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Heinäkuu 2010 -kooste

JMN heinäkuu 30th, 2010

FM – Sporadic E loggings for July 2010 – RX’s: Tecsun PL-310 for OIRT and Kenwood KT-6050 for CCIR

July 7, 2010

67,34 – 0812 – UKR: UR1. Mariupol-tx. Same programme also on 65.93 and 66.08. The interval signal is easy to recognize in political programs, it sounds like Mc Gyver’s bomb efect just a 5 seconds before the bomb should explode! However no real ID. Still there 0945 UTC.

69,14 – 1044 – MDA: BBC World Service. Cahul-tx. Fading alone on OIRT.

94,9 – 1112 – ROU: Pro FM. Sibiu/Paltinis-tx. Again with RDS [PRO_FM__] at 1223 UTC. Spot for Medias at 1135 UTC might be local! ROU aswell on 90,2 and probably BUL on 92,2.

92,2 – 1229 – ROU: One FM. Cluj Napoca-tx. Beating already at 1110 with a classical music station. 1253 ”..One Summer, One FM”. 101,9 was Russian for a while!

92,9 – 1234 – ROU: Radio Atlas, Alba Iulia. Local news and commercials for Alba Iulia have to come from here! 89.6 might have been Radio Reintregirea from same city.

98,5 – 1237 – ROU: Radio Info Pro. Parang-tx. At the same time 101,4 was playing Toto Cutugno ”Solo Noi”, 94,5 Romanian folk song and 101,8 music with talk about ”letteratur romanescu”.

July 9, 2010

72,50 – 1529 – RUS: Radio Yunost. Kletskiy (VG)-tx. Playing samples of dance music in the programme ”Yuni-Hits”, but no clear ID. Non-commercial must be this one. 95.7 was playing weakly Russian folk song for few seconds at 1525 UTC and indicated better signals on OIRT.

71,54 – 1534 – RUS: Radio Mayak. Chilekovo (VG)-tx. ID as radiomayak dotschka ru. Also 71.33 was playing classical music, which indicates Volgograd in usual. (Radio Orfey Volgograd)

95,7 – 1540 – BEL: tent. VRT Radio 1. Egem-tx. Reporting from an international sport event, clearly not Dutch but could be Flemish.

92,2 – 1542 – HOL: Omrop Fryslân, Irnsum. Only RDS with pop music for a while [OMROP___][92.2_FM_] which belongs probably to this one. Used to be Smilde 100 kW, now Irnsum 10 kW.

67,76 – 1602 – RUS: tent. Radio Yunost. Tbilisskaya (KD)-tx. Also music on 72.41.

67,34 – 1628 – UKR: UR1. Mariupol (DO)-tx. No ID but weather for Karpatsky region and Mykolaiv.

68,36 – 1631 – UKR: UNID giving jingle ”Shi shatala”, Makiivka (DO)-tx. Listed as Klasne but at least few of Klasnes are nowadays ROKS. This one was playing no rock but ”shansons”.

99,0 – 1704 – UNID very probably Radio Alla -jingle, but sounded much as Radio Krona in the beginning. Some weak signals on 90.3 and 95.7. Mr. HPE has heard very similar ID on 91.4 on June 6 2010 0916-0924 as UNID. It’s said the both of these are clearly Radio Alla! However I’m not able to recognize neither the language of this one!? It’s more like Estonian or Finnish, but not Russian! After the played song same jingle again but weaker.

July 17, 2010 – weak ES for all day long. I was forced to leave home at 0815 UTC.

88,9 – 0744 – D: Bayern 1. Dillberg-tx. [BAYERN_1]; several music stations were fading on the fq!

88,8 – 0747 – D: RBB Berlin 88.8, Berlin. [VOM_RBB_]; only a piece of RDS also from this one.

93,1 – 0753 – D: Bayern 2. Kreuzberg-tx. [BAYERN_2]; only RDS.

92,0 – 0755 – D: SWR2. Donnersberg-tx. With nice audio-ID. Probably SWR1 on 87.8.

90,1 – 0801 – D: tent. SWR4 Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart-tx. A news report from Heidenheim.

