2004 Reception

Date & Time
UTC		 Frequency
kHz		 Broadcaster Site Broadcast Details Screen/Graph Audio Solar Indices
SF/A/K		 Log File Rcvr Loc
2004/12/20 08:3521675DWTrincomaleeDW Radio, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. Christmas music programming – 11.6k AAC mono audio.

28m
94/3/1View Tawa
2004/12/19 09:3021675DWTrincomaleeDW Radio, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. Some audio decoding possible from 11.6k AAC mono audio.

27m 49s
91/9/1View Tawa
2004/12/19 08:3017795RTRNNovosibirskRTRN SRC Novosibirsk. No audio decodable.

91/9/1View Tawa
2004/12/19 07:4515780VORVoice of Russia, English service. Some poor decoding of 14.5 AAC mono audio.

26m 45s
91/9/1View Tawa
2004/12/18 11:0015440DWSinesDW Digital, Sines, German service. Excellent recption once China left the frequency. 20.9k AAC SBR mono audio.

30m 31s
90/17/2View Tawa
2004/12/14 12:0012060VORVoice of Russia, German service. Some poor decoding of 17.4k stream.

5m 3s
90/12/2View Tawa
2004/12/14 11:0017710DWSinesDW Digital, Sines, "Update Europe" Excellent reception of 20.7k AAC SBR stereo stream.

54m 18s
90/12/2View Tawa
2004/12/14 10:1517700DWSinesDW Digital, Sines, "Update Europe" very good reception of 20.7k AAC SBR stereo stream after the first 15 minutes (once adjacent channel QRM had cleared).

43m 42s
90/12/2View Tawa
2004/12/14 09:3013620MOIAl KabdMOI Kuwait. Poor reception in Arabic.

22m 29s
90/12/2View Tawa
2004/12/07 07:5517795RTRNNovosibirskRTRN SRC Novosibirsk, Russia, with 20 kW transmission to Europe. I was amazed the signal was detectable at all here.

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2004/12/04 16:0011900TDPSackvilleTDPradio/NASB from Sackville, Canada. Signal barely detectable.

101/3/0View Tawa
2004/12/04 14:009880MOIAl KabdRadio Kuwait, 11.6k Arabic audio. Limited audio quality, but reliable decoding.

59m 25s
101/3/0View Tawa
2004/12/04 12:549655DWWertachtalDW Wertachtal. Only very limited audio decoding possible.

40m 23s
101/3/0View Tawa
2004/12/02 11:0017710DWSinesDW Sines. Excellent reception of 20.7k AAC SBR stereo stream for 30 minutes before adjacent channel interference degraded the signal.

55m 4s
111/11/2View Tawa
2004/11/29 10:2415790TDFIssoudunTDF France, still testing.

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2004/11/28 18:159685DWSinesDW Sines. Excellent reception of 17.4k AAC SBR mono stream.

43m 21s
110/10/2View Tawa
2004/11/28 09:3715790TDFIssoudunTDF France, still testing to Libya. Very weak here, only occasionally detectable, though I can generally hear the DRM "hiss" in AM mode most of the time.

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2004/11/24 18:109685DWSinesDW Sines. New frequency to Europe, also providing excellent reception here in NZ. 17.4k AAC SBR mono stream.

47m 55s
107/5/2View Tawa
2004/11/23 18:309685DWSinesDW Sines. New frequency to Europe, also providing excellent reception here in NZ. 17.4k AAC SBR mono stream.

26m 27s
106/10/2View Tawa
2004/11/23 16:0011830DWSinesDW Sines. New frequency to Europe, also providing some very good reception here in NZ. Some audio problems at the start of the broadcast.

1h 38m 38s
106/10/2View Tawa
2004/11/23 09:5815790TDFIssoudunTDF France, noted testing to Libya. Very weak here. Yes Chris, I confirm that TDF is transmitting to Libya between 0800 and 1655UTC from today 23 to 25 november. Frequency: 15790kHz, Transmitter: linearised AM, 35kW RMS, Antenna: 3/4/0.5, azimut 144°, Programme: usual CD in french and english. All reports welcomed. Best regards. Jacques Gruson

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2004/11/05 12:0815440DWSinesDW Sines. More good reception.

49m 47s
136/9/0View Tawa
2004/11/05 11:0017710DWSinesDW Sines. Multi-service test transmission. Varied between 1 x 24.6k stream, 21k + 3.2k, 10k + 10k, and 4 x 3.2k (English, German, French & Russian news) service combinations.

