I took my excellent little portable Grundig G8 with me on holiday to
Malta( Malta is an island sixty km's off the coast of Sicily). On the
hotel room balcony it performed surprisingly well with very little RFI
to blot out the faint signals.
Shortwave had disappointingly little to offer - seems no one is
broadcasting to Europe on SW anymore. A pity.

However the Mediumwave AM BC band proved interesting and I got a lot
of stations that I was quite chuffed with.
Five English stations some 2100km's/1300 miles away from the hotel.
648 BBC Orfordness
1089 Talk Sport Brookmans Park
1215 Absolute Radio
1458 Sunrise Radio London
1548 "Gold" London
Nice catches barefoot on the tiny G8

Also:
621 Wavre Belgium
Eight German stations
1440 Luxembourg
Ten French stations
The difficult "Big L" from Holland on 1395, also ID'ing as "Mighty
KBC"

Of course the band was full of Italian stations that are just close
by, but carefully working the band after sunrise, when the Italians
faded, it was possible to get the distant English, German and French
stations = great fun.
As the hotel overlooks the sea, it was evident that the sea "gain
effect" was strongly evident, as the distant signals persisted until
well after sunrise.

Have fun and good DX

John Plimmer, Montagu, Cape Province, South Africa
South 33 d 47 m 32 s, East 20 d 07 m 32 s
Icom IC-7600, Perseus SDR
ERGO software
Drake SW8. Sangean 803A, Redsun RP2100
Sony 7600D, GE SRIII, Grundig G8, Eton E100
Antenna's RF Systems DX 1 Pro Mk II, Datong AD-270
Kiwa MW Loop.
http://www.dxing.info/about/dxers/plimmer.dx

John Plimmer wrote:

I took my excellent little portable Grundig G8 with me on holiday to
Malta( Malta is an island sixty km's off the coast of Sicily). On the
hotel room balcony it performed surprisingly well with very little RFI
to blot out the faint signals.
Shortwave had disappointingly little to offer - seems no one is
broadcasting to Europe on SW anymore. A pity.

However the Mediumwave AM BC band proved interesting and I got a lot
of stations that I was quite chuffed with.
Five English stations some 2100km's/1300 miles away from the hotel.
648 BBC Orfordness
1089 Talk Sport Brookmans Park
1215 Absolute Radio
1458 Sunrise Radio London
1548 "Gold" London
Nice catches barefoot on the tiny G8

Also:
621 Wavre Belgium
Eight German stations
1440 Luxembourg
Ten French stations
The difficult "Big L" from Holland on 1395, also ID'ing as "Mighty
KBC"

Of course the band was full of Italian stations that are just close
by, but carefully working the band after sunrise, when the Italians
faded, it was possible to get the distant English, German and French
stations = great fun.
As the hotel overlooks the sea, it was evident that the sea "gain
effect" was strongly evident, as the distant signals persisted until
well after sunrise.

Have fun and good DX

John Plimmer, Montagu, Cape Province, South Africa
South 33 d 47 m 32 s, East 20 d 07 m 32 s
Icom IC-7600, Perseus SDR
ERGO software
Drake SW8. Sangean 803A, Redsun RP2100
Sony 7600D, GE SRIII, Grundig G8, Eton E100
Antenna's RF Systems DX 1 Pro Mk II, Datong AD-270
Kiwa MW Loop.
http://www.dxing.info/about/dxers/plimmer.dx
John, You always find ways to make me jealous! Great stuff from you, as
always. Did you manage to see the museum on Malta about the defense of the
island during the war? Those three Gloster Gladiators were about all that
stood between Malta and defeat for a short period.