perjantai 16. huhtikuuta 2010

Easter DX



Easter was again good time to travel countryside for DX'ing. As usually, besides of catching new stations, this was a moment to check recordings and organize things, preparing for example for the new FM-season. I also checked several hours of these recordings what I have made during last 5 years, mostly there is no surprises anymore. Now there are less than 50 C-cassettes under checking, when starting the project last christmas; they were very numerous, probably over 70. Little by little the recording archive will be fully organized.

This time I found a nice clip of DRS Musigwälle 531 kHz, already silent on MW. It has verified but still nice to have a 5 minutes recording of it's programme, as a souvenir. Aswell I checked old FM-recordings where found surprisingly Bacau regional of Radio Trinitas with ID "En Bacau ascultate Radio Trinitas Nouazecsase virgola opt, nurazul Bacau optzeciopt virgola patru.." The first frequency is for Bacau and another for Onesti, both in Bacau region. Seems to be regional for sure. However it's hard to say what was the frequency, while recording this one, I was smoking outside and left recording for empty frequency. I never knew that there was anything, probably only white noise. However there faded in a romanian station giving a nice ID. This is not the first time to hear something interesting with not really listening at the moment. Once I got Radio Fiat with same method from Poland, but it has luckily only one frequency. Once while smoking again, I got BRF 89.0 from Belgium with 400 watts. That time I came back and found surprisingly oh there is something on the recording. And once sleeping and having siesta Prague's local Radio Expres come with nice commercial spot. These are kinda nice catches! It's said it's need to have professional antennas and receivers and a lot of work. Well for sure, but if I got with whip antenna and unprofessional receivers that amount of stations, also good ones, and not only network stations, I could never manage to solve every clip and station heard with 8-el yagi and Sony XDR... There must be too much recordings then!

Aswell I found an old recording, made August 5, 2005 during the conditions when Eastern and Middle European stations were widely heard in Finland. I caught hungarian talk on 88.4 MHz for a minute, this is what the conditions normally are in Central Part, while South-West Finland is having band full of stuff till 108MHz. It's said something like "Balaton Enis Radio" and soon after that "Szoltoko Radio". After these clues station got Irene Cara's What A Feeling on air and faded away. Nice but these names do not exist. Only listed stations are Slager and Nyugat, which was on air since Oct 15, 2005. Balaton has been only on 88.2.

There was aswell a local DX-meeting in Jyväskylä with 7 collegues participating to it. It was kinda nice meeting after a long break to me. And nice to see that local DX organisations are still living under umbrella FDXA.

About my equipment this moment
for FM-DX Technics ST-Z45 with quad built by myself, one element(!), Philips AZ1518 CD-cassette -recorder, excellent for rare station hunting and Fisher PH403 with analog frequencies, both of them have whip only.
for MW/SWDX Icom IC-R71E with ground and balun for 25mtrs long antenna. For next season have to build longer and bigger, when having 375mtrs I also heard something interesting but it was broken by wind.
for fun Tecsun PL-310 with DSP, Grundig YB 208, AS multiband radio (kind of cheap scanner for 54-176MHz) and Fintec (no model number in memory)
for broken moments =) Sangean ATS-909 often used with FM-dipol, Philips Autoilona (1960's car receiver) and Yamaha TX-330. All of these are working, but not properly.