56m 16s
136/9/0View Tawa
2004/11/05 08:0015440DWSinesDW Sines. Good reception of AAC SBR 17.4k German news & music stream, before co-channel CRI signs on.

52m 57s
136/9/0View Tawa
2004/11/05 06:357265DWWertachtalDW Wertachtal. Regularly present here, but always too poor to decode.

136/9/0View Tawa
2004/11/05 06:156095RTLJunglinsterRTL Fun Radio. I can't imagine myself listening to this sort of programming 1st thing in the morning!

14m 35s
136/9/0View Tawa
2004/10/27 09:0015545DWSinesDW Sines. 3 hour multiple stream broadcast. The first hour or so one stream was 14.3k AAC music, the other 3.2k HVXC SBR audio news. It then switched to two almost equal bit rate AAC streams (10.4k & 10.6k). The audio recordings switch between the two streams every few minutes.

2h 49m 35s
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2004/10/25 06:0015780VORVoice of Russia World Service. 17.4k stream. Very good reception.

39m 48s
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2004/10/24 09:0015545DWSinesDW Sines. 21k stream. Easy listening pop/rock music, then German news. 3 hours of mixed reception.

2h 16m 28s
132/2/0View Tawa
2004/10/24 08:0015440DWSinesDW Sines. 17.4k stream. Excellent reception.

55m 27s
132/2/0View Tawa
2004/10/24 06:0021675DWTrincomaleeDW Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. Just a few minutes of 11.6k AAC stream decodable.

6m 32s
132/2/1View Tawa
2004/10/23 09:0015545DWSinesDW Sines. 21k stream. Easy listening pop/rock music, then German news. 3 hours of mixed reception.

2h 43m 30s
123/5/0View Tawa
2004/10/23 08:0015440DWSinesDW Sines. 17.4k stream. Excellent reception.

51m 8s
123/5/0View Tawa
2004/10/23 04:0015400RNWBonaireRNW Bonaire. Very good reception, but only a 14.5 kbps audio stream.

58m 29s
123/5/0View Tawa
2004/10/22 09:4515545DWSinesDW Sines. 21k stream. Easy listening pop/rock music, then German news. Excellent reception at times.

1h 32m 8s
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2004/10/19 09:0015545DWSinesDW Sines. 21k stream. Two hours of easy listening pop/rock music, then 1 hour of German news & current affairs. Excellent reception at times.

2h 52m 18s
96/4/1View Tawa
2004/10/12 06:006095RTLJunglinsterRTL Radio Lëtzebuerg service, 17.4k stream. Very good to excellent reception for 20 minutes.

32m 32s
87/11/3View Tawa
2004/10/09 04:0015400RNWBonaireRNW Bonaire 14.4k AAC mono stream to NZ/Australia.

57m 13s
91/7/2View Tawa
2004/10/07 09:3015545DWSinesDW Radio, Sines, 24k mono stream. Easy listening music for Europe.

59m 45s
92/4/1View Tawa
2004/10/06 18:3515435DWSinesDW Radio, Sines, 20k stream to Europe.

23m 58s
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2004/10/05 21:0015150RNWBonaireRNW Bonaire. 14.4k English beamed to Europe.

38m 54s
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2004/10/05 06:006095RTLJunglinsterRTL Radio Lëtzebuerg service, 17.4k stream. Good for 20 minutes.

25m 23s
91/10/2View Tawa
2004/10/03 15:0013790DWSinesDW Radio, Sines. 20k German stream.

30m 58s
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2004/10/03 06:005990RTLJunglinsterRTL DRM 2 French service, 14.5k stream. Peaked up for the news at 06:00 UTC.

11m 58s
88/10/2View Tawa
2004/10/03 05:413995DWWertachtalDW Wertachtal. No audio decodable.

88/10/2View Tawa
2004/10/02 09:2315545DWSinesDW Radio, Sines. 24.7k parametric stereo audio stream. Choppy audio decodable for a while.

29m 35s
88/4/3View Tawa
2004/09/30 13:309880MOIAl KabdRadio Kuwait in Arabic. Unattended logging – some broken audio decoded around 15:00 UTC. 11k stream.

52m 1s
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2004/09/30 06:3015790TDFIssoudunTDF France. 20.9k test transmission beamed to Morroco. You can also see the edge of the signal from VoR on 15780 in the spectrum of the DRM Software Radio screenshot.

10m 14s
90/6/1View Tawa
2004/09/30 06:0015780VORVoice of Russia – News & Moscow Mailbag. 17.4k stream. My best reception yet from VoR.

