Sunday 25 November 2007

Log Weekend 23.-25.11.2007

Friday 23.11.2007
1384 kHz - Radio Makedonia, Greece. First time I heard a spoken jingle from a Greek pirate. Unfortunately I did not get it recorded (O=0-3) - 23.20-
6235 kHz - Mighty KBC. KBC-import spots. Finally I remembered to listen KBC again. Signal was fairly good but not enjoyable. Little fading and noises (O=3-4). Next day, Saturday night, signal was perfect on MW 1386 kHz!! - 22.20-

Saturday 24.11.2007
6275 kHz - Laser Hot Hits, Ireland. Why they do not give a licence for this station to SW? (O=0-3) - 10.20-

Sunday 25.11.2007
5805 kHz - UNID. Sounded Dutch music. Weak (O=0-2) - 08.15-
6216 kHz - King SW. Very active station (O=0-2) - 08.40-
6255 kHz - Britain Radio (O=0-2) - 09.15-
6265 kHz - Radio Altrex (O=0-2+) - 08.15- mp3
6265 kHz - ROZ, Holland (O=2-3+) - 10.40-
6275 kHz - Radio Underground, UK (O=0-2) - 08.20-
6281 kHz - Radio Black Power tentatively (O=2-3+) - 11.10-
6290 kHz - Radio Mazda, Holland (O=2-4) - 11.10-
6299 kHz - Voice of The Netherlands, Holland (O=1-3+) - 10.35-
6300 kHz - Skyline Int., Holland. Good signal (O=2-4) - 07.50- mp3
6307 kHz - Radio Shadowman, Holland. QSO (O=3-4+) - 10.30-
6310 kHz - Radio Condor with dance rythms (O=2-3+) - 08.15-
6320 kHz - UNID giving adress. Possibly Saxonia? (O=0-2) - 11.25-
6325 kHz - UNID. Waves??(O=0-1+) - 08.40-
6400 kHz - WMR Scotland. Chinese station on 6398 kHz gives bad interference at this time of year. This station should have a legal SW-licence,too. (O=0-3) - 10.45-
6540 kHz - Radio Brigitte, Belgium (O=0-2) - 08.45-

Sunday 18 November 2007

Pirate memories 1988 from Ireland

80's was the golden decade of pirate broadcasting in Ireland. I was also lucky to receive many Irish big and small pirates on Medium Wave and FM. I have a reply from 20-30 Irish pirates.
Summer 1988 was good on FM-DXing. I heard many Irish FM-pirates here in Finland via Sporadic E-skip!
Many years back I made an audio-mix of the ID's and jingles of these stations - and now I made a little movie, too. There is a slide-show with jingles and ID's.

These are the stations in order of appearance: Treble TR, Capitol Radio, Super Q, CAU FM, KISS FM (Monaghan), BIG M, Liberty 104, ErneSide Radio, Radio West, Radio Vera, Radio Nova (Unfortunately I did not get good ID or jingle from Sunshine 101 and many others).
You can see and hear this Irish-Mix-1988 as WMV (2,5 Mb) here.

Weekend Log 17-18.11.2007

Log Sunday 18.11.2007
Nothing special this Sunday. Signals as usual, not so strong.

5813 kHz - Orion R Netherlands (Weak signal on 5805 kHz. Telstar?) (O=2-3) - 09.10-
6216 kHz - King SW. No id. Signal seems to be quite strong, but weak modulation? (O=0-2+) - 08.50-
6220 kHz - Mystery R with some other station's programming (O=3-4) - 08.45-
6260 kHz - Skyline R Germany (SGR) with professional sounding programmes (O=1-3) - 09.03-
6270 kHz - Radio Mazda, Holland. Strongest of the day (O=2-4) - 09.05-
6280 kHz - Radio Merlin, UK. Surprisingly strong because other UK-stations were not even visible. (O=1-3) - 10.15-
6283 kHz - Eastside Radio tentatively, Germany (6282.7) (O=0-2) - 08.50-
6285 kHz - UNID. I think this was Skyline Germany shortly before moving to 6260 kHz (O=1-3) - 09.00
6290 kHz - UNID possibly from Germany (6290.5) (O=0-2) - 11.50-
6292 kHz - Radio Antonio tentatively, Holland (O=1-3) - 09.15-
6297 kHz - Stimme der DDR, Germany. Some German station used this name today! DDR's official state broadcaster used this name years back (O=2-3) -10.35
6306 kHz - Radio Brandaris International, Holland (O=1-3) - 09.00
6310 kHz - Radio Condor, Holland. Dance music. (O=1-3) - 08.45-
6311 kHz - Sallandse Boer, Holland. Shortly on air. (O=1-3) - 09.00-
6420 kHz - LHH, Ireland. Weak. (O=0-2) - 09.00-

Sunday 11 November 2007

Weekend Log 10-11.11.2007

Log Sunday 11.11.2007
This weekend only 2,5h listening around Sunday midday. Many stations but not so good signals like week ago. UK-stations now weak - or nothing. Strongest station was Shadowman and then Mazda. No mp3's from today because of weak signals, or not new stations for me.

