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