Log Sunday 30.3.2008

This weekend basic conditions on SW. Strongest was VOTN on 6275 kHz. One new Russian MW-pirate was identified (my 3rd). Also Energy Power AM from Dublin, Ireland (which I visited in December 2007) was nice to hear on 1386 kHz after a few months.

1386 kHz - Energy Power AM, Dublin, Ireland. Surprsingly clear - 00.00- (O=1-3)
1645 kHz - Radio Barones, Neede, Holland sent greetings to Latvia. Early evening broadcast from Baro - 18.00- (O=2-3)
1713 kHz - Radiostantsja Kalavok (or near like that), Russia. DJ singing karaoke!! Sat 20.35- (O=2-3) mp3 later
5815 kHz - Orion Radio Netherlands. Basic signal here - 08.35- (O=2-3)
6215 kHz - King SW tentatively. Visible, weak audio - 09.40- (O=0-2)
6220 kHz - Radio Marabu, Germany with long programme via Mystery R. - 08.30- (O=2-3)
6250 kHz - Radio Queen, Italy tentatively. Not well audible today - 08.45- (O=0-1)
6270 kHz - Radio Saxonia, Germany (6269.5 kHz) - 10.21 (O=0-2+)
6275 kHz - Voice of the Netherlands. Strongest of the day - 09.40- (O=2-3+)
6280 kHz - Radio Calypso, Holland. My friend Rick (near here) told me Calypso has 30-40 W and that their signal is suprisingly good. That is true!! Little distortion on audio - 10.40- (O=1-3+)
6295 kHz - UNID Dutch. Started with polka non-stop - 10.12- (O=0-2)
6300 kHz - Radio Northpole International, Holland (6300.6 kHz) - 09.08- (O=0-2+)
6305 kHz - UNID shortly "Very good morning..." - 08.55- (O=0-1+)

6308 kHz - Radio Royal (www), Holland. This station has raided 13 times (!) on FM and therefore the operator swiched to Short Wave!! - 08.30- (O=0-2+)

6310 kHz - Radio Malaisy, Italy - 14.20- (O=1-3)
6882 kHz - Radio Playback International opened own blog. Daytime weak, evenings very strong - 09.40- (O=1-3)
12257 kHz - WR International, UK. Quite nicely, but not enjoyable - 09.35- (O=1-2+)

Log Sunday 23.3.-08

Many stations on the air on SW with Shadowman as the strongest. During the day I tried to phone Greek MW-pirates (see below under next headline).

5815 kHz - Orion Radio Netherlands. Clearly weaker than week ago. - 09.10- (O=2-3)
6254 kHz - Britain Radio International. Switched off at 11.35- (O=0-2)
6265 kHz - UNID. Premier? from UK, only visible again. No audio - 09.15- (O=0-1)
6270 kHz - UNID shortly. Saxonia?? 6269.6 kHz - 11.20-? (O=0-2)
6271 kHz - Dr. Tim, Germany. Signal improving after 10utc - 09.15- (O=1-3)
6274 kHz - Radio Scotland, Holland - 10.30- (O=1-3+)
6280 kHz - Radio Merlin International, UK - 11.20- (O=0-2)
6285 kHz - Crazy Wave Radio, CWR. Strong but litlle odd modulation - 11.20- (O=2-3+)
6290 kHz - UNID weak - 11.20- (O=0-31)
6295 kHz - UNID weak but momentarily audible - 09.15- (O=0-2)
6295 kHz - Radio Shadowman, Holland. Very strong again - 10.30- (O=3-5)
6300 kHz - UNID 6300.7 kHz - 09.15- (O=0-1+)
6305 kHz - Radio Mazda, Holland - 09.15- (O=2-3+)
6320 kHz - UNID with dance music but too weak to ID while talking - 10.30- (O=0-2)
6882 kHz - Radio PlayBack International. Very strong at night as usual - 09.15- (O=1-3)
6925 kHz - Spider Radio, Greece. Classical music on Sat-Sun night!! - 23.oo- (O=2-3+)

Greeks on 19. - 20.3 - Skype-callings to Greece

Here a few Greek pirate-loggings from the past week. Some music-pirates were on the air above 1620 kHz . They gave GSM-numbers for SMS and and I phoned them. (Unfortunately I have quite bad local background-noise on MW just now).
My other identified Greeks are here (with some transmitter photos).