5805 kHz - Orion Radio Netherlands. Weaker than ever, but well audible anyway (O=2-3) -09.24
6209 kHz - UNID German (6209.5). Closed down 09.55. Likedeeler? (O=0-2)
6209 kHz - Radio Likedeeler, Germany (6209.4) (O=2-3+) - 10.15-
6220 kHz - Mystery Radio, Italy. Strong all day.
6216 kHz - King SW tentatively tracked from this freq. (O=0-2) - 08.10-
6254 kHz - Britain Radio Int. tentatively, England (6254.2) (O=0-2) - 10.11-
6269 kHz - CWR, Germany (O=0-2+) - 09.33-
6275 kHz - UNID. Radio Underground? (6275.1) (O=0-1) - 09.00-
6275 kHz - UNID. Laser HH?? Suddenly coming up (6275.5) (O=0-2) - 10.00-
6280 kHz - Powerplay FM, Germany giving telephone (6280.7) (O=2-3) - 09.00-
6293 kHz - Radio Bluestar, Holland. Long programme (O=0-3) - 09.20-
6294 kHz - Sallandse Boer tentatively, Holland. QSO (O=0-2+) - 11.08-
6298 kHz - Voice of The Netherlands. QSO (O=2-3) - 10.47-
6299 kHz - Skyline International, Holland. (6299.5) QSO. (O=2-3) - 10.45-
6300 kHz - Radio Shadowman, Holland. QSO. Giving 10 kHz audio but other stations near did a weak whistling noise. I wait to hear this O=5 HiFi-10 kHz sound on a free frequency some day. (O=3-4+) - 10.04-
6301 kHz - UNID, Holland shortly (6301.5) (O=0-2+) - 09.20-
6305 kHz - Radio Mazda, Holland. Long programme. Mostly non-stop (O=2-4) - 08.50-
6306 kHz - Radio Brandaris International, Holland (O=0-3) - 10.55-
6307 kHz - UNID beside Mazda. No id heard (O=1-3) - 08.50-
6400 kHz - WMR, Scotland. Very weak now. Nothing around midday - 14.00-
12257 kHz - Radio Wrekin Int. Now better than previous Sundays, but weak all the time (O=0-2) - 09.05- Here one old WRI-recording from 26.3.2006 with very enjoyable reception: mp3

Sunday 4 November 2007

Weekend Log 3 - 4.11.2007

Good conditions with almost 20 stations received on 48mb here! Weekend highlight was the reception of Radio Texas from Serbia on 1701 kHz with only 50 Watts!! It was a test broadcast on Saturday evening for me to try.

Log Sunday 4.11.2007
5705 kHz - Orion R Netherlands. Booted PC for the start of the px. Greetings to Finland with 9 degrees temperature outside in Holland (O=1-3+) - 08.00-
6205 kHz - Britain Radio, UK. Good signal but perhaps a bit more compressing on audio is needed! (O=1-3) - 07.45- mp3
6220 kHz - Mystery Radio, Italy. Always strong. (O=2-4) - 07.45-
6260 kHz - Cairo Radio, Germany. Test. (O=0-3) - 09.03-
6265 kHz - Permier R. tentatively with long px. QRM around (O=0-1+) - 08.09- mp3
6271 kHz - Halloween Radio, Germany (O=0-2) - 09.27-
6281 kHz - UNID giving ID but passing my ears (O=0-3) - 12.05-
6282 kHz - Radio Sonar, Germany. Strong! 40 W according to QSL. Real alternative station on 48mb! No oldies, classics or today's hits. mp3
6285 kHz - Geronimo SW, Germany. Gave e-mail. Clean. (O=0-3) - 07.05- mp3
6290 kHz - Radio Fox 48, Norway. Has been stronger sometimes before. Perhaps low power test? (O=0-2) - 08.15-
6295 kHz - Radio Northpole, Holland (O=0-3) - 08.43- mp3
6300 kHz - Radio Golfbreker, Holland (O=0-2+) - 11.50-
6305 kHz - Radio Underground, UK. Now clear ID with a bit better signal also here. (O=0-1+) - 07.05-
6305 kHz - UNID with dance music. No id. (O=0-3) - 11.55-
6310 kHz - Lowland Radio tentatively. No ID heard. Nice signal (O=2-4) - 07.05-
6325 kHz - Radio Alice, Holland. Strongest of the day! (O=3-4) - 08.05-
6329 kHz - UNID non-stop. No ID heard. (O=0-2+) - 07.05-
6400 kHz - WMR Scotland. (O=1-3+) - 07.05-
6416 kHz - UNID. No talking heard. Shortly on air. (O=0-2+) - 08.35-
6540 kHz - Radio Brigitte tentatively, Belgium (O=0-2) - 08.55-

Log Saturday 3.11.2007
1695 kHz - Radio Daleky, Majdanpek, Serbia. QSO (O=3-4) - 20.02-
1695 kHz - Radio Vihor, Pancevo, Serbia. Greetings to me in English. QSO (O=3-4) - 20.12-
1695 kHz - UNID, possibly Radio Balkan, Beograd, Serbia. QSO (O=0-1) - 20.20-

1701 kHz - Radio Texas, Vrsac, Serbia. Weak but clear signal with only 50 Watts! We made test wtih this station if he can reach Finland, and it happened!! Pan-flute music and ID's: "This is Texas Radio, Serbia". Nice surprise! (O=0-2) - 20.02- mp3

Here is photo from the evening of 3rd of November 2007 >




3910 kHz - WMR Scotland, UK (O=0-2+) - 21.28-


3927 kHz - Radio Likedeeler, Holland. Why using this risk-frequency?? Good signal! (O=2-4) - 22.09- mp3


3940 kHz - Radio Underground, UK. Best ever on this frq. with more clear words (O=0-2) - 21.20-


6275 kHz - LHH, Ireland (I suppose) with Radio Caroline programme (O=2-3+) - 09.30-


6305 kHz - Radio Merlin International, UK. Nicely up for some moments (O=2-3+) - 21.28- mp3