Peter's DX Corner

The wonderful world of listening to the radio

Category: Denmark

QSL Radio 208 1440 kHz

February 18, 2025 / / 0 Comments

A QSL from Radio 208 1440 kHz from Copenhagen, Denmark. I sent my report in July 2023, so it took about 82 weeks I guess to get this QSL. Some of my most beloved QSLs took so long, and this one was definitely worth the wait as Stig Hartvig Nielsen, who is also running WMR, is a true radio icon. I am grateful he took the time to reply.

So please visit the streams he mentioned in the post below and give him “the thumbs up”!

eQSL Radio 208
eQSL Radio 208 1440 kHz, Copenhagen, Denmark

Stig Hartvig Nielsen wrote:

Dear Peter 

Thanks very much for your reception report to Radio208. I am pleased to verify your report; please find attached a Radio208 eQSL. My apologies for the delay in replying.

Radio208 is a music station playing tracks from the period 1964-1984. The main focus is on classic rock, punk/new wave, alternative, ‘hippie’, and progressive music.

Radio208 commenced broadcasting on 1440 kHz on December 17th 2019 from Ishøj, in the southern suburbs of Copenhagen. At present the power is 650 Watts. The aerial for 1440 kHz is a sloping dipole 2×50 m from a height of approx. 73 m.  Is on the air 24/7 (with a short break 0155-0210 UTC).

Radio208 started broadcasting on 1422 kHz in July 2024 from Nørrebro in Central Copenhagen with very low power (around 1 Watt). A coil aerial is used. Is on the air 24/7.

Radio208 is also broadcasting on short wave from Hvidovre, Copenhagen, since May 1st 2020. From the beginning the frequency was 5805 kHz, but in December 2020 this was changed to 5970 kHz.  The aerial is a horizontal dipole. The power is approx. 150 Watts. Is on the air 24/7. 

Radio208 can also be heard through Internet streaming via various platforms such as Tunein.com, Radio.garden, Radio.net, Streema.com, and MyTuner.com.  In particular listening via radio.garden is recommended: http://radio.garden/listen/radio-208/JhdGV04A   (please add Radio208 as your favourite). If you like to see the titles of the tracks played on Radio208 you can use this site:  https://raddio.net/331831-radio208/  (please give “thumps up )


Best 73s and good DX,
Stig Hartvig Nielsen,
www.radio208.dk
www.wmr.dk

eQSL from World Music Radio 5930 kHz

August 29, 2024 / / 0 Comments

This week I received an email from Stig Hartvig Nielsen from WMR to verify my reception on 5930 kHz. The station is broadcasting from Bramming in Denmark. Unfortunately, as mr. Nielsen explains in the email below it doesn’t contain any detail. That said, the station offers QSLs for a small compensation, so that will be my next step.

WMR can be received in good quality here. They offer a nice selection of “world music”, which is a good alternative for listening to long lost tropical band stations.

no detail e QSL from WMR, Bramming, Denmark on 5930 kHz

It is not the first time I received a QSL from World Music Radio. Years ago I heard them via the Meyerton transmitter in South Africa:

1997 QSL from WMR broadcasting via Meyerton, South Africa, also signed by Stig Hartvig Nielsen

Dear P. J. Reuderink

Thanks very much for your reception report to World Music Radio (WMR)! It is very kind of you to reach out to my small radio station. I am pleased to verify your report; please find attached the WMR eQSL for 2024. 

WMR no longer issues full detail eQSL’s. A printed full detail QSL card, however, is available – if you send your report by mail to me at Hovedvejen 17, DK-8920 Randers NV, Denmark – and if possible enclose return postage (two duly stamped International Reply Coupons – or ten euro). An additional donation to keep WMR and Radio208 on the air will be appreciated. Please note that our PO Box in Randers SØ has been closed by PostNord. All PO Boxes in Denmark are being closed this year in this crazy country.

A printed full detail QSL card is also available if you send your report by e-mail, and at the same time make a donation of at least 75 DKK (10 euro) via PayPal to wmr@wmr.dk  or  paypal.me/worldmusicradio. 

Reception reports using remote receivers (such as KiwiSDR’s) are not QSLed, unless it is a remote receiver in your own country set up and owned by yourself.

