Utö pedition 27.7 - 3.8 has started



Utö pedition has started in always sunny weather. Tropo was low/nil at the start, but increasing and moving all the time. More info can be found here. And there is ES coming...

22.7.2009 - Looking for the missing ES from the lake

Quite a while since last ES, maybe it's also went to paddle?





Latest meteor log:
90.6 D:WDR 5,Teutoburger Wald (1567km) 18.7

17.7.2009 - ES - 2 minutes from Ukraine

This day presented another short ES opening. This time Avtoradio Simferopol from Ukraine was audible for about 2 minutes.

Log:
UKR: 90.6 Avtoradio, Simferopol (2000km) 17.7 8.20

12.7.2009 - Rapid and fading ES

There was ES on the air for about 6 minutes in the morning to Italy and Balkan. Stations were fading up and down very quickly, so that no RDS:es were available. Quite frustrating to notice the uprise of ES and sudden ending of it.

So far meteors for this month:
90.3 D: NDR 90.3 Hamburg (1332km) 1.7 6.35
Heard this in several occasions.
90.3 RUS:Avtoradio Moskva (980km) 8.7 15.24
90.8 POL: PR1, Lublin (1250km) 2.7 13.52

6.7.2009 - Midway of the FM Summer


A brief summary of the FM summer this far:

Blue needle - Tropo scattering.

Yellow needle - Meteor.

Red needle - ES.

Tropo - max 779 km
Meteor - max freq 96.0, distances 1250km - 1884km
ES - max freq 91.8, distances: single hop 1494km - 2289km, double hop 2655km-3527km

3.7.2009 - Silence in golden

Wavhead is also golden: 29th June corrupted file got fixed.

29th June evening log, complete:
87.8 SVN: Radio Fantasy, Celje (1934km) 29.6 16.52
88.2 I: Radio Deejay. Rose-Stio (cs) (2646km)/Tempio Pausania/Monte Limbara (ot) (2655km)
This must be double hop! 29.6 16.14

88.2 F: Sea FM, Saint-Lô/la Houssaie (50), (2236km) 29.6 16.43
88.4 CZE: Radio Blanik, again here, was allready in the mornig ES.
88.4 CZE: Radio Hana, Kroměříž (Zli) (1526km) 29.6 1651
88.8 HNG: Klub Radio Budapest, Ajka (1788km) 29.6 16.35
88.8 CZE: ČRo 5 Sever, Ústí nad Labem/Buková hora (Ust) (1496km) 29.6 16.37

1.7.2009 - First July Meteor

Kind of EShish towards Germany in the morning. But not.

90.3 D: NDR 90.3 Hamburg (1332km) 1.7 6.35 Meteor.

29.6.2009 - Night ES - More Czech

A little longer ES than in the morning. Computer hangup though spoiled this evening, resulting corrupted Total Recorder file. Argh.

Log:
88.4 CZE: Radio Hana, Kroměříž (Zli) (1526km) 29.6 1651