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Good old in and out tricks

Good old in and out tricks

Published 09.06.2016 by JTK

Easy lazy day with occasional short French openings. In the morning to NW edge of l’Hexagone, then Paris region, and finally Marseille and thereabouts. Here’s the quick roundup of today’s crème de la crème (+ denotes a First in Finland, and local opt-outs count).

87.800 9.6. 1252- + F: Radio Star, Orange (84). Local ID
88.600 9.6. 1025- + F: Graffiti Urban Radio, La Roche-sur-Yon (85).
88.700 9.6. 1016- F: Nostalgie Charente Maritime, La Rochelle (17).
88.900 9.6. 1250- F: Delta FM Terre de Camargue, Le Grau-du-Roi (30).
89.000 9.6. 0523- F: RCF Finistère, Brest (29).
89.100 9.6. 1003- F: RTL2 Nord. Local ID.
89.400 9.6. 0658- D: NE-WS 89.4, Düsseldorf. MS! 1 kW only
90.400 9.6. 1016- F: Radio D4B, Melle (79).
90.600 9.6. 0957- F: R Bouton, Boutancourt (08).
91.100 9.6. 1004- F: Radio Intensité, Chateaudun (28).
91.300 9.6. 0843- F: Cherie FM, Paris. Local ID.
91.600 9.6. 0843- F: Cherie FM, Tours. Local ID.
93.600 9.6. 0844- F: R Béton, Tours. RDS ID with talks
95.500 9.6. 1005- F: RCF Charente-Maritime, La Rochelle.
96.300 9.6. 1005- F: Radio RPS FM.

 

Delta_FM

Delta FM from Southern France was one of the highlights of the day.

Wishful

The map of Europe on our wall with some wishful thinking as an appendix beyond the NW corner. Always be prepared!

JY with his arsenal. Big screens and tiny SDRs.

 

I might as well… Jump! An example of the plentiful meteors that crash in every minute. Radio NE-WS, Düsseldorf was a real knockout, as I was just fine-tuning my cables. (Sorry, there’s a bug in WP that seems to prevent me from turning this particular picture 90 deg).

À suivre (j’espère)…

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Utö17 DXpedition starting slowly but surely

Published 09.06.2016 by JTK

Thermometer

All systems go, or at least some of them. Heavy winds have prevented us from lifting up the Körners, so we’ll have to make do with standard 8-element Triaxes. That’s one element per each Centigrade. It has never been so cold while we’re in Utö as it is today. Last week it would have been totally different.

We got none of yesterday evening’s big news, i.e. Xinjiang PBS (logged by our still missing team member JUS still at home in Joensuu – nice timing). Just some regular OIRT stuff.

But we’ve been getting some quick openings to NW France to keep us fully alert (and not venturing to any further antenna projects).

Grounded

Poor 16-element Körners are still grounded.

Beton

Some of the better French stations of this morning. The University station Radio Béton from Tours. Quickly in and out with RDS codes and talk about the entrance exams. More of this soupe, please!

To be continued… 😉

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Full pull 08062016

Published 08.06.2016 by JMN

After late night TUR opening I was just going to try to get some sleep when ES alert came from Ruovesi (TNX PUL!) The time was around 2.00 local time. These conditions lasted for more than one hour offering mostly Bulgaria and Romania, again with Turkey. Bulgaria On Air was a new for me network. Interestingly the closest mast, 15 km from here, had a service break in the middle of night. 3 of 5 transmitters were off air, but 92.9, 93.5 and 98.3 didn’t bring anything new. 102.8 had only carrier wave and 88.4 was normally on air. After 4 hours of sleep I woke up around 7.30 with another ES alert, this time 108 to ”Europe” in general. Band was too full, too much stations covering each other. For example Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Italy were heard. At 10.30 I was forced to leave QTH for work, and conditions ended around 14.00. On the way back home new ES alerts came again, this time on OIRT. Just when I arrived, the Western band started to open with fading weak signals first to Tyumen, later to Komi. These rare areas offered new stations for many of us. Interestingly, Tyumen offered 103.1 Radio 7 Tyumen and 105.6 Dipol FM, but nothing on lower band – or between these two stations!

