In the early evening MUF maps looked good, and soon there were first fading signals from the penisola of Krim (Ukrainian coast). Probably the best skip went however to the Black Sea. Also Bulgarian and Romanian coast stations were noticed. After first hour I got Turkish on earphones – also Quran recitation, which in my mind was probably TRT. Suddenly Kiss FM Cyprus IDed on 89.0! They have 3 transmitters on this frequency, 3088-3119km, so the 3000 km is reached without any doubt. In that moment I finally realized that these weak Turkish signals could be Arabic aswell! Odesa (the first skip) came strongly, but luckily they don´t use many frequencies under 100 MHz, so there was enough space for second hop from Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel and maybe also Syria, or Egypt, who knows. Please note, that there are many doubts in the log and all the italic stations are only suspected. Your help with unidentified and tentative stations would be highly appreciated, audio can be heard by clicking the station name! After these golden 30 minutes the first clouds moved suddenly towards west, the band was full of Romanian and the double hop was no more possible. Many stations from Cyprus were heard in Southern and Central Finland and also few from other Eastern mediterranean countries.
UTC/FQ/CTR/STN/TX/KM/PWR/POLARIZATION
1611 89.30 UKR Radio DJ FM, Simferopol/hotel Zirkovyj, vul. Mate Zalky, 17b (KR) 2028 0.2
1620 89.50 UKR Radio Sharmanka, Sevastopol/vul. Rudnyova, 41 (KR) 2057 1.5
1624 91.70 UKR Super Radio, Sevastopol/vul. Rudnyova, 41 (KR) 2057 0.5
1631 89.00 ROU Radio ZU, Bucureşti (BU) 2009 3 v
1633 99.00 UKR Europa Plus – Ukraina, Kherson/KHFKRRT, vul. Perekopska, 5 (KE) 1820 1.5 v
1639 90.80 UKR? Radio Shanson. UNID-tx.
1656 91.50 UKR Lyuks FM, Simferopol/vul. Krylova, 161 (KR) 2033 1.5
1700 90.30 BUL BNR Radio Shumen, Silistra/RRS Medžit tabija (sil) 2049 30 h
1704 92.30 SYR Sham FM, Damascus/Jabal Qasyun ”…Dimask” or Al Nour (LBN)? 3309 25 v.
1705 89.10 LBN Al Quran Al Karim, Tripoli (asl) TENTATIVE, GUESS, ONLY KORAN! 3206 v
1714 89.00 UKR Radio Melodiya, Odesa, vul. Lyustdorfska doroga, 55 (OD) 1818 1.5 v
1716 89.00 CYP Kiss FM, Nicosia (kyp-nic) 3088 v and other jingle (mp3). 3 tx’s, this is closest.
1719 89.60 TUR Genc Radyo (Zonguldak), Zonguldak/Merkez (kdz-zon) 2378 1.5
1720 94.80 CYP CyBC-RIK Trito Prog., Mount Olympos tentative, talk ”..Kyprou..” 3107 30 c
1723 91.00 UKR Gala Radio, Odesa/OORTPTS, vul. Fontanska doroga, 3 (OD) 1815 3.02 h
1726 96.80 CYP Radio Sfera Kyprou, Kalo Khorio (kyp-lar) No ID, nonstop greek music 3114
1726 98.80 LBN NRJ Lebanon, Fatqa (jlb) tentative, talk of Bryan Adams 3245
1727 94.40 ROU Radio 21, Brăila (BR) 1917 0.5 v. No ID, px ”Request 629” and RDS RADIO_21.
1728 95.70 ROU Pro FM, Bârlad (VS) 1814 10 h. RDS: PRO_FM
1729 94.50 ISR IBA 2 Reshet Bet, Haifa/Karmel (haf) tentative, wx for Eilat, Kol Rega? 3377 5 v
1740 90.30 ROU Radio ZU, Comăneşti/Laposi (BC) TUNE ONLY 1794 30 h
1747 102.00 BUL BNR Horizont, Shumen/RRTS Venets (shm) 2115 100 h RDS: _VENETS_
1750 97.10 ROU Radio 21, Suceava/Mihoveni (SV) 1650 30 h. RDS RADIO_21.
1752 96.30 ROU SRR Radio Iaşi, Iaşi/Pietrărie (IS) PS:IS_96,3_ 1719 100 h
1752 90.80 ROU SRR Radio Iasi. Same program on 96.3.
1753 96.00 ROU Radio România Actualităţi, Câmpulung Moldovenesc/Rarău (SV) 1673 30 h RDS
1755 91.20 ROU Magic FM, Piteşti (AG) 1961 0.146 v. Or 2 other tx’s. Also RDS MAGIC_
1755 98.40 ROU: Radio Romania Cultural, suspected of it’s style. Only one ROU on this FQ.
1759 88.40 ROU Radio Impuls, Sibiu/Dealul Guşteriţei (SB) end of jingle ”…puls” 1858 0.2 v
1836 90.30 HNG Árvízvédelmi Rádió, Szeged/Újszeged (Cso) RDS: ARVIZ_FM 1840
And same visually:
