R. DeeJay Alexandroupolis - R. Amore, Napoli

This week I got two QSL-e-mails, both from great South European historical culture-cities.
Radio DeeJay (www), Aleksandroupolis, Greece confirmed my tentative report. I heard their relay on 93.3 MHz which is located in Orestiada. Listen their very professional jingle (taken from their webpage).

Another nice QSL came from Napoli, South Italy. Radio Amore (www) confirmed my reception of their Napoli-transmitter 105.8 MHz. They told that the station has 12 repeaters around Campania and this tx has 4 kW power.
Very exotic QSLs for the end of 2008!

Xmas-card from Radio Vladimirci, Serbia

In May 2008 I visited a little Serbian FM-station Radio Vladimirci (www)with extreme-DXer Jim Solatie (Espoo, Finland).
I heard this station here in Finland on August 2007 (mp3). When we visited the station, Sandra was on the air (click the photo>).

Now, on Christmas day 2008, I got a nice Xmas-card from this station (see below)!

Vladimirci is broadcasting on FM on 89.6 MHz to a very little Vladimirci-city (only 1.900 people, 20 000 in the whole municipal). According to the photos found from internet this station seems to be very lively and going strong.

Letter and photos from Radio Blu, Monopoli, Italy

I had nice letter and many photos from Filippo Rattile from Radio Blu in Monopoli-city, (Bari-province) South Italy. Here is a complilation of them. They also put my photo to their website.

QSLs from Italy - now totally 305 stations!

This month I e-mailed reception reports to 35 Italian FM-stations! I got 17 replies back!! All very nice and clear confirmations of my listening. Thanks to all stations who kindly replied!!!
Now I have totally 305 Italian FM-QSLs!!! 225 of them are letters (with stickers etc.) between years 1985-2000 and last 80 QSLs are e-mails from this century.
Here is a list of stations who replied during December 2008. These are mostly from South Italy:

- ARC Rete, Paternopoli (AV) - 99.5 MHz
- Radio Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Andria (BA) - 105.9 MHz (www) - Small religious stations in a little town Andria in Bari-province
- Radio Flor Levante, Terlizzi (BA) - 91.8 MHz (www)
- Radio Blu l'Onda Italiana, Monopoli (BA) - 92.9 MHz (www)
Filippo Rattile from Radio Blu made nice story of me to their web-page and blog. Nice surprise!!
- Radio Argento, Monopoli (BA) - 95.4 MHz. I have heard this station many times.
- Radio One, Bitonto (BA) - 96.3 MHz
- Radio Citta Futura, Bari (BA) - 101.0 MHz (www). Big website.
- Radio Onda d'Urto, Brescia (BS) - 98.0 MHz (www)
- Radio Europa Stereo, Lucera (FG) - 99.0 MHz (www)
- Radio Nostalgia Piemonte-reg., Genova (GE) - 94.0 MHz (www)
- Radio Onda Verde, Napoli (NA) - 97.8 MHz (www) My photo is on their page, too (here)
- Quinta Rete, Napoli (NA) - 93.9 MHz www (www)
- Radio Parma, Parma (PR) - 102.0 MHz (www) I mailed them very old clip, from 1983!!!! This seems to be a big tv-station!
- Radio l'Olgiata, Roma (RM) - 96.6 MHz (www) Started 1975 !!!
- Radio Delta, Rovigo (RO) - 103.6 KHz (www) Very big station!
- Rete Uno, Manduria (TA) - 92.1 MHz (www)
- Stella FM, Trissino (VI) - 97.4 MHz (www)

There are more to come... It is great to give a surprise to stations that they have been received in Finland on FM.

Reply from Rado Bubamara, Svrljig, Serbia

Last week I got a nice reply, written in Serbian, from Radio Bubamara (www), from a little town called Svrljig. There are only 7 700 people living in this town (17 000 in the whole municipal) and it is located 30 km NE from a big city Nis.
Radio Bubamara is the first local private radio station established in south east Serbia !!!

It began official broadcasting in 13.May. 1992 and it is owned and operated by Joca & Milos Miladinovic.

I heard this station on 93.5 MHz last summer. Now they have noved to 96.5 MHz. In the reply they wondered the weather conditions bringing their signal up to Finland.

