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.

Sporadic Es + Tropo on 26 july 2012

• Nice Es to Russia and Estonia in the morning. Russian stations Avtoradio 88.40 and Radio Zenit 89.70 - and from Estonia 96.60 Star FM from Maardu were new. OIRT was open quite well to Sankt-Peterburg. Late afternoon there was a nice Es opening into Finland and a long tropo lift to Norway and Sweden.

A very busy FM-DX map from this morning:

to the logbook

OIRT-Es 14 july 2012

Arrived in the shack at 0730z and OIRT Band was already
open into Belarus and Ukraine.
Pity that I had to leave home at 0900z as Band II
was open into Scandinavia.
So I missed that BIG ES opening after reading the postings
on the FM-DX mailinglists when arrived back at home.

65.93 0838 UKR UR 1 Persha Prog., Shostka 1793 km
66.32 0820 BLR BR 1, Pinsk/RTPS Posenichi 1292 km
66.44 0825 BLR Gomel FM, Smyatanichy/RTPS 1453 km
66.50 0826 UKR UR 1 Persha Prog., Bilopillya 1872 km
67.10 0821 BLR BR 2 Kanal Kultura, Pinsk 1292 km
67.37 0819 BLR BR 1, Bragin/RTPS (GO) 1581 km
67.91 0841 UKR UR 2 Radio Promin', Kharkiv 2040 km
68.30 0816 BLR BR 2 Kanal Kultura, Bragin 1581 km
68.75 0815 UKR UR 1 Persha Prog., Trostyanets 1936 km
69.20 0757 UKR UR Radio Kharkiv-2, Kharkiv 2040 km

69.92 0805 UKR UR 2 Radio Promin', Trostyanets 1577 km
69.92 0804 UKR UR 1 Persha Prog., Pervomais'k 1776 km
70.28 0829 BLR Radyjo Stalica, Smyatanichy 1453 km

71.87 0813 RUS Radio Mayak, Belgorod/ORTPTS 2042 km
72.86 0811 UKR UR 3 Radio Kul'tura, Kyiv 1639 km

Sporadic Es into Tunisia with RDSDX and RDSSPY - 13 july 2012

After almost a week of no Sporadic Es openings this afternoon
Band II was open to Italy and Tunisia.

52.60 1536 I Radio Radar, Castel di Casio/Casola (bo) 1062 km
87.50 1851 I Radio Norba, Casacalenda 1421 km
87.90 1527 F France Culture, Porto Vecchio/Punta di a Varra 1316 km
90.60 1627 TUN Shems FM, Monastir (mon) 1976 km
90.90 1659 I Radio Manà Manà Sport, Rocca di Papa/Mte Cavo 1358 km
92.20 1629 TUN Radio Zitouna FM, Gorraa (bej) 1881 km
92.90 1638 TUN Mosaïque FM, Kef-Errand (nab) 1859 km
93.00 1636 TUN RTT Radio Jeunes, Sfax/El-Ghraba (sfa) 2065 km
94.30 1637 TUN RTT Radio Nationale, Djebel Zaghouan (zag) 1902 km
95.70 1724 TUN RTT Radio Monastir, Harkoussia (mon) 1986 km
96.20 1637 TUN Shems FM, Sfax/El-Ghraba (sfa) 2065 km
100.70 1552 I Voxson Vintage Radio, Rocca di Papa/Mte Cavo 1358 km
105.60 1557 I Rete Sport, Rocca di Papa (rm) 1358 km
106.31 1559 I RMC - Radio Monte Carlo, Rocca di Papa/Mte Cavo 1358 km

5895kHz Radio Northern Star via Radio Nord

Test transmission from Radio Northern Star on Shortwave.
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This was recorded tonight with a nice ID

STL Radio Punto Zero on 61.20 mHz - 02.07.2012

Received with the Ultra-Cheap-SDR (€ 25,00) a Studio Link
of Radio Punto Zero - Trieste/Italy
for their FM frequency 101.10 mHz - Conconello/Trieste


Punto Zero

Spor. Es 1 july 2012

My today's Visual Logbook.

