Sunday 27 January 2008

Loggings 26-27.1.2008

Not much listening. Poor conditions and not so many stations on the air.

6220 kHz - Mystery Radio, Italy - 10.00- (O=2-4)
6255 kHz - UNID - 09.20- (O=0-2)
6265 kHz - Radio Altrex, Holland - 09.20- (O=0-2)
6276 kHz - Dr. Tim, Germany - 10.25- (O=0-2)
6280 kHz - Radio Paardenkracht, Holland. Strongest of the day - 09.25- (O=2-4)
6400 kHz - WMR Scotland, UK. The have new, nice webpage. Asian QRM from 6398 kHz later - 09.30- (O=0-2)

6925 kHz - Spider Radio, Athens, Greece. Now 80 W. On the air whole Saturday evening in USB with poor/fair signal. This station has been received around USA. Week ago strong and clean, now weaker conds. ID in English - 16.30- Sat 26.1 (O=1-3) mp3

12257 kHz - WR International, UK. Stabile, but later deep fading. This station should be "easily" audible in USA and Japan because of high frequency? - 09.20- (O=0-2+)

Sunday 20 January 2008

Weekend 19-20.1.2008

This weekend DXing on late Saturday evening and Sunday midday (09.00utc >).

- The highlight was to hear my first Greek SW-pirate, Spider Radio on 6925 kHz which also QSLed very quickly by e-mail. Click >>

- The other impressive moments were on Saturday when Dutch Radio Barones and Blue Star having QSO with 4 Serbian stations around 1700 kHz. Very funny to listen because none of the Serbians did not speak English.

Log Sun 20.1.2008
6220 kHz - Radio Mystery, Italy - 09.40- (O=2-4)
6254 kHz - Radio Zodiac, Holland. Much better signal in Xmas-px. - 10.30- (O=1-2+)
6255 kHz - Dr. Tim, Germany with memorial-px to Stefan Dietl. Later 6298 kHz - 09.50- (O=1-3)
6280 kHz - Radio Merlin International, UK. Quite well - 09.20- (O=1-3)
6270 kHz - Radio Shadowman, Holland - 10.20 (O=3-4)
6290 kHz - Radio Borderhunter, Holland. Strong. Memorial px - 09.30- (O=2-4)
6298 kHz - Dr. Tim, Germany moved here from 6255 kHz - 10.30- (O=1-3)
6325 kHz - Radio Lowland, Holland gave GSM-n:o - 09.48- (O=1-3+)
6325 kHz - UNID (6325,6 kHz) - 10.45- (O=0-2)
12257 kHz - WR International, UK. Slightly better than week ago - 10.30- (O=0-2)

Log Sat 19.1.2008
1650 kHz - Radio Thessalos, Larissa. Strong station. There are dozens of pirates in Larissa-city. Took phone-in's in long px. Many Greek-QSO's upper band - 18.50- (O=2-4)

3905 kHz - UNID Dutch. Possibly Radio Antonio, Holland - 21.20- (O=0-2)

6925 kHz - Spider Radio, Athens, Greece with surprisingly strong signal in USB-modulation. 30 watts transmitter. No ID heard but is QSLed already from Thursday when they had broadcast in AM-modulation - 20.30- (O=3-4) mp3


Sat 19.1.2008 - QSO-session Holland <-> Serbia
Here some mp3-clips of Radio Barones' and Radio Bluestar's QSO-session to 4 Serbian pirates. Serbians can not understand English (or only a few words), so it was difficult, but successful.
Serbians were quite weak here in Finland, but obviously much stronger in Holland.

1700 kHz - "Radio Vaski", Serbia (Not sure how to write it). QSO-report for 2-3 times this evening - 20.32- (O=2-3) mp3
1700 kHz - Radio Barones, Holland having succesfull QSO's with 4 Serbian stations - 20.37- (O=2-4) mp3
1702 kHz - Radio Viktor, Serbia. QSO - 20.40- (O=0-2) mp3
1700 kHz - Radio Barones with report to Viktor and "Vaski". Baro asked these stations to spell the names in codes but they did not understand it - 20.45- mp3
1700 kHz - Radio Balkan, Beograd, Serbia. QSO for Bluestar and Baro - 20.56- (O=0-2+) mp3
1700 kHz - Radio Oskar, Jagodina, Serbia. (He use 2x 813 tubes) QSO - 20.57- (O=0-1+) mp3
1693 kHz - Radio Bluestar, Holland. QSOs for Serbians - 21.00- (O=1-2+) mp3
1700 kHz - Radio Barones with report to Balkan and Oskar - 21.01- mp3
1700 kHz - Radio Oskar, Serbia. QSO - 21.05- (O=0-1+) mp3
1700 kHz - Radio Balkan, Beograd, Serbia. QSO for Bluestar - 21.07- (O=0-2+) mp3

Friday 11 January 2008

Serious DX-Weekend 10.1 - 13.1.2008

Since many weeks I had serious pirate-DXing on MW and SW!!
1) The highlight was incredibly clean signal of Pirate Music, Italy on 6882 kHz (Friday night) !! Listen the mp3! Three SW-Italians received (6220, 6310 and 6882 kHz)!
2) Also a Greek pirate on 6268 kHz (mp3) on Sunday midday was a surprise. I heard that same station on 1619 kHz on Friday evening (tracked from the given GSM-number) !!
3) MW-Greeks were strong on Friday evening/night around 1670 kHz, but they are impossible to ID (sample mp3, no id here), or even know where the station-ID might be in QSO-talking sessions!

