"Pete & Renee Davis" wrote in message
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Trying to tune in WEEI Boston to hear the Red Sox game. From 0315 to 0325 a
German broadcast kept alternating with the game. The program seemed to be
news or a magazine format; the only word I could understand was "Istanbul".
There were a male and a female speaking.
I was using a Radio Shack SW100 which has analog tuning that is not precise
on the scale. The German was on a very narrow bandwidth, while WEEI was
coming in with several images. But it was definitely between WCRN 830 and a
French Canadian station at 860 or 870. I was not able to bring the German in
on my Degen 1102 with digital tuning to get an exact frequency.
Does anyone know of a US based station with German language programing on
that frequency? What are the chances that it was a transatlantic skip?

Not a chance. 850 *Hz* is far too low a frequency! However, 846 kHz and 855
kHz are valid European frequencies, but it's extremely unlikely to skip
across the pond in May, more likely in the depths of winter. Probably a US
station.
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Simon Mason
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