As you can see a nice, widespread and persistent OIRT Band Es opening today.
Reception window 14.02-20.15 UTC. Local time is UTC + 2 hours.

OIRT
66.08 1629 UKR UR 1 Persha Prog., Krasnohorivka 1890 km
66.32 1626 BLR BR 1, Pinsk/RTPS Posenichi (BR) 1292 km
66.53 1938 RUS Radio Rossii, Lipetsk/RTPS KO 2163 km
66.59 1616 UKR UR 1 Persha Prog., Kam'yans'ke 1807 km
66.74 1402 RUS Radio Yunost - YuFM, Kanevskaya 2420 km
66.80 1623 UKR UR 1 Persha Prog., Velykyi Mytnyk 1514 km
67.25 1936 BLR BR Novaye Radio Mahilyow,Kastsyukovichy 1660 km
68.03 1405 UKR UR 3 Radio Kul'tura, Pervomais'k 1776 km
68.09 1835 RUS Radio Mayak, Lipetsk/RTPS KO (LI) 2163 km
68.54 1829 RUS Radio Rossii, Kashira (MO) 2029 km
68.78 1944 RUS Radio Mayak, Bryansk/ORTPTS (BR) 1812 km
68.84 1409 UKR UR 2 Radio Promin', Kirovohrad 1846 km
69.20 2018 RUS Radio Mayak, Sergach/RTPS (NN) 2470 km
69.56 1411 UKR UR 3 Radio Kul'tura, Kryvyy Rih 1952 km
70.52 1417 UKR UR 1 Persha Prog., Odesa 1860 km
70.64 1412 UKR UR 2 Radio Promin', Cherkasy 1786 km
70.91 1413 UKR Radio Mariya v Ukraini, Vinnytsya 1558 km
71.30 1420 UKR UR 2 Radio Promin', Kyiv.Dorogozhyts'ka 1639 km
71.78 1449 UKR UR 3 Radio Kul'tura, Mykolayiv 1905 km
71.78 1614 UKR UR 3 Radio Kul'tura, Mykolayiv 1905 km
71.93 1613 UKR UR 3 Radio Kul'tura, Balanivka 1663 km
72.05 1914 RUS Radio Mayak, Orel/ORTPTS (OL) 1939 km
72.08 1445 UKR UR 1 Persha Prog., Izyum/KHORTPTS 2147 km
72.20 1456 UKR UR 1 Persha Prog., Cherkasy 1786 km
72.56 1848 RUS Nashe Radio, Tambov/RTPS Pervomayskiy 2285 km
72.74 1905 BLR BR 1, Mahilyow/RTPS Polykovici (MA) 1538 km
72.80 1853 RUS Radio Mayak, Maksatikha/RTPS Seltsy 1879 km
72.80 1852 RUS Radio Zvezda, Lipetsk/ORTPTS (LI) 2169 km
72.86 1434 UKR UR 3 Radio Kul'tura, Kyiv/KFKRRT 1639 km
72.95 1426 RUS Radio Rossii, Rostov-na-Donu/ORTPTS 2403 km

CCIR
88.20 1632 TUR TRT 3 Radyo Üc, Istanbul/B.Camlica TRT 2147 km
88.30 1518 ROU Itsy Bitsy, Tulcea/Topolog (TL) 1818 km
88.40 1633 TUR Lalegül FM, Istanbul/Camlica (mam-ist) 2147 km
90.40 1700 TUR Haber Türk Radyo, Istanbul/Camlica 2147 km
93.70 1644 TUR Radio FG (Future Generation), Istanbul 2147 km
93.90 1656 ROU Pro FM, Baneasa/Dobrogea Sud (CL) 1835 km