Third Sporadic E opening noticed this year here in Uurainen. Also this time pretty weak signals from both sides of English Channel. Mostly high power transmitters with MUF 98. Janne had common BBC stations in Jyväskylä with same MUF, no France at all. Full log can be found here.
Couple of recent pirate QSL’s:
#201 Radio Astronaut, Wierden (Ov.), the Netherlands
#202 Rock ’N Roll Radio, Central Italy
7.5.2016
Preparing for ES season, but this has been totally silent season. Some OIRT conditions from Swedish Lapland. Lot’s of meteor reflections on Es monitoring frequency 88.7 MHz. The goal is to catch NRK Oslo before it will leave FM.
6290 CZE: Radio Caroline
6305 G: Radio Merlin
6325 HOL: Radio Montferland 2100. New-for-me.
4 element Yagi on the 2nd floor balcony
10.5.2016
Today’s maximum was +22.2 degrees Celsius. Same than Las Palmas, Amsterdam or Warsaw. Yesterday’s maximum was +20.8 (same than Las Palmas, Warsaw, Vienna and Zürich). Both days were warmer than in Bucharest, Istanbul, Lisbon, Madrid, Malaga, Nice, Paris, Prague, Varna or Venice. Just to break the prejudice of ”cold north”
6280 HOL: Radio Witte Reus 2030
6290 CZE: Radio Goofy 1940
6300 HOL: Radio Mazda 1930
11.5.2016
Getting colder (+14.4’c) but still warmer than Lisbon (+12), same than Madrid or Tallinn. Checked SER break around 2055 UTC, only few frequencies open with dominant stations.
12.5.2016
No SW conditions to Latin America this morning… Today’s maximum temperature was +16.9’c. Warmer day than in Lisbon, Madrid, Moscow, Prague, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Tallinn, Vienna or Zürich.
1044 E: SER Radio Valladolid, Valladolid. Finally San Sebastián gave space for this. 2155
1224 E: COPE Lugo, Lugo. ”88.9, 101.2, 96.6, 100.1 fm, 1224 onda media, Cope Lugo” 2227
1287 E: SER Radio Lleida. Lleida. Commercials for Burgos at 2233 without ID. 2054
1620 HOL: Radio Poema, Veluwe. 2015
150 m Afro backlope feed to 2nd floor window
13.5.2016
Today +17.7c in Central Finland. In Malaga and Nice was measured +18, Lisbon, London, Palma de Mallorca, Venice and Vienna +17 degrees Celsius. Madrid (13), Moscow (16), Oslo (10), Stockholm (16), Zürich (10) were clearly colder today. That’s for today’s weather logs, couple of listening logs will follow:
6205 IRL: Coast FM (Tenerife) 2125
6320 G: Little Feat Radio. s9+10dB. 2040
6920 I: Key Channel Radio. 2105
No new catches from Spain on MW.
14.5.2016
Today +17.5 degrees Celsius in Central Finland were comparable with the temperature in Madrid, Moscow or Rome (+18) and clearly warmer than in Oslo or Zürich (10), London (11), Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen or Paris (12), Frankfurt (13), Berlin or Tallinn (14), Lisbon, Prague or Warsaw (16). ES season was officially opened today in Central Finland with weak and fading conditions to France (later to Benelux). MUF was 108 but most of the stations were high power stations or the most common catches. Visual log: http://www.fmlist.org/fm_logmap.php?datum=2016-05-14&omid=1183 OIRT trying in the evening, more to come tomorrow?
1143 E: COPE Jaén, Jaén. 2230
1224 E: COPE Lugo, Lugo 2155
15.5.2016
Rainy, cold and teasing day. Only +11.3 degrees Celsius measured, similar than in Frankfurt or Oslo (11). Colder in Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Prague, Stockholm or Zürich. No local breaks noted on SER or COPE for Sunday late evening.
