UNID 900 AM 1932 UTC 16 MAY 2023

[owen81]

I'm picking up a station on 900 am not very strong signal but it's popular music. It's too weak to ID at the moment but hopefully I will pick it up when it gets dark if it's still on, I heard talking in English but all I could make out was "I was walking through town earlier today" it sounded like a Scottish accent to me.  My guess is it's an Irish station as I'm in Scotland but I can't seem to find any reliable list of Irish MW stations. It could be a pirate, anyone know if a station that uses this frequency. It surely cant be a US station before dark although I'm in the NW of Scotland at the moment.

[Ray Lalleu]

from the accent and the time,
a crazy idea :

Australia or New-Zealand



(sorry)

[owen81]

Via grey line path I guess you mean?, I was picking it up using the Malahit DSP 2 receiver and the peak on the scope was definitely at 900khz, but there's no licenced stations on 900 I can see here, its getting dark now but I managed to snap the antenna so that puts pay to checking. The Tecsun isn't sensitive enough to pick it up. Could be a local pirate but more likely that radio. Can you explain what an image signal is for me? I think that's what's going on but I can't quite get my head round the explanation I've read.

[Brian]

Unlikely to be Irish. No legal station on that frequency (in fact there are no legal stations) and no Irish pirate logged there.

[Ray Lalleu]

Owen, try again.
Try particularly just around top of the hour. If no real ID, listen for local time of the station, and for the news if any. Also for ads, any detail can help.

Image frequencies are frequencies not really where the receiver display them. With the traditional design of the simple receivers, it was usual to hear at once the displayed frequency, and another frequency about 900 to 940 kHz higher, specially on the SW bands. Then many receivers were designed with double frequency change, to avoid this problem.

With the advent of DSP and SDR, things changed completely, to a much more complicated way. I don't know exactly how the Malahit works.