This season seems to respect three trends: firstly openings to France, secondly openings to Bulgaria (have had more BUL-ID’s than my total is from past years) and thirdly openings to Middle Russia, which is relatively Northern area – and those openings are not moving clock-wise, but backwards!

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08.06.2016 – Logs from Jyväskylä

Published 08.06.2016 by JJH


 88.70 0433 D Bayern 2, Grünten (Allgäu) (bay) PI logged: D312 PS logged: Bayern_2 1893km

87.90 0440 POL Radio eR, Lublin/Piotrków (LB) PI logged: 308B PS logged: Radio_eR 87.9_FM_ 1255km

103.20 0603 POL PR Radio Lublin, Zamosc/Tarnawatka (LB) 1309km

101.90 0643 UKR Zakarpattya FM, Khust/ZFKRRT, gora Tovsta (ZK) 1564km

 87.80 0651 POL PR 1, Przemysl/Tatarska Góra (PK) 1396km

100.50 0655 HNG Class FM, Kab-hegy (Ves) 1761km

104.10 0659 ROU SRR Radio România Actualitati, Oradea=Nagyvárad (BH) 1703km

100.10 0702 POL RMF FM, Krosno/Sucha Góra (PK) PI logged: 3F44 PS logged: _RMF_FM_ 1407km

104.00 0729 SRB Radio Beograd 202, Beograd/Avala (Srb) 1977km

 90.60 0757 POL Radio Maryja, Kraków/Komin Huty ArcelorMittal Poland (MP) 1393km

 95.60 0826 ROU SRR Radio Cluj / Kolozsvári Rádió, Cluj-Napoca/Feleac (CJ) PI logged: EE03 PS logged: R_CLUJFM 1730km

 89.50 0835 HNG Music FM, Budapest – Széchenyi-hegy (Bud) PI logged: B418 PS logged: MUSIC_FM 1691km

 71.69 1520 RUS Radio Voskreseniye, Serov (SV) 1887km

 66.44 1758 RUS Radio Rossii, Ukhta (KO) 1421km

101.90 1801 RUS Dorozhnoye Radio, Ukhta (KO) 1421km

 70.16 1839 RUS Radio Rossii, Ust-Kulom (KO) 1455km

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Short opening to Turkey (+ possibly Cyprus) 07062016

Published 08.06.2016 by JMN

Crimea was logged by Juha in Jyväskylä while I was in work. French for few minutes on lower band and Bucharest was trying too in the evening (frequency combination 89.0 89.5 90.8 and 91.7). Late night opening to Turkey (Zonguldak & Istanbul) up to 96 MHz. Greek was fading on 94.8 – Cyprus 30 kW is in same line with Zonguldak, but it could have been also 100 kW from Greece – in every case a double hop.

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Short opening to D for 15 minutes

Published 06.06.2016 by JMN

Short opening for Germany today. Stabil strong signals with RDS codes, but low MUF max 92 MHz. It should mean good for tomorrow, but as usually, the opening rarely comes when we are ”warned” before. The possibility is 50% as it does come or it doesn’t 😉

Compilation of May 2016 in Uurainen

May2016

May 2016 more detailed (all the recordings are not yet checked and so far some loggings are not yet visible on this map)

May 2016_2

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05.06.2016 – Nice Aurora Signals in Jyväskylä and evening Es to D

Published 05.06.2016 by JJH

Here is a short log: 

90.60 0734 S SR P1, Älvsbyn/Brännberget TM (no) PI logged: E201 PS logged: SR_P1___ 440km

98.00 1438 S SR P3, Västerås/Lillhärad TM (vm) 576km

92.20 1442 S SR P1, Mora/Eldris TM (da) 614km

102.00 1446 S SR P4, Gävle/Skogmur TM (ga) 486km

100.50 1447 S SR P4, Västerås/Lillhärad TM (vm) 576km

89.50 1502 NOR NRK P1, Gausta/Gaustatoppen (te) 949km

88.70 1516 NOR NRK P1, Oslo/Tryvann (os) 840km

90.30 1555 S SR P1, Uppsala/Vedyxa TM (up) 499km

91.80 1556 S SR P2, Västervik/Fårhult TM (ka) 716km

93.00 1558 S SR P2, Borlänge/Teracoms mast Idkerberget (da) 597km

92.00 1911 D Radio PSR, Auerbach/Schöneck (sac) 1543km

90.60 1936 D hr1, Hardberg (hes) 1748km

89.00 1942 D 89.0 RTL, Brocken (san) PI logged: D0DB PS logged: 89.0_RTL 1467km

Clip: NRK Gausta 89.5 MHz: https://app.box.com/s/2exla9rag2faratwp74o4ocdgj9k7j2m

