[HCDX] INteresting 'pirate' station :canibal

[Zacharias LIangas <zliagas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Canibal
 An interesting station  - Greek alternative  radio  - but also a hard catch  here in 
Thessaloniki !

 This station has  been  heard at least  10 year ago when I was  in vacations in an 
island  together  with 1287  NW As most Greek  stations rarely identify themselves 
they were both in my unIDed station list ?..

 ................Till summer 11!

 Two years  ago Iin our country house in Chalkidiki  I was  listening to them with   
Degen radio coupled to Tescun antenna  loop and  spent more than  3 hours  in finally 
finding their  ID and  their contact info .  (and by chance for 1287 but it is not  
our subject )

 Some discussion of the DJ in charge  revealed that there are7  DJs  . Each DJ has 
his own studio. Most of these DJs are aged around 60s  These studios  are located  in 
diverse  points in Athens , radio linked (multiplexed) in to the main transmitter on 
846 kHz  of reduced power of 1 kW (on a transmitter of 3 kW ) Each one airs   his 
prgram once a week and on Sunday all have their time slot with a 2 hrs  ! They play 
24 hrs  per day 

  In contrast to the  other free radio stations in Greece they play a radically 
different music  content . From the little I was able to listen  , their music is of 
the era of 40-70s , with mostly western , jazz ,French , soul and the likes as well 
as Greeks (once a week,i) of the 30-50 era (mostly   operas and operettas ) Each DJ 
has his own time zone program . Therefore each studio is  ?time multiplexed?  
 
   Frequqncy is 846 kHz Reception  as noticed  in the start of this article is rather  
difficult  in THS . Using  R75 and 16 m horizontal  antenna   the signal  is only S6 
at best and  can be received after 9 pm local time . Inside the house only loop 
antennas can make reception feasible. Outside  the  house only PL380  and the 
refurbished DE1103 can  get better results !  A short testeing on 7-9  indside the 
house was S8 max on 16 hor antenna or 25/10 on the PL380 radio. 

 MY  verdict : 9/10   . Cannibal is nearly one of the  few stations  with alternative  
music (in MW ) in Greece following the near-to-demise of ERA .One of these DJs  has 
verified to me that there are  several other  free radio stations playing  a  'norm' 
quite different than most MW pirates 
Kudos and thenka to the  team  for helping me for writing this article !   

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