These following stations have been logged in April in Uurainen by myself.
666 2222-2315 3/4/10 GRC: ERA Radio Filia, Athens. "Kosmos Enenda Tria koma Eksa".
765 0619-0622 1/4/10 RUS: Radio Carelia, Petroskoi. Regional programme.
801 2100-2105 3/4/10 D: On 3 Radio, München/Nürnberg.
819 1925-1950 1/4/10 EGY: ERTU Batra. Phone-in-show with music and jingles "min al-Qahira".
963 0407-0500 3/4/10 FIN: Radio 86, Pori. "Hiinatund" -programme in Estonian.
981 1859-1901 1/4/10 GRC: ERA Spor, Athens. Soccer with "Era Spor ekaton ena koma okto"
1197 1840-1851 1/4/10 ROU: Radio Neumarkt, Brasov. Speaking and playing songs in German.
1314 0532-0537 4/4/10 ROU: Radio Antena Satelor, Constanta/Timisoara. No Oltenia Craiova =(.
1431 2107-2107 3/4/10 DJI: Radio Sawa, Dorale. Is this new site or another name for Arta?
1440 0557-0600 10/4/10 LUX: RTL Radio. There was very few stations audible.
1449 0520-0520 4/4/10 RUS: Radio Mayak, Monchegorsk. "na maiache"
1530 0547-0600 4/4/10 ROU: Radio Romania Actualitati, Radauti. No Constanta here.
1602 0535-0553 3/4/10 FIN: Scandinavian Weekend Radio, Liedenpohja. SINPO 35454 S6.
1657 2015-2020 3/4/10 HOL: Radio Barones, Ruurlo. Giving ID when I came on the fq.
4789,5 0503-0524 3/4/10 PRU: tent. Radio Vision. Probably this station with religious programmes every morning. No ID. Other TA-stations coming on 4840/4885/4915/4960/4985/5025/5040.
4800 2020-2035 3/4/10 CHN: CNR Golmud. "Chung Kuo zhi Sheng" = "Voice of China".
4845 2100-2100 7/4/10 MTN: Radio Mauritanie, Nouakchott announcing it's name in Arabic.
4976 2039-2139 6/4/10 UGA: UBC Radio, Kampala. Tips for good marriadge with music.
5045 2104-2104 7/4/10 B: Radio Cultura Ondas Tropicais, Belém. Sounds like new name for this?
5815 0800-0830 4/4/10 HOL: ORN, Elburg. Offshorerecords.com and jingle in Finnish.
5930 0627-0627 4/4/10 CZE: Radio Prag Deutschesprachige Sendungen.
6000 0610-0615 1/4/10 BUL: Radio Balgarska, unid-tx. Giving ID with these words.
6140 0419-0419 3/4/10 ROU: Radio Romania Actualitati, unid-tx. Nothing's gonna stop us now.
6160 0630-0700 4/4/10 RUS: GTRK Arkhangelsk. "Radio Pamore." Regional daily this time.
7610 0604-0615 10/4/10 I: Radio Amica Onde Corte, Bologna. Playing italodisco and then news.
15120 0742-0759 3/4/10 NIG: LV du Nigerie, Abuja(?). Might be new tx-site in Abuja. No QRM.
15120 0601-0605 4/4/10 CHN(?): CRI in Chinese. Under CRI there was probably VON in English.
88400 1708-1710 5/8/05 HNG: UNID mentioning "Balaton Änis Radio" and "Szoltoko Radio...magyar" and playing Irene Cara then. Must be Slager only?
96800 1450-1450 14/6/06 ROU: Radio Trinitas Bacau, Bacau. Probably this frequency, found clear ID on the recording "Bacau Ascultati Radio Trinitas 96,8 nurazul Bacau 88,4" Sounds regional, but is there regional programmes on Radio Trinitas at all? Who knows...?

lauantai 27. maaliskuuta 2010

March 27th loggings

1200 UTC 13625 Radio Free Asia, Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands. Jammed by China National Radio which announced "ChungYang Renmin Guangbo Dientai, ChungKuo Zhi Sheng"

lauantai 20. maaliskuuta 2010

March 20th and 21st loggings

20.03.2010
1340 UTC 6205-6 kHz Radio Spaceshuttle International, Finland; with mostly soul music programme. "On shortwave" and "spaceshuttleradio@yahoo.com", "Combination with Cool AM". Splashes from 6200 kHz German speaking station.
2020 UTC 6220 kHz Radio PlayBack International, Italy; Baby I Ain't Your Love, Give It Up by K.C. & The Sunshine Band, Somebody Dance With Me by DJ Bobo, Kung Fu Fighting, Runaway (I wo-wo-wo-wo-wonder) and speaking like "live from the island of nowhere Playback International, playbackinternational@gmail.com". Probably via Mystery Radio's transmitter.