Reply from Radio Toxotis, Giannitsa, North Greece

On Sunday evening 7.12.2008 I sent e-mail to a few Greek FM-radio stations about their signal in Finland! I got one nice reply from Radio Toxotis FM (www) from a little town Giannitsa, from North Greece. There are about 26 000 inhabitants in this city.
The station-owner kindly confirmed my old clip from summer 2000. Here my mp3. This seems to be quite big commercial city-station according to their large web-pages. There is a lot of information.
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I think I have heard this same station in mid 1990's under name Radiofonikos stathmos Toxiatis on 96.7 MHz (mp3-clip), but I did not have any comments of this reception from 1994.

Reception reports to Italy

During the first week of December I e-mailed 22 reception reports to Italian FM-stations!! I will write here the results very soon. How many replies I will have? Also I will mail Greeks later.

I bought new receiver: Sony XDR-F1HD

A few weeks ago I bought a new FM-receiver from USA:
Sony XDR-F1HD !!!
This is very good tuner even for experienced FM-DXers. It has good sensitivity, signal separation in tight places, like 0.1 MHz, and it gives good audio. There has been no conditions to test it well, but I suppose this will be n:o 1 tuner in ythe coming summer-Es-skips. Very interesting.
The price is only 80 - 100 USD + post (about 50 USD) + taxes. Total around 100 euros. This model is sold only in US market with digital HD-radio system and 10 khz AM-steps. But it is worth of ever cent !

New FM-stations to Turku

I have been very busy at work after summer and therefore no time for DXing:

I just opened two new FM-stations to Turku-city. They are Radio Melodia (www)(89.0 + 88.5, 91.8) and Zoom FM (www)(93.4 MHz - 50 W).
Provincial Radio Melodia is playing Finnish music and oldies for 35+ and Zoom FM is a small pop/rock-station in Turku-city for 15-30 years old listeners.

Now I have some time for DXing after big rush of music scheduling and jingle building etc.

Sunday 17.8.2008: Opening to Middle-Italy

August 2008 has been better than expected. This Sunday we had first some Serbia/Kosovo-signals and then opening to Rome, Perugia and around! Quite strong and stabile signals for some time.
I have underlined the stations which are heard first time in Finland. Among these logged stations I observed a lot of network-stations (Kiss Kiss, 105, Cuore, Cuore 2, RDS etc.)

Log Sunday 17.8.2008 (Times UTC)
87.5 MHz - Radio Zeta,Caravaggio (BG), Italy. 13.45-
88.4 MHz - Radio Prizren, Prizren, Kosovo. Once again! 10.40-
88.4 MHz - Radio Company, Benevento, Italy - tentatively. Quite often here. 14.37-
88.8 MHz - Radio 19, Genova (GE), Italy. Nice surprise!!! 13.21-
90.1 MHz - Radio Onda Blu, Arezzo (AR), Italy. 11.21-
90.2 MHz - Radio K4, Kosovo "24 h a day. This is K4 (KFOR)". 10.54-
90.7 MHz - Tele R Stereo 2, Roma, Italy.
91.7 MHz - Radio Venere, Corsano (LE). Parabita (LE)-tx, Italy. 14.47-
92.2 MHz - RVT - Radio Val Tiberina, Sansepolcro (AR) , Italy. With RDS "Errevuti". 10.55-
92.2 MHz - Umbria Radio, Perugia (PG) , Italy. Pushed over RVT for ID!! 11.03-
92.2 MHz - Radio Siena, Siena, Italy. 12.12-
92.4 MHz - Radio Max Energy, Perugia (PG), Italy. 11.11-
93.4 MHz - Boom 934, Pozarevac, Serbia with hit-list programme. I visited this station in May. Professional station! 10.41-
93.6 MHz - Radio Gong, Jagodina, Serbia. "Gong marketing".10.44-
95.5 MHz - Radio Gruza, Gruza, Serbia. I arrived to silent carrier - then suddenly ID after 5 sec silence. 11.05-
96.6 MHz - Radio l'Olgiata, Roma (RM), Italy 11.00-

14.8.2008: Istanbul FM-stations audible in Finland!

Istanbul FM-stations were audible in South Finland with strong RDS-stereo-signals for 2-3 hours. The band was full of Turkish-stations up to 108 MHz after midday UTC!
However, here in SW Finland the opening was not as good as around Helsinki. Signals were mostly weak over 101 MHz here.
There are even 103 legal FM-stations in Istanbul (listed here) !!!

