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4 June 2017: IRL, Piemonte, SUI, F, D, SRB, ROU

An interesting tour today starting at 1125 UTC from Ireland (only RTÉ high power transmitters).

Soon lower band was filled with weak Italians (South Finland MUF 108),

travelling from Piacenza and Torino

little by little to West and surprisingly hitting to Switzerland!

Then skip was getting shorter, offering again only high power transmitters (BR, SWR, MDR).

After a silent hour new start to Serbia.

Some guys logged also rare Kosovo and Albania. An arabic double hop with ROU/BUL, more in South coast, which where ided as Egypt. Unfortunately there was like a wall around 97 MHz, only once I noticed Balkan over 100 MHz. Few new-for-me stations from Piemonte, SUI and SRB. Full log here.

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2 June 2017: OIRT RUS and BLR

Small afterwork RUS opening started at 1545 UTC, highest noted frequency here 90.6 MHz (:D). I lost few valuable minutes scanning CCIR frequencies, as the regional window was all the time going on OIRT, by GTRK stations. 70.4 MHz gave weather for Ulyanovsk, more interesting was 70.1a, which went to network without proper ID. It could have been GTRK Ivteleradio or GTRK Vologda, because the skip was very short (~1100 km). After 16 UTC Europa Plus Penza had local program on 68.09, later skipping to Moscow (exact 1012 km). Also some Belarus mixing from other cloud. Short skip is much more common on OIRT, and there are many interesting GTRK and private station in Moscow and nearby.. worth of trying!

New birds:

18) Muscicapa striata winters in tropical Africa. It builds nest almost everywhere.


Photo by JMN, June 2012.

19) Turdus pilaris


By Arnstein Rønning – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14936065

20) Dendrocopos major


By Hangsna – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46082936

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31 May 2017: fading ROU/BUL opening for 30 minutes

Yesterday (May 30) ES clouds were located simply a bit too far and same happened today. South coast had better luck, even Cyprus logged there, but here in Inner Finland practically empty bands till 1830 UTC, when some fading signals from Romania and Bulgaria appeared to the band.. not every frequency, not strong, but still sometimes up to 100 MHz. Logs for today here. Once again the best skip hitted coastal city Tulcea, but the main skip must have gone to Black Sea, that’s why band was pretty empty. After many tries during past years Radio Delta (Tulcea 95.8 MHz) was finally identified here! This condition type is easy to recognize by indicator stations Kiss FM 88.7 and Itsy Bitsy 89.5, otherwise only Black Sea waves on low band.. 😛

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24 May 2017: OIRT Russia and Benelux, F and D

First WhatsApp alert came already around 9.00 local time from TV Voice on 65.75 MHz, but conditions didn’t start yet. After full 7 hours work day next alert came during my way home, and made me push gas pedal a bit deeper. It took some time to open the rx, because a (wanted) guest arrived to dacha just a bit after me, bringing a bike I bought.

 

Finally to the balcony, a fading OIRT opening offered many GTRK stations during the regional window 1510-1559 UTC, with shorter skip to Belarus. After 16 UTC another opening started suddenly bringing stations from Benelux and nearby, unfortunately it was very short.. Today’s personal log can be found here. 48 logs so far are an average start for this season!

Today’s highlights:

Radio Latina 101.2 MHz (LUX) broadcasting in Portuguese(!)
A new-for-me GTRK station ”Chuvash Radio”

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23 May 2017: Low band Balkan/Italy

The conditions continued today with low band opening to Balkan, later East coast Italians and Croatia and after a break Torino for a while. The highest noted FQ was 98.5 MHz.