21.03.2010
0955 UTC 15070 kHz Cupid Radio, the Netherlands; absolutely strongest signal never heard from a Dutch pirate in my Turku QTH. Alternative rock songs and greetings to the listeners from every side of the world. That's was a great experience! Promised special QSL.
1030 UTC 6205 kHz Radio Spaceshuttle International, Finland; a bit weaker signal than yesterday. Too early? Alternative frequency 9290 kHz was not heard here.
1215 UTC 6450 kHz Marconi Radio, the Netherlands; mostly music, including instrumental version of ABBA's Waterloo.
1400 UTC 6210 kHz Radio Spaceshuttle International, Finland. Playing Black Velvet ecc.
1640 UTC 6425 kHz Radio Marconi, the Netherlands; Schlagers and seldom announcing

perjantai 19. maaliskuuta 2010

From December to March








From December to March

This has been a very radioactive period for me. I have been several times on the countryside, in the middle of nowhere, in a village called Uurainen for listening medium and short wave stations. I used to live there but nowadays I only visit my old home and listen during weeks or weekends which are free from the university studies. Finally I have aswell started organizing the recordings and numbering all the cassettes I have, and checking these recordings. I have also reported the stations which have been found on these recordings. I have around 75 hours of these recordings which means over sixty C-cassettes! Many of the cassettes are still under listening and checking but I still believe that one day I would have organized them all.

Besides of these activities, I have aswell organized the folders full of QSL's and documents from the stations since 2001, putted the bigger world map to the wall, behind the table of my radio equipment and putted nail in the every city where I have heard a station from and sent so called follow up reports to the stations which have not yet sent QSL or any document of listening. Especially I have ”fupped” the stations from countries from where I have no any QSL. Few of these stations have now reacted to my mails and letters very kindly and verified the reception. At the moment I have verified 123 countries to be heard!

Let's have a look at the loggings; stations are mostly heard in Uurainen, except loggings marked with L, Lassila in Satakunta region, T, Turku and U, Uusikaupunki both in Varsinais-Suomi region, which are heard during so-called DX-expeditions, weekends stayed with friends and DX! However, these DX-expeditions are just for fun. I never ever send reception reports if the station is not heard in my own QTH, with my own antenna and own receiver. But listening without reporting is fun also with borrowed equipment! Italic stations are tentatives, or the station identification/location is unclear.

Europe

153 06.01.2010 1537 RUS: Radio Unost, Taldom “UFM”

171 06.01.2010 1643 KLG: Radio Rossii, Bolshakovo pop mx on the background

183 06.01.2010 2246 D: Europe 1, Saarlouis “Europe 1”

216 06.01.2010 2206 F: RMC Roumoules “RMC”

216 07.01.2010 0010 RUS: Radio Rossii, Krasnoyarsk RMC off air

216 07.01.2010 2153 F: RMC Roumoules

234 06.01.2010 2316 LUX: RTL Beidweiler “RTL”

270 25.12.2009 0744 CZE: CRo1, Topolna “Rádiózurnal”

585 06.02.2010 1659 RUS: Radio Rossii, Perm only network

684 06.02.2010 1701 RUS: Radio Radonezh, St. Peterburg own programme

738 23.12.2009 1346 RUS? Golos Rossii, Moskva? might be via WRN

747 20.12.2009 0624 HOL: Radio 5, Zeewolde Goede Zontag etc

810 19.12.2009 2130 RUS: Radio Mayak, Volgograd

891 21.12.2009 2227 HOL: Radio 538, Hulsberg Yunost off air since 2200

900 20.12.2009 0557 I: RAI Radiouno, Milano network px

900 23.12.2009 0607 I: RAI Giornale Radio della Lombardia. regional px

918 07.01.2010 2255 SVN: Radio Slovenia 1, Domzale huge ID with all stns!

