A recently re-activated 80's FM, Satellite & TV DX hobbyist from SW-Finland, Scandinavia.
Enchanted by distant radiowaves since a kid, when listening the legendary 208 Radio Luxembourg on 1440 kHz MW during those bright Nordic summer nights, then some more HF listening mostly on tropical band. But it was summer 1980, when I got really excited about FM-DX and especially low band TV DX'ing via ES. Started also satellite TV reception in mid 80's, being an early bird on that genre.
Curious and eager to try all possible RX (and some times even TX) setups, despite numerous chatastrophical failures. Also passionately interested in distant destinations, cultures, travel and astronomy. All that could be sometimes wonderfully combined creating my own charmed lane of scattered distant X-memories.
Currently a city QTH greatly reduces my ambitions, but still doing some occassional experiments: bbs.fmdx.tk/index.php?topic=519.0 - in Finnish, so please use browser translator.
I remember seeing the red specks on our TV with a faulty antenna. Later computer tuners were particularly bad with SECAM reception. I could put pressure on the cable to lower the noise. We had one channel from Russia on cable as the last holdout. Apparently they used pure analogue distribution back then, or would have otherwide recoded everything to PAL.
WOW Catch my friend, here in my area, due to war in Ukraine, Aircraft scatter is rare here, hopefully the war ends early with no agressives on 2 sides, 73!
this frequentie is daily in use by Dutch WFM radio pirate stations. Using frequentie 83.5MHz til 87.5MHz. Only for making DX in wide band FM, Stereo and RDS
SECAM may better in broadcasting into airwaves but for editing and post production, it was a nightmare. Need additional cost to demodulate colour signal for SECAM. Most of the broadcast editing and post production SECAM countries are recorded in PAL, only airwaves transmission in SECAM.