Today’s personal log is here: http://www.fmlist.org/fm_logmap.php?datum=2017-05-23&omid=1183

Today was also a good butterfly day, here are some identified colourful butterflies from today, for our international readers who may like to know in which kind of region we crazy ES catchers do live:

Anthocharis cardamines


By: Michael H. Lemmer – http://www.naturkamera.de Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1394294

Aglais io


Photo by JMN

Callophrys rubi

Celastrina argiolus/Papilio argiolus

Gonepteryx rhamni


Photo by JMN

Pieris napi


By Marina Jacob – Eget arbete, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=988102

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First good opening 22 May 2017

Untill today, May has offered only small OIRT openings in Central Finland. Recently TUR and F have been logged in other parts of Finland. All these small openings made us to wait for something better.. Finally today we had a good opening from Orenburg/Kazakstan (till 108 MHz) to Donetsk/Ukraine (low band), then skipping to Romania/Czechia/Germany (MUF appr. 96), including Switzerland, ending to small low band F/BEL. The conditions started during the test of new antenna feed to my balcony QTH, timing was almost perfect – against the Murphy’s DX law when conditions begin during the antenna is under maintenance work 😛 My personal log will be updated here little by little.

Today’s highlights:
Italian language show(!) from Radio Aksay in Kazakstan (clip)
SUI for the first time with proper ID (Radio Pilatus 95.7 MHz)

Meanwhile ES has been far away, birds have been my favourite objects to catch througout air. Here are some more species seen this month:

Prunella modularis (Dunnock) has been a common guest in garden. They return here from Central or Southern Europe from March to May.


By Alpo Roikola – Oma teos, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48112621

Corvus corone cornix (the hooded crow) and carrion crow (Corvus corone corone) are two closely related species. Roughly saying the fully black version carrion crow does live in England, France, DACH countries and Iberian Peninsula, meanwhile the grey version is found across Northern, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, as well as parts of the Middle East.


By Ken Billington – Praca własna, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12342566

Pica pica (magpie) is one of the most intelligent birds, and it is believed to be one of the most intelligent of all non-human animals. At least it looks always elegant!


By Pierre-Selim – Flickr: Pica pica, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19400996

Turdus iliacus (redwing) comes back from Western and Southern Europe during April.


By Andreas Trepte – Praca własna, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1907996

Anas platyrhyncho (mallard) is also known as wild duck.


By Diliff – Oma teos, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=490649

Bucephala clangula (goldeneye) is easy to recognize because of it’s white dot.


By https://www.flickr.com/photos/sbern/ – https://www.flickr.com/photos/sbern/13471929904/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36391956

Motacilla alba (white wagtail) winters in Africa and returns in April to Central Finland. Traditionally it is said it takes just short time to summer from the first sight of white wagtail.


By Andreas Trepte – Oma teos, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3800685

Phoenicurus phoenicurus (redstart) winters in Northern Africa. It is familiar in whole Europe.


By Thomas Kraft (ThKraft) – Eget arbejde, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2160906

Ficedula hypoleuca (European pied flycatcher) winters in Southern part of West Africa. It is known to attack and disturb other birds in different ways and a male may have two females. So kind of bastardo!


By Estormiz – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19848601

Cuculus canorus (cuckoo) is the only voice-identified of these birds. It is difficult to see, but easy to hear. The male’s song, goo-ko, is usually given from an open perch. During the breeding season the male typically gives this vocalisation with intervals of 1–1.5 seconds, in groups of 10–20 (sometimes I have counted even more than 100!) with a rest of a few seconds between groups. The song starts as a descending minor third early in the year in April, and the interval gets wider, through a major third to a fourth as the season progresses, and in June, around the midsummer, the cuckoo ”forgets its tune”.


By Cuculus_canorus_vogelartinfo_chris_romeiks_CHR0791.jpg: Vogelartinfoderivative work: Bogbumper (talk) – Cuculus_canorus_vogelartinfo_chris_romeiks_CHR0791.jpg, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16077960

Actitis hypoleucos (sandpiper) is common in whole Europe.


By Christoph Müller – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=58660296

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Mayday, mayday!

