Good Reception opening up including Radio Australia

Very good reception tonight on all bands for me. Radio Australia (SIO=323) quite loud and clear on 11.695, featuring the "AM" programme and a report about a dead-wombat throwing competition in a school, really! Also thought I heard radio Cairo on 6290 Khz, not sure. A very clear station was Radio London "Big L" from Trintelhaven on 1395 good signal SIO=414, playing 50 and 60's oldies, I thought it was a pirate station until I heard the adverts!

1134 PBC, Quetta, Pakistan

SINPO=23433 Poor Signal, but its a 100kw transmitter quite a way off!

882 BBC Radio Wales Tywyn

Love the little town of Tywyn, holiday there! I have seen the transmitter mast for this, its on the coast. SINPO=42224. Very good signal. 5KW

792 Gold, Bedford UK

300 watts. SINPO=32223

657 Radio Wales, Wrexham

SINPO=32323

603 - Capital Gold, Littlebourne, Kent

400 watts or 100 watts depending on whether you believe WRTH handbook or not. SINPO=23432.

9310 Radio Deewa

~23:30 Sri Lankan radio, playing pop songs in native language. Poor signal fading. SINPO=32443

3932 Radio Bogusman

Playing some non mainstream pop. Very poor signal, fading and interference. SINPO=34443

720 BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 SINPO=34343
So not such a good signal, quite a lot of interference and fading. Its only Radio 4 as well, so what? Well this signal is coming from Lisnagarvey in Northern Ireland see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisnagarvey_transmitting_station. So pleased to be hearing at all. Its on a 10kw station! Thanks to my Welbrook antenna ALA1530, it was worth the money.

7580 Radio Farda - Sri Lanka

Radio Farda 7.580Mhz

Sri Lanka - Broadcast from Iranawila
SINPO=41343
3/8/10 @ 17:30 UTC

Playing mainly home grown pop music. Waht sounded like a news report
Propagation not so good so signal fading in an out.

ICOM DSP - worth the money?

In a word. Yes. Fitting the ICOM-UT106 DSP is quick job, you just have to remove the case and plug it in. I was in a dilemma about whether to leave the leatherette case on it, but the bloke who sold it to me recommended that I keep it on to avoid shorting. In use its possible to configure the Noise Reduction (NR) Level, this can be set from 0-15. At the higher levels the sound signal sounds like its been broadcast underwater so I have it currently set on 5.

In practice its really good at getting rid of background hiss, white noise. Its not so good at the "buzzing" like interference that plagues some frequencies. So on balance worth the effort, and in combination with the synchronous AM mode of the R75 is helping me pull in some really faint stations.

6.305Khz: Radio Mazda? - Netherlands

Sounds like Radio Mazda from the ident. Playing a mix of rock and sixties. Lots of noise and fading. Coming from the Netherlands.
SINPO=34223, 6305

DSP - I bought one!

I bought a DSP (Digital Signal Processor) off ebay secondhand tonight. See above. Fitting it involves taking the case off the radio and messing about a bit with its innards, always good for a laugh! See below ** for a full explanation from the IcomAmerica site of what it does. Hopefully it will cut out even more noise, my new Welbrook antenna has done a good job so far, More news when I have fitted and tried it out.


**DSP capability

The DSP includes the following to give you superior receiver quality in your shack, vehicle or during DX'pedition.
*DSP is built in to U.S. models, but may be optional outside the U.S. Please check with your dealer.

Speaker Output ComparisonNoise reduction:
Pulls desired AF signals from noise. Outstanding S/N ratio is achieved, providing clean audio in SSB, AM and FM.

Automatic Notch filter:
This automatically minimizes beat signals and heterodynes while prese

rving the receive signal. Also, the notch frequency is automatically adjusted to follow interfering beat signals - for example, reducing interference from RTTY signals during SSB operation.

Delta Radio - Pirate Radio

Delta Radio, 3900 Khz 22:30 UTC: 25/07/10
Strong signal with some fading. Playing a varied mixture of mainly 80s pop music, including Tina Turner, Madness, OMD and Alice Cooper. Also played Goombay Dance Band - Seven Tears, remember them! MAde up for this by playing Visage "Fade to Grey". Nice

Ident reports broadcasting from the east part of the Netherlands.
SINPO=41234