71,00 – 1219 – UKR/RUS(?): UNID playing ”Ciao Bambino” and other stuff.

88,4 – 1610 – TUR: tent. Lalegül FM, Istanbul. In Turkish. Mr. JJH got an audio-ID from this one.

July 18, 2010 – A bit weak ES conditions, but again for more than 5 hours!

67,76 – 0909 – RUS: Radio Yunost. Tbilisskaya (KD)-tx. ID as U-FM and beating for a long time.

68,36 – 0934 – RUS: Radio Rossii. Kanevskaya (KD)-tx. ID at 1000 UTC. Fading with next one.

68,36 – 0934 – UKR: UR1. Dnipropetrovsk (DN)-tx. ID ”Hovorit Khiev” at 1000 UTC.

67,34 – 0940 – UKR: UR1. Mariupol (DO)-tx. ”Mezhdunarodne novyine na Ukrayinskom Radio”.

69,08 – 0951 – RUS: Radio Rossii. Maykop (AD)-tx. ID and ”Novosti Sport” at 1008 hours UTC.

66,98 – 1017 – RUS: Radio Mayak. Tbilisskaya (KD)-tx. Played ”New York City Boy”.

90,9 – 1029 – UKR: MFM. Dnipropetrovsk (DN)-tx. ”Kylie” by Akcent etc. Clear jingle at 1110 UTC, but the female DJ was fooling and talking all the time of ”Klasnaya Radio”.

91,75 – 1032 – UKR: Ukrainian TV sound. The famous ”Ihana Elisa” was dubbed in Ukrainian! At the same time there was kind of boring discussion on 100.5 and oldies on 99.1.

101,8 – 1059 – ROU: Radio România Cultural. Bacau-tx. [CULTURAL]

98,5 – 1100 – ROU: Kiss FM. Calarasi Baneasa-tx. ”Summertime – Kiss FM” and ”She’s Kiss FM”

99,5 – 1103 – UKR: Lux FM. UNID-tx. A weak station jingle and ”We No Speak Americano”, which was playing at the same time on 90.9 by MFM!

102,7 – 1114 – ROU: Radio România Actualitati. Constanta-tx. [RRACTUAL].

99,6 – 1117 – ROU: Radio România Actualitati. Suceava-tx. [RRACTUAL]. With a turk or arab!?

101,4 – 1127 – ROU: Radio România Cultural. Comanesti-tx. [CULTURAL]. This was probably also on 103.7, 103.0, 102.8, 102.0, 101.8 and 100.7! At 1146 they were teaching Spanish!

104,2 – 1130 – ROU: Europa FM. Bacau-tx. Playing good oldies with romanian hit music station!

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A souvenir card from Europa FM heard 2007

103,9 – 1137 – ROU: Radio România Actualitati. Bârlad/Bistrita-tx. [RRACTUAL].

102,0 – 1137 – BUL: BNR Horizont. Shumen-tx. RDS [102,0MHZ] but luckily clear ”Horizont!”. Same stile of programme was heard also on 101.4 and 103.0. 92.2 could have been Hristo Botev.

103,0 – 1150 – UKR: Retro FM. Rivne-tx. Playing old ”Sunshine Reggae” summer hit! Retro! After 1200 there was a turk on 98.4 and some hit pop music stations on 100.0 and 102.8.

96,1 – 1220 – HRV: HRT2. Borinci-tx. Only RDS code [HRT-HR_2]. 88.3 and 94.9 must have been HRT1 (Borinci and Papuk-tx’s).

89,5 – 1222 – HNG: Juventus Rádió, Budapest. Playing reggae, ”Summer Jam”, Roxette’s ”How Do You Do” and ID at 1235 and 1246. UNID’s on 88.9, 89.3 and 92.8.

92,7 – 1255 – HNG: MR2 Petöfi Rádió. Tokaj-tx. [__MR2___][_PETOFI_] playing r’n'b ”Sweet 16… You’ll have no choice”, commercial spot at 1259; At 1346 ”Don’t be afraid, come on babe and she had no fear” and clear ”…M.R. Kättó Petöfi Rádió-ban”

95,3 – 1302 – SRB: Radio Beograd 1. Avala-tx. UNID’s on 94.9 and 92.2 from ex-Yugoslavia. Showing RDS [RTS_BG_1] at 1336. Later there was an orthodox singing, Radio Trinitas, Ploiesti?

