12.12 - 15.12 Geminids

Geminids meteor shower provided a lot of tiny pings and some longer ones. Longest was +2 minutes. Althought the peak was on the 14th around 11 UTC, the most usable (long ones) pings were in the nights. The effect of repositioning the antenna (due strong homeland tropo) was that almost no east European pings heard this time. Instead those, a lot of Norwegian and Swedish and BBC Radio Nan Gaidheal peaks. Nan Gaidheal has 150 kw so it was expected, but no luck/id althought it was a regular visitor.

Log:
97.5 D: SWR3, Bornberg 13.12 6.11
98.7 D: AFN Hessen-The Eagle. Taunus 50kw 14.12 12.30
98.7 NOR: NRK P2. RDS 800-1100 km. 14.12 16.18
98.7 NOR: NRK P3 Petre 700-1100 km.13.12 23.00
98.7 D: NDR Kultur, Hannover 15kw 14.12 15.05
102.8 D: DLF Wesel-Buderich. 13.12 18.59
102.8 S: SR P4 Västernorrland. Sundsvall 14.12 16.09
102.8 D: NDR Info, Marlow 13.12 17.59
103.8 D: Hit-Radio Antenne Niedersachsen Barsinghausen 14.12 9.59
103.8 D: Radio SH, Heide 12.12 9.57
104.2 D: Landeswelle Thüringen, Inselsberg 12.12 20.03
107.3 D: Ostseewelle Hit-Radio Mecklenburg-Vorpommern West, Schwerin 14.12 10.28

17.10 - 23.10 Lapland Pedition

Savux4 Pedition took place between 17th and 24th October. There were good conditions in a couple of times during that week. Mostly it was NA east coast conditions in the middle of the week until sun hit back at the end of week. During that turbulence there were couple of interesting peaks from east cost and in the afernoons from Philippines. Due the work schedules log is jammed in somewhere.

15.-16. 8. Swedish tropo continued - The end of pedition

Nice tropo continued towards Sweden until was the time to pack home from Utö.

Weather was fine during the whole week, as usual here. Radio conditions were ok, small ES on one day, but good meteor scatter almost all the time and very good tropo to Stockholm area and Klaipeda, pity it just stopped near the cost. Some problems with gear and the over all disturbance with the cottage, some directions were impossible for the roof antenna. Quite heavy wind had a say when selecting favorable direction for the antenna.

14.8.2010 - Good tropo to Stockholm

This time there were tropo, to Stockholm!

Tropo-log:
Tropo:
88.0 S:Stockholms Närradio, Stockholm *
88.4 S:Södertälje NR, Södertälje /TENT/ Spanish. Radio Belem *
88.9 S:Radio Sydväst *
90.2 S:Skärgårdsradion *
91.1 S:Stockholm Järva / /?Radio Hambastagi/ 14.8 18.52
94.2 S:Radio Järfalla (Radio Hamsafar) 14.8 16.51
98.5 S:Radio Haninge, Handen 14.8 20.58
99.9 S:Radio Nacka, Stockholm 14.8 19.50
104.0 S:Rix FM Kalmar, Färjestad 14.8 13.02
104.3 S:Rix FM 104.3, Linköping 14.8 10.17
104.3 S:Mix Megapol Stockholm 14.8 12.01
104.5 S:Rix FM 104.5 Mälerdalen, Torshälla 14.8 21.15
104.7 S:Mix Megapol 104.7 Örebro 14.8 10.26
105.3 S:Rix FM Uppsala, Uppsala 14.8 22
106.1 S:Mix Megapol Västmanland, Västerås 14.8 12.59
106.3 S:Rock Klassiker 106.3, Örebro 14.8 10
106.5 S:Bandit Rock 106.5 Uppsala 14.8 10.43
106.5 S:Rix FM Norrköping 14.8 11.32
106.9 S:Mix Megapol 106.9 Östergotland, Linköping 14.8 9.31
106.9 S:106.9 Rock Klassiker Mälerdalen, Västerås 14.8 20
107.4 S:Rock Klassiker Sundsvall 14.8 10.30

Poland:
98.4 POL: RFM FM, Gdansk 14.8 11.50
101.7 POL: R Plus, Gdansk 14.8 10.04

Meteor:
88.0 D:SR 1 Europawelle, Göttelborner 14.38 18.38

13.8.2010 - The peak of the Perseids

This day in Utö was mainly moving away from tropo frequencies, which was suprise, suprise to Stockholm like all other previous days. There was quite interesting flow of meteor peaks, max peak here was between 7-8.

Tropo:
88.0 S:Stockholms Närradio, Stockholm 13.8 17.31 "Radio Galaxia"
88.9 S:Radio Sydväst 13.8 20.34

Meteor-log:
106.5 AUT:Kronehit 13.8 5
106.5 AUT:Antenne Vorarlberg, Bregenz 50kw 13.8 8.27
106.8 D:Alster Radio 13.8 8.10

12.8.2010 - The 'ES' day

Uto day #4 with ES and meteors, notably around 23-24 UTC. I was mainly avoiding tropo this trying to be in a free zone for meteors, antenna was towards Bretagne, which had the effect of creating peaks from France, Germany and UK.

ES-log:
87.80 I:Subasio 12.8 14.04
88.00 I:Subasio 12.8 14.04
88.00 I:Deejay 12.8 14.21
88.80 I:Deejay 12.8 14.58
89.00 I:Kiss Kiss 12.8 13.45
96.4 I:Radio Margherita, Napoli 12.8 14.03

Meteor:
96.4 F:BFM 12.8 14.19
104.2 BEL: AFN Benelux. SHAPE/Mons 12.8 10.53
104.2 G:BBC Radio Northampton, Northampton, 4kw, 12.8 12.04
104.2 G:BBC Radio Kent, Swingate, 10kw, 12.8 12.09
106.8 G:Original 106 fm, Durris 19kw, 1410 km 12.8 11.04

11.8.2010 - Strong tropo to Stockholm

Utö day #3 showed good troposferic conditions to Stockholm. Also there were some notably meteors early in the morning, wating for the Perseids peak to arrive.

Tropolog:

91.1 S:Radio Hambastegi via Stockholm Järva 11.8 20.40
91.4 S:Tyresöradion 91.4, Tyresö 11.8 16.51
97.5 S:V97, Vallentuna 11.8 22.25
97.8 S:Radio Lidingö, Lidingö 11.8 20
97.9 S:Radio Wix, Valdersmark 11.8 18.53
98.3 S:Radio AVA/Radio Rangarang, Sollentuna 11.8 22.42
100.5 LVA:Radio Ventspils, Ventspils 11.8 8.03
100.6 S:Bandit Rock Norköping (104.9) 11.8 14.40

Meteor:
100.5 G:Classic fm 11.8 8.04