This morning nice tropo around Baltic Sea - also rare Kaliningrad 102.5 was picked up!
Around local mid-day almost one hour conditions started from Italy, Reggio-Emilia area, then moved to Piemonte and for the end to France, Marseille-area and around. Also Corsica was audible (88.7 Jazz FM). Several nice Spanish signals, but mostly networks ided live (RNE, 5, COPE).
In the afternoon signals peaked up from HRV, SVN and one nice surprise was Erotokritos FM 87.9 from Crete - alone in the band with double-hop!!
In the early evening Italy peaks and some Romania etc.
Monday, 2 June 2014
Sun 1.6.2014: Russian peaks
Sunday midday gave several peaks over 87.5 MHz to Russia, around Rostov. OIRT open almost whole day.
Silent evening.
Silent evening.
Saturday, 31 May 2014
Sat 31.5.2014: Nice Turkey opening + Russia, East Europe
Saturday gave nice one hour Turkey-opening to Ankara, which is very rare to reach. Also Zonguldak, Göztebe and Samsun were audible from Turkey.
The whole afternoon gave short peaks to Russia and also ROU, BUL and MDA. The OIRT was open all the time from 06-16utc.
Late evening short Italy peaking.
The whole afternoon gave short peaks to Russia and also ROU, BUL and MDA. The OIRT was open all the time from 06-16utc.
Late evening short Italy peaking.
Friday, 30 May 2014
Utö14-pedition started - Weak peaks today
This season's first Utö-pedition, Utö14 (29.5 - 4.6.2014), started yesterday evening. Two jagi antennas were up late Thursday evening.
On the first full day there were brief peaks to C-Europe giving some signals from 6 countries: I / CZE/ AUT/ F / HRV /SVN. Not serious conds. Later in the afternoon shortly GRC, MKD, ROU, BUL, KOS but low MUF again (+OIRT). Nothing in the evening.
Vertical Körner-yagi silenced suprisingly with no clear reason. Now there is 8-element Triax as V.
Vertical Körner-yagi silenced suprisingly with no clear reason. Now there is 8-element Triax as V.
Here some photos of the participants: JY (Juha Ylönen), TAK (Tapio Kalmi), YK (Yrjö Kainulainen), JOE (Jouko Peltomäki). The photos were taken by TAK.
Tuesday, 29 April 2014
Utö FM-DX summer 2014 schedules
Utö14-pedition lasts one week, 29.5 - 4.6.2014. There are 4 DXers on the first run of this season: JY (Juha Ylönen), TAK (Tapio Kalmi), YK (Yrjö Kainulainen), JOE (Jouko Peltomäki). Two last mentioned are first-timers. Some of the best highlights of this pedition will be booked here.
Utö15-pedition lasts 10 days again, 5 - 16.6.2014. The 8 participants are the original "Utö Boyz", making this again as full crew: HKU, JUS, JJS, JTK, MB, OSY, JJK, JY. This is 7th pedition in a row in Utö (2008 - 2014), but not with full crew every year. The very first FM-pedition to Utö was held in 2004 by HKU and JUS.
Daily "log" or description of the FM-conditions are published here as previous years.
Utö15-pedition lasts 10 days again, 5 - 16.6.2014. The 8 participants are the original "Utö Boyz", making this again as full crew: HKU, JUS, JJS, JTK, MB, OSY, JJK, JY. This is 7th pedition in a row in Utö (2008 - 2014), but not with full crew every year. The very first FM-pedition to Utö was held in 2004 by HKU and JUS.
Daily "log" or description of the FM-conditions are published here as previous years.
Monday, 5 August 2013
Monday, 5th August 2013: Utö13 is over - 2014 booked up
Utö13 is over. Antennas were dismounted around 11.00 and the crew left the island at 13.15 with Eivor-ferry.
This session was succesful on SDXL Annual meeting, totally 40 participants. Everybody were very satisfied and it was fun.
The FM-conditions during the past week were not so good, but no much was also expected at this time of the year: We had south France-opening for 1h and also some tropo, even to Kaliningrad weakly.