One "funny" thing was that I identified all 3 Istanbul "Powers" around 100 MHz: Power Türk 99.8, Power FM 100.0 MHz and Power XL on 100.2 MHz !!!
Also Italians and some other counties were shortly up before Turkey.
I drove from work to listen for some time, but nothing exceptionally interesting was not heard by me (I mean stations "never-heard-before in Finland").

Very interesting and surprising condition in August, not expected!

12 and 13.8 Italian FM-stations

On Tuesday evening 12.8 and Wednesday 13.8 afternoon Southern Italy was open to South Finland. I missed the 13.8 at work. A lot of networks were id'ed here.

Log Tuesday 12.8.2008 (Rome and Napoli; mostly weak signals)

87.6 MHz - RAI Radio Uno, Roma. Also usual Rome-stations were up on lower band , like Nuova Spazio 88.1 and Radio Classica 89.5 etc. but I have heard them many times. 17.38-
91.4 MHz - UNID with spots to Salerno. Perhaps Radio MPA, Salerno?? 18.22-
97.3 MHz - Radio Ibiza, Napoli (NA). 17.53-
99.8 MHz - Radio Cuore, Rome-transmitter. 17.56-

I missed the Italian stations at work on 13.8.2008. It was better opening, but not good one.

10.8.2008: FM-opening to France

Finally after almost 6 weeks of silence we got fair 50 minutes opening to middle-east France. The conditions area was from Lyon to NE and SW. I identified a few new stations, some never heard in Finland before (underlined):

88.2 MHz - R.C.F. Aube, Troyes (10) with provincial programme "Le Téléphone du dimanche". A lot of live callings. 09.35-
88.4 MHz - R.C.F. Lyon (69) with same programme as Aube but clearly for Lyon area. 10.04-
89.4 MHz - Virgin Radio, Roanne (42). Local programme. Virgin is ex-Europe 2. 09.29-
90.7 MHz - Fun Radio Bourgogne, Dijon (21).
92.2 MHz - R Cactus, Semur en Brionnais (71). Also with RDS. 09.28-
95.4 MHz - Fréquence Plus, Dijon (21). I tried other Dijon-stations from upper band but no luck. 09.48-
96.9 MHz - Radio Espace, Lyon (69). Clear "Ess-passs"-jingle understood after many rewindings. 10.11-
99.0 MHz - France Bleu Périgord (24). Luckily with local programme at Sunday midday. 10.09-
102.6 MHz - France Bleu sud Lorraine, Nancy (54).
104.4 MHz - RBA Auvergne-Limousin (19). Nice to hear clear local commercial stations from France. 09.58-

Also I identified many NRJ, Cherie,Skyrock etc. but I hunt only local stations.

This FM-season 2008 is almost over. With a big luck we might have something...

3.7. - 28.7: Poor Es-conditions continue

This summer has been one of the worst Es-seasons so far, especially for the time around mid-summer, which has normally been the best time for that!
After 8th June there has been Sporadic-E on FM only on three days: 25 and 26.6 and 2.7!!
Last over 3 weeks 2.7 - 26.7.2008 have been silent!! Incredible!

We have still some time, until the end of August (which is usually the worst after June-July) but this does not look good!
One nice thing is that Es does not disturb workdays. I am now building new FM-station to Turku.

A few e-mail-FM-QSLs!

I have not sent so much messages to the stations of their signal in Finland, but I got a some QSLs for my few reports:

- Russkoje Radio Kaliningrad - 96.3 MHz. DJ Daddy confirmed my mp3-clip in Russian langauge e-mail. Kaliningrad is my 47th QSLed FM-country (Tnx JUS for e-mail)! mp3
- Hit FM, Gdansk, Poland - 94.6 MHz. I had nice e-mail from Marta Uzarska. She is a morning presenter at the station. On Sunday morning I heard her clip from the past week. mp3

- Radio Europa Stereo, Lucera (FG), Italy - 99.0 MHz. This is a small station in Foggia-province in south Italy, in Lucera. I got short confirming e-mail wit only two rows.

- Radyo Onbes, Istanbul, Turkey - 101.2 MHz. Short e-mail in Turkish. I also wrote them in Turkish. They knew about this FM-"signal-path" to other countries! Listen the excellent reception (ID in the end): mp3

Italy and Serbia on Wed 2.7.2008

Another interesting opening to southern Italy was on Wednesday 2.7.2008. Also a few Serbians popped up but no luck wit id's. Here I log some of the identified stations.

