Utö10 3.6 - 6.6.2012 Enjoy the silence

Best tropo in these days had been to Finland. Best catch was Radio Blue Sky from Kosovo, with meteor started short lived ES.




 Tropo log:
89.2 LVA.SWH Rock, often
97.7 LVA:Star FM, Pure, often

Meteor-ES:
97.7 KOS:R Blue Sky, Pristina 6/6 11.29

Utö10 - 2.6.2012 5 minutes

A brief ES with 5 minutes and Radio Dellen International on 5895 KHz.

Log:

5.895 S:Radio Dellen International, Delsbo 20.27

87.9 I: Punto R, Bologna (BO) 16.08
87.9 AUT:Ö3 16.08

Utö10 - 2½ hours Italy

It started with Ukraine, Greece, Turkey but soon proved to be all around Italy. Locations near Torino, Roma and Brindisi were signaled often. Shorts visits Balkan, Albania and Bayern were also on days menu.

Log:
87.5 I:R Subasio, Ancona 7.48
87.5 I:R Norba 8.26
87.6 BUL:BNR R Shumen, Shumen 8.32
87.7 I:R Venere 9.53
87.9 I:Linea-1 8.26
88.1: ROU:RR Actualitati 9.24
88.3 I:R Margharita 10.01
88.6 I:R Comunita 9.27
89.7 D:Gong FM 8.43
89.7 ROU:RR Cultural
90.8 I:Virgin R  9.50
91 I:R Radicale 9.24
91.2 GRC:ERA 8.51
91.2 I:RAI 2 9.01
91.6 I:R Aut Marche 7.56
91.6 I:Ciccio Riccio 9.51
92 BIH:RTV BN 9.34
93.3 CVA: R Vaticana 8.33
93.4 BUL:R Melody 9.10
92.8: I:Love FM 9.39
90 ALB:R Marija 9.22
95.5 I:R Maria 10.23
97.5 I:RAI3 9.45
96.9 I:R Selene 9.32

 
Later evening there was a night ES, thanks for JTK for alerts!

Log:
87.8 F:France Bleu, Network  21.26
98 F:ID FM, Paris 21.37

Utö10 31.5.2012 Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and Italia

We got a little bit more than 2 hours ES today. Places visited were Kavala, Thessaloniki, Istanbul, Bulgaria and also short drops to Italy and Romania.

MUF was occasionally up to 108, but most of the time near 100.

Some RDS's and live loggings:

GRC: 92.4 R Ekfrasi, Thessaloniki 14.40
GRC: 97.7 Capital FM, Katerini 15.03
I:        99.6 Kiss Kiss 16.24 
TUR: 101.0 Virgin, Istanbul 16.09 
TUR: 101.2 Semerkandradyo, Istanbul 16.10
BUL: 101.6 Horizont 16.15
TUR: 101.8 Dost FM , Istanbul 16.15

Utö10 30.5.2012

29.5 had small burst elsewhere Finland, not here.
30.5 had something better to offer, but still quite shorts periods of ES.

Log:

I: 87.7 R Italia Anni 60 Emilia Romagna, Bologna (BO).
E: 87.8 ABC Punto Radio, Catalunya
F: 87.8 Le Mouv'. Lyon (69)
HRV: 87.8 R Dalmacija, Split. Brac -tx. Meteor
I: 87.8 Punto R
F: 87.9 RTS FM
F: 87.9 R Maritima
I: 88.3 R. Evangelo. Bologna (BO)
E: 89.4 Cadena 100, Catalunya
F: 89.4 France Inter
F: 90.3 Rire &
F: 97.8 Kiss FM. Draguignan/le Malmont 2(83)

Utö10 28.5.2012 - 7.6.2012

Utö10 has started with fine weather and with DXers JOE & JY and hams PSS & PJL.

Equipments are bunch of XDRs along with Sony ST-SDB900, Sony S570ES (nice name), Sony MDS-JE780, Technics ST-G90 equipped with Trix masthead amplifier in Körner 15.9, 15.10 and Triax 8.

This was first full day here. ES dropped a visits just after first masts were up.

Log:

F: 87.9 R Maritima 11.32
F: 88.2 Métropole Radio, Brignoles (83) 11.33
F: 88.2 Mix la Radio Étudiante, Orange/Piscine des Cèdres (84). 14.39
F: 95.5 Rire & 15.50
I: 87.8 Inblu [INBLU] 16.17 19.00

4.1.2012 - Quadrantids

Quadrantids meteor shower peak was 18 UTC, according to imo.net.
There was a quite sharp peak while ZHR reached almost 100 per hour.

From DX perspective the intensity was little better than nothing. Couple of 1½ minutes pings was noticed during this shower in two days period.

Log:
93.8 D:Antenne MV, Röbel (mev) 3.1 20.34
93.8 D:Radio Bremen 1 10.22
100.5 DNK:Radio24syv, Köbenhavn 16.45