Sporadic Es - 5 aug 2011

As you can see on the MUF map below which shows
a nice evening Sporadic Es opening into the Balkans.



This was received between 1640 - 1900 hours UTC.
Local time is UTC + 2 hours.
Channels:
R2 - 2Plus/Moldova + R2 -Inter/Ukraine + R1 - M1/Hungary and
R2 - STV1/Slovakia + R2 - M1/Moldova and R2 - RTL KLub/Hungary

There was only a short opening on FM-Band 2
which last 5 minutes into Bulgaria with:
88.10 1703utc BUL: BNR Horizont,Kavarna. (1919 km).
95.30 1707utc BUL: BNR Hristo Botev,Burgas. (1919 km).

Clip BNR Horizont

Sporadic Es 2 aug 2011

A pretty wild TV Band 1 Es opening this evening, again starting
surprisingly late at around 17.30 utc.
Local time is UTC + 2 hours.
Below some pics which I could grab out of the mess.

Channel E4
MTB-1/Makedonia with new logo showing
their national flag in top left corner.

Channel R1
2Plus-TVR/Moldova

29 july 2011 - Jordan TV

Not much going on in TV Band 1 this morning.
At 0800 utc Rai Uno/Italy faded in with strong pics on
channel IA (53,75 mHz) and on Channel IB=E4 (62,25 mHz).
At 0930 utc followed by JRTV - Jordan on channel E3 (55,25 mHz).

Grab of the terrestrial reception and a pic taken from the SAT-TV.

Radio Marina to test from radio ship on 1485 kHz

The Dutch commercial broadcaster Radio Marina provides
this weekend a test broadcast on 1485kHz medium wave
from the radio ship " Jenni Baynton " in Harlingen (The Netherlands).

The test transmission will take place from Saturday, July 30th 08:00 to 18:00 and Sunday, July 31 on 1485kHz (202m), medium wave and
on the Internet at www.radiomarina.nl

Source: De Stentor.
Link:medianetwork



Clip with ID of the test transmission on 30 juli 2011.

27 juli 2011 Es in TV Band 1

Today's Band 1 Es opening again featured very unstable propagation.
The skip area was jumping from one country to another.
At one moment the band could be almost empty, the next moment
the channels saturated with more than one station.
This was logged between 17.18 and 18.48 hrs UTC:

R2- M1 - Balti/Moldova

IA - Rai Uno - Mt. Cammarata/Italy

R2- STV1 - Bratislava / Slovakia

R1 - M1 - Budapest/Hungary
Interesting to note on their R1 frequency tonight 49.739.6, running a strapline talking about VHF, and UHF, and Aug 15 2011.
Presumably their intended switch of this particular transmitter.

R2 - RTL Klub - Pecs / Hungary

Today's ES in FM Band 2

Around 1600 utc FM Band 2 went open to Greece.
However it was the same as the last days with
again very unstable signals.
This was heard between 1600 - 1645 utc:


88.30 GRC: Energy 88.3,Veria/Rahi. (1832 km).

88.80 GRC: ERA2 Dheftero Programa,Evia-Lamia. (2014 km).
88.90 GRC: Play 88,9,Athina/Mt Hymettos. (2139 km).
89.00 GRC: 89 Rainbow,Thessaloniki/Hortiatis. (1864 km).

89.40 GRC: Thessaloniki Deejay,Thessaloniki. (1864 km).

89.80 GRC: ERA3 Trito Programa,Kerkira. (1796 km).
89.90 ITA: Radio Maria,Parabita-Contrada Terrisi. (1699 km).
92.30 GRC: NET 105,8,Lesvos/Mt Olympos. (2166 km).
93.90 GRC: ERA Sport,Thessaloniki. (1864 km).
94.30 GRC: ERA2 Dheftero Programa,Lesvos. (2166 km).
95.50 GRC: Athlitiko Metropolis,Thessaloniki. (1864 km).

96.80 GRC: ERA3 Trito Programa,Volos. (1972 km).
100.90 GRC: ERA Sport,Athina/Mt Parnithia. (2120 km).
103.30 GRC: ERA3 Trito Programa,Ioannina/Liggiades. (1846 km).

26 juli 2011 ES in FM Band 2

Early in the morning two small E skips to Turkey and
Greece and later to Romania, Italy and Spain.
It was again not a big opening here in the Northern part
of Holland.
DX friends in the Western part had more luck with
tons of logs.


87.50 TUR Delta FM, Istanbul 2147 km
88.00 ROU Kiss FM, Bârlad (VS) 1689 km













88.40 TUR Lalegül FM, Istanbul 2147 km
88.50 ROU Kiss FM, Vaslui (VS) 1656 km
88.60 TUR Istanbul FM, Istanbul 2147 km
88.60 I R. Camaldoli Stereo, Vico Equense 1521 km
89.20 TUR Alem FM, Istanbul 2147 km
90.40 E Onda Cero, Mérida (EXT-BA) 1892 km
91.20 GRC ERA2 Dheftero Programa, Kavala 1887 km
92.00 TUR Kral FM, Istanbul 2147 km
92.90 TUR Kanal Türk Radyo, Istanbul 2147 km
94.20 E SER, Badajoz (EXT-BA) 1922 km
96.00 ROU România Actualitati,Rarau (SV) 1470 km
96.30 ROU RR Radio Iasi, Iasi/Pietrarie (IS) 1624 km
96.60 TUN RTT Radio Jeunes, Ain Draham 1846 km
98.70 ROU RR 2 Cultural,Rarau (SV) 1470 km
100.00 TUR Power FM, Istanbul 2147 km
101.10 ROU România Actualitati, Iasi/Pietrarie 1624 km
103.90 ROU România Actualitati, Bârlad (VS) 1689 km
107.30 GRC ERA Sport, Kavala/Mt Pangaion 1887 km