95,9 – 1306 – HNG: Neo FM. Pecs-tx. ID sounded as Neo FM. On 100.4 strong classical music station, Bartok not listed. UNID’s on 88.9 and 98.9 from Balkan.

98,3 – 1315 – ROU: RR Radio Bucuresti, Bucuresti. ”Waiting for tonight” – Me too eh?! Jingle as ”Nouâ optzeci virgula trei FM” and showed RDS [_98,3MHZ] – both very informative! With an unidentified hungarian. At 1331 interviewed Adrian from ”servizul Info Trafic”. At 1349 playing 80′s disco ”Losing my mind” and some pop at 1356.

100,4 – 1327 – HNG: Neo FM. Szentes-tx with clear audio ID. 92.1 playing ”Mercy Mercy”.

96,7 – 1358 – HNG: MR2 Petöfi Rádió. Komádi-tx. ”We can always settle down and…” 89.4 in Romanian; 101,9 might have been CRo with evergreens. 102.0 military speech with shooting!

105,6 – 1403 – ROU: RR Radio Resita, Resita. [R_RESITA] with local news for Resita.

93,7 – 1406 – HNG: MR1 Kossuth Rádió. ”..MR Egy punkt hu…MR Egy Kossuth Rádió..”. 100.2 and 92.7 with music till 1418 UTC.

July 22, 2010 in Turku

98.4 – 1032 – D: SWR 3. Hornisgrinde-tx.

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Con te partiro

JTK kesäkuu 20th, 2010

Last full day at the cabins and what a day that was! In the morning a totally new country was heard, i.e. Libya that became our FM country #68 in the inofficial Finnish count. In the evening we had a stunning long opening to Greece; also the Balkans, Turkey and Italy were present. Now at 2:50am (!) local time Italian and Balkan stations are still jumping in up to 108 MHz at times.

Let’s see how hectic tomorrow will be as we have to dismantle the antennas and pack our stuff by 2pm.

Utö Blog is thus over and out! See you again next year :)

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Your ed and JJS laughing all the way to the Greek bank

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Radio Melodia, Ptolemaida, was one of the Greek highlights of the evening

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Goodbye to the barren rocky island

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Sealed with a KISS?

JTK kesäkuu 18th, 2010

Today we woke up at 5.50am to check Mr. Hepburn’s forecast of some Baltic tropo. And right he was again – some Lithuanian stations came through quite nicely, eg 104.2 Opus 3 (Taurage-tx) and 106.6 M-1 (Kaunas-tx). This year’s big thing in Latvia has been the local announcements of Latviesuradio on every one of their frequencies and many managed to complete their collection during the morning hours.

Es woke up, but she seemed very much worn out from this week’s earlier activities: first very little Romania (KISS FM), then an UNID Arab praying on two frequencies (89.3//89.5), and finally an hour-long weak opening to Greece – mostly Athens and Thessaloniki low-band high power stations.

We had arranged lunch at 2pm, this time not at the hotel, but at the residence of the parents of Hanna the landlady. Everyone became kind of edgy when the Greek opening was still sort of ongoing when we had to leave. Luckily we didn’t miss that much, it seems.

Hanna and her mother had prepared us a local specialty, seal stew. Something not many of us have ever tried or even considered. However, it was excellent, and the meat tasted like something between very tender beef and liver.

This is the last evening for three members of the Utö team and now at 6.45pm the band and Sherlock both seem very dull… We want more! :)

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Utö crew and our hostesses chitchatting after lunch

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No Milk Today

JTK kesäkuu 17th, 2010

No Sporadic E today. But we had a strange powerful meteor bang on the hour at 0900 UTC, with the following stations identified: 87.5 Dorozhnoye R, St Peterburg, local ID; 92.4 Sport FM, Moscow; 92.8 M-Vienas, Lithuania. Very short skips!