Wed 19.3.2008
1386 kHz - Radio Makedonia, Greece. This station seems to be on the air daily because every time I try this, and when frequency is free, it is there (+/- 1 kHz) - 19.00- (O=2-4)

1625 kHz - Radio Nikolas Dynamitis, Tyrnavos (10 km NW of Larissa), Greece giving SMS-number (6972734489). I phoned to this number shortly and sent sms - and I have message back!! They are the oldest station in the town!! (Tnx Costas for help) - 18.50- (O=1-3) mp3 (name clearly mentioned in the end of mp3)1630 kHz - Radio Anatolia, from Kilkis, Greece. This is also on air daily with phone-in's in the evenings (usually +/- 2 kHz). Must have a few kW tx - 18.30- (O=2-4)
1650 kHz - Radio Thessalos, Larissa-city, Greece. Music-programme for many hours. Now I have learned to identify this station - 18.45 -(O=2-4)
1680 kHz - Stathmos Alpha Vita, Thessaloniki (East), Greece. QSO-station (Vita=Beta. (Tnx Costas for confirming this stn) - 18.40- (O=2-4)

Thu 20.3.2008
1622 kHz - Radio Anikito Kytos, Imathia, west from Thessaloniki, Greece with music and SMS. Gave n:o: 6981748558. I phoned to this number but nobody talking English (First a little girl talking)!- 21.45- (O=1-3) mp3 (tnx Costas for correction)
1629 kHz - UNID Greek with music and SMS-number. Tel. 6949398344. I phoned them but no reply. - 21.45- (O=2-4) mp3
1640 kHz - Radio Anatolia, Kilkis, Greece had to move 10 kHz up from usual frequency because the other station on 1630 kHz. 21.45-

Loggings Sat 15. - Sun 16.3.2008

Sunday 16.3.2008
5815 kHz - Orion Radio Netherlands with basic, tuneable level - 08.30- (O=2-4)
6210 kHz - UNID, LHH? - 09.30- (O=1-3)
6220 kHz - Mystery Radio, Italy. Weaker around midday here - 09.15- (O=1-3)
6265 kHz - UNID. Premier? Visible only, no audio heard - 09.40- (O=0-1)
6270 kHz - Radio Altrex, Holland - 09.20- (O=0-2)
6280 kHz - UNID German - 09.20- (O=1-3)
6295 kHz - Greenstad Radio, Holland tentatively - 11.37- (O=0-2)
6315 kHz - Radio Lowland, Holland - 08.35- (O=2-4)
6305 kHz - Radio Boomerang, Holland with short audio-test. Strongest of the day - 08.55- (O=3-4)
12257 kHz - WR International, UK. Very weak during last two weekends - 09.55- (O=0-1)

Saturday 15.3.2008
1645 kHz - Radio Spanningzoeker, Holland. QSO-session - 18.34- (O=3-4)
1645 kHz - Radio Corona, Holland (or Verona?) 20.15- (O=1-3)
1645 kHz - Radio Barones, Holland on air again this weekend -21.40- (O=3-4)
1648 kHz - Zender Mustang, Holland - 18.41- (O=2-3)
1649 kHz - UNID Dutch beside Sylvania. Perhaps Spakenburg - 18.48- (O=1-3)
1650 kHz - Zender Digitaal, Holland - 18.37- (O=2-3+)
1650 kHz - Radio Sylvania, Holland - 18.49- (O=3-4)
1655 kHz - Radio Kristal, Holland 18.45- (O=1-3)
1660 kHz - UNID Dutch with programme. Titanic?. Also other late evening Dutches with polka 20.20- (O=2-4)
6265 kHz - Radio Calypso, Holland. Weak - 11.05- (O=0-2)
6275 kHz - Laser Hot Hits, Ireland. Peaked up nicely - 11.05- (O=0-3)
6311 kHz - Radio Barretina, Catalonia, Spain plans to start with 1 kW!!! 18.30- (O=0-2+)
6882 kHz - Radio PlayBack. On Wednesday I heard Power FM-jingles on this frequency. During this weekend PBi offered US-radioplays from 30-50's - 21.00- 18.34- (O=3-5)
6925 kHz - Spider Radio, Athens, Greece - 21.00- (O=0-2+)