936 23.12.2009 0600 D: Bremen 1, Bremen Oberneuland.

1026 19.12.2009 2032 RUS: Radio Mayak, Arkangelsk

1062 07.12.2009 0558 CZE: Country Radio, Praha

1080 06.01.2010 1547 RUS: GTRK Radio Mordoviya, Kovylkino local weather

1098 19.12.2009 1539 SVK: Slovensko Radio Patria, Bratislava verified with card

1107 28.12.2009 0205 D: AFN, Kaiserslautern dominating

1116 06.01.2010 1622 HNG: Kossuth Rádío no regional today

1179 27.12.2009 2230 S: Radio Sweden , Solvesborg in English

1197 01.01.2010 0535 ROU: Antena Brasovului, Brasov RTM-px till 0600

1224 25.12.2009 1911 BUL: Radio Balgarija, Vidin playing carols

1314 22.12.2009 1513 ROU: Antena Satelor, Constanta/Timisoara was not a regional!

1314 07.01.2010 2248 ARM: Mezhdunarodnoye Russkoye Radio, Gavar

1323 28.02.2010 0431 ROU: Radio Târgu Mures, Târgu Mures local programme

1323 28.02.2010 0500 RUS: Radio Grad Petrov, Olgino signing on 0500

1323 28.02.2010 0600 D: World Service of VOR, Wachenbrunn signing on 0600

1341 19.12.2009 1529 HNG: Magyar Katolikus Rádío, Szolnok

1350 23.12.2009 2348 F: Radio Orient, Nizza idhaat’ll shaab

1359 05.02.2010 2230 UKR: Radio Center, Donetsk local night show

1395 19.12.2009 0709 HOL: The Big L, Trintelhaven with jingle

1404 22.12.2009 1656 ROU: Postule Radio Sighet, Sighetul Marmatiei local programmes

1485 19.12.2009 0730 LVA: Radio Merkurs, Riga www.radiomerkurs.lv

1485 27.02.2010 0755 LVA: Radio Merkurs, Riga Roy Orbison etc.

1494 01.01.2010 0625 MDA: Radio Moldova Nazional, Cahul/Edinet H.N.Y by ABBA

1494 01.01.2010 0700 F: TDF France Info, Clermont-Ferrand

1530 22.12.2009 1732 ROU: Radio Constanta, Nufarul not dominating

1530 22.12.2009 1742 ROU: Radio Romania Actualitati, Radauti

1557 27.02.2010 0555 F: TDF France Info, Nizza ”Sur France Info”

1575 29.12.2009 0619 I: RAI Liguria, Genova too weak for RR

1575 01.01.2010 0620 I: RAI Radiouno, Genova that day network

1584 28.12.2009 2230 POL: Twoje Radio AM trying Arctic R.

1602 02.01.2010 0900 FIN: Scandinavian Weekend Radio, Virrat “Ekoradio” -px

1602 06.02.2010 1440 FIN: Scandinavian Weekend Radio, Virrat

3985 05.12.2009 2340 HRV: La Voz de Croazia, Deanovec in Spanish

5930 27.02.2010 0730 CZE: Radio Praha, Litomysl in German

6000 03.01.2010 2155 BUL: Radio Varna, Varna registered letter

6005 21.12.2009 0905 D: Radio 700, Kall-Krekel verified with QSL

6010 02.01.2010 2100 D: Family Radio, Wertachtal Open Forum

6070 05.01.2010 0440 BLR: Radio Brest, Brest verified with card

6100 19.12.2009 2157 BIH: International Radio of Serbia, Bijeljina via tx in Bosnia-H.

