14.12.2011 Geminids

This year Geminids-meteor shower proved to be very numerous but short/sharp pings. There were something going on 13th and 15th, but especially 15th was quite empty from pings, which was unlike last year with 3 equally good days. Longest ping was about 1½ minutes.

Log:
100 D:Radio PSR, Chemnitz 5.03
100 D:Radio Salü. Bliestal 4.40
100 POL: PR Radio Kraków 22.01
100 POL: PR R1 & Radio Maryja *
100 NOR:NRK P2 90kw *
100.1 CZE:Cro 2, Praha *
100.1 G:Classic FM, Sutton Coldfield, 250kw
100.1 SVK:SRo 2 Rádio Regina Banská Bystr. *
100.1 D:Antenne 1, Stuttgart 19.12
100.1 D:Radio SAW, Magdeburg 19.24 + often
100.1 D:RPR1 in a couple of newstimes

In 89.7 MHz looking for a patience, or Malta

One of the listening goals this year was to catch Malta, 3000km, with FM. Almost all the summer there was radio monitoring what's going on 89.7 MHz.
89.7 has one Maltese station and it's almost clear here from domestic or abroad usage. 3000km range seems to be quite optimal for double hops, I've got few in previous summers; Barcelona, Annaba, Tripoli. So that part is within the limits.

In finnish language Malta could be translated as patience. Patience would be needed as 89.7 might not be the right candidate for this task. There are slight finnish interference if inland tropo is enhanced. But the double hop place lies within Italy, which brings aloud stations of that region. Patience was not rewarded this season, but maybe in the next?

This summer log from 89.7 MHz:

BUL:Христо Ботев Utö9
D:HR3 10.6
D:RPR1 RP 10.6

D:WDR3 10.6
D:Hitr RT1 Nordschwaben 10.6
DNK:DR P3 10.6
E:Euskadi Irratia Utö9 June
F:Jazz R, Arras Utö9 June
F:R Boomerang 10.6
F:France Musique 10.6
F:France Culture 10.6

G:BBC R2 *

HRV:Antenna Zagreb 31.5, 10.6

I:RMC 26.5
I:Delta R 26.5
I:Virgin R 21.5
I:PaneburroMarmellata *
I:GRP2 Melody 26.5
I:Rai GR Parlamento 26.5

ROU:Maria R Erdely 10.6

SRB:Ami R , Kikinda 31.5
SRB:Plus R 31.5
SRB:R AS 31.5
SRB:R Marija 10.6
HRV:R Narodni 31.5

UKR:Радіо Південна Столиця 10.6

RUS: Радио Зенит, Санкт-Петербург Vironlahti October
S:R Skellefteå Raippaluoto August
SVK:R One 10.6

Maybe next summer, or next frequency ...

8.-9.11.2011 Åland

Center Finland tropo madness caused a trip to Åland for a clearer waves.

On the way I checked updated Hepburn picture with a shock, promised conditions seemed to vanish. Luckily that wasn't the case. To my relief there was something going on.


Log:
88.7 NOR:NRK P1 1459
89.6 S:SR P6 *
91.1 S:R Todo
1011 S:Studio Mision, Stockholm
107.6 S:Rix FM Skaraborg 5.25
104.6 S:Mix Megapol Värnämo 104.6
102.2 S:SR P4 Väst 7.10
102.7 S:Gävle Cityradion *
102.9 S:SR P4 Sjuhärad 7.36
103.8 S:Cityradion Östra Värmland, Degerfors 8.20
104.1 S:Mix Megapol Jönköping 6.34
104.4 S:Rix FM Karlstadt ? 9.45
106.0 S:Rix FM Jönköping 10.10

Later there were Poland, Lithuania, Latvia audible and in the late evening and next morning almost void. Even Gävle seemed to be tough to catch.

27.-28.10.2011 Virolahti

Late autumn Hepburn promised good conditions to South East. Virolahti was my target, with about 20 km to the border. There was amazingly different band with full Sankt Peterburg around. Also Estonia was well covered.