6390 D: Radio Orion 2000 0916
70.43 RUS: Radio Rossii, Volgograd-tx 1015
88.7 BUL: tent. Radio Varna, Dobrich. Talk about classical music compositors in Bulgarian. JJH got a PI code. 1232
88.7 G: BBC Radio 2. Meteor scatter. 1245
88.7 RUS(?): UNID under Radio Varna. ”Slushate vesti radija”. Promoting coming radio news? 1254
6850 I: Radio Bandido, Lago di Varese. Country music and horses! A new-for-me Italian. 1815
6210 HOL(?): Music Wave, probably via Sluwe Vos Radio. ”musicwave.ru” 1905
6280 HOL: Quadzilla Radio. A new-for-me station again on the 48 mb. Nice evening! 1915
6195 HOL: Radio Python – the shortwave snake. S9+20 dB. 1950
6040 UNID: Eighties Radio. 80’s music with jingles. Must be a pirate project. 2000
16.5.2016
Since today I work again in the Petäjävesi radio museum – an excellent touristical attracion ;). Warm day (+19.4 degrees Celsius), similar than Nice (+19). Especially compared to Prague, Warsaw or Zürich: +9, Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt: +12, Copenhagen, Moscow, Oslo, St. Petersburg, Vienna: +13, Berlin, Tallinn: +14, Beograd +15, London, Paris, Venice +16, Bucharest +18. Choose your next summer holiday destination and come to Central Finland 🙂
Spain totally gone on MW, but good conditions to Middle East. Instead of COPE, Radio Kuwait 1134 kHz was very strong for more than half an hour, s9+20-40dB. FM-QSL collecting has started and new QSLs can be found here.
#198 free radio QSL: Radio Bandido, Lago di Varese (VA) 6850 kHz
17.5.2016
+15.2 degrees Celsius measured in Uurainen, like in Frankfurt – beating again half Europe. Prague +10, Warsaw +11, Berlin, Stockholm, Tallinn +12, Copenhagen and Zürich +13, Moscow, Oslo and Vienna +14. MUF map was promising but CCIR didn’t open. Spanish stations were strong on MW. 2055 UTC SER on 1287 kHz gave ID as Radio Lleida, 2155 UTC instead SER Catalunya as usually in this last local window. Also Burgos was audible but not enough clear ID for a report. Next time better luck. Also pirate conditions were good tonight!
88.7 G: BBC Radio 2. Meteor scatter. 1435
6040 UNID: 80th Radio, audible continuously tonight.
6310 HOL: Radio 102, Groningen (Gr.) 6 watts. 2115
1625 HOL: Zender Napoleon. 2258
18.5.2016
Today’s maximal temperature +15.2 degrees Celsius was warmer than +12 in London, +13 in Copenhagen and Tallinn or +14 in Warsaw or Moscow. No Sporadic E, so there is plenty of time for house maintaining and other garden work. Couple of pirate logs for tonight, COPE and SER were concentrated on match between Liverpool and Sevilla.
6318 CZE: Radio Green Frog. Studio in Calau, tx via Goofy, RPT via Doc. 2105
6210 I: tent. Radio Barraquda, Milano. Later on 5896 USB. Only nonstop music. 2118
19.5.2016
Noisy conditions on 48 mb, but still couple of new-for-me stations were audible on the waves! Today’s +17.8 C were warmer than +11 in Zürich, +14 in Paris, St. Petersburg or Venice +15 in Brussels or +16 in Amsterdam Copenhagen, Frankfurt, London, Moscow or Oslo. In Warsaw +18 C.
6230 AUS: VMW, Wiluna WA. USB-mode. Marine weather forecasts. Covering Panda Radio surprisingly. 1800
6300 HOL: Mike Radio. S9+10dB. 1820
6307 CZE: Radio Caroline. 1855
6210 HOL: Panda Radio. 14 watts. Not very good signal, because of the conditions were not so perfect. 1900
6318 CZE: Radio Bílá Díra (via Goofy). Announced e-mail address not working!? 1935
20.5.2016
Noisy conditions on 48 mb. Today’s +19.1 were more than in Benelux, Germany, London, Paris or Zürich for example.
6265 20.5. 2132- I: Rock’n’roll Radio. New station? At least new name.
6307 20.5. 2045-2131 CZE: Radio Green Frog (Grüne Frosch). Relay via Goofy.
21.5.2016
Pretty ok conditions on 48 mb, not so much noise. I took part to the biggest annual radio flea market organized in Finland: see the pictures here.