6185 27.02.2010 0612 VAT Vatikaanin Radio, Santa Maria di Galeria in Finnish

9585 05.03.2010 0808 D: Radio Farda, Lampertheim

British Isles

1089 28.12.2009 0110 G: talkSPORT, multi-tx with echo

1197 01.01.2010 0600 G: Absolute Radio under of ROU

1368 28.12.2009 0150 G: Manx Radio, Douglas strong british night

1458 25.12.2009 0627 G: Sunrise Radio, London

1485 27.02.2010 0732 G: BBC Radio Humberside, Hull heard after 7 years

1566 28.12.2009 0020 G: County Sound Radio, Guildford dominating

Iberia

1386 26.12.2009 0159 E: Euskadi Irratia, Bilbo classical music

1386 06.02.2010 0127 E: Euskadi Irratia, Bilbo classical music

1476 22.12.2009 0636 E: Euskadi Irratia, San Sebastian news morning

Africa

864 21.12.2009 1600 EGY: ERTU Radio Qu’ran, Santah

1431 28.12.2009 0115 DJI: Radio Sawa, Dorale another than Arta?

1530 22.12.2009 1858 STP: VOA São Tomé & Principe, Pinheira LV du Amerique

5005 05.12.2009 2145 GNE: Radio Bata, Bata verified with letter

6297 21.12.2009 1748 ALG: Radio Nacional de la RASD, Rabouni Huna sawt’l shaab

21695 22.12.2009 1241 LBY: LJBC Sabrata Hiini Saut Afrikia

Asia

702 25.12.2009 1920 IRN: IRIB Kiashar Turkish & Russian

936 23.12.2009 1351 IRN: IRIB Orumiyeh regional program

1206 05.01.2010 2158 ISR: Kol Israel, Acre “sawt’ll yisrael”

1305 05.01.2010 2246 ISR: Galei Zahal, Rosh-Pina

1575 23.12.2009 2339 UAE: Radio Farda, Dhabbaya S.O.S by ABBA

4975 20.12.2009 1800 TJK: World Service of VOR, Dushanbe

5990 02.01.2010 2340 CHN: CRI Hohhot in Russian

6010 28.12.2009 1619 CYP: BBC Zygi

6100 19.12.2009 2155 CHN: CRI Xi’an in Arabic

6205 26.12.2004 1208 RUS: VOR, Chita

6285 26.12.2004 1154 KRE: La Voix du Corée, Kujang in French

7255 28.02.2010 2038 CHN: CRI Baoji (near Xi'an) in Russian

9000 06.02.2010 1450 TWN: Sound of Hope Radio International nonstop music

11610 05.03.2010 0800 CHN: CNR Beijing

11985 05.03.2010 1110 TWN: RTI Huwei in Russian

17785 26.02.2010 0900 ARS: BSKSA Radio Riyadh, Riyadh in French.

Oseania

5765 31.12.2009 1035 GUM: AFRTS, Barrigada. (USB-mode). “CNN Radio”

North America

590 07.11.2004 U 0622 CAN: VOCM Radio, St John's (NF) music programme

1130 25.12.2009 2357 USA: WBBR, New York, (NY) Bloomberg Radio

1130 02.01.2010 2202 USA: WBBR, New York, (NY) AB Radio News

1310 29.12.2009 0645 CAN: CIWW, Ottawa, (ON) “Oldies 13-10”

1390 26.12.2005 0724 USA: WEGP, Presque Isle, (ME) ”WEGP 13-90”

1410 20.12.2009 1310 CAN: CFUN, Vancouver (BC) “the Team 14-10”

1470 24.12.2009 0731 USA: WLAM, Lewiston-Auburn (ME) ‘songs from70-89’

5070 19.12.2009 0857 USA: WWCR, Nashville (TN)

6875 27.02.2010 0604 USA: WYFR , Okeechobee (FL) in Spanish

9265 24.12.2009 1210 USA: WINB, Red Lion (PA) in Spanish

Central America

5025 19.12.2009 0715 CUB: Radio Rebelde, La Habana Kool & the Gang

6110 24.12.2009 1135 CUB: Radio Habana Cuba, La Habana Deportes en R.H.C

11775 24.12.2009 1139 AIA: The University Network, The Valley

South America

1390 07.11.2004 U 0522 VEN: Radío Fe y Alegria, Caracas

1470 29.10.2005 0436 VEN: Radío Vibración, Carúpano Eros Ramazotti

1470 29.10.2005 0436 PRU: CPN Radio, Lima surprise found

1500 30.12.2009 0652 VEN: Radio 2000, Cumanà “En Dos Mil..”