Log:
88 RUS:Retro FM, Sankt Peterburg-tx 8.53 28.10
88.4 RUS:Avtoradio, Sankt Peterburg-tx 14.14
88.7 RUS:R Vanya, Sankt Peterburg-tx 10.10 28.10
88.8 EST:R Mania 12.06 28.10
88.9 RUS:Yumor FM *
89.3 RUS:Vesti FM *
89.7 RUS:R Zenit, Sankt Peterburg 14.10
89.9 RUS:Radio Dlya Dvoyikh Sankt Peterburg 16.42 //90.6
90.1 RUS:R Eremitage, Sankt Peterburg 16.00
90.2 EST:DFM Tallinn 14.29
91.1 RUS:Keks FM 15.38
91.2 RUS:Ekho Moskva 10.45 28.10
91.5 RUS:Ekho Peterburg 17.58
91.7 EST:R Elmar 13.52
92.6 RUS:R Maria, Viipuri-tx
95.4 RUS:Doroznoe Radio, Viipuri 1245
95.6 EST:Narvskoje Semeinoje Radio 11.00 28.10
96.3 EST:Naroedne R 15.58
96.7 RUS:R Vanya
97.4 EST:R Uuno 22.12
98.2 EST:Semeione r 12.00 28.10
99.3 EST:Nömme R 12.15 28.10
100.1 RUS:R Vanya
100.4 EST:R Viru 13.03
100.9 RUS:Piter FM Sankt-Peterburg 12.37
101.2 EST:Russkoe R 27.10
101.4 RUS:Eldoradio, Sankt-Peterburg
101.7 RUS:R Gardarika * /103.1
*102 RUS:R Roks 11.15 28.10 *
102.2 RUS:Dorozhnoye *
102.4 RUS:Metro FM 11.26 28.10
102.8 RUS:R Maximum 11.47
103 RUS:Baltiyskiy Bereg, Sosnovyi Bor 8.36 28.10
103 RUS: Doroznoe *
103.4 RUS:DFM,Sankt-Peterburg 10.54
103.6 EST:Russkoe R 15.17
103.7 RUS:Detskoe R *
*104 RUS:Nashe Sankt-Peterburg 18.40
104.2 RUS:R Gardarika *
104.4 RUS:R Shanson 20.03
104.5 RUS: Dorozhnoye Radio, Lahdenpohja 17.52
104.6 RUS:DFM Pskov 13.53
104.6 RUS:Radio Dlya Dvoyikh Volkhov(?) (SP) 13.53
105.3 RUS:Love R 28.10 11.10
105.5 RUS:R Baltika / 104.8
105.6 RUS:Yamburg Blues, Kingisepp 1501
1059 RUS:RMC, Sankt-Peterburg
106 RUS:R Miks, Luga 23.06
106 RUS:Evropa Plus (Vyborg?) 16.53
106.3 RUS:R Record. 20.52
106.7 RUS:Doroznoe *
107 RUS:Mayak, Sankt-Peterburg
107.1 RUS:Radio Sedmoye Nebo, Pskov 14.20
107.1 RUS:R Record Kingisep-tx 17.32
107.4 RUS:Biznes FM, Sankt-Peterburg *
107.6 RUS:Dorozhnoye *
107.8 RUS:Russkoye Radio Sankt-Peterburg *

What a trip. A short course to Russian stations!

24.10.2011 - Tropospheric Scatter

Very wide troposferic conditions were the theme of the day. Starting here with high power Polish stations. Sweden and Baltia were very strong all the time.

Log:
98.4 POL:RMF FM, Gdańsk 984km
100.4 S:SR P4 Blekinge Karlshamn. 949km 15.30
101.9 POL:PR Radio dla Ciebie. Plock. 1129km 13.00
101.9 S:SR P4 Göteborg 919km 14.30
103.1 POL:PR Radio Koszalin 1089km 12.19
105.3 POL:Radio Zet, Koszalin 1089km 12.00
106.4 S:Mix Megapol 106.4 Skaraborg. Skövde 818km 20.58

16.10.2011 - Another day in Åland

A very good tropo in the morning, Denmark was heard with couple of stations. In the evening Stockholm stations were storming.

