FM conditions May 28th 2008

94.8 0740 UTC YLE Satakunnan Radio, Eurajoki (tropospheric scatter) feidaili lujaa ja tuli heikosti, 238 km etäisyyttä, joten ei ihan huikeimpia mittoja mutta jälleen uusi YLE:n alueradio kuultuna! 20:stä YLE:n suomenkielisestä alueradiosta nyt 11 on kuultuna :D

FM conditions May 25th 2008

10:21 UTC 88.8 MHz UNID Station with rock music for a while
11:18 UTC 88.8 MHz France Culture with long discussion, audible over 40 minutes -12:00
11:22 UTC 89.0 MHz UNID Station in French

FM-conditions May 24th 2008

I missed the afternoon conditions when I was at my girlfriend's home doing duties. By the way I came home a bit earlier and heard several station in OIRT band during the night. I made a mistake with my recorder and I lost all the recordings. But these were the first notable conditions during this summer!

18:35 UTC 69.7 MHz tentative Radio Brest, Belarus, I heard same kind of programme as my collegue Marko Weck at the same time but I missed the ID and it's not 100% sure.
18:42 UTC 68.6 MHz probably Radio Ukraine mentioned ''Ukraine''
18:42 UTC 67.4 MHz Belaruskaye Radio with musical program including several clear ID's
18:54 UTC 69,1 MHz UNID station with religious programme
18:56 UTC UNID FQ Program of ukrainian diaspora
18:58 UTC 69.5 MHz Radio Svobodna from Ungheni Moldova with commercial spot and the news
19:00 UTC 67.6 MHz UNID Station all night long with Eurovision Song Contest
19:21 UTC 88.0 MHz UNID Station with classical music
19:22 UTC 88.9 MHZ UNID Station with pop music
19:39 UTC 67.9 MHZ UNID Station with musical program but no ID. Played Natalie Imbruglia's ''Thorn''

That's all from me, I missed all what I could but I'm happy to hear that my friends and collegues had more luck. Italian stations were heard all over Finland, aswell several French stations and also Spain!

FM conditions May 23rd 2008

93.1 MHz 0821UTC- YLE Pohjanmaan Radio, Lapua tropo (tuli kvadiantennin sivukeilasta todennäköisesti)

Uudet QSL't --------------- new QSL's
Bulgarian National Radio 828 with card in 1,5 year! Tämä asema siis harrastaa edelleen samaa itäblokin toimintaa kuten kuulemma on eräitten kuuntelijoiden mukaan ollut tapana itäisissä maissa. Raportti oli keskiaalloilta mutta kortissa seisoo 5900 kHz. Nooh pikkuvikoja ja jos tämä kerran on kulttuurinen tapa niin lykkään sen kansioon vaan, tästä siis Bulgarian HS-piste. Kortin lisäksi tuli pitkää vastausaikaa anteeksipyytelevä kirje ja kaksi postikorttia.

Radio 957, Tampere by e-mail. V/s on aikoinaan työskennellyt Eesti Raadiossakin ja postitellut sieltä kuusillejä ihmisille. Tämä oli lähitropojen tulosta, sillä Ruoveden lähettimelle ei ole kovin pitkää matkaa, ehkä noin 100km..

Radio 105, Italia
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rivi huutomerkkejä lähetetyn noin viidensadan raportin kunniaksi, joista yhteen yritykseen tuli lopulta jopa monitulkintainen vastaus. Ensinnäkin v/s totesi ettei ole kovin helppoa vahvistaa kolmen vuoden takaisia ohjelmakohtia, johon vastasin että olen kyllä silloinkin kirjoittanut asemalle mutta oletettavasti ''Italian postilaitos'' on ''hukannut'' kirjeen koska vastausta ei ole saapunut ja lisäsin perään että odottelen vielä josko hän pystyisi mahdollisesti vahvistamaan raportin. Tähän hän ystävällisesti vastasi että ok, homma klaart ja lupasin lähettää vielä gadgetin asemasta. En tosin tiedä vielä mitä sieltä sitten on tulossa:D. Mutta näin tänään.

FM-conditions May 22nd 2008

88.9 MHz UNID station in French, the first ES-skip for this summer
103.3 MHz Radio 957, local spots, otherwise same show than Radio Jyväskylä on 102.5 MHz
103.8 MHz Iskelmä Tampere, local spots, tropospheric
106.1 MHz Radio Dei, Kuopio unfortunately without local programmes, tropo

these stations were hears May 19th during tropospheric conditions:
95.8 SR P3 Vännäs and
103.9 SR P4 Skellefteå

Springtime DX'ing

At first QSL's from March and April

-Radio Playback International, Italian international pirate station broadcasting on 6882 verified by e-mail QSL
-Radio Tornado, Dutch pirate this time on 6299 verified by e-mail
-YLE Radio Peili verified finally by a traditional QSL card, Helsinki AM station 558 is silent nowadays
-Radio Doctor Tim 6295 verified my ancient report by a colourful e-mail qsl because of a good explanation why I was so late.
-Galei Zahal 6973 kHz a.k.a Israel Army Forces Radio Station with a traditional QSL-card
-Radio St Helena 11092.5 kHz,, USB mode verified my report form with a little QSL-card, posted directly from St Helena island and stamped there. I enclosed and paid 5 euros for this QSL. My country number 118 verified now
-RTV Djibouti 4780 with a copy fulled with data is one of the surprising QSL's, the reply lasted over one and half year. But better late than never! Reported summer 2006
-Voice of Zimbabwe has started to reply reports finally. A brief simple e-mail verification, reported 2006 from the harmonic frequency 6612 kHz. My country number 119 verified!


The DX'ing has been totally sporadic during the springtime. I have DXed only twice, both times to report a new station. At first Radio Svizzera from 558 kHz which will end it's operation June 30th 2008 and another is my first coast radio station from Denmark, Lyngby Radio 1704 kHz. Mode USB. Both are reported aswell.

This is what's going on here.. My equipment is at the moment very unprofessional but it cannot stop me. Never!