14.6.2009 - Day of the first ES - Benelux

First ES heard here! DX-Sherlock was right. There were ES clouds over southern Sweden and Benelux was audible.

88.9 LUX: RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg, Dudelange (1861km) 14.6 1641
89.5 BEL: VRT Klara, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw (1819km) 14.6 17.00
91.8 Unid HOL

9.6.2009 - More meteors - Poland and Romania

This day had more meteors on the way.

95.6 POL: Radio Zlote Przeboje Puls, Lublin (1250km) 9.6 10.03
96.0 ROU: Radio Romania Actualitati, Moldovenesc (1643km) 9.6 23

8.6.2009 - Meteor scatters to the Hungary

Meteor scatters to the Hungary were the days theme:

90.3 HNG: MR 2 Petöfi Radio Uzd (Tol) (1796km) 8.6 16.56. Thanks also for the verification!
90.6 HNG: Radio 1, Pecs (1884km) 8.6 4.56

26.5.2009 - Estonian tropo

Most common Estonian private stations here, are these:

88.2 Tartu Pereraadio, Kohtla-Nömme (339km)
91.2 Raadio Elmar, Valgjärve (478km)
91.7 Raadio Elmar, Koeru (380km)

Kuunhankavesi FM antenna

This Körner 15.9 might have a too low position, but there is a break in the forest towards SW.

25.5.2009 FM season has started

Jyväskylä Körner 15.9 antenna.

Jyväskylä Yagi has best direction towards SE, because hill/mountain Laajavuori is blocking west.

I decided to give a try for FM DXing. So I ordered the above antenna from Sweden. Körner antenna has very solid build and was quite selfexplanatory to build up. System includes also Yaesu G-250 antenna rotor, but currently no preamp since Jyväskylä has quite many FM trasmitters.

FM receiver system includes now Sony XDR-F1HD and Icom IC8500. Sony has better sound quality than Icom, but it lacks scanning and OIRT band. Also Sony is quite a good heater, if there is a need for warming.

Some very first tropo catchs, which proved to be the usual suspects here:

88.2 Tartu Pereraadio, Kohtla-Nömme (339) 25.5 *
90.4 ERR Klassikaraadio, Kohtla-Nömme (339) 25.5
93.4 ERR Raadio 4, Koeru (380km)
94.5 ERR Raadio 4/Radio Chetyrey in Russian, Tallinn (340km) 25.5 *
94.8 ERR R4, Pärnu
102.9 ERR Raadio 2, Kohtla-Nömme (339) 26.5 *
104.1 ERR Vikerraadio, Tallinn (340km) 25.5 * RDS "VIKER"
104.8 ERR Vikerraadio, Pärnu (457km) 26.5
105.4 ERR Vikerraadio, Kohtla-Nömme (339) 25.5 *
106.1 ERR Vikerraadio, Valgjärve (478km) 26.5
106.6 ERR Klassikaraadio, Tallinn (340) 25.5
107.6 ERR Klassikaraadio, Koeru (380km) 26.5

Kayak on the ice

Today some one has put ice floor to the lake, so that's the end of this kayaking season.

Picture below is from the end of November when there was only 1 cm icing in the beach. More pics from Picasa.