Sunday 9.3.2008

I made some updates to my mainpage www.harrikujala.tk. There are photo-series of transmitters of Radio 98 and Radio Xenos (both from Volos, Greece) and Radio Balkan, Beograd, Serbia.
On SW strongest of the day was Orion Radio and Radio Lowland. Not so many stations on the air.
Playback was very strong on 6882 kHz but Spider (Greece) and Barretina (Spain) were weak.

Log Sunday 9.3.2008
1629 kHz - Radio Javor, Serbia. Heard during the week on Thursday 6.3.2008. This station is easy to recognize because of very strong echo and shouting!! - 19.05- (O=2-3) mp3
1665 kHz - Radio Barones, Holland in QSO with other Dutches. Too late night to track more other stations... - 22.55- (O=2-4)
5815 kHz - Orion Radio played Fleetwood Mac. Has been stronger, but was the strongest today - 08.10- (O=2-3+)
6250 kHz - Radio Friends, Italy. Played a lot of 80's hits in a row. ID sounded also "Queen" - 08.10- (O=0-2) mp3
6254 kHz - Britain Radio tentatively. UK-stations are mostly very weak here in my QTH. Premier Radio on 6265 kHz was not audible today but weak signal was visible for some moments - 10.25- (O=0-1)
6290 kHz - Free R. Victoria tentatively. Clear, but no talking heard - 08.05- (O=0-2)
6295 kHz - UNID - 10.25- (O=0-1+)
6306 kHz - UNID Dutch, non-stop. Perhaps R. Viking - 10.25- (O=1-3)
6310 kHz - Radio Lowland, Holland. Quite stabile and fair signal - 08.10- (O=2-3)
6325 kHz - Radio Paardenkracht, Holland tentatively. No talking heard - 08.10- (O=1-3)
6882 kHz - Playback International gave once again huge audio at night - 23.00- (O=3-5) mp3

Chris Cary 1946 - 2008

One legendary pirate radio personality for me has been Chris Cary. He died in Tenerife on 29.2.2008, still working on some radio projects.
First time I met his name in 1980-81 on Dublin-based pirate Radio Nova, the greatest land-based pirate ever been!! I remember very well when I accidentally found their big AM-signal here in Finland on 843 kHz (50 kW) on November 1981 ! Later I heard Nova also on FM 88.1 MHz (mp3-clip).
I followed happenings around Radio Nova very closely at those times. I have dozens of newsaper-cuttings of Nova-raids, closures, demonstrations, jammings etc. - also from Radio Sunshine, Dublin which Chris was building up with Robbie Dale.
Later I realized Chris was also involved with Radio Luxembough and offshore pirates, Radio Caroline and Radio Northsea.
The most interesting part of this is Chris' legal, local radio, Buzz FM, Birmigham 102.4 MHz in the beginning of 90's.
I heard his small FM-station here in Finland on FM on summer 1993. I sent a report to Buzz but I never got a reply. Ten years later, year 2003, I managed to find out Chris' e-mail and I sent him my mp3-clip. He kindly confirmed my recording.
Buzz FM was not long lived because they were granted only 50 Watts power, but Chris stated me that when I heard his station before the closure, the power was closer to 1 kW. So, no wonder of the nice signal here. Here is my nice sounding clip of Buzz FM received at my home on 102.4 MHz (e-skip via ionosphare, summer 1993)!
Any ideas who is the DJ??