Denmark:
105.4 tent.DNK:Radio Aura 9.53 Checked towards internet stream at the time of the listening, no identification though.
105.7 DNK:Radio ABC, Randers 9.20 Proabably heard also at 7.05.

Sweden:
87.7 S: Håbo närradio, Håbo 18.52
89.8 S: Nöjesradion, Enköping 17.00
90.4 S: S:Radio Skövde, Skövde 385km, 0.5kw 19.00
90.5 S: MRS (Stockholm Västerort NR), Stockholm-Vällingby. Planetary Radio programming 23.51
91.6 S: Radio Botkyrka, Botkyrka 19.55
92.6 S: 106.7 Rock Klassiker Gästrikland 20.33
92.7 S: Eskilstuna Närradio, Eskilstuna 19.51
93.7 S: Vår Radio, Västerås 17.58
101.400 S: Radio Viking, Ekerö. [VIKING] 20.50
103.7 S: Radio Österåker * "Radio Stoker"
103.9 S:Mix Megapol 103.9 Södertälje 18.30
105.4 S:Mix Megapol Kalmar 8.04
105.5 S:Mix Megapol Dalarna 22.24

15.10.2011 - A day in Åland

Another very good day for tropospheric scatter - blah. Promises, promises.
Some new and some old found though from the band.

Log;
103.5 S:Radio Avesta 12.12
102.6 S:Rix FM Dalarna 11.42
104 S:Rock Klassiker Dalarna 10.33
104.4 S:Rockklassiker Mälardalen 11.33
105.7 S:Bandit Rock 105.7, Nyköping 10.00
107.7 S: Rix FM 107.7 Nyköping 5.20

26.8-27.8. 2011 - West Coast Tropo

Warm weather coming from South-West caused nice maps with Hepburn. So I give it to try with a small DX-pedition to the West Coast, Raippaluoto.

There were good conditions to the north coastal cities of Sweden.

Log:
89.7 S:Radio Skellefteå 11.02
90.9 S:Rockklassiker Skellefteå 5.05
91.3 S:Rockklassiker Örnsköldsvik 5.39
92.4 S:Rix FM Skellefteå 8.45
92.9 S:Pite FM, Piteå 7.12
100.4 S:SR P4 Jämtland 10.31
101.8 S:Rix FM 106.2 Umeå *
101.9 S:Rix FM Sundsvall 101.9 10.45
102.3 S:Radio Umeå 102.3 19.06
103.6 S:SR P4 Västerbotten 9.30
104.2 S:Mix Megapol Umeå 19.02
104 S:Rix FM Åre och Östersund 104 9.39
104.8 S:Mix Megapol 104.8 Örnsköldsvik 9.00
104.9 S:Mix Megapol 104.9 Gästrikland 6.03
105.1 S:Mix Megapol 105.1 Hälsingland 10.00
105.4 S:Mix Megapol Skellefteå 19.31
105.5 S:Mix Megapol Sundsvall 105.5 1.29
105.6 S:Rix FM Luleå 105.6
105.7 S:Radio Örnsköldsvik *
106.2 S:Rix FM Umeå 20.26
106.3 S:Bandit Rock 106.3 Luleå 23.45
106.7 S:Bandit Rock, Skellefteå 20.42
107.0 S:Rockklassiker Umeå 20.30
107.1 S:Rix FM Örnsköldsvik 21.38
107.4 S:Rockklassiker Sundsvall 22.00

21.8.2011 - Saana

On the way from Norway I decided to pay a visit to Saana.


On the rigth: Intelligent wild life.








Saana














On the way up. At this point Körner didn't know what's up.
















Finally there. But what is this whitey thing around?









Yep, it was cloud. Total listening session lasted almost two hours. There were non existent conditions to everywhere. Radio Kiruna was aloud and all the Norwegians had church broadcasting for the incident happened earlier in the summer. P4 was identified before that, nice.