A couple of pictures from our morning jog (5.91 km at 38 min 53 s, says the computer), all courtesy by OSY.

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A ferocious black adder going for the kill

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Would they sell this place? It's desolate and growing weed...

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Islandman

JTK kesäkuu 16th, 2010

A sunny morning and the Es have all gone away. Time to delve into yesterday’s loot. Loads of good stuff from Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Northern England.

There seems to be a pattern, that an eruption in the sun first lifts Sporadic E in higher latitudes giving us stations from the British Isles. But when it hits the Earth all we get is Aurora and the Es are all gone. As the sun has been really inactive in recent years we haven’t really had any decent openings to that direction since 2006. Now is the time to hope for something better…

During our morning jog, OSY was nearly bitten by a ferocious viper that literally attacked us from behind a stone. Luckily he managed to jump up high above the stinging snake, a real touch and go situation.

Oh and your ed won the the third round of cards, aka Utö Championships – more trophies to win will follow :-)

“Scotland is my dreaming head; Ireland is my heart” -Mike Scott/The Waterboys

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Phantom made its first appearance in Finland on Tuesday

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R Cuillin from Isle of Skye was also a new one

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HKU, JUS, JJS and JTK upping the ante

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Ruby Tuesday

JTK kesäkuu 15th, 2010

What a day! In the morning my best Serbia-opening ever, and after a quick lunch a two-hour opening to Scotland, Northern Ireland and Dublin. More details later.

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Serbian Radio JAT on 90.2

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First lunch on the hotel patio - still a bit chilly

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Good Stuff

JTK kesäkuu 15th, 2010

Monday evening was well spent sitting in front of the radios. Pillows are much in need with this hobby :) It all started at 1430 UTC with Greece, 1500 Normandy and thereabouts again, 1615 Turkey and Greece and the archipelago in between, up until 1705. New round at 1915 with a tougher set of Normandy and Jersey Islands, 1925 Spain with a strong peak at 1935, fadeout at 2005, but short openings came up and down until 0110 local time.

The gems are all listed in Harri’s blog: http://www.uto-fmdx.blogspot.com/

Our card playing championships’ third round was cancelled yesterday evening because of the opening. The game is Reverse Old Heck/Reverse Up and Down, a fine variation of “Oh, hell” that Wikipedia claims to be Bill Clinton’s favourite game. As usual, the bookkeeper keeps on winning (not me).

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Radio Dio, Saint Etienne (42), made its first visit to Finland.

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I Do Like Mondays

JTK kesäkuu 14th, 2010

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Finest of French


 
This morning offered a mixed two-hour session to Normandy. Mostly familiar stuff, but Aunt Esmeralda had some surprises in her bag as well.
 
The afternoon opening from Central Finland to Holland went straight over our heads, so it was time to fix the vertical aerial. Now it’s in a much better place and all kinds of interesting stations flow in, eg 99.8 Kelyje (Klaipeda-tx LTU).
 
A new personal tropospheric scatter distance record was made last night with 102.1 PR3 Bygdoszcz-tx. The distance is a whopping 749 km. Mr. Hepburn says the theoretical maximum for this propagation method is around 700 km. Of course, this distance limit is not valid for “real tropo” (which we haven’t had at all). The troposcatter signals can be really surprising, lifting up one station at a time up to noise-free levels for a minute or two. The Baltic Sea makes it happen much easier than on the mainland.
 
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Midnight at the Utö village


 
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Frog crossing


 

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13/6 – Short Benelux opening in Central-Finland, Jyväskylä

JJH kesäkuu 14th, 2010

Boring as…
 
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Log
Dumdidumdidum…
 
89.000 1722- BEL: MNM. Schoten-tx. RDS + Audio-ID
90.200 1731- HOL: 100 % NL. Roosendaal-tx.
 
Dit is slechts een richting: omhoog!
 

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Here Comes the Sun

JTK kesäkuu 13th, 2010

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The sun came out and so did we for some BBQ sausages. Somehow we managed to forget to keep our ears on the band and only caught the tail end of a Spanish opening. Highly embarrassing.
 
Check also: http://uto-fmdx.blogspot.com/
 

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