April is (hopefully) the last winter month and May should be the first summer month! There are already signs of summer 🙂

So it’s time to switch off AM radios and turn to FM. Actually the Sporadic E season 2017 has been opened in South-Western Finland already in the end of April, so there she comes, once again!

A bunch of reports are still unsent, because of work, running from car dealer to another, garden work and other secondary duties. Here are still some QSLs from ”Antique Modulation”:

DX COUNTRY #145: Canal A de Radio Nacional de Angola 4950 kHz

FREE RADIO QSL #215: Radio Saturnus (HOL)

FREE RADIO QSL #216: Pirate Station Klabautermann (D)

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Logs for February 2017 by JMN

QTH Uurainen, KP22RL

Feb 1

0625 567 E: RNE 5 Murcia, Murcia.
0625 774 E: RNE 1 Extremadura, Cacéres.

Feb 2

0503 1377 G: tent. Asian Sound Radio, Manchester. Just a bit too weak for ID – often alone on the frequency.
0508 666 POR: tent RDP 1. Recording to check.
0550 1584 G: tent. Panjab Radio, London. Nonstop punjabi mix only this time.
0625 855 E: RNE Cantabria, Santander.

Feb 3

1829 1134 E: COPE Jerez Radio Occidental

Feb 4

1457 1323 ROU: Marosvásárhelyi Rádió
1520 1170 UAE: Radio Abu Dhabi, Dhabbaya.

Feb 6

1633 1305 IRN: IRIB Radio Bushehr.
1647 810 UAE: Pravasi Bharathi, Maqta. No clear ID, recording to check but mentioning Abu Dhabi several times.
1701 1269 UAE: Radio Asia, Ras-al-Khaimah.
1740 810 MKD: Radio Skopje, Sveti Nikole.
1750 1653 +SRB: Romeo Radio, Djurinci. 600-1000 watts.

Feb 27

0452 1476 +I: Free Radio AM, Trieste (TS). Kunnollista IDiä tältä ei ole onnistuttu Jannen kanssa kuulemaan, mutta asema on monien tietolähteiden mukaan ainoa äänessä oleva tällä taajuudella, vaikka listattuja on kyllä pilvin pimein. Paikalliset kuuntelijat pystyivät tunnistamaan aseman kuitenkin tallenteesta, joten rohkenen logata. Tällä hetkellä ajetaan kuulemma sadalla watilla, mutta 1 kW tehomylly odottaa asentamista. QSL:ää vailla vielä… EDIT: QSL vahvistaa tehoksi 0.1 kW ja sloganiin perustuneen identifioinnin olleen oikean: ”Buonasera Jan Mikael, grazie per averci scritto, ti confermiamo il tutto, lo slogan della radio e’ corretto, siamo a bassa potenza al momento con solo 100 watt in antenna, una torre da 40 metri alimentata in configurazione folded monopole. Prossimamente prevediamo un potenziamento pari a 500/1000 watt. Abbiamo letto la tua email giunta al nostro indirizzo freeradio.am@gmail.it, se preferisci ti scriviamo anche li come conferma della tua ricezione. Un saluto da Trieste (Italia), Maurizio ed Alessia.”

 

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January 2017 logs by JJH

Here is log for January 2017 – Jyväskylä Finland KP22TF

Jan 9.

0705 1395 HOL: Studio Denakker

Jan 15.

0503 1380 USA: KRKO Everett WA ”Fox Sports Radio Everett”
0611 1140 USA: CHRB High River AB
0615 710 USA: KIRO Seattle WA ”ESPN Seattle 710”
0641 1410 CAN: CFTE Vancouver BC ”TSN 14-10 Vancouver”
0644 1520 USA: KKXA Snohomish WA ”Classic Country 1520 KXA”
0833 1090 USA: KFNQ Seattle WA ”The Fan”

Jan 16.

0331 1200 USA: KFNW West Fargo ND ”The Faith”
1645 1440 JPN: STV Sapporo

Jan 18.