And down we go. Seeing was limited to 10 meters.

11.8.2011 - 14.8.2011 Perseids Meteor Shower

For this years Perseids meteor shower antenna was turned to the west for Norwegians. While antenna was pointing to the west there were fewer pings than usual Perseids provides. But there are fever high power stations in the west than south. It was interesting to notice ping starting with Norwegian/Danish while it was turned to in English language at the end.

Log:
88.7 DNK:DR P1 15.8 13.30
88.7 G:BBC Radio 2 often
88.7 D:BR 2 often
89.5 NOR:NRK P1 Telemark 15.8 4.05
89.5 D:hr3 often
93.0 NOR:NRK Alltid Nyheter 12.8 4.30
93.0 G:BBC Radio 4 often
95.9 G:BBC Humberside 11.8 9.10
95.9 NOR:NRK Hedmark og Oppland 13.03
95.9 DNK:DR P4 Østjylland 12.8 6.07
95.9 D:SWR4 RP Ludwigshafen 16.8 5.35

21.10.2011 JTK commenting:
The shift from Norwegian to English stations can be explained with the level of ionization: once the meteor hits, the level of ions is very high, and a short skip with a sharp reflection angle is possible. When the ionization gradually fades, the last man standing will be signals with the most obtuse (blunt) angle..

Meteors can bring a MUF up to 500 MHz. (My personal record is tv channel E26/ 511 MHz). Which means a very sharp short skip on FM. (My shortness record is YLE Kerimäki at 308 km).

28.7.2011 - Italy

Suprise conditions to Italy in the late evening.

Log:

96.8 I:Radio Stella (MO) 18.45
95.6 I:Radio Genius. Muggia (TS) 18.45

26.7.2011 - ES of France & UK

Third day in a row for some kind of a ES.

Log:

88 F:Frequence Horizon, Bethune-Lens/Bouvigny-Boyeffles (62). [FHORIZON]. 11.09
89.7 G:BBC Radio 2 11.xx

24.7.2011 - Long time no ES see - Turkey, Bulgaria, Moldova and Romania

This ES had main focus was in the Black Sea. Coastal cities got it's share from Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and Turkey.

Log:
88.7 ROU: Kiss FM, Focsani local 13.00 (also 88 & 88.5)
89.2 TUR: Alem FM, Istanbul 12.37
89.6 TUR: Mujde FM, Istanbul 12.26
89.6 MDA: Hit FM, Slobozia 11.15
90.2 TUR: Radio Turkuvaz, Istanbul 11.05
90.2 BUL: Horizont 13.02 [MALKO TARNO]
90.2 ROU: Vibe FM 13.31
90.3 BUL: BNR Radio Shumen [BNR/RADIO/SHUMEN] 13.08
90.3 ROU: Radio Zu 13.19
90.4 TUR: Haber Turk Radyo, Istanbul 12.30
90.4 BUL: Novo Radio Targovishte 13.12
90.6 TUR: Super FM, Istanbul 12.44
91.7 BUL: Alfa Radio 12.49
93.8 BUL: Radio 1 12.31
106.4: TUR: Radyo Keyf, Istanbul 12.47

2.7.2011 - CR Regional Sever

There was a kind of an ES, this time CR Sever showed it's RDS for a couple of times. CR Sever is easily the most often seen Cesky station around here.

log:

88.8 CZE: CR Regional Sever

29.6.2011 - Lower band Balkan

Todays offer was short bursts of ES with Balkan stations.

88.2 Radio Jugovic

28.6.2011 - ES to BEL, CZE, D, F, G, IRN

There were wide spread of ES burst to Europe and to briefly Iran today. However most of time it was Bayerisher show time.

