Friday, 21 September 2007

DX Pedition Aitoo

I made a short pedition to Aitoo (a village approx. 50 kilometres to SE from Tampere) for one night listening. My primary aim was to catch North American signals which were heard a couple of days earlier in Finland but the conditions weren't favourable this time. Additionally, I was forced to trace down different kind of humming QRM in order to have more convenient AM band. One source of QRM was revealed to be caused by the power supply of my wireless headphones... The other terrible source of QRM was the energy-saving light bulb in the listening room there. But the third source of QRM was not solved unfortunately. I think it is the same one causing trouble also 1-2 years ago.

Update 9 Oct 2007: Many thanks to Harri Kujala and his foreign contacts for solving my unidentified Dutch stations!!

AM LOG - Thursday 20 Sept. 2007

1557 2131 UNID in Chinese. Listen to the sound clip MP3 Does Lithuanian transmitter on this frq. relay CRI at this time?

1628 2152 GRC: Radio Delta. Recognized from GSM 6949398344. The most powerfull station between 1600 and 1700 kHz at this late evening.

1640 2121 GRC: UNID Greek pirate. Gave phone number 6946361626. I wasn't sure about the last digit but HKU suggests that it's "eksi". I think you are correct. Listen to the sound clip MP3 - any ideas about the station?

1642 2148 HOL: Radio Barcelona, Vriezenveen. Sound clips: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

1646 2146 Natuurjager. It spelled it's hotmail address but the first two letters were unclear until expertise help from the region. Thank you HKU for your valuable help in tracing after these pirates. Sound clips: 1, 2, 3, 4.

1646 2231 HOL: Radio Noordzee, Vriezenveen. Sound clips: 1, 2.

1665 2235 NOR: Tjøme Radio, Tjøme. Navigational warnings in English and Norwegian and an ID three times as "Rogaland Tjøme Florø Radio".

1677 2237 FIN: Turku Radio. Navigational warnings in Finnish and Swedish and an ID.

1697 2112 UNID. Slavic sounding pirate? Russian? Serbian? Listen to the sound clip MP3. Though this sound clip is not a good one.

1705 2158 DNK: Lungby Radio. Navigational warnings in English and Danish and an ID.



AM LOG - Friday 21 Sept. 2007

1458 0401 G: Sunrise Radio, London. News and a jingle.