Sporadic E opening 28th May, 2008

Shortly skip to the Netherlands at noon. Romania etc. in the evening. Usual networks omitted here. Romania seems to be quite anemic radio country these days - mainly boring networks. Just for the records, Info Pro was received on four frequencies 88.5, 92.4, 93.9 and 96.2, for example.

FM LOG - Wednesday 28 May 2008

87.9 0931 HOL: NOS Omroep Zeeland, Oost-Souburg. Goes-tx.

88.6 0934 HOL: Slam!FM, Hilversum.

88.7 1657 ROU: Kiss FM, Bucuresti. Focsani-tx. "_KISS_FM", PI: 515A.

90.5 1708 ROU: R.1, Alexandria. Local px!

94.1 1747 BUL: R.FM +, Sofia. Burgas-tx.

95.3 1645 ROU: R.Trinitas, Bucuresti. Ploiesti-tx. NoID. "TRINITAS, 95,30MHz", PI: E24D.

97.6 1653 ROU: RR 4 Muzical, Bucuresti. Ploiesti-tx. NoID. "MUZICAL_", PI: FF02.

97.6 1733 TUR: R.Tatlises, Istanbul. "TATLIN__, SESI____", PI: 319B.

98.1 1732 ROU: Pro FM, Bucuresti. Râmnicu Vâlcea-tx.

99.2 0937 HOL: Slam!FM, Hilversum. Vlissingen-tx. NoID. PI: 82A5.

99.4 1741 BUL: R.Fokus, Sofia. Sozopol-tx.

Sporadic E opening 25th May, 2008

More sporadic E... First time received in Finland are unerlined. Usual networks omitted here.

FM LOG - Sunday 25 May 2008

88.0 0943 I: R.Studio 24, Chiaravalle (AN).

88.9 1003 SRB: R.Index, Beograd. Beograd/Torlak-tx. NoID.

88.9 1159 LUX: RTL R.Lëtzebuerg, Luxembourg.

94.1 1119 F: +Parenthèse R., Paris (75). Dijon (21)-tx. New network with 10 transmitters started in October 2007 and focusing exclusively on family and parenting issues. An interesting format!

97.4 1116 F: R.Star, Vesoul (70). Langres (52)-tx.

Sporadic E opening 24th May, 2008

Finally the seasons first Es opening on CCIR frequencies 87.5...108 MHz. First time received in Finland are unerlined. Usual networks omitted here.

FM LOG - Saturday 24 May 2008

69.68 1840 BLR: BR R.Brest, Brest.

88.9 1701 SUI: +R.32, Solothurn. Rütschelen-tx.

89.0 1929 CZE: R.Impuls, Praha. Ostrava-tx. NoID. "_IMPULS_", PI: 2203.

89.4 1658 SUI: R.Fribourg, Fribourg. Sorens/Gibloux-tx.
91.0 1930 CZE: Frekvence 1, Praha. Ostrava-tx. NoID. PI: 2205.

91.8 1623 F: R.Lac, Genève. Mont Salève (74)-tx. Tx is in France

92.8 1521 I: R.Studio Delta, Cesena (FC). NoID. PI: 53FB.

94.0 1543 I: R.Linea Network, Civitanova Marche (MC). Ascoli Piceno (AP)-tx.

97.6 1926 SVK: R.Hey!, Bratislava. Banská Bystrica-tx. NoID. "*_HEY_*_", PI: 5345.

99.1 1529 I: R.Center Music FM, Ancona. Ancona-Forte Montagnolo (AN)-tx. "_ANCONA_", PI: 5475.

Licenced Serbian Broadcasters 2008

SERBIA: National broadccasting licences as well as licences for Belgrade stations were granted in 2006. Regional licences were granted in 2007 and local licences were granted just recently in the beginning of this year, 2008. Also a new licencing round for some extra licences aound Serbia has started just recently in May 20th. Let's look a little bit now how the already made decisions look like. Of cource there can be changes regarding these licences and stations but following the next link you'll find a list of licenced Serbian broadcasters 2008. The frequencies of Radio Beograd networks were incorporated into this list from the information available at the web site of Radio Beograd. The frequencies of Radio Novi Sad in this list are the frequencies already known in the past. Otherwise all the information is from the official documents of RRA (Republička Radiodifuzna Agencija). More ...

SRB: Radio Vihor, Pančevo 1680 kHz

A special International broadcast in Serbian and Finnish from Radio Vihor, Pančevo arranged by my friends Harri and Jim visiting the station during their trip to Serbia, was advertised in advance. It was supposed to be on the air on Sunday 18th of May starting at 20 UTC for one hour on 1650, 1660 or 1670 kHz. But... hearing this transmission proved to be a kind of challenge. I decided to drive to my AM pedition place, to a village of Aitoo, for catching the signal of this "rarity" station.

I was in position just in time but hearing the station wasn't that easy. When trying to track down the signal of Vihor I noticed signals on the aforementioned frequencies 1650, 1660 and 1670 kHz but nothing didn't match to Radio Vihor. I almost thought that 1670 kHz playing music that sounded like Bombfunk MC could have been Vihor because of the music originating from Finland... I also checked for other frequencies but in a lesser extent. When the time seemed to be running out soon, I decided to send SMS to my friend Tero to find out how he is hearing the station. To my luck, he told that Harri had phoned him and told that they had changed frequency to 1680 kHz. OK, I concentrated to this new frequency now on. To hear the station was still a tricky task to complete. I noticed apparently a Greek station on this frequency and heard also "Funky town" music. But then with the latter was fading another music station.

And just when the station was supposed to be signed off according to the original plan, the time was already 21.01 UTC - I suddenly heard clearly numbers said in Finnish language. That was the postal address of this special transmission. Soon after that also some "Radio Vihor" IDs. And very soon the frequency was taken over by another much stronger station which turned out to be Radio Barones. I will add sound clips later.

Thank you Harri, Jim and Radio Vihor for arranging this special broadcast!!

AM LOG - Sunday 18 May 2008

1680 2101 SRB: R.Vihor, Pančevo. The end of the address of this special broadcast appeared suddenly with numbers said in Finnish language "4 8001 BC Zvolle Holland". Also ID "This is Radio Vihor". At 2104 UTC Radio Barones occupied the frequency with it's greetings to Radio Vihor and Harri.

Start of the Sporadic E Season 2008

It's the time of the year when the Sporadic E Season 2008 is in our hands. Yes - I received the first signals on OIRT band today for this season. However nothing to hurray, no real logs yet. Not so much OIRT signals to be discovered and only identified transmitters were three networks from Tbilisskaya (KD) site as follows: Radio Rossii 66.20, Radio Mayak 66.98 and Radio Yunost 67.76. All of these were heard between 11.50-12.00 UTC.