Photo below: FUN Radio Besancon (25) France by OSY, Otso Ylönen.
Utö14 will be again next year for 5-15.6.2014. That is already booked up.
Photo above by JUS
This session was succesful on SDXL Annual meeting, totally 40 participants. Everybody were very satisfied and it was fun.
The FM-conditions during the past week were not so good, but no much was also expected at this time of the year: We had south France-opening for 1h and also some tropo, even to Kaliningrad weakly.
Photo below: FUN Radio Besancon (25) France by OSY, Otso Ylönen.
Sunday, 4 August 2013
Sunday, 4th August: Very short peaks to Italy, Greece and Germany
SDXL Annual Summer Meeting 2013 is over and over 30 participants left the island after midday. 6 listeners still left for one day to DX in the camp. We had very short peak to Italy, Greece and Germany before midday and some stations were logged, like ErreVuTi from Arezzo (Italy) on 90.1 MHz, Dionysos from Katerini (Greece) on 89.2 MHz and Rock Antenne, Ismaning (Bayern, Germany) on 87.9 MHz.
The Sherlock-map looked better than what we got as MUF. The camp will be dismounted on Monday around 11.00 for the summer.
In the evening there were no conditions, so we played frisbee. Cabin A-team (JMS,HKU,JUS) beated Cabin B-team very badly. Cabin B (JTK, JJS, TAK) had no chance and they losed all periods: 10-6 / 5-2 / 5-1. Frisbee-golf game was won by JTK.
Sunday-Monday night we had some tropo-peaks: Love Radio from Kaliningrad was id'ed on 102.9 MHz with network programme. KAL is very rare even in Utö.
Photo below: This is the result of the developing technology like Perseus. It is "Katiska-kuuntelu" in Finnish,(Fish)Trap-listening in English. We collect many stations with one recording. Here is katiska (=fish-trap) connected to Jim's Perseus. Click the photo (by JUS).
The Sherlock-map looked better than what we got as MUF. The camp will be dismounted on Monday around 11.00 for the summer.
In the evening there were no conditions, so we played frisbee. Cabin A-team (JMS,HKU,JUS) beated Cabin B-team very badly. Cabin B (JTK, JJS, TAK) had no chance and they losed all periods: 10-6 / 5-2 / 5-1. Frisbee-golf game was won by JTK.
Sunday-Monday night we had some tropo-peaks: Love Radio from Kaliningrad was id'ed on 102.9 MHz with network programme. KAL is very rare even in Utö.
Photo below: This is the result of the developing technology like Perseus. It is "Katiska-kuuntelu" in Finnish,(Fish)Trap-listening in English. We collect many stations with one recording. Here is katiska (=fish-trap) connected to Jim's Perseus. Click the photo (by JUS).
Saturday, 3rd of August: South France
Right after SDXL Summer Meeting official programme after 6pm we had nice opening to South France giving several new stations and also some Spanish signals.
Forexample departements 25, 30, 34, 74, 01 and even 66 at the Spanish boarder were up!! Nice surprise for the evening lasting about 1h!
Forexample departements 25, 30, 34, 74, 01 and even 66 at the Spanish boarder were up!! Nice surprise for the evening lasting about 1h!
Saturday, 3 August 2013
Saturday, 3rd of August: SDXL Annual Summer Meeting 2013 is going on
Late yesterday evening the rest of the DX-meeting crew arrived to the island, Totally around 40 participansts are now present. We already had late-night card-games and sausage. This Saturday is full of DX-programme and also our guide Hanna Kovanen will tell us more about lighthouse and history of Utö.
Photo below: Blue/white "DX"-flag is rising up for the start of the meeting.
Photo below: VJR (Vesa-Jussi Rinkinen) built up 5-element yagi for Baltia-, Sweden- and Poland-DX right outside his hotel room.
Photo below: Blue/white "DX"-flag is rising up for the start of the meeting.
Photo below: VJR (Vesa-Jussi Rinkinen) built up 5-element yagi for Baltia-, Sweden- and Poland-DX right outside his hotel room.
