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Asfalt Telegrafen will broadcast on 1440 AM

December 14, 2025 / / 0 Comments
eQSL from Asfaltstelegrafen, Ludvika, Sweden
eQSL from Asfaltstelegrafen, Ludvika, Sweden

Asfalt Telegrafen is a hobby station that received a temporary license to broadcast on 1494 kHz every year around New Year’s Eve. That was all there was to it for this friendly station. But on the Asfalt Telegrafen website, I read that they received a new frequency, 1440 AM:

November 27, 2025:

After three requests, we have finally received a new frequency from PTS, the Swedish postal and telecommunications company, namely 1440 kHz = 208.3 meters on the medium wave band.

And the Arctic DX Club now reports the following via SDXF:

We have fantastic news: thanks to a generous offer from Torleif Roos, the Arctic Radio Club can broadcast weekend programs via Asfalt Telegrafen. Peter Stillberg has compiled two programs that will be broadcast according to the following schedule:

On December 20th and 21st (repeat), and on December 24th and 25th (repeat) from 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM on SNT on 1440 kHz, the old frequency of Radio Luxembourg!

Listener reports can be emailed to: Asfalttelegrafen: am1440khz@gmail.com or CountryGospelChurch: peter@countrygospelchurch.com
Correct reports will be answered with a QSL card via email.

We hope for a good reception. Many thanks to Peter and Torleif for this excellent arrangement. We would like to congratulate Torleif, because after three attempts, he has finally received permission from PTS to transmit Asfalttelegrafen on 1440 kHz for the entire first half of 2026!

Greetings
Peter Stillberg

So it looks like we can enjoy Asfalt Telegrafen for much longer, and the above offers some great QSL opportunities!

QSL Radio Transparant 1008 kHz

December 6, 2025 / / 0 Comments

1008 kHz is a busy frequency here in Woerden. With the antenna directed 300 degrees for Transatlantic reception Radio Experience, Wageningen is dominant. Hugo Matten made me aware of a new radio station from Monster near The Hague, Radio Intiem. As conditions for TA DX were poor I changed the direction of my antenna to block out Radio Experience, heard Radio Intiem with a test transmission on Saturday, but Radio Transparant in decent quality on Sunday.

My reception report to info@radiotransparant was confirmed with an email:

Below a clip of their show with a “Dit is Radio Transparant voor de omgeving Flevoland” ID.

Radio Transparant is registered as an LPAM station Creil, in the Noordoostpolder. The Noordoostpolder was the first of three huge reclamation projects to gain more agricultural land in The Netherlands, which added a 12th province to The Netherlands.

Reception here (120 kms) benefits from the fact that the groundwave signal is across the IJsselmeer.

QSL Radio Intiem 1008 kHz

December 1, 2025 / / 0 Comments

Radio Intiem is a new LPAM station from the village of Monster near The Hague. They started testing two weeks ago, and are broadcasting with 100 W on Saturday only. Cor Hendriks from Radio Intiem ( radiointiem(at)gmail.com ) confirmed my reception report within a day:

Thanks for your email. We restarted two weeks ago after a 30-year hiatus.
We were a pirate FM station from 1984 to 1995, and now we’re legal on AM.
We broadcast only on Saturdays from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM.
There’s also a stream available; download the My Tuner Radio app.
We’re still in the testing phase.
Greetings from Cor Hendriks of Radio Intiem in Westland.

“You can’t get closer to heaven” is a nice article (in Dutch) about the history of Radio Pirates in Westland, the region with all the greenhouses south of The Hague.

Radio Intiem audio clip November 29th

Radio Intiem wasn’t an easy catch. Normally I have the loop antenna 120/300 degrees for transatlantic reception. But it results in Radio Experience from Wageningen being dominant. I’ve often noticed that reception along the river area in the central part of The Netherlands is pretty good. So I turned the antenna 10/190 to get them at the null. But this favored Radio Transparant from Creil, who also have the benefit that their direction is over the water surface of the IJsselmeer mainly.

QSL Ellen AM 828 kHz

September 27, 2025 / / 0 Comments

A very nice eQSL card from Ellen AM on 828 kHz. Ellen AM is a Low Power AM (100 Watt) station from Hensbroek in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands. Ellen AM is named after Ellen, spouse of Edo. They are the owners but also DJ on the station.

A lot of Dutch stations feature a windmill on their QSL, even if their is no one to be found in the neighbourhood. But Ellen AM is really in the heart of windmill country, and the mill shown on the QSL is the Molen Hensbroek.

eQSL Ellen AM, Hensbroek, 828 kHz

Chasing LPAM stations is a nice aspect of the hobby. You might think that my QTH is perfectly located in the centre of the Netherlands (JO22kc). But it also means that on most LPAM frequencies there is one nearby dominant station with little opportunity to benefit from variable conditions to catch one of the other ones. My directional loop helps, but not in this case where Ellen AM is north of me and the more dominant Aktief Tilburg exactly opposite to the south. So I made this reception from Almere, halfway between my QTH and Hensbroek..

Ellen AM started in 2020 with a 1 Watt license. They were surprised that with the right condiitons they were audible over quite a distance. But it also meant that in their service area they were vulnerable to interference during evenings/night. That’s why in 2023 they switched to a 100 Watt license operating on 828 kHz. You can read more about the Ellen AM team on their website.