 

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6 hours of RUS MUF 108 + Kazakstan 30052016

Published 30.05.2016 by JMN

In the morning some French on recording (91.8). A big opening to Russia (oblasts Saratov, Samara, Penza, Nizhni Novgorod, Ulyanovsk, Udmurtia, Vladimir) and after a short break to Tatarstan. Most of the time MUF was 108 MHz and signals were strong with rolling RDS codes. Today’s definite highlight was Qazaq Radïosi on 101.9 FM (unlisted frequency), although many of Russian stations were heard now for the first time in Finland. My personal log will be found here after checking the recordings. Late evening with Putin usually brings conditions for next day.. let’s see!

[youtube width=”600″ height=”344″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhcIoWDSvQU[/youtube]

 

 

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30.05.2016 – ”Second Wave” 

Published 30.05.2016 by JJH

I missed ”first wave” in the morning but afternoon gives some candy here too 🙂

Log: Janne Heinikangas, Jyväskylä KP22TF

90.20 1145 RUS Vesti FM, Naberezhnye Chelny (TS) 1683km
101.90 1155 RUS Evropa Plus, Naberezhnye Chelny (TS) PI logged: 7C60 PS logged: EUROPA__ PLUS____ FM_101.9 _REKLAMA 34-53-80 1684km

106.00 1156 RUS Hit FM, Naberezhnye Chelny (TS) 1683km

104.00 1159 RUS Retro FM, Ufa (BA) PI logged: 7250 PS logged: RETRO_FM 1925km

102.30 1207 RUS Russkoye Radio, Neftekamsk/RTS (BA) 1749km

89.00 1208 RUS Yumor FM, Blagoveshchensk (BA) 1902km

104.80 1216 RUS NRJ, Naberezhnye Chelny (TS) PI logged: 7233 PS logged: _ENERGY_ FM_104.8 REKLAMA_ 35-93-21 1679km

105.50 1221 RUS Bolgar Radiosy, Naberezhnye Chelny/RTPS (TS) 1694km

92.00 1223 RUS Radio Mir, Izhevsk/Pesochnaya (UD) 1645km

100.10 1226 RUS Moya Udmurtiya, Izhevsk/Pesochnaya (UD) 1645km

67.10 1311 RUS Radio Rossii, Barda (PR) 1766km

68.87 1323 RUS Radio Voskreseniye, Nizhniye Sergi (SV) 1972km

69.08 1942 RUS Radio Rossii, Inta (KO) 1702km

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Everything between Slovenia and UK + Israel 29052016

Published 29.05.2016 by JMN

Last two days have not been favorable for Central Finland. On Friday just some stations were teasing on lower band. 89.0 Yumor FM surprised with local weather for Krasnodar region. During this local break ID was ”Radiokanal FM Plyus” but the station is already QSLed, so Friday didn’t bring anything new. On Saturday I took part Finnish DX Associations board meeting. Guys told me, that there was continuous trying on low band, but the conditions never really started. Anyway it was promising for today.

Sunday morning started with replacing old Yagi and it’s coax cable with new (used) 4 element Yagi. Troposcatter and meteors have sounded much weaker than usually and now the band sounds much better (troposcatter from Sweden and Estonia was normal and meteors were numerous). During test listening first ID came from Galgalatz in Israel (double hop +3400 km), so the new set is working pretty well! In the evening conditions opened till 108 MHz, mostly to Italy, but everything from Slovenia to UK was heard. My personal log will be updated here meanwhile I am checking recordings.

Today’s QSL came from the Netherlands: Radio 102, Groningen, 6 watts.

Jan-Mikael Nurmela17-5-16

 

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