Asfalttelegrafen was on air from December 23rd until January 5th. I tried a couple of times around Christmas, but I couldn’t get a decent signal here in Woerden. Tracking some KiwiSDRs I learned that the signal reached the German coast, but then it quickly deteriorated.
On January 4th however I was lucky however. And although a strong noise source on 1495.25 kHz forced me to notch everything between 1000 and 1500 Hz I could recognize the various titles played and picked up a clear ID (at 24 secs in the clip).
A day later I received a lengthy and detailed email QSL from Torleif Roos, who is DXer and HAM operator as well. Asfalttelegrafen is located in Ludvika, Sweden, 1097 km from my QTH. I noticed the name is sometimes also spelled as Asfaltstelegrafen.
The station got its name from “Asfalttelegrafen”, a program on the Swedish National Radio 3rd program on FM around 1975. In the late Sunday nights before midnight it brought rock music. Unfortunately private individuals can’t obtain a permanent license in Sweden, so Torleif has to apply for a 14 day license every time he want’s to broadcast. More information can be found on the radio sweden international website.
The transmitter is a 1 kW Hercules. It is connected to a “L” antenna, 48.5 meters long above an earthplane created by 16 cables of 50 meters each. Broadcast times were 20:00 – 03:55 h UTC, which is the window created when Radio Moldova is not in the air. During those hours the frequency is empty in Europe, with the next station being in Iran.
Hi there
I run Radioblackbeard from the uk…Im wanting an explanation as to why you feel fit to put a carrier on 1495,93,and other adjacent ones next to us?
I have spoken to the person that operates your station and was quite civil at the time,with you asking me to move to 1440khz,you also stated that you had a licence to operate.
I told you that i was not going to move and also the fact that you have licence is total rubbish.
I dont see what you think you are going to achieve by putting these carriers out 1khz above and 1khz below?..
Im going to say this once only,if you continue to do this,then if you do get a two week licence over christmas you will get no courtesy from myself and we will totally ruin your two week program schedule.
Your totally useless carrier has absolutley no effect to our target listeners here in the uk and last night 11.08.25 starting at approx 21.35 BST (20.35 utc) you even started to warble your carrier..This is a total disrespect for fellow radio users,be it licenced or unlicenced.
I must add that you have been traced …
I hope you see sense and we can all get along peacefully.