{"id":20057,"date":"2016-07-22T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=20057"},"modified":"2016-07-22T06:50:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T10:50:07","slug":"wembley-stadium-a-superb-dxing-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/wembley-stadium-a-superb-dxing-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Wembley Stadium: A Superb DXing location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Oxford-Shortwave.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20058\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Oxford-Shortwave.jpg\" alt=\"Oxford-Shortwave\" width=\"800\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Oxford-Shortwave.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Oxford-Shortwave-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Oxford-Shortwave-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Oxford-Shortwave-624x356.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Clint Gouveia, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the designated driver, I found myself waiting for friends at the Beyonce concert at Wembley Stadium last Sunday [July 3rd], Not wishing to miss an opportunity and taking advantage of 8 stories of elevation (top floor of the car park!) I spent about 3 hours DXing with the legendary Panasonic RF-B65 and a Wellbrook ALA1530 active loop, running on my home-brew battery pack.<\/p>\n<p>Rather counter-ituitively, I quickly discovered there was basically zero QRM and recorded wonderful signals from Zanzibar BC, Radio Bangladesh Betar and Radio Oromiya. Links to the reception videos on my youtube channel &#8216;Oxford Shortwave Log&#8217; follow below. I thought readers of your excellent website\/blog might be interested to learn that sometimes the most unlikely of places can provide just about optimum conditions for DX! There are more reception videos for this particular session to upload,including Radio Fana, Voice of Tigray Revolution and Radio CANDIP.<\/p>\n<p>73!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Reception Videos<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a1g3KDGBaSw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a1g3KDGBaSw\" target=\"_blank\">Video 1:\u00a0Zanzibar BC 11735 kHz, best ever reception<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Thmaf4Im3tc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Thmaf4Im3tc\" target=\"_blank\">Video 2:\u00a0Bangladesh Betar 13580 kHz, wonderful reception<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gkIEiiIWISY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gkIEiiIWISY\" target=\"_blank\">Video 3:\u00a0Radio Oromiya 6030 kHz, Ethiopia, best reception to-date<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Wow! What amazing reception, Clint!<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0I would have never guessed that a car park next to the largest stadium in the UK would offer up such excellent listening conditions. Honestly&#8211;that Bangladesh Betar broadcast sounds like a local station.<\/p>\n<p>You also have a great receiver there in the Panasonic\u00a0RF-B65. If memory serves, the RF-B65 is\u00a0also a favorite of <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor\/DXer, <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/dan-robinson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Robinson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Post<\/em> readers: Follow Clint&#8217;s many DX catches on his YouTube channel:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UChtXnzopFIr6wTIA6QwIeLw\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford Shortwave Log<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again for sharing, Clint, and reminding us that DXing locations aren&#8217;t always remote and exotic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Clint Gouveia, who writes: As the designated driver, I found myself waiting for friends at the Beyonce concert at Wembley Stadium last Sunday [July 3rd], Not wishing to miss an opportunity and taking advantage of 8 stories of elevation (top floor of the car park!) I spent about 3 hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3,26,43,5,304,1167],"tags":[5263,145,1031,5265,4328,4407,2831,5266,5264],"class_list":["post-20057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","category-swlers","category-videos","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-clint-gouveia","tag-dx","tag-dxing","tag-dxing-locations","tag-oxford-shortwave-log","tag-panasonic-rf-b65","tag-portable-shortwave","tag-wellbrook-ala1530","tag-wembley-stadium"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5dv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20505,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/radio-guinee-9650-khz-conakry-guinea-a-strong-signal-with-clear-id-received-in-oxford-uk\/","url_meta":{"origin":20057,"position":0},"title":"Radio Guin\u00e9e 9650 kHz Conakry, Guinea; a strong signal with clear ID received in Oxford, UK","author":"Clint Gouveia","date":"August 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"A strong signal with a clear ID from Conakry, Guinea, heard in Oxford UK on 08\/08\/16 at 18:04 hrs UTC using my trusty Panasonic RF-B65 and a 50 metre longwire. 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