27m 37s
90/6/1View Tawa
2004/09/28 06:3615780VORVoice of Russia – some audio of Russian language lessons. 17k stream.

5m 27s
90/4/2View Tawa
2004/09/28 05:585990RTLJunglinsterRTL DRM 2 French service, 14.5k stream. Peaked up nicely for the news at 06:00 UTC.

30m 48s
90/4/2View Tawa
2004/09/27 09:4715545DWSinesDW Radio, Sines. 24.7k parametric stereo audio stream. Not perfect reception, but Sines and Wellington are as far apart as you can get on this planet – nice to hear some stereo shortwave over that distance!

35m 15s
90/4/0View Tawa
2004/09/27 05:585990RTLJunglinsterRTL DRM 2 French service, 14.5k stream. Peaked up nicely for the news at 06:00 UTC.

15m 39s
90/4/0View Tawa
2004/09/26 04:0015400RNWBonaireRNW Bonaire. 14.5k stream.

51m 59s
90/6/1View Tawa
2004/09/25 05:585990RTLJunglinsterRTL DRM 2 French service, 14.5k stream. Very strong signal today, but audio decoding was ruined by extremely strong interference from 5985 kHz.

7m 19s
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2004/09/23 06:005990RTLJunglinsterRTL DRM 2 French service, 14.5k stream. 30 minutes of choppy audio.

22m 2s
91/16/4View Tawa
2004/09/19 04:0015400RNWBonaireRNW Bonaire. Quite good reception inspite of an interfering AM signal on 15395 kHz. 14.5k stream.

58m 49s
103/24/1View Tawa
2004/09/14 05:5015780VORTaldomVoice of Russia, Taldom. "The Frustrations of a Down-Under DRM DXer” – 5 minutes of very good level test tones, followed by a rapid fade to nothing before the programming started at 0600 UTC.

5m 53s
118/8/4View Tawa
2004/09/09 19:3015435DWSinesDW Radio, Sines. 20k classical music stream, fair reception.

22m 46s
125/10/1View Tawa
2004/09/08 06:4015780VORTaldomVoice of Russia, Taldom. 1st time I've been able to decode any audio from VoR. 17.4k stream, with broken audio of English Service & classical music.

11m 20s
119/17/3View Tawa
2004/08/29 19:206095RTLJunglinsterRTL DRM 14.5k stream. A good example of how annoying DRM can sound if the reception isn't quite good enough…3m 37s
87/12/2View Tawa
2004/08/28 06:005990RTLJunglinsterRTL DRM 2 French service, 14.5k stream. Little audio decodable.

51s
91/6/2View Tawa
2004/08/28 04:0015400RNWBonaireRNW Bonaire in English, back again after several weeks of being too poor to decode anything. 14.5k stream.

38m 12s
91/6/2View Tawa
2004/08/25 07:0621675DWTrincomaleeDW Radio, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. Too poor for any audio, but unusual reception here.

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2004/08/25 06:4315780VORVoice of Russia. Id screen only – too weak for any audio. First time I've been able to id VoR here.

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2004/07/11 01:5611675MOIAl KabdRadio Kuwait, 11.5k stream in Arabic.

2m 19s
93/8/2View Tawa
2004/07/10 04:0015400RNWBonaireRNW Bonaire in English poor reception of 14.5k audio stream. Some good bits, but not good listening.

32m 15s
87/7/2View Tawa
2004/07/10 03:0011955BBCSackvilleBBC World Service via Sackville, Canada, beamed to North America. Very good reception apart from one brief dropout. 20.9 kbps audio stream.

54m 48s
87/7/2View Tawa
2004/07/04 03:0011955BBCSackvilleBBC World Service via Sackville, Canada, beamed to North America. Good reception of 20.9 kbps audio stream.

58m 57s
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2004/07/03 04:0015400RNWBonaireRNW Bonaire in English good for 40 minutes then faded. 14.5k audio stream. Suffers from interference from an AM signal on 15395 kHz.

39m 55s
81/8/2View Tawa
2004/06/30 03:0011955BBCSackvilleBBC World Service via Sackville, Canada, beamed to North America. Very good reception after the first few minutes. 20.9 kbps audio stream.

1h 0m 20s
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2004/06/07 03:0011955BBCSackvilleBBC World Service via Sackville, Canada, beamed to North America. Good reception – very good for the last 30 minutes.