Log:
88,8 CZE:CR Sever [SEVER] 8.07
89.7 D: Unsere Radio Passau 9.15
92.8 D: MDR 1 Radio Sachsen 9.03
95.7 BEL: VRT Radio 1 10.54
96.0 G: BBC Radio Cambridgeshire 10.55
96.8 D: BR 1 Niederbayern und Oberpfalz [BR 1 N/O] 9.30
96.8 IRN: IRIB 9.36
96.8 G:BBC Radio Cumry 10.04
96.9 G: Heart Bedford 11.23
97.1 D:Metro FM, Newcastle 9.35
97.5 D: Energy Sachsen 8.33
98.3 CZE: Hitradio Dragon 9.48

Utö9 - 10.6.2011 - 19.6.2011

A comprehensive guide for Utö9 pedition could found from here: Utö9 Blog. Some loggings, mine, are available here: log.

10.6.2011 - Travelling day to Utö - All around Europe conditions in Central Finland

Central Finland got it's share of ES conditions. I had a couple of radios left for monitoring while moving to South and Utö.

ES conditions could be described as of a continuum of meteor showers; stations were aloud of 20 - 30 seconds at a time. Usually there was a 2-3 stations audible at the same time to make things better. After a brief look up on, at 106.9, languages detected were Danish, Dutch, English, French, German (with several dialects), Italian, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian and Serbian.
While Southern part of country enjoyed longer period of British Isles, here was just a brief visit there. At that time ES dropped a visit Denmark, Norway and Holland.

Log:
105.6 MDA: Megapolis FM 14.07
105.6 ROU: Magic FM 14.14
105.6 RUS: Militseyskaya Volna 14.57
105.6 NOR: TVH Radio, Haugesund 16.01
105.6 D:SWR4 16.33
105.6 I: Radio Alba, Alba 16.34, with Deejay & Capital
105.6 BEL: Antwerpen FM, Antwerpen 17.57
105.6 BEL: Club FM 18.02
106.9 D:Hitradio RTL Sachsen 12.23
106.9 HRV: Petrinski Radio, Petrinja 15.45
106.9 NOR: Radio 102, Haugesund 15.59
106.9 NOR: Radio Vest-Telemark, Rauland 16.08
106.9 G: Jack FM 17.18
106.9 F:Skyrock Lens-Bethune 106.9, Béthune/ local 18.08

27.5.2011 - Utö8 closing down

Small periods for an hour to Bari in the lower band was the this days achievement. Hrvatska was visited in the same time.

Utö8 closes now down. 4 four days in a row with ES! Many Mediterranean countries/cities/islands were visited from Algeria, Spain, France, Corse, Italia, Greece, Rhodos, Turkey, Antalaya, Hrvatska, Serbia, Slovenia and San Marino.

Log from today:
88.2 I:Radio 24, probably from Bari with RDS
88.8 I:Radio Bari, Bari RDS R.BARI
90.6 I:TRBC - Tele Radio Buon Consiglio, Palo del Colle (ba) RDS CONSIGLIO

26.5.2011 - The Day of Esmeralda

This day at Utö8 has 8 hours ES, Esmeralda, mostly Italy, with occasional breaks to France, Alps and Balkan.
Lower band was open to Bari in the afternoon and in the evening band was open up to 108.

Highlights were:
- San Marino 102.7, a new country for me, tnx JMN for pointing this!
- Radio Esmeralda
- North African break, with several frequencies open, at the moment all are unids.
- A short Spanish break at the end.
- A lot of Italian booming with the fullspeed.

... at the same time elsewhere. While enjoying in the Utö my best ever Italy catering, there was few equipments left for monitoring in the central Finland. Previous days left very little for few clicks norther (300km +). 24th & 25th few bursts here and there, but 26th was much better. While in Utö conditions changed to the South, Bari. Kuuhankavesi region enjoyed Northern part of Italy.

Log:
89.7 I:PaneBurroMarmellata 14.32
89.7 I:GRP2 Melody 15.18
96.9 I:Latte Miele Emiliana Romagna 14.30
103.1 I:Radio Dimensione Musica 15.40
103.1 I;R Monte Kanate 14.57
103.8 I:R Piu 15.26
103.8 I:R Cortina 14.50

25.5.2011 - Turkish and Greek Utö

For the second day in a row Utö8 has the ES. This time it was booming lower band in to places Izmir, Antalaya and Istanbul, from Greece side it might be Rhodos along with other places. Italy was availably on few ½ minute occasions. Turkish network stations have a nice habit of showing the location with RDS, which helped a lot cathing and identifying stations. But the nature of conditions was fast fading and hopping between those places.

