1566 kHz HLAZ FEBC- Cheju Korea 21.9.2012

Strong signals tonight from Korea - received on the K9AY antenna NE-SW.

Another Sporadic (late season) ES opening

Today was more like a mid-season TV Band I and OIRT Es opening. Several hours with persistent DX, with some very strong signals from Ukraine. More like this please! Mediumwave TA-DX can wait !!

Beside the strong R1 - TV Channels from Ukraine ( 1+1 and Inter ) this was seen

R1 - 2Plus from Moldova with the old TVR1 logo upper right corner

R2 - M1 from Moldova

R2 - UT-1 from Ukraine

Between the channel R2 powerhouses I could log a personal first from Ukraine called STB/5-y-Kanal which is a low power station from Sinelnikove.

Today's OIRT and FM CCIR logs:

 87.60    1505    BUL    BNR Radio Shumen, Shumen     1826 km
 88.10    1525    BUL    BNR Horizont, Kavarna             1924 km

 71.57    1423    MDA    Vocea Basarabiei, Milestii Mici (IL)   1707 km

 66.08    1330    UKR    UR 1 Persha Prog., Krasnohorivka       1890 km
 66.53    1332    UKR    UR 1 Persha Prog., Antopil'                  1367 km
 66.74    1333    UKR    UR 3 Radio Kul'tura, Dnipropetrovs'k   2033 km
 67.28    1320    UKR    Svitle radio Emmanuyil, Kyiv                 1643 km
 67.70    1317    UKR    UR 1 Persha Prog., Khmel'nyts'kyy       1453 km
 68.51    1321    UKR    UR 1 Persha Prog., Kyiv                       1639 km
 68.60    1324    UKR    UR 2 Radio Promin', Krasnohorivka      1890 km
 69.23    1418    UKR    UR 1 Persha Prog., Vasilivka            .    2026 km
 69.83    1358    UKR    UR 1 Persha Prog., Lozova                   1361 km
 70.46    1352    UKR    UR 2 Radio Promin', Khmel'nyts'kyy     1453 km
 70.52    1420    UKR    UR 1 Persha Prog., Odesa                    1860 km
 70.76    1400    UKR    UR 1 Persha Prog., Kul'chiyivtsi            1477 km
 70.91    1341    UKR    Radio Mariya v Ukraini, Vinnytsya         1558 km
 71.69    1327    UKR    UR 1 Persha Prog., Vinnytsya                1558 km
 71.75    1344    UKR    UR 2 Radio Promin', Lozova                 1361 km
 72.20    1326    UKR    UR 1 Persha Prog., Cherkasy                1786 km

Sporadic (late season) ES with 1TV-Moscow

I was very surprised to see Sporadic E reception this morning. The "SP-E season" is usually well and truly over by this late in the summer, but here is a video I took this morning.

SDRSharp + RTL2832U - Studio Link from Italy

Late afternoon MUF raises up to around 70 mHz and the Es cloud lays in the right position to receive some STL's from Italy. This was heard - 50.75 mHz Lattemiele and on 53.00 en 55.00 mHz Radio Jonica.



Radio Jonica from Terra Nova da Sibari

Band 1 TV and OIRT open to Russia

Again a early start of Es this morning, started in Band 1 TV with good pics on Channel R1 from 1TV - Moscow and BT1 -Minsk/Belarus and on Channel R2 RTR from Novgorod (RUS).

Half way the morning the OIRT Band was open to Moscow area with several new stations heard such as Russkaya Sluzhba Novostey from Moscow on 69.26 mHz.

Some OIRT and Band II ES on 28 July 2012

Around 10.00 hrs local time OIRT Band was open for 1/2 hour to Russia and Ukraine. The rest of the day was very quiet with the Es until 1815 hrs when Band II was open to Tunisia with the ES cloud on the right spot as you can see on today's ES MUF map.

Today's logs

 88.20    1900    FIN    YLE Radio Yksi, Lapua - Lappo - Meteor scatter

 88.20    1747    I    Radio Ricordi-Jukebox, Catania

 66.30    0823    RUS    Radio Rossii, Sankt-Peterburg
 67.45    0823    RUS    Radio Mayak, Sankt-Peterburg
 68.48    0826    RUS    Radio Mayak, Valuyki
 69.41    0846    RUS    Radio Yunost - YuFM, Nyandoma
 72.62    0827    RUS    Radio Mayak, Podporozhye

 88.20    1707    TUN    RTT Radio Kef, Djebel ech Chambi
 88.50    1618    TUN    RTT Radio Sfax, Kerkennah
 89.40    1620    TUN    Jawhara FM, Kairouan=Al-Qayrawan
 92.00    1742    TUN    RTT R.Tunis Chaîne Int., Djebel Zaghouan 
 95.00    1623    TUN    RTT Radio Jeunes, Gafsa/Djebel Biada
 95.70    1646    TUN    RTT Radio Monastir, Harkoussia
 96.10    1647    TUN    RTT Radio Culture, Kef-Errand
 96.20    1648    TUN    Shems FM, Sfax/El-Ghraba
 97.60    1630    TUN    Radio Zitouna FM, Djebel Zaghouan
101.10    1632    TUN    RTT Radio Culture, Djebel Zaghouan
104.70    1634    TUN    RTT Radio Monastir, Djebel Zaghouan
106.50    1635    TUN    Shems FM, El Haouaria/Cap Bon

 71.66    0831    UKR    UR 3 Radio Kul'tura, Pidgorivka

Very quiet ES day - 27 july 2012

Best tropo in these days had been to Danmark, Norway and Sweden. FM band was open with tropo to Sweden early in the morning but due to other commitments I missed the opening. When I arrived in the shack at 0915 local time signals were just fading out. More luck next time ! Late afternoon FM band was open with Es to Italy for a short moment. A new one was 91.70 Tele Radio Padre Pio from Campobasso with only 0,25 KW.