57m 38s
88/13/2View Tawa
2004/06/06 03:0011955BBCSackvilleBBC World Service via Sackville, Canada, beamed to North America. Marginal reception.

57m 3s
85/10/3View Tawa
2004/06/04 03:0011955BBCSackvilleBBC World Service via Sackville, Canada, beamed to North America. Good reception today – 20.9k audio stream.

53m 16s
90/11/3View Tawa
2004/05/30 20:0012080RAQiqiharChina Radio International testing in English from Qiqihar, 200kW, 11.5k audio stream. Suffers co-channel interference from Radio Australia at this time.

11m 44s
101/18/3View Tawa
2004/05/26 03:0011955BBCSackvilleBBC World Service via Sackville, Canada, beamed to North America. Good reception today – 20.9k audio stream.

54m 2s
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2004/05/23 04:0015400RNWBonaireRNW Bonaire in English good for 30 minutes then faded. 11.6k audio stream.

35m 31s
102/13/3View Tawa
2004/05/23 03:0011955BBCSackvilleBBC World Service via Sackville, Canada. Reception not quite good enough for the 20.9k audio stream.

57m 25s
102/13/3View Tawa
2004/05/23 01:5611675MOIAl KabdMOI Kuwait, 11.6k stream to North America. Just a couple of minutes.2m 24s
102/13/2Tawa
2004/05/22 04:0015400RNWBonaireRNW Bonaire in English, good reception, 11.6k audio stream.

57m 20s
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2004/05/22 03:0011955BBCSackvilleBBC World Service via Sackville, Canada. Good to very good reception of 20.9k audio stream.

52m 35s
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2004/05/18 21:0012080CRIQiqiharChina Radio International testing in English from Qiqihar, 200kW, 11.5k audio stream.

22m 6s
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2004/05/16 04:0015400RNWBonaireRNW from Bonaire to NZ/Australia. 17.4 kbps AAC SBR stream. Good at times despite co-channel interference.

38m 58s
115/12/2View Tawa
2004/05/16 03:0011955BBCSackvilleBBC World Service via Sackville, Canada, to western North America. Good at times.

51m 52s
115/12/2View Tawa
2004/05/15 04:0015400RNWBonaireRNW from Bonaire to NZ/Australia. 17.4 kbps AAC SBR stream. Good for the first 10 minutes or so, then faded too much for this bit rate.

45m 54s
110/6/4View Tawa
2004/05/15 01:5611675MOIAl KabdMOI Kuwait, 11.6k stream to North America. 4 minutes of DRM audio after REE signed off 11680kHz and before Kuwait switched to analogue mode at 02:00. For comparison, there is a minute or so of the analogue tranmission on the end of the DRM audio recording.

5m 16s
110/6/2View Tawa
2004/05/14 23:5217890RNWBonaireRNW from Bonaire. Special test transmission to Brazil. Signal was too poor to decode any audio.

110/6/2View Tawa
2004/05/01 04:0015400RNWBonaireRNW from Bonaire to NZ/Australia. 11.6 kbps stream. Signal dropped out after 25 minutes.

25m 43s
89/14/3View Tawa
2004/04/03 04:0615400RNWBonaireRNW from Bonaire to NZ/Australia. Good, stable reception, but only 11.6 kbps stream.

52m 23s
108/4/1View Tawa
2004/04/02 05:0521520BBCNakhon SawanBBC Thailand, special test transmission to China. Just a few bits of audio decodable.

6m 44s
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2004/03/28 08:1821675DWTrincomaleeDW Radio via Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. Just a few bits of audio decodable.

2m 32s
128/19/3View Tawa
2004/03/28 05:0015255RNWRNW 17.4 kbps AAC SBR mono stream to NZ/Australia. Mostly good reception.

59m 28s
128/19/5View Tawa
2004/03/21 05:1015255RNWRNW 17.4 kbps AAC SBR mono stream to NZ/Australia. Fair to good reception. Included some special programming to mark the death of HRH Princess Juliana.

49m 45s
114/13/2View Tawa
2004/03/20 06:006095RTLJunglinsterRTL Luxembourg. 20 minutes of very good stereo reception before the signal faded. German language commercial classic hits programming.

31m 57s
112/8/1View Tawa
2004/03/19 21:3013670BBCRampishamBBC from Rampisham, UK. Special test broadcast to Brazil. 11k stream with BBC World Service English & BBC Portuguese programming. Good at times over 2 1/2 hours.

2h 20m 3s
113/7/1View Tawa
2004/03/17 19:1521560DWSinesDW Radio, Sines. Test 20k stream to Brazil. Signal improved dramatically with local sunrise, but audio very distorted this day.