So, I just realized I have QSL from all stations where Chris was involved: Luxy, Caroline, Northsea, Nova, Sunshine and Buzz FM (despite his latest satellite- or LW-projects)!!
(All photos here taken from www.chriscary.com)

Radio PlayBack International

I have a kind and quick reply from new quality-station Radio PlayBack International.
Really interesting venture on SW. They enclosed QSL and very detailed history of radio broadcasting starting from Einstein and Marconi and ending to PlayBack.
In the reply they stated that the station in not located in Italy (We must remember that it is a pirate station - and we are not supposed to know their closer location. So, it is broadcasting from the "island of nowhere", as stated in their jingle).
They promised photos of the equipment and I will publish them here right away!! Very interesting.
Listen PlayBack-jingle in studio-quality!

Loggings Sat 1. - Sun 2.3.2008

Saturday 1.3.2008
1649 kHz - Radiostatsiya Vodopad, Russia with many clear IDs. Mp3 - 23.22- (O=2-3)
1655 kHz - Radio Barones, Holland, I phoned to Baro since long time and he played me good music, Brown Sugar and Beds Are Burning. Thanks! Signal was good but unluckily there were Radio James Bond giving slight interference - 23.00- (O=2-4)
Here is my Barones-QSL from 1980. Click >>

1656 kHz - Radio James Bond, North Holland. Sometimes stations from Central- and North Holland are on the air on same frequency at the same time - they do not hear each other so well. James Bond has also big power, around 1 kW - 23.15- (O=0-3)

6311 kHz - Radio Barretina, Catalonia, Spain. Not always audible here - 20.00- (O=0-2+)
6882 kHz - Radio Playback International, Italy ("from the island of nowhere"). Fantastic programming. I asked them more info and photos, I hope to have something to publish here!
Momentarily great signal - 20.00- (O=2-4+)
6925 kHz - Spider Radio, Athens, Greece. Weaker this time with peak-ups- 20.10- (O=0-2+)

Sunday 2.3.2008
6210 kHz - UNID. Signal mostly only visible - 09.35- (O=0-1+)
6254 kHz - Radio Queen, Holland - 09.35- (O=0-2)
6270 kHz - Radio Altrex, Holland tentatively. Very weak today - 09.45- (O=0-1+)
6276 kHz - Radio Bobby, Germany. First time for me - 09.25- (O=0-2)
6280 kHz - Radio Borderhunter, Holland. Strongest today - 09.25- (O=1-3)
6295 kHz - Radio Grensstad, Holland tentatively. Non-stop. Very bad wide noise all the time on 6292 kHz - 09.45- (O=0-2+)
6300 kHz - UNID Dutch (no English spoken) wit weak mic-audio 10.13-18 (O=1-3)
6310 kHz - Radio Malaisy, Italy started at 10.15- (O=2-3+)
12257 kHz - WR International, UK. Barely there today. Asian QRM - 09.40- (O=0-1)

Log Sunday 24.2.2008

Many stations on the air this Sunday and also quite clear conditions. Strongest of the day were Radio Scotland, Mazda, Voice of The Netherlands and Paardenkracht - and of course Playback in the late evenings.
Radio Viking Scandinavia (Swedish?) was a nice surprise with USB-broadcast on 6305 kHz.

