12.12 - 15.12 Geminids

Geminids meteor shower provided a lot of tiny pings and some longer ones. Longest was +2 minutes. Althought the peak was on the 14th around 11 UTC, the most usable (long ones) pings were in the nights. The effect of repositioning the antenna (due strong homeland tropo) was that almost no east European pings heard this time. Instead those, a lot of Norwegian and Swedish and BBC Radio Nan Gaidheal peaks. Nan Gaidheal has 150 kw so it was expected, but no luck/id althought it was a regular visitor.

Log:
97.5 D: SWR3, Bornberg 13.12 6.11
98.7 D: AFN Hessen-The Eagle. Taunus 50kw 14.12 12.30
98.7 NOR: NRK P2. RDS 800-1100 km. 14.12 16.18
98.7 NOR: NRK P3 Petre 700-1100 km.13.12 23.00
98.7 D: NDR Kultur, Hannover 15kw 14.12 15.05
102.8 D: DLF Wesel-Buderich. 13.12 18.59
102.8 S: SR P4 Västernorrland. Sundsvall 14.12 16.09
102.8 D: NDR Info, Marlow 13.12 17.59
103.8 D: Hit-Radio Antenne Niedersachsen Barsinghausen 14.12 9.59
103.8 D: Radio SH, Heide 12.12 9.57
104.2 D: Landeswelle Thüringen, Inselsberg 12.12 20.03
107.3 D: Ostseewelle Hit-Radio Mecklenburg-Vorpommern West, Schwerin 14.12 10.28

17.10 - 23.10 Lapland Pedition

Savux4 Pedition took place between 17th and 24th October. There were good conditions in a couple of times during that week. Mostly it was NA east coast conditions in the middle of the week until sun hit back at the end of week. During that turbulence there were couple of interesting peaks from east cost and in the afernoons from Philippines. Due the work schedules log is jammed in somewhere.

15.-16. 8. Swedish tropo continued - The end of pedition

Nice tropo continued towards Sweden until was the time to pack home from Utö.

Weather was fine during the whole week, as usual here. Radio conditions were ok, small ES on one day, but good meteor scatter almost all the time and very good tropo to Stockholm area and Klaipeda, pity it just stopped near the cost. Some problems with gear and the over all disturbance with the cottage, some directions were impossible for the roof antenna. Quite heavy wind had a say when selecting favorable direction for the antenna.