6308 CZE: Radio Goofy. S9+5dB. 1905
6290 HOL: Radio Astronaut, Twente. Max S7 with 10 watts. 1945-2001
6424 HOL: Radio Ramona. Long time no hear. 2030
6320 HOL: Radio Powerwave, (via SkyWave). 2110
6381 HOL: Radio Etherfreak (Dr.) 2235
22.5.2016
Warm day with Mediterranean temperatures (+20.1 degrees Celsius, same than Athens or Lisbon)! Warmer than for example in Amsterdam, Brussels, Istanbul, London, Nice or Paris. Weak but long Sporadic E opening to Balkan. Heard Macedonia here for the first time, but no luck with ID. The sound of national radio made me avoid these frequencies most of the time, even the combination 92.3/94.5 was strange.. Just couple of logs from 48mb.
91.8 SRB: TDI Radio. ID: TDI 1456
89.5 SRB: Radio Vladimirci, Vladimirci 1506
88.7 ROU: Itsy Bitsy, Satu Mare. 1555
88.9 KOS: Radio Kosova, Zatric 1600
88.5 ROU: Digi FM, Resita-tx. 1616
91.7 SRB: Radio Beograd 1, Besna Kobila -tx. 1628
89.0 BUL: Radio Focus. Not listed. 1632
6295 HOL: Black Bandit Radio. 2215
6319 HOL: Radio Caroline International 2230
23.5.2016
Warm day +23.8 C, as warm as in Berlin, Malaga, Rodos or Tel Aviv. Warmer than in Benelux (13-14), Frankfurt (15), Copenhagen, Istanbul or London (18), France (12-23). Madrid or Moscow (19). Lisbon (21), Mallorca, Prague or Varna (22), Italy (20) or Zürich (8). No logs for today.
24.5.2016
No logs for today, but 25.5 degrees Celsius have beaten the most of Europe:
Summer is here.
Dacha is open to the guests.
Uurainen is signing on.
Today was as warm as in Athens, Paris or Tel Aviv (+24), beating the temperatures in such Mediterranean localities like Madrid, Malaga, Rome, Venezia, Nice, Lisboa, Istanbul etc.
The Sporadic E season has been opened already in Finland with marginal conditions in April and May. Finally today, May 8th, the monitoring station of Uurainen is activated. Everything is working well, when meteor reflections come throughout the noise. Janne has been suntanning in Turkey, so no logs so far from Central Finland for this season.
AM antennas are still up. During last 10 years I have been spending too many summer nights waiting for a single sign of ES.. It’s time to go back to the habit in the early 2000 when I used to enjoy African short wave stations. Also MW band might offer surprising signals as it’s way clearer compared to the situation still in 2001-2005. If the conditions will be favorable, Spanish AM stations will remain on catch list.
Latest QSL from Saturday evening, #195 verified free radio, #109 from the Netherlands
Small guest house seen from the 2nd floor balcony is ready for the guests
Date: April 25-27, 2016
RX: Grundig M400 + whip, Sangean 505 + whip
QTH: Slucko g. 8, Vilnius
87.80 Classic Rock FM Vilniaus Spaudos rūmai
88.50 Extra FM Konstitucijos pr. 7, Europos bokštas
89.00 LRT Radijas Vilniaus televizijos bokštas (ID: LRT)
89.60 Radiocentras Vilniaus televizijos bokštas
93.10 Marijos Radijas Vilniaus televizijos bokštas
95.50 BBC World Service Vilniaus televizijos bokštas (No ID, English)
95.90 Power Hit Radio Vilniaus televizijos bokštas
96.40 Radijo stotis A2 Vilniaus televizijos bokštas
97.30 Žinių radijas Vilniaus Spaudos rūmai
98.30 LRT Opus Vilniaus televizijos bokštas
99.30 Jazz FM 99,3 Vilniaus Spaudos rūmai (No ID, jazzy)
99.70 European Hit Radio Vilniaus televizijos bokštas
100.10 ZIP FM Vilniaus Spaudos rūmai
100.50 XFM Radijas Pylimo g. 20-10
100.90 Radijo stotis Pūkas-2 Jočionys, TE-3 kaminas (No ID, jazzy)
101.50 Easy FM Vilniaus televizijos bokštas
101.90 Geras FM Vilniaus televizijos bokštas
102.60 Radijo Gold FM Vilniaus televizijos bokštas
103.10 Radijo stotis Lietus Vilniaus Spaudos rūmai
103.80 Radio Znad Wilii Vilniaus Spaudos rūmai
104.30 Relax FM Vilniaus Spaudos rūmai
105.10 LRT Klasika Vilniaus televizijos bokštas
105.60 Новое Радио RusRadio LT Vilniaus televizijos bokštas (ID with both names in a row)
106.20 Radijo stotis M-1 Plius Vilniaus Spaudos rūmai
106.80 Radijo stotis M-1 Vilniaus Spaudos rūmai
107.30 Radijo stotis Pūkas Jočionys, TE-3 kaminas
107.70 Radijas Kelyje Vilniaus Spaudos rūmai
No signal from following stations which are listed for Vilnius in Radiomap.eu and FMList.de:
94.20 Start FM Saulėtekio al. 9, VU Komunikacijos fakultetas
94.90 Vaikų Radijas Vilniaus Spaudos rūmai
Not checked, listed only on FMList.de, but not in Radiomap.eu which I followed:
96.80 Vilniaus Radijas Vilniaus televizijos bokštas
Perinteeksi muodostunut kausikatsaus on jälleen lisätty sivustolle! Vuoden 2015 koosteesta vastaa Jukka Kotovirta (JTK), josta kiitokset hänelle!
