Sunday 30 September 2007

Weekend Log 28-30.9.2007

Listening now only on Saturday evening:

LOG Sat 29.9.2007
1640 kHz - Zender Kleine Vogel, Holland (O=3) mp3
1645 kHz - Zender Valkenster, Holland. "Zender Valkenster vanaf lokatie....?". QSO with Kl.Vogel (O=0-1+) mp3
1656 kHz - Radio James Bond, Holland. Strongest. (O=2-4)
3900 kHz - Skyline Radio Germany. (O=0-2) - 19.10-19.55 mp3
3920 kHz - UNID dance music (O=0-2+) - 20.10-
3923,7 kHz - UNID (O=0-2+) - 20.10-
3925 kHz - UNID, possibly Bogusman (O=0-2) - 19.15-
3935 kHz - UNID possibly Boomerang. Quite strong. (O=2-3+) - 19.45-
6290 kHz - UNID rock music. Strong in the beginning but weakening all the time during the evening (O=2-4) - 18.30-
6306 kHz - Radio Brandaris, Holland On the air again with good signal! (O=2-4+)

Look the fire-disaster in our DX-camp 3 weeks ago. All gone!! We had almost 5 km wires in the near woods. Now we have to collect everything away!

Saturday 22 September 2007

Weekend Log 21-23.2007

Not so much time for listening - only short band-checks:
LOG Sun 23.9.2007
5720 kHz - Orion Radio, Holland. A bit weaker than week ago (O=2-3+) - 07.40-
6216 kHz - King SW tentatively. Readable signal (O=0-2+) - 09.00-
6286 kHz - UNID German - possibly Tukan Radio. Played "Hands Up" by Ottawan (O=0-2) - 08.50-08.54
6296 kHz - UNID - possibly Dr. Tim (O=0-2) - 09.56-
6310 kHz - Radio Condor from Holland. Dance music (O=1-2+) - 07.40-
6329 kHz - UNID German. Audible signal (O=0-2+)

LOG Sat 22.9.2007
1645 kHz - Radio Barones, Holland (O=2-4) 19.30-
1660 kHz - Radio Titanic, Holland. Active station nowdays. 19.30- mp3
6305 kHz - Radio Brandaris, Holland (O=2-4) - 18.40-
6400 kHz - WMR, Scotland, UK. Nice signal. Weak on 3910 kHz. (O=1-3+) - 18.40- mp3


LOG Fri 21.9.2007
1617 kHz - Radio Epouranios, Thessaloniki. GSM: 6973036971. Tnx to "Vagelis B52" for help (Comment below this message) (Now when I know, I can easily find 'Epouranios'- and 'Thessaloniki'-words mentioned before GSM-number ). I have heard this before (map). (O=1-3) - 23.10- mp3_1
1643 kHz - Zender Barcelona, Holland (O=2-4) - 23.00-

QSL-card from KBC

This week I got nice QSL-card via snail-mail from KBC! This seems to be quite big station with very professional weekly 8h weekend-programming via Lithuania-relays on 1386 kHz and 6255 kHz! Next year they will start daily 1h programmes on SW!

Station ID's with Greek help!

I have now help from Greece to identify Greek pirates! I can understand GSM-numbers, but it is very difficult to figure out what are the name of the stations. "Vagelis B-52" and "Kostas" gave me help and have tuned my clips. I have now made corrections to the loggings below. Thanks for them!

The most interesting catch for me was Radio Kalokardos from Halkida, about 60 km North from Athens, Greece. Also Radio Hristos (unknown location) was new for me.
I have sent sms-messages to two these stations but I have nothing back. Unfortunately they do not understand English. Radio Delta, Radio Anatolia (on the air every evening from 20.00 - 02.00 Greek time) and Radio Thesalos I have heard before 1-2 years ago.

See the corrections on loggings below.
Here is a map of Greek pirates (not all) which I have identified!

Saturday 15 September 2007

Weekend Log 14-16.2007

LOG Sun 16.9.2007
5720 kHz - Orion Radio, Holland. DJ mentioned this Sunday to be the last summerday in Holland. Quite enjoyable signal but naturally weakening later (O=2-4) - 07.05- mp3
6216 kHz - UNID (O=0-2) - 08.25-
6290 kHz - Radio Mazda, Holland. Strong signal with speading wide audio (O=2-4) - 06.55- mp3
6296 kHz - UNID non-stop music (O=1-3)
6300 kHz - UNID. Too weak for audio (O=0-1) - 06.55-
6300 kHz - Radio Saxonia, Germany. Weak - just audible, as shoud be at this time of the day here (O=0-1+) - 09.26- mp3
6400 kHz - WMR (O=0-2) - 07.00-

LOG Sat 15.9.2007
1620 kHz - De Farmers - "The Farmers from Holland". I sent them sms and I was mentioned on the air (tel. +31623431106). This station was raided many times around year 2000 and they closed down after having heavy penalties. Now they are back! Strong signal (O=2-4+) - 19.30- mp3_1 / mp3_2 (my message mentioned) / mp3_3
1642 kHz - Radio Spakenburg, Holland. Gave also GSM (O=2-3) - 21.20-
1643 kHz - UNID from Greece between Dutches. Possibly from Trikala. Gave GSM: "6932366148" - 21.30 mp3_1 / mp3_2
1646 kHz - Radio Armada, Lemelerveld, Holland (O=2-3+) - 21.20-
Also a few other Dutch stations were on the air later but I hunted the Greek one.