5815 kHz - Orion Radio Netherlands (www). Good signal. Bad noise on 5818 kHz - 09.30- (O=2-4)
6250 kHz - Radio Queen (tent.). Some signal peak-ups but no talk heard - 09.35- (O=0-2)
6254 kHz - UNID with carrier shortly. Britain R with technical problems? 10.00- (O=0-2)
6260 kHz - Radio Paardenkracht, Holland (Operator said that the name of the station means "Horsepower" - 09.30- (O=2-4)
6266 kHz - Radio Scotland, Beilen, Holland. Perhaps slightly the strongest of all - 09.46- (O=2-4)
6278 kHz - Voice of The Netherlands. Good signal, too - 10.00- (O=2-4)
6290 kHz - Radio Mazda, Holland - 09.30- (O=2-4)
6295 kHz - Radio Northpole, Holland (tent.- no talkning heard - identified in C-Europe) with long dance-non-stop. Non-stop-music should be forbidden on 48 mb! - 09.30- (O=1-3)
6305 kHz - Radio Viking Scandinavia (Sweden?) with px in USB-modulation - 09.44 (O=2-3) mp3 later
6306 kHz - Radio Royal, Holland. Popped up after Viking closed down - 09.44- (O=0-2+)
6524 kHz - Radio Ramona, Holland (tent.). Not strong enough to ID although some peak-ups 10.00- (O=0-2)
6540 kHz - Radio Brigitte, Belgium. Tent. No ID - 09.44 (O=0-2)
6882 kHz - Radio Playback International, Italy. Italian spots heard. Audible even around midday. Stronger in the evenings.
6925 kHz - Spider Radio, Athens, Greece on Sat evening. Fair signal. USB - 19.00- (O=1-3)
12257 kHz - WR International, UK. Quite well this Sunday 09.50- (O=0-3)

I am going to Serbia, 17.-25.5.2008

I am going to Serbia in May 17-26th, just before and during Eurovision Song Contest in Beograd.
I will visit many local legal FM-stations (at least 10 stations) in Beograd and in smaller cities around with my DX-friend (Jim from Espoo), so, the target will be radio 24h, FM- and pirate-radio.

We hope that we can be on the air on some bigger MW-pirate radio from Serbia on some late evening. It could be interesting to try to reach Europe from Serbian pirate between 1600 - 1700 kHz!
I will inform here about the possible broadcast from Serbia. It would be fantastic to take GSM-phone-callings and reports from all over Europe during the brodcast !
The happenings in Serbia does not look good just now. I hope everything will go better - we have already booked the flights!!

QSLs from Volos, Central Greece

Here are my first real QSL-cards from Greek Medium Wave-pirates.

They are Radio Xenos and Radio 98 from Volos, Central Greece - both around 1720 kHz and approx. 1 kW power.

My first Greek MW-QSL is
Radio Ouranio Toxo from Larissa.
It is a verification-letter written to me when I visited that station in October 2006.

MY QSL LOOKS LIKE THIS !

Weekend 16.-17.2.2008 - Russian pirates!

One highlight of this weekend was a few Russian pirates received on Medium Wave 1640 - 1700 kHz. Also I identified one, Radio Palma, location unknown (confirmed by Russian DXer).

I have noticed before that these stations are audible almost only between 15.00 - 18.00 UTC and always there are many stations up at the same time!!! After 18UTC they start to fade out - and very rarely audible at night. I think the reason for this is the sunset efect. So, it is possible that they come far away from Russia. Russian help needed for more info!!

Russian MW-log Saturday 16.2.2008
1641 kHz - Russian pirate with non-stop-Russian music - 16.37- (O=0-2+)
1652 kHz - Russian pirate. Non-stop + some talking - 16.05- (O=2-3+) mp3
1661 kHz - Russian pirate with non-stop-Russian music - 16.35- (O=0-2)
1690 kHz - Radio Palma, Russia. Non-stop for over one hour and closing down at 17.08 UTC. Then QSO. (This clip confirmed to be "Palma" by Russian DXer >) - 15.55- (O=2-4) mp3
1700 kHz - Russian pirate. Only non-stop heard -16.30- (O=1-3) mp3