3280 28.03.2005 0234 EQA: La Voz del Napo, Tena incl. R. María

4885 25.12.2009 0427 B: Rádio Clube do Pará, Belém

4915 30.12.2009 0750 B: Rádio Daqui, Goiânia shouting “Daqui”

4985 05.12.2009 2350 B: Rádio Brasil Central, Goiânia “em R. Brasil C.”

5035 26.12.2009 0222 B: Rádio Aparecida, Aparecida verified with card

5045 05.12.2009 2359 B: Rádio Cultura do Pará, Belém Discoteca Cultural

9630 02.01.2010 2350 B: Rádio Aparecida, Aparecida

11735 03.01.2010 0943 B: Rádio Trans Mundial, Santa Maria

Pirates

1620 20.12.2009 2305 HOL: De Technische Man, Ruurlo

1623 21.12.2009 2205 HOL: Monte Carlo Radio giving reports

1629 06.02.2010 0104 HOL: Radio Anton giving reports

1636 06.11.2004 U 2015 HOL: Radio Zender Bizon, Veenendaal first pirate for me

1636 07.11.2004 U 0655 HOL: Oklahoma

1636.5 21.12.2009 2055 HOL: Radio De Nooitgedacht

1646 21.12.2009 2134 HOL: Radio Calypso van Noord-Groningen

1655 20.12.2009 2113 HOL: Zender Napoleon

1656 20.12.2009 2333 HOL: De Lachende Oliebol

1660 30.01.2010 T 0100 HOL: Radio Relmus, Holwerd

1665 05.02.2010 2353 HOL: Radio Relmus, Holwerd

1670 20.12.2009 2050 HOL: Radio Orwan “Dit is R. Orwan”

1671 02.01.2010 2220 HOL: Radio Barones, Ruurlo playing Natalie

1690 05.02.2010 2322 GRC: Stathmos Sylvania, Thiva

5815 20.12.2009 0830 HOL: Orion Radio Nederland, Elburg

5815 27.12.2009 1000 HOL: Orion Radio Nederland, Elburg “Dr. Tim” spots

5815 31.01.2010 T 1000 HOL: Orion Radio Nederland, Elburg

5815 21.02.2010 L 0900 HOL: Orion Radio Nederland, Elburg

6205 30.01.2010 T 1100 FIN: Radio Spaceshuttle International

6205 31.01.2010 T 0930 FIN: Radio Spaceshuttle International

6210 31.12.2009 1043 HOL: East Coast Holland/VOTN trad. new year broadcast

6220 19.12.2009 2133 I: Mystery Radio year after year

6220 20.12.2009 1655 I: Mystery Radio Queen, ABBA etc.

6220 31.01.2010 T 0945 I: Radio Marabu via Mystery Radio in German

6260 19.12.2009 1333 HOL: Radio Quintus, Arnhem Moonlight shadow

6265 25.12.2009 0836 UNID: Radio Mistletoe

6278 25.12.2009 1033 HOL: Radio Mazda, Nijverdal Pastinaak 4, 7443 JD

6280 03.01.2010 1020 FIN: Radio Spaceshuttle International from finnish forest

6294 20.12.2009 1205 HOL: UNID, jingles sounded like "Grenstad Radio 62-94"

6298 27.12.2009 1105 HOL: VOTN Voice of The Netherlands

6298 27.12.2009 1131 HOL: Radio Zender Boomerang, Neede

6301 19.12.2009 0900 HOL: Radio Mustang verified by e-mail

6305 20.12.2009 1045 HOL: Mazda Radio International, Nijverdal

6305 25.12.2009 0803 HOL: Overijssel Radio, Zwolle verified by e-mail

6306 19.12.2009 1234 HOL: Radio Brandaris International, Doesburg promised QSL

6310 19.12.2009 1000 HOL: Radio Scirocco first heard as Zero

6376 06.02.2010 1020 HOL: UNID Radio Continental(?) from the North of the Netherlands

