Avainsana: Kausi 2016

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!

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.

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

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

As the title says, today MUF was not very high. In the morning I had to decide if I went to work today, or leave it tomorrow. At 06 UTC got news from Southern Finland: TUR. At first it seemed an error to stay at home, but in the end who knows of tomorrow which could be even worse. For our Finnish-speaking readers: Parempi pyy pivossa kuin kymmenen oksalla. MUF was all the time promising, and even rising close to 100 MHz couple of times. Today’s highlight was the good reception of Radio Crne Gore from Montenegro, which is new-for-me heard radio country. Against Murphy’s law there was a jingle ID over the endless beat. Montenegro has been on my catch list since Janne heard this pretty rare country! So tomorrow I have to go to the museum and the late night France today indicates something for tomorrow too. Let’s see what will be coming! I will complain only if I would lose Andorra, Azores or Azerbaidjan! 😉

Here are some notes from my logbook:

0701 UTC 88.7 TUR
0712 UTC 89.7 ROU
0740 UTC 87.8 Quran. TUR?
0800 UTC 89.3 BIH? & ROU
0810 UTC 89.5 HNG, 90.3 Balkan, 87.8/89.7 CZE
0825 UTC 88.6 Delta Uno over YLE 1 Pihtipudas
0829 UTC 89.0 KISSKISS & RUS!
0917-0923 UTC Low band Crimea 88.5 89.0 89.2 89.5 90.4
1015 UTC 88.7 Balkan music
1019 UTC 88.9 RADIO S2
1021 UTC 92.1 Ljubic(?) Radio
1034 UTC 95.7=95.8. Radio AS FM?
1035 UTC 94.5 SRB Pozdrav programa
1037 UTC 93.4 Commercials, concert stadion Tuzla
1043 UTC 94.5 RADIO-F RDS
1046 UTC 87.9 I football Verona
1048 UTC 91.7=89.0 Gianna Gianna Gianna aveva un coccodrillo
1050 UTC 89.5 Maroon 5
1101 UTC 90.3 HNG news about recent research which says that children need quality time with father too…
1120 UTC 89.5 country music in Czech (Country Radio?)
1120 UTC 90.2 I ”misericordia” Radio Maria?

1610 UTC 91.7 Bulgarian ”narodna muzika”
1615 UTC 88.5 I
1642 UTC 89.0 ”You are listening to (fade-out)”. Radio ZU based on music style?
1725 UTC 88.5 Marx & Engels in French
1727 UTC 90.4 I
1729 UTC 90.3 F
1738 UTC 89.0 & 89.5 MX
1832 UTC 90.1 INTER -RDS =88.7/89.0
1833 UTC 91.2 Accordion music

Visual log of identified stations can be seen here!

Today brought also two new FM QSL’s. Nice e-mail in Serbian from Radio Vladimirci and look-a-like card from Fréquence 10, Dinan (22), France!