Bit cryptic but local pirate not so local

[FMEnjoyer]

On my Xmas travels my local pirate much to my surprise seems to be getting out +/- 12 miles each side of there rough location which I obviously won't be saying anything about. Quite surprisingly that. Was a good listen on my travels in the car. Spreading the Xmas cheer on the dial.

Hope Xmas doing ok where you are.

[tokingmenace]

Always nice to hear. It's not all doom and gloom on the free radio front.

Still a good amount of stations running a 24/7 service and a few popping up over the holiday season.

[FMEnjoyer]

Yes hopefully Of*om are too stuffed full of Brandy and Christmas pud to bother.

[FMEnjoyer]

I do have a secondary signal a bit lower down the dial by 1.4 mhz. But it is not getting through local noise in my listening chill out zone.

A shame can only get it in 1 spot exactly in the another room here with antenna gymnastics and extentions, and that was with a cut off strip of silvered bubble wrap acting as the second side of a dipole giving some extra gain, "Ghetto GAIN TM" 3db according to the radio meter. If you insulating tape a small 75cms wire off the back of a tecsun as close to the screw for the telescopic antenna it does act as a signal booster in many cases, makes it like your portable has a full dipole.

entertaining myself with anorak receiver bits. It all helps drag em in I suppose.