The only result of rolling out a beverage antenna directed towards the US Mid West in October was catching the signal of German museum radio Radio Eule on 1500 kHz. Conditions towards North America were lousy and no stations at all from the US Mid West or the West Coast were noted.
The antenna picked up Radio Eule from Munich on 1500 kHz, however. A very nice catch and almost worth the effort of pulling out a 400 metre long antenna wire 🙂 The power of this transmitter is just 10 watts! Their signal faded in and out for many hours on the first night with occasionally fair reception. Luise Allendorf-Hoefer who is Kuratorin Nachrichtentechnik und Elektronik at the Deutsches Museum and also a HAM with the call sign DO4LA confirmed my reception with a nice e-mail and an equally nice QSL-card.
The back side of the QSL card explains the goal of and the motivation for running a mediumwave transmitter very well:
“Since 20th October 2018 Radio Eule, the medium-wave station of Deutsches Museum, has been commemorating the beginnings of broadcasting in Germany. In the future, an educational programme is to be developed around Radio Eule that will enable schoolchildren to experience the groundbreaking technology of medium-wave radio, which has led to the development of communication technology, using the simplest receivers. Radio Eule broadcasts with 10W ERP on a frequency of 1500 kHz. The antenna is a symmetrically fed and resonant half-wave antenna.”
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