Now some details about World Music Radio: WMR is an independent music station with a cheerful mix of tropical, world music.  The main focus is on reggae, salsa, soca, Brazilian music, and African music as well as a little Andean music and Punjabi music. I would say that at least 90 % of the music is from the Global South.

WMR commenced broadcasting on shortwave more than 50 years ago from the Netherlands and has since 1997 been owned and operated by Hartvig Media ApS, Denmark. In 2004 broadcasting from Denmark began. At present WMR is broadcasting 24 hours a day seven days a week on mediumwave 927 kHz (approx. 150 Watts from Hvidovre, Copenhagen. Currently off air), on shortwave 5930 kHz (150 Watts from Bramming), on shortwave 15700 kHz (300 Watts from Randers), and on shortwave 25800 kHz (150 Watts from Mårslet, Aarhus). Also streaming on the Internet. 

Aerials used are an experimental coil aerial (“spool”) for 927 kHz (18 m above the ground), a horizontal dipole for 5930 kHz (13 m above the ground), a three element yagi beamed South for 15700 kHz (30 m above the ground), and a vertical half wave dipole for 25800 kHz (110 m above the ground). 

Listening to WMR using this website: http://radio.garden/listen/world-music-radio-classic-am-927/g27WAsrY is recommended.  Radio.garden is also available as an app for your mobile phone. Please add WMR as your favourite. 

Using these sites:  https://www.radio-danmark.dk/wmr-world-music-radio and    https://raddio.net/331768-world-music-radio/  you can usually see the titles of the tracks played on WMR. Please give “thumps up” for WMR here.    

If you are using Facebook, you are also kindly invited to follow WMR here: https://www.facebook.com/WorldMusicRadioWMR

Best 73s and good DX,
Stig Hartvig Nielsen 
www.radio208.dk
www.wmr.dk

QSL Skipperskole (MarTec) Skagen 8414.5 kHz

March 3, 2024 / / 1 Comment

I got a friendly email to QSL Skagen Skipperskole (Martec) Skagen, Denmark, on 8414.5 kHz. Yes, Skipperskole is Skipper School in English, witnessing the Danish influence on the English language which, as most of you probably know, goes back to the Viking era.

QSL Skipperskole (MarTec) Skagen 8414.5 kHz

Mr. Andersen, principal of the school was so kind to answer my reception report. I sent it to martec@martec.dk and acta@martec.dk. The Skipperskole is part of MarTec a polytechnical education institute in Skagen, a harbor city in the most northern tip of Denmark.

The DSC transmission to a fictive MMSI 999999999 was made as part of a training session in which not only Danish students, but also students from Portugal, Sweden and Panama participated. I’m very pleased with this QSL, if only because I am a huge fan of any real technical study whatsoever. We need more technically educated people!

Martec Skagen, the “eneste” skipper school in Denmark. Eneste is close to “enigste” in Dutch, which means “only”. It’s funny that “only” is more like “ähnlich” in German, which means “similar”. Etymology is another of mine as you can guess.

It probably wouldn’t be too difficult to receive Skipperskole Skagen if it wasn’t for the fact that these training sessions are not an everyday event. So you have to be lucky. And if you are dependent on night time propagation you do have bad luck, as the courses are probably day time only.
Other schools that I know off that have DSC transmissions as part of their curriculum are Bergen and Tromso in Norway, but I never got an answer from the latter one on my reception report.

QSL DR Kalundborg 243 kHz

January 10, 2024 / / 5 Comments

Another long wave icon is gone. The longwave transmitter of Danmarks Radio in Kalundborg on 243 kHz was taken off the air on December 31st. Sadly that is the third big longwave station gone that I posted about on this blog. On January 1st, 2023 the RTL Beidweiler transmitter on 234 kHz was taken off the air. And RTE Summerhill on 252 (formerly Atlantic 252) left the theater in April.

eQSL Danmarks Radio Kalundborg 243 kHz

Fortunately Mr. Jens Seeberg, former engineer at the station, was so kind to award my reception report with a nice QSL card. The photo was taken by him and a colleague engineer making a tour by airplane. I sent my report to jseeberg@post3.tele.dk

The site in Kalundborg was opened in 1927. At some point in time the transmitter had an output of 300 kW. In recent years operations were already trimmed down to 50 kW, and transmissions confined to shipping weather forecast and news bulletins.

© 2025 Peter's DX Corner

Theme by Anders Noren — Up ↑