SW-log 16-17.2.2008
5815 kHz - Radio Orion Netherland. Moved to 5805 kHz after Kiss signed on - 08.50- (O=1-3+)
5815 kHz - Kiss Radio, Denmark. This must be a legal transmitter in Denmark with 5-6 kW used by World Music Radio and FRSH before. Very pro programming! Great signal, but there were multipath distortion to Finland (Finnish Spaceshuttle after Kiss but I was away home)- 09.02- (O=3-5) mp3
6205 kHz - Radio Borderhunter, Holland - 11.05- (O=2-3)
6250 kHz - Radio Friends, Italy. New station for me -09.05- (O=0-2)
6265 kHz - Antonio Radio, Holland -08.53 - (O=1-3)
6270 kHz - Radio Altrex, Holland / Saturday -09.05- (O=1-3)
6271 kHz - Magic AM, Holland. Nice signal peak-ups - 11.15- (O=1-3+)
6275 kHz - LHH (or Rainbow), Ireland / Saturday - 09.00- (O=0-2+)
6280 kHz - Radio Merlin, UK tentatively - 08.57 - (O=0-2)
6281 kHz - Radio Calypso, Holland. New station for me/ Saturday - 09.15- (O=0-2)
6290 kHz - Radio Mazda, Holland. Strongest heard today. -11.10- (O=2-4)
6306 kHz - Radio Royal, Holland. Also on Saturday midday - 11.05- (O=0-2)
6311 kHz - Radio Barretina, Cataluna, Spain. Not good signal this weekend here / Sat -20.05- (O=0-2)
6315 kHz - Radio Saturnus, Holland (tent.) - 11.10- (O=1-3)
6524 kHz - Radio Ramona, Holland (tent.)-11.05- (O=0-2)
6882 kHz - Radio Playback International, Italy with nice pro programming! Audible 24h here and gives quite clean signal later evenings. Not much multipath and slow fading gives partly enjoyable listening. Skip is good to Finland! Must be a "kilowatt-station"!! - 21.10- (O=2-4+) mp3_A / mp3_B
6925 kHz -Spider Radio, Athens, Greece. USB. Once again quite strong - 21.30- (O=1-4)

Radio 98 received in Finland on Thursday evening

Radio 98 from Volos, Middle Greece had clear signal in Finland on Thursday evening 14.2. -08 from 20.50 to 21.00 UTC. I heard Greek folk music and talking in English:
"This is Station 98 from Volos, Central Greece. Operator name is Panos" mp3_A / mp3_B / mp3_C
The frequency was 1720 kHz and power of the transmitter was 1 kW.

Radio 98 is my 3rd received pirate from Volos-city.
Last Saturday I received two other stations on 1720 kHz. They were Radio Xenos (temporarily 1,2 kW / mp3) and Radio Pilio (1 kW, 6x 813-tube, 3000 V / mp3).
Xenos and Radio 98 are now QSLed and I will put them online soon.

Loggings on SW - Sat 9 - Sun 10.2.2008

I started listening SW at 09.50 utc >
6205 kHz - Radio Borderhunter, Holland - 09.50- (O=2-3+)
6216 kHz - King SW. Weak audio - 10.10- (O=1-2+)
6281 kHz - UNID. Caroline Eifel? Zodiac? Listen the mp3. Ideas? Closing down at 10utc - 09.50- (O=1-3)
6286 kHz - Radio Zodiac, Holland - 11.20- (O=1-3)
6290 kHz -Radio Mazda, Holland. Strongest of the day - 09.50- (O=3-4)
6295 kHz - UNID. Grensstad? 09.50- (O=1-3)
6309 kHz - Radio Cochiguaz. Better than week ago. No reply to my e-mail yet - 09.50- (O=1-3)
6310 kHz - Radio Condor, Holland. Dance music - 10.20- (O=1-3) mp3
6311 kHz - Radio Barretina, Catalonia, Spain - 16.10- (O=0-2)
6325 kHz - Radio Quintus, Holland - 11.15- (O=2-3+)
6400 kHz - WMR Scotland - 11.10- (O=0-2)
6882 kHz - Radio Playback International, Italy. Finally not only non-stop-music. Nice jingles! Very strong signal with good modulation!!! I am very curious what is the tx-power!!! I must ask it! 16.10- (O=3-4)
6925 kHz - Spider Radio, Athens, Greece. USB. Plans to move AM with more power - 16.10- (O=2-3+)

Radio Xenos and Radio 98 from Volos, Greece test to Finland!