Friday, 2 August 2013
Friday, 2nd August: Weak France for 4-5 minutes
Both houses are now full with 8 DXers. In the afternoon we had very short opening to France: (close to Paris etc.) at 11.45utc.
Loggings from France:
88.4 Horizon, Sainte Genevieve des Bois (91)
88.7 Rire et Chansons, Étampes-tx (dep 91)
88.8 Evasion (also RDS, 77)
89.0 Hélène FM, Surgères (17)
89.0 France Culture, Le Mans-tx (72)
91.1 France Musique, Niort-tx (79)
Russian DXers Omar and Alexander (right) visited our DX-site on Friday. They come from St Petersburg and are participating SDXL summer meeting in Utö.
Loggings from France:
88.4 Horizon, Sainte Genevieve des Bois (91)
88.7 Rire et Chansons, Étampes-tx (dep 91)
88.8 Evasion (also RDS, 77)
89.0 Hélène FM, Surgères (17)
89.0 France Culture, Le Mans-tx (72)
91.1 France Musique, Niort-tx (79)
Russian DXers Omar and Alexander (right) visited our DX-site on Friday. They come from St Petersburg and are participating SDXL summer meeting in Utö.
Saturday morning: Sacrifice for Essi
In the morning JMS and JTK made commited sacrifice for Essi (=Sporadic E) to call up Es-condition for the weekend. On the photo below you can see the guys in front of Utö-sandwich and Spanish Corona 10-brandy on the plate. This deep ritual consisted humble kneeling towards southwest with long lasting low throat-humming in Spanish.
We will see if this ritual brings us good opening to Spain and Portugal. Click the photo.
(The guy on the left (JMS) is leading FM-DXer in Finland and on the right (JTK) is the chairman of SDXL, Finnish DX Association).
We will see if this ritual brings us good opening to Spain and Portugal. Click the photo.
(The guy on the left (JMS) is leading FM-DXer in Finland and on the right (JTK) is the chairman of SDXL, Finnish DX Association).
Friday, 2nd August: More DXers in Utö
FM-DXers JMS (Jim Solatie) and JTK (Jukka Kotovirta) joined the FM-DX-camp on Thursday evening and also around 10 others DXers arrived to the island - also two Russian DXers who already visited the FM-camp. Luckily we had short opening on OIRT. Some photos of the visitors etc later here.
The official SDXL summer meeting starts this evening. JTK (SDXL chairman) was on the air live on YLE Radio Åboland (national Swedish language network in Finland) on Friday morning telling about DXing and our Utö-meeting.
The forecat maps on tropo does not look good for the coming days and Sherlock map is giving nothing for Friday morning.
The official SDXL summer meeting starts this evening. JTK (SDXL chairman) was on the air live on YLE Radio Åboland (national Swedish language network in Finland) on Friday morning telling about DXing and our Utö-meeting.
The forecat maps on tropo does not look good for the coming days and Sherlock map is giving nothing for Friday morning.
Thursday, 1 August 2013
Thursday, 1st August: Brief Italian peaks
During the morning we observed 2-3 short Es-peaks towards Italy. Local and semilocal tropo-stations are interfering weak Es. Two new listerners will join the crew around 18.00 in the evening and the camp is full. JTK (Jukka Kotovirta) and JMS (Jim Solatie, here for the first time) will connect the receivers to the system.
Also many other DXers arrived to the island around 18.00 in the evning. The SDXL Annual summer meeting starts on Friday and over 40 participants will be at present in Utö (2.-4.8.2013).
Also many other DXers arrived to the island around 18.00 in the evning. The SDXL Annual summer meeting starts on Friday and over 40 participants will be at present in Utö (2.-4.8.2013).
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Wednesday, 30th July: Weak Turkey, Greece etc.
Beautiful and sunny day in Utö. A bit stronger tropo but nothing special. The forecast map is promising somthing better on tropo for the weekend, for Sunday.
After midday we had rapid and weak opening to South. Several stations were logged from Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania. This was weak and lasted only about 20 minutes.