0325 1310 CAN: CIWW Ottawa ON
0330 1080 USA: WTIC Hartford CT

Jan 19.

0614 936 I: RAI Veneto

Jan 25.

0246 930 CAN: CJYQ Saint John NL ”KIXX Country”

Jan 30.

0322 660 USA: KFAR Fairbanks AL, ”True What-a-hell feeling?! Alaska in this time of morning in this part of Finland”!
0324 670 USA: KBOI Boise ID
0327 850 USA: KOA Denver CO, ”Newsradio 850”
0349 750 CAN: CKJH Melforth SK, ”CK750”
0358 960 CAN: CFAC Calgary AB ”The Fan”
0459 1180 USA: WHAM Rochester NY
0528 1630 USA: KCJJ Iowa City IA
0530 1530 USA: KFBK Sacramento CA
0558 830 USA: WCCO Minneapolis MN ”Newsradio 830”
0619 1500 USA: WFED Federal News Radio, Wahington D.C.
0813 1050 USA: WEPN – ”ESPN Deportes Radio”

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Logs for January 2017 by JMN

Jan 1

0657 1431 G: Smooth Radio Essex

Jan 2

0625 639 E: RNE Galicia, Meson do Vento.

Jan 5

0619 801 G: BBC Radio Devon, Barnstaple.

Jan 7

0709 1580 CAN: CKDO Oshawa ON.

Jan 11

0623 774 G: BBC Radio Kent
0625 864 E: RNE5 Castilla La Mancha, Socuéllamos.

Jan 14

0700 1600 USA: WUNR Brookline MA.

Jan 15

0557 1380 USA: tent KRKO Everett WA. Sports, no ID.
0615 1000 USA: KOMO Seattle WA.
0632 820 USA: tent KGNW Seattle WA. Program ”Times of Refreshing”, no ID.
0659 1140 CAN: tent CHRB High River AB. Religious music.
0706 960 CAN: tent CFAC Calgary AB. Sports. Bad luck with ID’s today.

Jan 16

1656 1440 J: tent JOWF Sapporo. No ID, only All Night Nippon

Jan 19

0625 1125 E: RNE-5 Extremadura, Badajoz.
0629 855 G: BBC Radio Norfolk

Jan 21

0629 1269 E: COPE Badajoz
0632 1458 G: BBC Newcastle
0637 1420 CLM: Vida AM, Manizales
0700 1161 G: Tay 2, Dundee

Jan 22

0707 1540 CAN: CHIN Toronto ON. At least upper band was full (1490, 1500-10-20-40-60), but soon all gone.
1430 6295 HOL: Radio Telstar International. Fading condx, signal 5-9.
1635 3975 +SVN: David Bowie Radio. ID at least in the end of transmission. New pirate country!

Jan 25

0625 1305 E: RNE Pais Vasco, Bilbao.

Jan 30

0511 760 B: tent. Rádio Uirapuru. Recording to check.
0531 756 G: BBC Radio Cumbria, Carlisle.
1415 1242 J: JOLF Nippon Hoso, Tokyo. Nippon Hoso -ID, otherwise All Night Nippon //1440 kHz.
1418 1008 J: tent JONR Asahi Hoso, Osaka.
1453 1278 J: tent JOFR Mainichi Hoso, Fukuoka. QRM Iran.
1455 1287 J: JOHR Hokkaido Hoso, Sapporo. ”HBC Rajio”
1520 1386 KOR: tent MBC Mokpo with too weak NHK station. Possible ID at 1558, mentioning Imnida.
1540 1017 J: JOLB NHK Fukuoka. ”JOLB NHK Fukuoka daini hoso de” TNX JKZ!
1601 1143 TWN: Fishery Radio Station, Penghu. ”Yuyeh Kuangpo Tientai”
1630 1278 IRN: Radio Kermanshah, Kermanshah.

 

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