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Radio Discussion => WebSDR's => Topic started by: Schmellenschmellen on December 06, 2025, 08:27:03 am

Title: Re: SDR good for listening to Dutch MW pirates 1611khz -1700khz
Post by: Schmellenschmellen on January 08, 2026, 05:49:54 pm

Yes I can sometimes get them on a portable if the skip is strong enough. And did have a 1/2 wave 20m long dipole on my fence they came in
on a radio super fine on that +9 or more sometimes. I lost a bit of interest for them as I have some humming crud across the MW band
at night some evenings and gave up.

Title: Re: SDR good for listening to Dutch MW pirates 1611khz -1700khz
Post by: ZoZo on December 06, 2025, 09:14:07 am

Definitely my go to SDR for all things long, medium and short wave. I am lucky enough to be able to pick up some of the Dutch Pirates on my Tecsun, however, I do need to put into the US 10KHz stepping to get the expanded medium wave.

I did have an old hacker radio (can’t remember which one it was now) that was able to pick up some of the Dutch pirates too as it’s slightly went above the typical EU medium wave.

Title: SDR good for listening to Dutch MW pirates 1611khz -1700khz
Post by: Schmellenschmellen on December 06, 2025, 08:27:03 am

University Twente SDR in Netherlands...switch to AM and type in your frequency

http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/

You can often hear 3 or 4 of them at the weekends. Even if you cannot hear them in Uk/Europe, there must
be a few within earshot of this RX on the university roof.