6395 31.01.2010 T 1100 HOL: Radio Scotland no ID, greez to me

6401 20.12.2009 1305 G: WMR, Central Scotland DX-news

6415 20.12.2009 1110 HOL: Radio Marconi, Weiteveen

6524 06.12.2009 0935 HOL: Radio Ramona, Franeker verified by e-mail

7610 03.01.2010 0922 I: Radio Amica, Bologna verified by letter

11401 07.11.2004 U F: Radio Waves International

Utility

1020 06.01.2010 1615 RUS: DK, Glotaevo.

1290 25.12.2009 0138 RUS: TU, Bely. call every 31 sec

sunnuntai 7. helmikuuta 2010

February 2010 first weekend DX

This weekend I visited my old QTH in the countryside, in the middle of nowhere, Central Finland region. RX: Icom R71E with long wire of 25 mtrs in the forest, with ground and balun. Loggings from 5th to 6th February.

585 kHz 16:59 RUS: Radio Rossii, Perm. Network ID, not daily station.
684 kHz 17:01-18:05 RUS: Radio Radonezh, SPB. Strong, QRM from middle-eastern station, which may happen during this kind of conditions.
1359 kHz 22:30-23:16 UKR: Radio Center, Donetsk. Regional programming in the night time with nonstop music and local ID as "...Donetsku..Radio Center"
1386 kHz 01:27-02:05 E: Euskadi Irratia, Bilbo-Bilbao. Classical music program and news.
1602 kHz 14:40-14:50 FIN: Scandinavian Weekend Radio, Liedenpohja. Extremely bad signal, weak, noisy and hard to understand what they said, but clear Yankee stylish ID!
1629 kHz 01:04-01:08 HOL: Radio Anton. Giving reports.
1665 kHz 23:53-01:25 HOL: Relmus Radio, Holwerd. Pirate station operated by 23 yrs old guy from Friesland, playing the best 70's songs and giving nice jingles.
1690 kHz 23:22 GRC: Stahtmos Sylvania, Thiva. Mentioning Sylvania several times. Thiva is situated 100km north from Athens.
6376 kHz 10:20-10:35 HOL: tent Radio Continental, Noord-Nederland. Fading in and giving clear ID. Nice surprise, new station for me and the only heard 48-pirate during these horrible conditions. EDIT: not sure of this one, logged as Radio Dutchwing at this time(!)
9000 kHz 14:50-15:44 TWN(?): Sound of Hope Radio International. Interesting one. Playing nonstop chinese classical and at the top of the hour silence for 5 minutes, WRTH clandestine section solved this mystery easily. A jammer jamming for nothing organized by a Christian Church. WTF!?

lauantai 30. tammikuuta 2010

Some DX this weekend


Having time and interest in DX'ing again after a break.

QTH: Turku
RX: Tecsun PL-310, little chinese pocket receiver with Digital Signal Processing and it's whip antenna



January 30th, 2010
0100 UTC 1660 kHz HOL: Radio Relmus, Holwerd, Friesland. Heard some wellknown 80's songs, then I went to Pirate Chat to ask who's it and meet the DJ there. Verified with online greetings. The DJ was surprised that his signal was catch with this kind of receiver.
1100 UTC 6205 kHz FIN: Radio Spaceshuttle International. Playing Finnish rock classics.
2330 UTC 1670 kHz HOL tent. Radio Barones, Gelderland. Sounded like him and logged this time.