Ready, Set, Go -> http://www.fmdx.online/kausikatsaukset/kesa-2015/
Today, early wake-up with a country song on local radio, and DJ asking if the morning could ever had a bad start with another country song… She was more than right. Turning on my Icom the next station appeared to be CFRX 6070 kHz from Canada. Unfortunately no country, as the format is ”Newstalk”. I have never before heard this station, so the dipole seems to work properly.
The latest BC QSL came from AIR Port Blair after many attempts. The simple e-mail verification brought verified DX country #140 (Andaman and Nicobar Islands). In the meantime it was my BC QSL #1000, based on FDXA’s QSL competion rules. It’s time to celebrate a bit!
Because of Pirate Hunt 2016 competition during Easter, organized by our local club, the personal logs will be published this time on our forum
Need hints for Pirate DX? Have a look on article (only in Finnish, sorry)
Latest free radio reply came from Ronnie AM, whose 4 watt test transmission I was tuning in.
Greetings from Emmen
Studio
Transmitter 4 watts
20.3.2016
6200 1000 HOL: Radio ACDC
6210 0959 G: Radio Merlin, Quite weak but audible signal
6320 1058 HOL: Radio Felix, with low power
9300 0910 HOL: FRS Holland, ”We will turn your Sunday into a Super Sunday”!!
19.3.2016
6292 1620 Radio Piraña Int
6320 1629 HOL: Magic AM, magicamradio @ gmail.com
6395 1703 HOL: Studio 52
6543 1648 HOL: Misti Radio, Low Power test
6950 1659 HOL: Mike Radio, USB test
Sunny day, a new element house came to the neighbourhood by truck. Soon there will be a new smoke (referring the number of houses in a village, which are usually all wood-heated). As the translation is not working in English: ”metropolissa on pian yksi savu lisää”. Hopefully it doesn’t mean more electric noise. Conditions were favorable on shortwave. Last night Gannan PBS came with pretty good reception on 5970 kHz. Just wondering where to send report, as the snail mail address seems to be only option so far. Good conditions continued in the evening:
6215 1755 HOL: UNID. Legal Dutch FM station relay. ID sounded most likely Moor or Door FM?
6290 1520 D: HitMix Radio. Band still not properly open. S9++.
6290 1802 HOL: Ronnie AM, Emmen. Incredibly with a 4 watt tx. ”Bamba, bamba”. Distance is 1536 km, s7-8.
6290 1834 HOL: Blackstone, Emmen. 15 W. QSO Ronnie AM.
6300 1800 HOL: Integratie Radio (tent.). From Abu Dhabi factory. ”De va kukku de” by Anita Hirvonen.
6307 1831 CZE: Radio Goofy (tent.). No ID heard by me.
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Pirate QSL #186: Atlantis FM, Tenerife probably relayed from Ireland
Pirate Hunt 2016 will be held during Easter 2016 (celebrated in Finland on March 24th – 28th). Rules are tried to keep simple:
Pirate Hunt 2016 is organized by local radio club Sisä-Suomen Radioaktiiviset (Radioactives of Middle Finland)
A warm welcome
Radioactives/Radioaktiiviset