QSL Radio Eule München 1500 kHz

May 13, 2025 / / 0 Comments

I really wanted to get a QSL from Radio Eule München as this station ticks so many boxes. It is low power (only 10 Watt), from abroad and with 648 kms at quite a bit of distance given its power. But more importantly, it is an initiative of enthusiastic people at the Deutsches Museum in Munich who want to promote technology to get young people interested.
It wasn’t easy though to receive this one as 1500 kHz is a frequency on which I always experience heavy pulsating noise as if it was digitial communication (source unknown). And this winter, when conditions were favourable, WFED from Washington was often stronger. I even heard Radio Santa Rosa from Peru before I caught Radio Eule. So maybe this is one of these stations that are easier to catch in summer?

eQSL Radio Eule 1500 kHz

Luise Allendorf-Hoefer, Dipl.-Ing., Kuratorin Nachrichtentechnik und Elektronik (Curator News Technology and Electronics) at the Deutsches Museum was so kind to confirm my report. Luise is also HAM radio amateur under DL4LA. The Deutsches Museum website has a nice page dedicated to this station including a clip on how to build your own AM receiver! Munich is a city worth visiting I can tell you, and while you are there, spend some time at this museum as Germany has a technology tradition more than any other European country.

QSL KBC Huissen 891 kHz

April 9, 2025 / / 2 Comments

From December 1st, 2024, KBC is active on 891 kHz as a LPAM broadcaster from Huissen, The Netherlands. They succeeded Rivierenland Radio.

e-QSL KBC Huissen 891 kHz

I heard them with a program with music from the offshore radio era. It was called “Het Zoute Uur” (The Salty Hour). Reception quality was pretty good (SIO 454) despite their 100 Watt and a distance of 72 kms to my QTH. My report was sent via the webform on their site.

KBC also broadcasts on shortwave to Europe, North America and Australia. Details can be found here.

QSL LPAM Radio Redhill 1431 kHz

March 21, 2025 / / 4 Comments

Radio Redhill is a Hospital Radio station broadcasting on 1431 kHz with 1 Watt only from East Surrey Hospital in Redhill, south of London, United Kingdom. That’s a distance of 360 kms.

I did hear Radio Redhill in the first two months of the year almost on a daily basis, around 04:00 – 06:00 h UTC. But never really strong, just not above the realitively high noise level at my location. Sometimes I could pick up “Redhill”. In the end I decided to wrote down two song titles I recognized, made a MP3 recording, and sent my report to: studio(at)radioredhill.co.uk. Three days later, Ian, station engineer sent me a kind email to confirm my report:

Hello Peter.

Thank you for your reception report.

I can confirm the music you identified was played at that time:

March 14th

04:42 The Carpenters – Goodbye to Love
…..
04:02 Buddy Holly – Peggy Sue

We transmit with 1 watt of power so it is always interesting to receive reception reports from all over Europe. Sweden and Norway are the furthest we have had reports from.

Thank you for your email.

Ian

Station Engineer.

Radio Redhill started in 1974. My guess is that it was a typical “radio by wire” station that you have or had at many hospitals. In 2000 AM broadcasts started, and since 2022 the station is active on 100.4 MHz. You can learn more about the history of this hospital radio station on their website.

Radio Twents Gejengel 675 kHz is back

February 7, 2025 / / 2 Comments

My radio friend Joé Leyder couldn’t match a station he heard on Twente WebSDR with any of the webstreams he was familiar with. I gave it a try and found out that LPAM Twents Gejengel was back in the air. I heard mainly non stop Dutch music, but at 16:05 LT there was this ID:

“Hit na hit na hit, zo hoort radio te klinken. Jij vraagt en wij draaien ze. U luistert naar station Twents Gejengel vanuit Westerhaar”

As in the clip below:

No idea when they resumed broadcasting, but they were still listed as “inactive” on the MW list. So I contacted the MW list and within an hour they changed it to “active”. Thank you Mauno! So nice that I can contribute to a community of fellow radio lovers!

The name of the station “Twents Gejengel” refers to Twente (the region in the east of the Netherlands from which they are broadcasting), while “Gejengel” would translate as “whining” when a little kid does it, but in this context the translation would be more like “loud irritating music”. Ah well….. it is definitely something different.

I’m not sure if I can receive this station at my own QTH, as LPAM Unique Gold from Wijchen seems to dominate the frequency at my location. And I’ve no clue whether they QSL as well… they seem to have a website Twents Gejengel, but the only thing it shows are a few reports.

QSL Atlantica AM 1485 kHz

January 20, 2025 / / 2 Comments

There is low power (100 Watts) and “Real Low Power”. 1485 is the “Real Low Power” AM (LPAM) frequency in The Netherland: stations should have 1 Watt maximum. There are around 25 stations active on this frequency. Unfortunately DX-ers in the Netherlands will typically hear one dominant station only. Outside the Netherlands you might be able to benefit from variations in propagation conditions, enabling you to hear several stations.

On my QTH Radio 182, only 15 kilometers away (basically across the meadow) is dominant. But using my NTi Megaloop FX antenna to “null” them out, there is apparently enough of a signal left for Atlantica AM from Dordrecht. On Sundays that is, because I that’s when they are “on air”.

You can check your reception against Flux Radio, because they broadcast the Atlantic AM transmissions as well. If you receive them, feel free to go to the Facebook page of Cor Hitzerd. That’s how I got in touch:

Following my report I had a nice conversation with Cor. He shared quite a lot about his pirate history, his friends on the air, and how they as pirates promoted lots of Dutch artists. The fact that you can connect to station owners is so nice about DX-ing these days! Cor also sent me a few pictures… here we go:

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