LOG Wednesday 2.7.2008 (Mainly southern Italy)

87.6 MHz - R Potenza Centrale, Potenza (PZ), Italy. This stn is now quite wide network and more pro than 2-3 years ago. About 25 tx's. 08.04-
88.4 MHz - R Company, Benevento (BN). Every summer 2-3x here in S-Finland. 07.48-
88.6 MHz - I: Publiradio Network, Taranto, Italy. Parabitassa-tx (LE). 08.29-
89.5 MHz - Radyo Günes FM, Kirikkale, Turkey. Location 60 km east from Ankara! Nice surprise. 300 W acc. to FMLIST. No contact-info-found. 06.19-
90.2 MHz - Ciccio Riccio, Brindisi (BR), Italy. LE-tx. 08.46-
91.7 MHz - Radio Venere (LE), Italy. 08.09-
91.8 MHz - R Skyline, Ancona (AN), Italy. 15.12-
99.0 MHz - R Europa Stereo, Lucera (FG), Italy. I had e-QSL from this station next day! 08.41- -Logo below>
99.1 MHz - R Linea, Civitanova Marche (MC), Italy. 08.50-
101.8 MHz - Studio 100 R, Statte (Taranto) (TA), Italy. LE-tx. Big station. 08.40-
105.2 MHz - R Gamma, Barletta (BA), Italy. Faded out immedeately after R. Gamma-word. 08.49-

Balkan area on Thursday 26.6.2008

On Thursday 26.6.2008 was the best FM-opening so far here in SW Finland. The conditions started at 05.50 UTC and fade away at 09.15 UTC. Also some more weak signals later during the day (mainly France).

I identified many new Greeks which are observed first time in Finland. There were also some Turkish, Bulgarian and Serbian stations - even Albania.
Also Radio Prizren from Kosovo on 88.4 MHz was a nice surprise!

LOG Thursday 26.6.2008 (Mainly Greece but also Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria etc.) (Underlined are received first time in Finland)
88.4 MHz - Radio Prizren, Kosovo. 09.01-
89.5 MHz - NRJ, Sofia, Bulgaria. 06.58-
91.0 MHz - Radio City, Kozani, Greece. 07.10-
92.1 MHz - Radio Pancevo, Serbia. I visited this station in May -08. 07.56-
92.2 MHz - Space 92.2, Kavala, Greece. 07.22-
92.9 MHz - Hit Radio, Kragujevac, Serbia. 07.44-
93.3 MHz - Alfa Ex Radio, Beograd, Serbia. 08.18-
93.4 MHz - Radio Hit 7, Sofia, Bulgaria. 07.12-
93.4 MHz - Mythos, Thessaloniki, Greece. 07.29-
95.5 MHz - Radio AS, possibly from Novi Pazar, Serbia. 07.58-
95.5 MHz - Antenna 5, Skopje, Macedonia. 08.26-
98.5 MHz - Roadstar, Serbia. National network. 07.40-
98.5 MHz - Radyo Can, Tekirdag, Turkey was nice surprise. 06.01-
99.0 MHz - Srefikos 99.3, Feres, Greece. 06.07-
99.8 MHz - Athina 98.4, unknown tx-location, Turkey. 06.16-
100.5 MHz - Radyo Sev, Balikesir, Turkey. 06.17-
101.7 MHz - Radio Nova, Sofia, Bulgaria. 06.28-

Wed 25.6.2008 Weak and wide European FM-opening

This June has been very poor for Sporadic E, perhaps the worst ever. I was away from home (not a chance to DX) for two weekends etc., but there were no conditions!! The FM-band was empty between 8.6-24.6.2008!!! This has usually been the best time for the Sporadic E-skips, but this year nothing!
On 26.6.2008 I heard several stations widely accross Europe. Weak and short skips!!

LOG Wednesday 25.6.2008 (Weak signals from all over Europe)
87.5 MHz - Lynx FM, London's pirate. Audible again! Also pirate-signals on 90.8 and 92.2 MHz. No iDs unfortunately. Only short skip to UK today (MUF 96.6 MHz Plymouth Sound). 08.26-
88.3 MHz - Radio Classique,Paris, France. 07-59-
88.3 MHz - Radio Virgin, Italy. 08.16-
90.2 MHz - Radi Kiss Delta, Mladá Boleslav-tx, Czech. 05.40-
90.3 MHz - Radio Ena, Sežana-tx, Slovenia. 05.44-
91.0 MHz - Omroep Brabant, Holland. Nice jingle. 08.03-
96.9 MHz - Radio Studio 7, Trento (TN), Italy. First time in Finland! 05.56-

LOG Sun 1.6 and Fri 30.5.2008

30.5.2008 I observed brief opening to southern Italy. Only for about 15 minutes! On Sunday 1.6.2008 FM was opened to France for a few minutes. Very poor conditions this summer!!