Here some loggings, after 10.40utc
66.44 BR Gomel FM, Smyatanichy, Belarus (at 1238utc)
89.0 R Metronom, Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania
89.5 TRT FM, Canakkale-tx, Turkey
90.1 Radio Z, Zimnicea, Romania
90.6 R Energy, Belogradčik-tx, Bulgaria
91.2 Magic FM, Romania
91.2 Radio Veselina, Pleven/kv. Družba-tx, Bulgaria
93.0 TRT 1 Radyo Bir, Canakkale-tx, Turkey
93.2 Darik R, Bulgaria
93.6 Maximum FM, Alexandroupolis, Greece
95.3 Possibly R Evros, Alexandroupolis, Greece
Photo below: Tapio Kalmi (TAK) participating first time Utö FM-DX. Tapio uses 2 x Perseus FM+ and 2 x Sony XDR and records XDR-audio to minilab. Click for bigger view.
Below: JJK, TAK and JJS installing 2 x Triax 8-elem yagis (Photo JUS). CLICK for bigger view:
After midday we had rapid and weak opening to South. Several stations were logged from Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania. This was weak and lasted only about 20 minutes.
Here some loggings, after 10.40utc
66.44 BR Gomel FM, Smyatanichy, Belarus (at 1238utc)
89.0 R Metronom, Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania
89.5 TRT FM, Canakkale-tx, Turkey
90.1 Radio Z, Zimnicea, Romania
90.6 R Energy, Belogradčik-tx, Bulgaria
91.2 Magic FM, Romania
91.2 Radio Veselina, Pleven/kv. Družba-tx, Bulgaria
93.0 TRT 1 Radyo Bir, Canakkale-tx, Turkey
93.2 Darik R, Bulgaria
93.6 Maximum FM, Alexandroupolis, Greece
95.3 Possibly R Evros, Alexandroupolis, Greece
Photo below: Tapio Kalmi (TAK) participating first time Utö FM-DX. Tapio uses 2 x Perseus FM+ and 2 x Sony XDR and records XDR-audio to minilab. Click for bigger view.
Below: JJK, TAK and JJS installing 2 x Triax 8-elem yagis (Photo JUS). CLICK for bigger view:
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Tuesday, 30th July: Utö13 FM-DX-camp is up!
FM-DX-camp in Utö is up again, for the 2nd time this season. The crew is here to prepare Finnish annual national DX-meeting 2013 (SDXL Summer-meeting 2013). Over 40 participants will come to Utö during the coming days and the offcial meeting will be 2-4.8.2013.
For the start the crew consists of 6 listeners: HKU (Harri Kujala), JUS (Jussi Suokas) , JJS (Jukka Soini), OSY (Otso Ylönen) , JJK (Jari Korhonen) and TAK (Tapio Kalmi) who is in Utö for the first time.
Many SDR Perseus FM+-receivers and Sony XDR's are on the tables and 8-el.Triax V-/H-antennas + 4-el yagi (for 50-70 MHz) are up.
We arrived to Utö after midday and luckily it was not raining anymore during antenna installation. The weather will be sunny for the rest of the week!!
No conditions for the Tuesday afternoon or evening. but it is better this way, to built DX-sites with no rush or panic. We might have some tropo for the weekend. Let's see.
Much more photos will be published here later when the meeting is going on.
For the start the crew consists of 6 listeners: HKU (Harri Kujala), JUS (Jussi Suokas) , JJS (Jukka Soini), OSY (Otso Ylönen) , JJK (Jari Korhonen) and TAK (Tapio Kalmi) who is in Utö for the first time.
Many SDR Perseus FM+-receivers and Sony XDR's are on the tables and 8-el.Triax V-/H-antennas + 4-el yagi (for 50-70 MHz) are up.
We arrived to Utö after midday and luckily it was not raining anymore during antenna installation. The weather will be sunny for the rest of the week!!
No conditions for the Tuesday afternoon or evening. but it is better this way, to built DX-sites with no rush or panic. We might have some tropo for the weekend. Let's see.
Much more photos will be published here later when the meeting is going on.
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