RECEPTION REPORT from BELGIUM
51°1’ 56”N – 2°40’36”E
Hello WDOG Crew,
I received your station in Belgium with a poor signal strength.
Here is my report:
From: Hugo Matten
To: WDOG
DATE: June 6, 2021
TIME: Between 01.08 and 01.40 UTC
FREQUENCY: 6960 kHz AM
Quality of reception in SIO-code:
Signal strength: 1
Interference: 4
Noice: 2 (Lightning!!)
Propagation: 3
Overall merit: 1
MY RECEIVER: Perseus SDR
ANTENNA: Dipole 22.8 metres long
PROGRAMME DETAILS AND REMARKS:
- At 01.08 the song ‘In the jungle the mighty jungle’ by The Tokens.
- At 01.21 your program brought ‘Let’s twist again’ after this song I heard female talks: “….Radio…..”
- At 01.35 I recognized the song: ‘Locomotion‘.
- At 01.37 I heard ‘Oh Boy’ from Buddy Holly
- After 01.40 UTC the reception was very difficult!
On this link on the internet:
https://app.box.com/s/w7i7lb957bfe2j6djxnmcumeqb8f2oqx you can listen to a short mp3 recording of the broadcast I heard.
In this audio recording first you can hear a fragment of the song ‘In the jungle the mighty jungle’ After 40 seconds you can hear the song ‘Let’s twist again’ and the female talks. After 1 minute and 12 seconds the song ‘Locomotion and after 2 minutes and 10 seconds the song ‘Oh boy’ from Buddy Holly.
I hope that you recognized it was WDOG I heard!
I live in Veurne. That’s in the western part of Belgium, It’s a little village, 15 Km from the France frontier and 10 Km from the North Sea coast (=51°1’ 56”N – 2°40’36”E)
Please QSL this report! My e-mail address is h.matten(at)hotmail.be.
Thanking you in advance for your reply.
73,
Hugo Matten,