Log:
GRC:
90.6 ERA2 Dheftero Program 14
...

24.5.2011 - The Fading ES day in Utö

Fast fading ES was to mostly Italy, but France, Bosnia and Alps get their share also. Also there were couple of unidentified North Africans and one sunbathing snake, which was lucky enough to avoid being stepped over.


87.5 I:Radio Subasio 15.35 (also Capital)
87.7 F:Fun Radio Corse 16.42
87.7 F:France Culture with unid arabic for a long time.
87.8 F:Radio Star 17.24
87.9 F:Radio Maritima, Istres 17.27
88.1 SUI:DRS 1 "Zambo" 17.17 Tnx JMN!
88.2 tent BIH:Radio Zepce 15.36
88.4 ALG:RTA Chaîne 2. Nador 17.51 70kw 3226km 221° Tnx Samir Elahcene!
89.6 I:Onda Libera (PG) 15.43 Tnx JMN!
89.9 I:RDS 15.45
90.2 I:mo2 15.50
92.1 SUI:Rouge FM 16.12
93.8 I:Radio Bruno 16.10
93.8 I:Radio Millinote 16.22
95.8 I:Lattemiele 16.01
99.0 I:RMC 16.17
99.1 I:105 16.21
99.1 I:Radio Center Music FM 16.20

Utö 8: 22.5 - 27.5

Arrived 22nd in the evening, got finally in the 23rd day all gear up. To summarize this 23rd day: wind, rain, thunder and lightning.

Enjoy the silence: The Band is clear and waiting for the ES!

21.5.2011 - ES Season officially open

This was the day of lot of small ES bursts. It started with Balkan and moved to France, Italy and Alps. One minute lower band was full of French then nothing, then little later there was Italian then German.

Log:
88.0 F:Evasion FM 11.30
88.0 I:Radio Milano 11.15
88.2 D:RSA der Allgäesender, Kaufbeuren (bay) 11.20
88.2 SUI:Radio Top 11.45 RDS "TOP"
88.5 D:Radio Ramasuri, Tirschenreuth (bay) 11.21
88.5 SUI: DRS1 11.50 RDS RDS 1
88.6 I:Radio Birikina, Paone (PD) 10.45
88.7 D:Bayern 2, Sudbayern 9.33
88.7 F:Cherie FM Gray, Gray (70), 11.30 "Cherie FM Gray"
88.7 HRV:Radio Našice 7.35
88.8 F: Méga FM, Chateauneuf Sur Loire (45) 10.47 RDS MEGA FM
88.8 SUI: R Berner Oberland, Bern. Niesen 11.49 "B E O"
89.7 D:Hitradio RT1 Nordschwaben, Dillingen (bay) 11.32
89.7 I: Virgin R 11.00
90.2 AUT: Kronehit, Weitra 11.25
90.2 D:Hit R RT1 Südschwaben, Memmingen (bay) 11.30
90.2 SUI: R Zuerisee, Winterarthur 11.49 ZUERISEE RDS
93.3 D:Energy Munchen München/Olympiaturm (bay) 11.11

8.5.2011 - Eta Aquariids

Eta Aquariids should be now over, but still quite long pings around.

95.8 D: RBB Radio Eins. Berlin/Alexanderplatz (brb) 13,34 100kw 1340km 221°
105.5 CZE:Evropa 2 Brno/Hády (Brn) 93.33kw 1593km 212° often
105.5 F:France Info Mulhouse/Belvédère (68) 100kw 2016km 225° often

7.5.2011 - Eta Aquariids, Berlin Alexanderplatz

Fine meteor shower morning. Longest ping was almost 4 minutes.