Log Sunday 13.1.2008
5815 kHz - Orion Radio Netherlands. Regards from/to many listeners. It is wise to broadcast here if having regular programmes. No interferencies like on 48 mb - 09.08- (O=2-4)
6200 kHz - Radio Scotland (www), Beilen, Holland (6200,4). Bad noise 6199 kHz - 10.50- (O=2-3+) mp3

6210 kHz - Radio Borderhunter, Holland. Played title to Spanish listener - 10.37- (O=2-4)
6220 kHz - Radio Mystery, Italy. Three italian SW-stations today (6220, 6310, 6882 kHz) - 09.00- (O=2-4)
6254 kHz - Britain Radio International, UK. Not audible every Sunday but today a bit better conds - 10.35- (O=0-2)
6262 kHz - Radio Altrex, Holland. "This is Radio Altrex" and R.E.M. + Bruce played. Stronger later during the day. QSLed already! Tnx! - 09.10- (O=0-2+)

6265 kHz - Premier Radio, Ireland tentatively. Started to come up weakly after 11utc. Also weak signal on 6266 kHz (Galaxy?) (both O=0-1)
6268 kHz - UNID, Greece gave GSM which was exactly the same which I heard on Friday evening on 1619 kHz!! 6978056326. - 09.43- (O=0-2+) mp3
6276 kHz - Radio GDR, East-Germany. "Radio GDR International -Golf Delta Romeo". Address given - 09.30- (O=1-3) mp3-a mp3-b
6280 kHz - Radio Saturnus, Holland. Gave GSM. Studio-tx-photo - 09.30- (O=2-3+) mp3
6295 kHz - Radio Grenstad, Holland - 09.10- (O=1-3)
6305 kHz - Radio Valencia, Holland tentatively, - 10.32- (O=1-3)
6310 kHz - Radio Malaisy, Italy tentatively. Dance - 15.00- (O=2-3+)
6325 kHz - Radio Merlin International, UK. Good signal-peaks today. Bad QRM! 10.30- (O=0-2+)
6400 kHz - WMR Scotland, UK. Weak - 09.50- (O=0-2)
6420 kHz - LHH, Ireland. Weak (6420,6 kHz) - 09.50- (O=0-2)
12257 kHz - Wrekin Radio International, UK. Nice px. Audible for 2h with signal peaks. Closed down with The News (relayed from legal-service) at 11.05. (O=0-2+) mp3

Log Saturday 12.1.2008
1645 kHz - Radio Barones, Neede, Holland. "Baro" seems to get a lot of sms-messages from all over Europe. One of the most famous pirate station - 21.45- (O=2-4)
6311 kHz - Radio Barretina International, Catalonia, Spain. I think this station relayed now Radio Catalonia (FM). I think Radio Barretina-ID's comes automaticly over relayed programme after about every 10 minutes! - 23.00- (O=1-3) mp3

Log Friday 11.1.2008
1385 kHz - Radio Makedonia, Greece. This seems to be on air every weekend or even every day (like Radio Anatolia on around 1630 kHz) - 00.00- (O=0-3) mp3
1619 kHz - UNID Greece gave GSM: 6978056326. Same GSM heard on 6268 kHz on Sunday!! Very strong QSO-signals from Greece on Friday night but impossile to ID... mp3
1652 kHz - Novi Studio, Smederevo, Serbia. First time I heard this Serbian station, but I was not quick enough to record it. However I have photos of this station: Photo 1, Photo 2 - 19.44- (O=2-3+) Click the photo >

1650 kHz - Radio Kalistera, Greece. Tried QSO to Novi Studio but Serbian did not reply. - 19.46- (O=1-2+) mp3
3902 kHz - Radio Bluestar, Holland. Short test - 21.20- (O=2-3+) mp3
6882 kHz - Pirate Music, Italy (=Planet FM before). Incredibly high quality on free frequency. Only little fading, no multipath dist. Only non stop music - no ID's. LISTEN THE QUALITY: Mp3 (I recorded 26 kHz-spectrum) ! - 23.00- (O=4-5)

Log Thursday 10.1.2008
On Thursday evening (10.1. 2008) I tuned Dutch pirates on MW since long time. I am not so motivated to listen them here at my home in Naantali because of poor antennas (48mb dipole is the best here).

In our DX-camp (burned down, new building is under construction) I had super-signals with 1 km longwires ! You can listen my Dutch pirate-clips tuned 2 years ago, in January 2006 with 1 km longwire-antenna: "45 in 24uur" (158 mp3-clips!!!).

1642 kHz - Zender Edelweiss, Holland (1642.5 kHz) - 20.49- (O=1-3) mp3
1646 kHz - Radio Corona, North Holland - 20.47- (O=1-3)
1655 kHz - Radio Hawaii, Holland. Gave signal-report to Kolibri and Orient - 20.59- (O=2-3+) mp3
1655 kHz - Radio Orient, Holland with report to Hawaii and Kolibri. Weak mic. (Kolibri was not audible, or perhaps weak signal on 1657,2 kHz). - 21.02- (O=1-3) mp3

Saturday 5 January 2008

QSL from Radio Barretina, Cataluna

First time I heard a pirate radio from Spain! This is Radio Barretina (www) from Cataluna, North Spain (first Spanish SW-pirate ever?)! This station has been on the air very often around 6310 kHz 48 mb with 100 W.

Signal was surprisingly good on Friday evening 4th Jan. 2008 on 6311.1 kHz. They relayed local FM-station, Radio l'Arboç (106.8 MHz in L'Arboç del Penedés) that evening. Here mp3-recording: "Roxette en Radio l'Arboç".
I sent a report to Radio Barretina and I got a QSL-reply by e-mail very quickly, within a few hours! Very nice and detailed QSL (number 14). Click the QSL >>>