19m 55s
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2004/03/16 19:0021560DWSinesDW Radio, Sines. Test 20k stream to Brazil. Signal improved dramatically with local sunrise.

43m 56s
101/20/3View Tawa
2004/03/15 21:3013670BBCRampishamBBC from Rampisham, UK. Special test broadcast to Brazil. 11k stream.

26m 6s
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2004/03/14 06:006095RTLJunglinsterRTL Luxembourg 20.9 kbps parametric stereo stream with German religious programming. Best decoding I've had from RTL so far.

20m 16s
104/13/3View Tawa
2004/03/14 05:0015255RNWRNW 17.4 kbps AAC SBR mono stream to NZ/Australia. Very good reception for most of the broadcast.

1h 0m 41s
104/13/3View Tawa
2004/03/13 05:1315255RNWRNW 17.4 kbps AAC SBR mono stream to NZ/Australia.

47m 24s
108/22/1View Tawa
2004/03/11 18:236140DWJulichDW Radio Julich, 11 kbps in German. Just a few bits of audio decodable due to bad adjacent channel interference, and local sunrise.

12m 19s
113/30/5View Tawa
2004/03/07 05:0015255RNWBonaireRNW Bonaire to NZ/Australia. 17.4 kbps stream. Reception upset by AM signal on 15260 kHz.

52m 23s
105/6/0View Tawa
2004/03/06 06:056095RTLJunglinsterRTL Luxembourg. 17.4 kbps stream. Just a few bits of audio decodable.

15m 51s
107/6/3View Tawa
2004/03/06 05:1015255RNWBonaireRNW Bonaire to NZ/Australia. 17.4 kbps stream. Reception upset by AM signal on 15260 kHz.

48m 44s
107/6/3View Tawa
2004/02/07 21:0011730RNWBonaireRNW Bonaire 17.4k stream to Europe. Very good reception until the last 10 minutes.

55m 5s
111/9/2View Tawa
2004/02/05 21:0011730RNWBonaireRNW Bonaire 17.4k stream to Europe. Lots of dropouts.

26m 50s
106/17/3View Tawa
2004/01/31 05:0015255RNWBonaireRNW Bonaire to NZ/Australia. Poor reception. 14.4 kbps stream.

36m 18s
93/18/2View Tawa
2004/01/28 11:0017710DWSinesDW Radio, Sines, 17.4k stream to Europe.

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2004/01/28 09:0017700DWSinesDW Radio, Sines, 17.4k stream to Europe.

56m 26s
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2004/01/21 11:0017710DWSinesDW Radio, Sines, 17.4k stream to Europe. Strong signal but many drop-outs.

6m 17s
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2004/01/21 09:1017700DWSinesDW Radio, Sines, 17.4k stream to Europe. Strong signal but many drop-outs.

1h 11m 47s
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2004/01/21 05:0015255RNWBonaireRNW Bonaire to NZ/Australia. Poor reception.

30m 24s
115/30/2View Tawa
2004/01/17 16:009880MOIAl KabdRadio Kuwait, testing in Arabic using 11.6k stream. Still using the "old" DRM standard.

44m 35s
120/20/2View Tawa
2004/01/17 05:2015255RNWBonaireRNW Bonaire to NZ/Australia. Very poor reception.

22m 59s
120/20/3View Tawa
2004/01/16 21:2011730RNWBonaireRNW Bonaire to Europe. Fair reception for a few minutes before fading out.

8m 32s
120/20/4View Tawa
2004/01/15 09:3017700DWSinesDW Radio to Europe from Sines, Portugal. Good reception of 17.4k stream. Text stream being used for news headlines.

52m 22s
121/10/2View Tawa
2004/01/15 09:2517700DWSinesDW Radio to Europe from Sines, Portugal. Poor reception of the last 5 minutes 20.9k stream. Broadcast switched to 17.4k at 09:30 which provide much better reception.

5m 48s
121/10/2View Tawa
2004/01/11 05:0015255RNWBonaireRNW Bonaire to NZ/Australia. Fair reception of 17.4k stream.

1h 2m 38s
119/24/1View Tawa
2004/01/10 07:306095RTLJunglinsterRTL Luxembourg detectable, but far too weak for any audio.

118/21/5View Tawa
2004/01/10 05:0015255RNWBonaireRNW Bonaire to NZ/Australia. Fair reception of 17k stream.

46m 25s
118/21/5View Tawa