Log:
95.8 D: RBB Radio Eins. Berlin/Alexanderplatz (brb) 7.5 13.34 100kw 1340km 221°
95.8 D: NDR 1 Niedersachsen, Aurich (nds) 7.5 9.57 25kw 1484km 237°
105.5 D:WDR Eins live Teutoburger Wald/Bielstein (nrw)100kw 1567km 230°
105.5 D: Spree R 105.5 Berlin/Alexanderplatz (brb) 5 1340km 221°
105.5 CZE:Evropa 2 Brno/Hády (Brn) 93.33kw 1593km 212° 7.5 often
105.5 F:France Info Mulhouse/Belvédère (68) 100kw 2016km 225°

5.5.2011 - Eta Aquariids

Eta Aquarids meteor shower is upon us. Peak is expected to max 5th, 6th and 7th morning. 3rd of May produced max of 2½ mins ping.

Log:
89 CZE:Radio Impuls, Ostrava 3.5 often 48kw 202° 1480km
89 DNK: DR P1 Sønder Højrup/Sdr. Højrupvejen 21 (sdk-fyn) 3.5 often 60kw 1205km 236°
105.5 D:WDR Eins Live, Teutoburger Wald 3.5 5.03 100kw 230° 1567km

20.3.2011 - 26.3.2011 Lapland pedition

Savukoski pedition will take place in the next week. 300 (1km) and 330 (700m) degree beverages are already there and at least one more will be placed. Haven't been in pedition so late in the spring in the north so not sure what to expect.

8.3.2011 Radio Nord Revival 6060 khz

50 years jubileum transmission with 10 kW heard here in Hankasalmi from Sala, Sweden. Actually transmission was forked with Tecsun PL-380, which had it's telescope antenna removed. Signal was clear and audible for a quite long time and without noise. Later in the evening in Jyväskylä there was equal strength russian station audible as well. It was interesting program to follow!


Links:
http://radionordrevival.blogspot.com/
mp3
mp3

Africa on FM - Al Shababiyah FM

Heard on May 2010, not identified on then until now March 2011 when Samir Elahcene checked the clip. With my Arabic skills this had been mission impossible. This skip is now my record with 3421 km.

It seems from the picture attached that there could have been bounce on the Hungarian ground (near Gyor, 1700km), luckily there was no transmitter at that spot. Also ES clouds must have been above Lithuania/Kaliningrad and South Italy (Parco Nazionale del Ciento e Vallo Di Diano to be precise). Another thing which made this possible was a clear channel on 88.8 MHz. Classic FM Jämsä, 87 km to SW from here, ceased transmission 2009 and Summer Festival station in summer 2010 had not yet started.

One interesting point is that there were no other stations logged on that day. This seems similar occasion as Annaba FM from Algeria later that good summer in this same frequency, it was also only station heard at that time.

And the station itself: mp3
LBY:Al Shababiyah FM, Tripoli 88.8 26.5.2010 15.09

/Edit 6.3.2011 Map and bounce locations.

Utö7 signal distribution

Picture shows how and where from the signals travel to Utö:
- Yellow - Utö island
- Blue - tropo, mainly for coasts
- Green - meteors
- Red - ES propagation

There where couple of new meteor countries to me; Belgium, Austria, Italy and Serbia.

Maps shows clearly why UK meteors are quite rare in the Center Finland, best transmission location is in the North Sea.

Utö7 log update

Utö7 took place last August, updated log can be found here: Utö7.

4.1.2011 - Quadrantids

This years Quadrantids proved to be a challengin beast. Local max was here about 5 - 6 UTC. There were a lot of pings but those were dreadfully short ones. In the evening though pings were fewer but longer.

91.4 D: Berliner Rundfunk 91.4, Berlin Alexanderplatz 16.49
91.4 CZE:R Impuls Plzeň 3.06
96.3 ROU:RR Radio Iaşi, Iaşi 4.02
96.3 D: Bayern 3 Kreuzberg 14.44
96.3 D: Funkhaus Europa, Berlin Scholzplatz 7.33
96.3 S: Radio Romano SR P2 12.56
105.2 D: Hitradio RTL Sachsen, Dresden 11.28