channel has too many stations at one time. Hard to pull one out
1303z972NewsRadio - (Adelaide)53333There is another station there during fadeout, but not sure if its 2DU (Dubbo NSW).
1308z9812NM (Muswellbrook)53333Music, 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

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