LOG Fri 14.9.2007
1646 kHz - Vrolijke Mijnwerker, Holland (O=1-3) - 19.45-
3927 kHz - Radio Quintus from Holland. My antenna is not good for 75mb (O=0-2) - 18.50-

Wednesday 12 September 2007

Greeks 11-12.9.2007

LOG Tue 12.9.2007
1620 kHz - Radiofonikos stathtmos Kalokardos, Halkida, Greece (See below, 11.9.-07). Was on the air also yesterday. Gave GSM-number: "6938216245" (O=0-3) - 20.48- (m3 below, 11.9.-07)
1628 kHz - Radio Delta, Giannitsa(?), Greece. On air also yesterday (O=2-4). Gave clear GSM for callings: "6949398344"- 21.10- mp3
1639 kHz - Radio Anatolia , Kilkis again. My agent Mr. "Vagelis" wrote me that Radio Anatolia is on the air every day from 8pm to 2 pm (local time) and is very strong everywhere in Greece!!! - 20.00-


LOG Tue 11.9.2007
On Tuesday evening I tried to identify 4 Greek stations around 1620-1630 kHz. Very difficult. I will need Greek help. Those telephone numbers are clear for me. Perhaps I phone them...

1620 kHz - Radiofonikos stathtmos Kalokardos from Halkida, Greece. Gave GSM-number: "6938216245" (O=0-3) - 20.48- mp3
1628 kHz - Unknown Greek possibly from Xanthi, Greece. Gave also telephone: "6974331558" but too weak to ID (O=1-3) - 21.20- mp3
1631 kHz - Radio Delta, Giannitsa (?), Greece. (O=2-4) - 21.10- mp3
1633 kHz - Radio Anatolia, Kilkis-city, North Greece. Clear ID (listen mp3): "Stathmos Anatolia..... Kilkis" Very strong. GSM: "6979374704" Took telephone callings live on air (O=2-4) - 21.00- mp3

My 200m longwire to South gives good signals to Greece but almost nothing to Holland!!

Monday 10 September 2007

Pirate-DXing to Greece

LOG Mon 10.9.2007
1650 kHz - Radio Thesalos, Larissa-city, Greece. I have heard this station before. The last words before music are clear: "Thesalos Radio...... kalistera". In the beginng of this clip he gives his GSM for callings:
6974815033 - (O=2-3+) - 19.00- mp3

1670 kHz - UNID, from Northern Greece giving QSO-report to local FM-pirate! (Thanks to Vagelis for comment below) (O=1-3) - 18.08- mp3

Sunday 9 September 2007

Weekend loggings 8 - 9.9.2007

LOG Sat 8.9.2007
3927 kHz - Orion Radio from Holland with rock music and guest DJ Spock (O=1-3) - 1920- mp3
6306 kHz - Radio Brandaris, Holland giving gsm-number (O=2-4). Good signal - 19.10- mp3
6400 kHz - WMR from England. Surprisingly clear signal for some moments (O=2-3) - 19.24-

LOG Sun 9.9.2007
UNIDENTIFIED weak stations at 07.50utc
6291 (tentatively Dr. Tim with Pavarotti-programme!)
6306 (tent. Viking, Holland)
6310 kHz (tent. R Condor).
Thanks for help and comments!

Saturday 8 September 2007

First September loggings

LOG 4.9.2007
6305 kHz - KLUB KW from Germany. Barely audible (O=0-1) - 18.25-
6310 kHz - Free Radio Holland (O=0-2+) - 18.30-


LOG 1.9.2007
1639 kHz - Radio Hristos, unknown location, Greece. Clear ID. Gives two GSM-numbers. First is 6932748329 (eksi-enea, trianda-dhio, epta, saranda-okto, tria, ikosi- enea) and 6972734489 (O=2-3+) - 18.25- mp3

New blog for pirate DX-ing

This is new blog for my pirate radio observations made in Naantali, SW Finland!
I tune illegal radio signals mainly on 48 mb (6200 - 6400 kHz), 75 mb (3900 - 3950 kHz) and on 186 mb (1600 - 1700 kHz).
I log here my observations regularely, also sometimes with audio-samples.

My other interest in radio listening is FM-band (87.5 - 108.0 MHz) and it is
located in http://hkdx.blogspot.com/.