Utility Radio's Greatest Hits

Try for the classic clock on 60kHz MSF; the weather on 117.4kHz from Mainflingen and the news on 139; embedded data on 198kHz, BBC Radio 4LW switches a million Economy 7 installations; non-directional beacons around the coast on 284.5, 287.3 and 356.5kHz; slow Morse on 484kHz from The Humber and Calling on 500; all at sea on 518kHz for NAVTEX and Calling on 2.182MHz with 2.381 for Commercial Traffic Watch; 2.638MHz for Inter-ship Safety and navigation warnings on 2.670, Land's End Radio; 2.702 for Coastal Control; searching in the dark on 3.023; this Royal Navy FAX sender, nicely embedded in Eighty on 3.652MHz; go for 4.125 Marine Calling/Distress if it goes wrong; Portishead calling CW on 4.274 and 4.286; 4.340 for NATO Distress; 4.384 for Portishead Radio voice; weather on 4.489, Bracknell Met Service in RTTY with 4.489; the RAF on 4.707, 4.710 and the weather on 4.715, keeping watch on 4.742MHz; control the East Coast on 5.080 and 5.113.5; for that Alaskan emergency; weather on 5.505; air traffic control on 5.529, 5.532, 5.598, 5.616, 5.649, rescue on 5.680, more planes on 6.604 and 6.622, marine distress on 8.291; 8.331 for fax from Royal Navy Northwood; 8.634 for Ships Survival Craft; 8.764 for Portishead Radio and 8.764 for the US National Weather Service, in fact the whole range of Utilities can be heard in this sub-band up to 9.032 for RAF Flight Watch; then 9.251, "The Lincolnshire Poacher", classic "English" number station; New York weather on 10.051; so much stuff around 11MHZ including the USAF on 11.141, 11.175 and 11.179 with our boys on 11.204 and the classic 11.234; news on 12.212 RTTY from Tanjung Press Agency, Belgrade and China on 12.228; 12.392 for Marine World-wide Calling and Distress and just so much at 13Mhz, including 13.146 for Portishead Radio; 13.205 for Berne; 13.227 for NASA Launch Support; 13.270 for Gander; long distance Ops on 13.327, 13.330, 13.333, 13.336, 13.339 and 13.342; then 15.035 for St Johns Airforce Base, Canada; last but not least, a rash of long distance working when conditions allow on 17.916, 17.919, 17.922, 17.925, 17.928, 17.931, 17.934, 17.937 and 17.940.

That lot should keep you listening for now while I phone the Guinness Book of Records for the longest sentence ever to appear online.