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/
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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