s dance was the only station i could pick up this morning. all the other big station are off air. cant pick up playback, wkend, vision, live fm or tf-live.

There is an email address there by the sound of it, 344dinosaur@gmail.com, sounds like the kind of thing someone would put together just to hear through their old tube radio, watch them glowing, sat by the fire. It has the radio veronica eastbourne echo on it, some of the music choices are really left field, I suppose some people would hate it but I kind of like it.

I think there was a station in London afew months ago that had this problem, maybe it was a new anti detection method.

I have had various antennas over the decades 300Ohm ribbons, full dipoles, bit of wire in specific places.. added on bits of wire.

The minimum for FM is of course 75cms long, no whip antenna on any FM receiver should be less than that for decent reception.

SW as long as you like, used to throw 10m up a tree for 6200-6400 Sunday morning listening.

I used a 40m band dipole (20m) long 2m above ground for some Dutch pirate listening worked great.
I have a Tecsun with a 0.75cms whip and  0.75cms piece of thin copper wire glued onto the plastic just below the whip as it terminates onto
the radio (screwed in) hanging down it seems to add 2-3dB gain on reception.

Also try 1.875m which is 5/8 of a wavelength on the FM broadcast band, that is sometimes better than 1/2 wavelength or 1/4 wave length.

And sometimes loop the top wire into a 7-10cms loop if it is stiff enough and tape it, at the top, that can also seem to help like a capacitor hat.

If you like signals you mess around with wires, it is part and parcel of the radio game.

All about the bits of wire.

I like coming over here as I am not finding that RN is a reliable site. Common sense suggests spreading things out a bit and not putting all eggs in one basket.

I was wondering if there are any anti tracking benefits to randomly modulating a 100W TX between say.... 15 and 85Watts smoothly and randomly... both in terms of when and for how long
the power output is changed.

It does not stop initial triangulation of course as long as the signal is detectable but would it make it
much more difficult to locate when mobile trying to assess signal strengths on the go.... if it was 40Watts one second, 20 the next and then 2 mins at 60Watts
and then 2 mins at 70Watts and then 30 seconds at 15Watts and.... well you catch my drift.

Of course it has a few problems especially at fringe reception areas but it just popped in me head.