5.5.2010 - Eta Aquarids

New FM-season is about to begin. While waiting for the fabulous ES performances, there is Eta Aquarids meteor shower now upon us. Peak will be 7th May in the morning, but so far this shower has proved to be remarkable.

Log:
100.4 D:Radio Regenbogen, Hornisgrinde 5.5.2010 5.55 (1900km 80kw)
100.4 D:WDR2 Studio Köln, Bonn (1744km, 50kw) 3.5 6.25
100.4 SVK:Radio Regina BB. Namestovo-tx (1509km, 8,2kw) 3.5 8.55
100.4 HNG: Neo FM, Szentes (1795km, 34.7kw) 2.5 21.10
100.5 HNG: Class FM, Kabhegy 4.5 3.36 (1792km, 70kw)
100.5 MDA:Radio Moldova, Straseni 4.5 9.16 (1702km, 10kw)
100.5 D:NDR Info, Heringsdorf 4.5 9.16 (1178km, 1kw)
100.5 D:Vogtland Radio, Reichenbach 4.5 6.52 (1566km, 1kw)
104.2 D:Landeswelle Thuringen, Inselsberg (1603km, 100kw) 5.5.2010 7.24

Most suprising has been two 1kw's on 100.5 also Radio Moldova with 10kw's is not every day visitor rigth here.

23.4.2010 - Lyrids

Lyrids meteor shower produced some decent reflections this year and one new catch.

Log:

99.7 D:Antenne Brandenburg, Potsdam (1340km, 100kw) 23.4 6

BBC, Czech, Slovak, Polish and German were heard this years Lyrids in 99.7 MHz. Nothing spectacular but remarkably different than last 4 months.

5.4.2010 - Fun Radio

Some meteors flying around.

Log:

104.0 SVK:Fun Radio, Banská Bystrica (1585km, 100kw)5.4 7.51

31.3.2010 - big FM and Radyus FM

Couple of meteors showing outside of the major showers. It seems improving situation in meteor wise.

Log:

104.0 BLR:Radyus FM, Slonim (1043km) 28.3.2010 14.00
104.0 D:big FM, Koblenz (1753km) 31.3.2010 9.45

25.3.2010 - FM season about to start

First FM catch this year is Radio Resita 105.6 from Romania, Resita, with a record meteor reflection of 1933 km. Station has power of 100 kW, which explains part of it.

100th North American QSL

Just received my 100th verification from NA and what is more appropriate than it's being CJRB Boissevain MB 1220 AM a Golden West Radio station. Thanks for very friedly doc! CJRB can be heard here in regular basis in Winter time, this time it was heard in SAVUX3 pedition in quite clear channel.

NA QSLs can be found from here: Na Qsl.

The Quadrantids meteor shower

It's been kind of dry meteor shower season for the last half year. There has been generally good conditions to the Americas, which is good for AM and bad for FM activities. There has been some technical failures and there has been software failures. Perhaps some unluck too with the chosen frequencies and timings. Today I fixed Total Redorder file, which got corrupted on the 5th January.

The Quadrantids meteor shower was not remarkable for the quantity of meteor scatters, there was quite low number of scatters compared to the Perseids. This time there were very lucky timings!

Log:
98.7 D:AFN Hessen-The Eagle, Taunus 5.1 12.46 (1736km) 50kw
98.7 CZE:Hitradio Orion, Trinec 5.1 08.07 1kw, very low power for a meteor scatter. ( 1497km ).
98.7 D:SWR1 Baden Wurttenberg Grünten-tx 5.1 0919 30kw (1931km). Full id and record distance for a meteor.
103.0 D:BFBS Radio 1, Bielefeld 22.12 9.24 (1571km, 70kw)