January 31st, 2010
0930 UTC 6205 kHz FIN: Radio Spaceshuttle International. Better signal than yesterday.
0945 UTC 6220 kHz I: Radio Marabu via Mystery Radio. Announcing in German.
1000 UTC 5815 kHz HOL: Orion Radio Nederland, Elburg. Noisy signal but clear id finally.
1100 UTC 6395 kHz HOL: Radio Scotland. No ID but heard personal greetings to me, report given in pirate chat.

sunnuntai 24. tammikuuta 2010

Free QSL's

Germany

Radio East Side, 6305, 2005, 50w
Radio Doctor Tim, 6295, 2005
On Air AM, 6300, 2006, 80w
Skyline Radio Germany, 6240, 2006
Radio Sonar, 6280, 2007, 40w

The Netherlands

Groningen
Radio Alpenroos, Veendam, 6325, 2005, 20w

Friesland
Extreme Radio, Eesterga (Lemsterland), 6331,5, 2007, 25w
Radio Station Relmus, Holwerd, 1656, 2008, 400w
Radio Ramona, Franeker, 6524, 2010, 10w

Drenthe
Radio Lowland, Klazienaveen, 6311, 2007, 250-300w
Radio Marconi, Weiteveen, 6415, 2009

Overijssel
Radio Tower en Veronique, Markelo, 6275, 2005
Radio Mazda, Nijverdal, 6305, 2005, 300w
Overijssel Radio, Zwolle, 6305, 2009, 40w

Flevoland

Gelderland
Radio Barones, 1646, 2004, 1500w
Spaceman Radio, 6275, 2005, 1000w
Delta Radio, Ruurlo, 3927, 2005, 700w
Radio Quintus, Arnhem, 3928 & 6280, 2006, 25/150w
De Technische Man, Ruurlo, 1655, 2006, 1000w
Radio Titanic AM, Borculo 1655, 2006, 1500w
Orion Radio Nederland, Elburg, 6400, 2006, 400w
Antonio Radio, Elburg, 6300, 2006, 65w
Radio Boomerang, Neede, 3922, 2006, 800w
Radio Zodiac, Harderwijk, 6333,3 2007

Utrecht
Radio Tornado Shortwave, Utrecht, 6299, 2008, 40w
Radio Paardenkracht, Lopik, 6260, 2008, 400w

Noord-Holland

Zuid-Holland
West Coast Radio, Katwijk, 6305, 2006, 80w - 6375, 2007, 80w

Zeeland

Noord-Brabant

Limburg

Onbekende lokatie
Alfa Lima Internationaal, 6265, 2005, 400w
East Coast Holland, 6275, 2005 800w
Radio Utopia, 1636,5, 2006, 1000w
Cupido Radio, 6210, 2006, 150-200w
Radio Bonofox, 6300, 2006
Radio Borderhunter, 3925, 2006, 400w
Radio Foxfire, 6306, 2007
Mustang Radio, 6301, 2009

France

Radio Waves International, 6325, 2006, 30/40w
Radio Face de Blatte, 6327, 2006, 120w

Norway

Radio Fox48, 6275, 2006, 250w

Finland

Radio Sombrero, 6258,3, 2004
Radio Spaceshuttle International, 6295, 2004, 20w
Finn Hits Radio, 6300, 2006, 15w
Radio White Star, 6270, 2006
Radio Milliwatti, 6260, 2006

Italy

Radio Malaisy, 6310, 2005, 600w
Radio Playback International, 6882, 2008
Radio Amica, Bologna, 7610, 2010, 1000w
Radio Playback via Mystery Radio, 6220, 2010

British Isles

Laser Hot Hits, 6219, 2005, 100w
Britain Radio, 6240, 2006, 6255, 2008, 100w
WNKR, Kent, 5825, 2007, 10w
Weekend Music Radio, Scotland, 6400, 2007, 150w
Radio Merlin International, 6280, 2008

Greece

Radio Odyssey, Athens, 6310, 2007, 1000w
Spider Radio, Athens, 6925USB, 2008

Serbia

Radio Daleki, Kucevo, 1695, 2006, 500w

Poland

Radio Galaxy, Gliwice 6553, 2008

Onbekende lokatie

Radio Blue House, 6305, 2006
Radio Mistletoe, 6260, 2006