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