I want to make a bit of a change in the blog and I haven’t quite figured how to do it. The idea is to add some travel content and some photography, but without watering down the radio focus. It may be a separate blog, maybe something like travel.blogordie.com. We’ll see, but in the meantime, here’s a crossover piece sharing some radio reception I had in Úbeda, Spain, on June 4, at around sunset local time, 19:30 UTC. (Somehow I can’t hear the town name without thinking of EBITDA).
Here’s a photo snapped of the RTVE tower in Madrid (not where these transmissions are coming from).
The video features the ATS results from my Qodosen DX-286 using a Sangean ANT-60 reel antenna strung out in a city park. I quickly recognized Radio Romania, Radio Exterior de España, and many Chinese stations–good signals and a much different selection from what I would have heard in the US. Time in UTC is on the radio (approximately).