Radio Malaysia QSL
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Lennart Weirell, who shares the following in reply to our recent posts regarding Radio Malaysia and Radio Sarawak:
Back in early 80-ies (1981-1984) I lived in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and I used my Panasonic DR-28 with a short indoor wire to listen.
RM Sabah QSL
Of course some of the loggings were “local”, i.e. RAAF Butterworth, RM Sarawak and RM Sabah. RAAF Butterworth answered with a letter and RM Sarawak with card and RM Sabah with letter and card. All these 3 QSLs are from 1982.
RAAF Butterworth
Brilliant, Lennart! Thank you for sharing these QSLs.
I’m very curious how many listeners were able to snag the 1,000 watt Butterworth signal on 1,445 kHz from outside of Malaysia. Please comment!
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I have not seen any coverage map for RAAF Radio Butterworth, but the station, located in the North-West of Malaysia, about 400 km from Kuala Lumpur, should have covered northern Malaysia, the southern provinces of Thailand and parts of Sumatra, Indonesia. This would mean several millions of potential listeners.