Sunday 17 May 2020
No Es yet - Ms hits in the mean time
Sporadic E season 2020 hasn't reached into Finland yet. However, all our receivers are ready! Because there's no proper conditions to utilize, it has been a good time to gather Ms hits to the displays of our otherwise unused receivers. DXing meteors isn't easy at this corner of the world. Despite the fact that our FM dial is so open that we can use wide filters - which is a must for meteor FM RDS DX, the problem is the lack of good Ms targets on open frequencies. We have heard almost all possible stations in Ms range already via Es, tropo and Ms. To our North American readers it is worth reminding that European FM broadcasting focuses mainly on FM networks when it comes to high power stations: if you have heard one station on a one particular network there's not much sense trying to DX another transmitter on the same network anymore. If you've heard one, you've heard them all... Of course there are still some good targets on >5 kW range but they may not have that open frequencies for meteor scatter. On the other hand, DXing on good open channels usually products the same stations again and again like CR Sever on 88.8 MHz or CRo Radiozurnál on 91.1 MHz.
Sunday 12 January 2020
12th of January 2020 - Surprise opening to Italy, Southern Germany and Austria
Winter Es is here!
One might say it's very early start to the Es Season 2020 but we are not counting yet. We must patiently wait until the end of April at least. ... for the actual season to start.
There's no such thing as Winter Es Season in Finland but that said it's not unusual to have Es during winter months as well. However, it's (very) rare. We cannot speak about it as an actual season since it can be just separate Es days anytime around Winter solstice or months before or after it. Anyway, with most years there isn't Es days on FM frequencies at all during the whole winter months! This time we have been lucky since this was already the second Es day for this winter: the first one was experienced in Kasnäs two weeks ago, 28th of December.
So what we had today (well, only half of the crew was listening), it was an below average level opening to both sides of the Alps. Italy on the south side and Germany on the North. Not enough intense opening to bring up low power locals so the identified stations very basically just networks. Among better catches were 88.7 Radio Millennium and 90.7 Radio Italia Uno. But like so many times before even these were relogs.
http://www.fmlist.org/fm_logmap.php?datum=2020-01-12
One might say it's very early start to the Es Season 2020 but we are not counting yet. We must patiently wait until the end of April at least. ... for the actual season to start.
There's no such thing as Winter Es Season in Finland but that said it's not unusual to have Es during winter months as well. However, it's (very) rare. We cannot speak about it as an actual season since it can be just separate Es days anytime around Winter solstice or months before or after it. Anyway, with most years there isn't Es days on FM frequencies at all during the whole winter months! This time we have been lucky since this was already the second Es day for this winter: the first one was experienced in Kasnäs two weeks ago, 28th of December.
So what we had today (well, only half of the crew was listening), it was an below average level opening to both sides of the Alps. Italy on the south side and Germany on the North. Not enough intense opening to bring up low power locals so the identified stations very basically just networks. Among better catches were 88.7 Radio Millennium and 90.7 Radio Italia Uno. But like so many times before even these were relogs.
http://www.fmlist.org/fm_logmap.php?datum=2020-01-12
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