Dutch Pirate Radio

Have you ever heard those Dutch pirate stations just above the top of medium wave? They exist on band 2 too! I can often hear some of them pushing through here, playing the usual mix of traditional Dutch music, but they are mostly well down in the noise.

They tend to use certain frequencies, presumably to avoid causing QRM to the legal stations. The most common frequencies are 96.5, 97.0, 97.3, but I have heard them elsewhere, including 87.5, 95.0, 99.5, 104.0 and 108.0.

You can hear the audio streams of these Dutch pirate stations here and see listener reports here.

Here's a log of those I heard today, May 9th, 2013.

 97.3 1144 HOL PCL, Losser (Ov) Dutch music, as web  460km
104.0 1148 HOL Dat Kump Der Now Van, Markelo (Ov) Dutch music, as web  430km
 95.0 1154 HOL Brouwers Vrienden Club, Nunspeet (Gld) Dutch music, as web  378km
 97.0 1202 HOL LUL FM, De Lutte (Ov) Dutch music, as web  460km

Good DX!

John, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) Approx. 1m ASL
skegnessdx.blogspot.co.uk

Receivers:
Sony XDR-F1HD (tropospheric)
Kenwood KT6040 (sporadic E & meteor scatter)
Icom IC7000 (OIRT)
Conrad RDS Manager

Aerials:
Rooftop Körner 9.2, 8m AGL
Yaesu G-5500 azimuthal/elevation rotator

Software:
RDS Spy v0.99