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)

7.2-8.2.2010 SAVUX3 - Day 10 and closing down

There were Japan & Korea opening in the 7th day afternoon. In the night and morning there were general/weak east coast conditions with some south Americans. Nothing clear to log though.

What an interesting week it has been in Lapland. Those NA west coastish stations, which are reasonably rare to hear in south Finland are quite common in Lapland. These include KFI 640, KBOI 670, KFRC 1550, KWKW 1330, KCLK 1430 and several SD radios: KNWC 1270, WNAX 570 and not to forgetting Oregon: KXL 750, KEX 1190, KWOD 1390. Alaska (590,660,670,680,790,820,970,1140,1170) and Washington (950, 1000 of course, 1090, 1430, 1460, 1480, 1510) were strong almost every afternoon. The problem being here to avoid splatter from euro frequencies.

East cost NA DX was pretty much the same as in south Finland, mostly the same big ones, and also the rare ones. Highlight being here daytimer 1510 WRRD Waukesha WI with ESPN Deportes.

Memorable moments were first catchs from graveyards: CFFB Iqaluit NU, heard this also in south, which is no wonder because it was storming night after night. Other found graveyarders were:
1230: KKEE,
1240: KTIX, KDLR, WMMB,
1340: CFYK strong in afternoons
1400: -
1450: KONP
1490: -

It was good moments to be in openings to Hawaii, Mexico, China, Korea and Japan.

South Asia and Central/South America were lacking appropriate antenna, so there was not much effort to these directions.

Here is SAVUX3 log, currently on the fly status.