Radio 98 (eneninda okto) from Volos, Greece tested signal to Finland Saturday evening at 19.00 UTC with 1 kW. Frequency was 1750 kHz and later 1720 kHz.
However, it was too early time and the band was not well open - no clear signal here. New test later.


Radio Xenos
received in Finland!!
Radio Xenos from this same city tested at 20.00-20.14 UTC on 1720 kHz. Power was 1,2 kW (max. available 3,5 kW). His signal was poor/fair here in Finland! I heard Greek talking and music - and station-ID in English: mp3_A / mp3_B "This is Radio Xenos from Volos, Greece"
The signal-path here - 2.342 km long (made by Radio Tromokratis. Tnx!)!

After Radio Xenos I heard Radio Pilio (also from Volos) giving signal-report to Xenos. This happened on 1720 kHz at 20.15 UTC. Power also 1 kW. Signal poor/fair. There is clearly "Radio Pilio" said three times (but impossible to ID without Greek help) ! mp3

Volos is a beautiful city by the sea about 160 km North from Athens (60 km South from Larissa).

Loggings Sat 2.2 - Sun 3.2.2008

Highlights this weekend:
- Test from Radio Elektron, Kucevo, Serbia with 2x PL519-tubes transmitter but only 45 Watts output !! Weak but clear signal here in Finland on 1703.5 kHz.
- 11 years old South-American pirate, Radio Cochiguaz, had broadcast via European pirate on 6309 kHz. Exotic sounds ! mp3

LOG Sat 2.2.2008
1650 kHz - Radio Hawaii, Holland - 20.10- (O=2-3+)
1665 kHz - Radio Shaduwjager, Hoogeveen, Holland - 18.40- (O=2-4)
1665 kHz - Radio Armada , Lemelerveld, Holland - 18.40- (O=2-3+) mp3
1665 kHz - Radio Teknikal Man, Holland - 19.50- (O=2-3+)
1670 kHz - Polkaman Radio, Holland - 20.04- (O=0-2)

1703 kHz - Radio Elektron, Kucevo, Serbia. Test to Finland. This station uses 2x PL519-tubes / 900 V (but output now only 45 Watts!!). QSO with Vihor 3-4 times - 22.08- (O=0-1+) mp3 (not good ID; fade out)
1704 kHz - Radio Vihor, Pancevo, Serbia. QSO Elektron - 22.20- (O=1-3)

6311 kHz - Radio Barretina, Catalon, Spain (tent.). Very weak on Saturday, but clear with fair signal on late Sunday evening!! - 20.40- (O=0-1) / Sun (O=0-2+)
6925 kHz - Spider Radio, Athens, Greece. Now very strong (USB) 20.45- (O=2-4) mp3

LOG Sun 3.2.2008
5815 kHz - Radio Orion Netherlands, Holland -08.30- (O=1-3)
6210 kHz - Radio Carneval (tentatively). IDed in Europe - 10.03- (O=0-2)
6266 kHz - UNID - 09.20- (O=0-1+)
6267 kHz - Radio Scotland, Beilen, Holland. c/d at 08.41- (O=1-3)
6307 kHz - Radio Royal (www), Holland. Really Royal? Listen mp3 !! - 09.25 - (O=0-2)

6309 kHz - Radio Cochiguaz (orig. from South America) relayed by some European pirate. Andean music with Spanish IDs which was very nice to hear. They are planning to come back from South America on 11430 kHz USB (now tx-problems). c/d at 09.16- (O=0-2+) mp3 (I have bad local noise)
6310 kHz - Radio Condor, Holland. Nice station-ID but I missed to record it - 10.00- (O=1-3)
6400 kHz - WMR Scotland, UK. Better signal today - 08.30- (O=1-3)

12257 kHz - WR International, UK. Better than ever with my present equipment with even more stable signal. Now I heard their promotion of the web-page. There is live stream, photos and videos!! mp3

(http://www.wrinternational.co.uk/). - 10.03- c/d -11.05 (O=0-2+)

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+)

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

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