LOG Sunday 1.6.2008 (Very short France)
90.7 MHz - Brume FM, Lyon, France. Also Lyon Premiere 90.2 MHz was audible. 17.56-

LOG Friday 30.5.2008 (Shortly to Italy)
92.2 MHz - R.Jukebox, Lamezia Terme (CZ), Italy. Bari-tx. Listeners can order music by SMS by dialing a code for a song. 15.43-
96.3 MHz - Radio Enny Sound, Bari (BA), Italy. Rare station. 15.47-

On 7-14.6.2008 we were listening FM in the southest lived island, Utö, for one week. I had FM-DX-pedition with Jukka Soini (from Kurikka, midwest Finland) and Jussi Suokas (from Joensuu, mideast Finland). Nice pedition in excellent QTH. Read more!

Opening to Romania on 28.5.2008

The first good Sporadic E-opening for me was on the 28.5.2008.
There were strong signals from Romania and Bulgaria here in southwest Finland. Here some of the obeserved stations:

LOG Wednesday 28.5.2008 (Romania, Bulgaria, strong signals, UTC. Underlined are identified first time in Finland!)

88.4 MHz - R Trinitas, Romania. Nationwide religious station. 16.08-
92.8 MHz - Radyo Tempo, Bursa,Turkey. FMLIST gives location Bursa for this. 17.09-
92.9 MHz - C FM, Constanta, Romania. Ids in English!!! 17.40-
95.4 MHz - Radio Favorit, Beius, Romania. 1722-
95.5 MHz - Vocea Sperantei, Romania. Bacau-tx. Another religious. There is even 3rd one! 16.52-
97.3 MHz - Radio Veronika, Sofia, Bulgaria. 16.56-
100.6 MHz - Itsy Bitsy FM, Bucuresti, Romania. Bacau-tx. Channel for children. Very rare!16.48-
101.2 MHz - Radyo Onbes, Istanbul. Many Onbes-tx's on this frq. In July I got e-mail QSL from this station !! 17.55- mp3

Utö FM-DX-blog to a separate blog!

I moved all Utö FM-DX-data to it's own blog-address www.uto-fmdx.blogspot.com.

So, everybody can check circumstancies for FM-DXing in Utö island from there - and I can update this FM-blog separately.
We were listening FM in Utö for one week - 7-14.6.2008.
Good site for FM-DX!

Short report from Serbia Tour (17-25.5.2008)

I visited Serbia for one week (17-25.6.2008) with another fanatic DX-er Jim Solatie (from Espoo, Finland).
We visited 19 FM-stations in Central-Serbia and fetched QSLs for ourselves and our DX-friends in Finland. Here is a report of this busy week.
>> CLICK THE PHOTOS TO LARGER VERSION >>

First some basic facts about Serbian radio today:
There have been hundreds of FM-stations broadcasting without license for many years. The things are now chancing. Forexample in Belgrade over 10 stations are closed within 2 years.

Serbian broadcasting authority has just published a list a frequencies and new license holders for the whole country. About 2/3 of the stations broadcasting today will be closed down. Forexample only a few frequencies will be given to Pozarevac where even 20 stations are now on the air!!
The MD of Boom 93 (Pozarevac) said that the illegal broadcasters will have heavy penalties.
The owner will get 7000 € and the station separately 15000 € penalty! We will see if they will really raid the stations, especially in the countryside.
A few stations we visited, were already closed down, or will lose license - or they even have to move to new area!! It is supposed that most of the stations without a license will close during a few next months. This means that Serbian FM-radio will be less attractive in the future!
So, this was the last chance to visit many of these stations!

We visited these stations for QSL. I am ashtonised of very kind people everywhere: >Click photos>

Pancevo 18.5: - Radio Safir 89.6 MHz. This station was closed week before! Standing at the door was frustrating experience...
- Radio Ritam 105.4 MHz (not heard, but was in the same building)
- Radio Pancevo 92.1 MHz (We have QSLs but had time to see the station)

Sabac 19.5: - Vikom Radija 91.1 MHz (QSL to JMS, HKU e-mail). This station was closed but we found the mother of the owner from the old address and phoned him! Mother wrote QSL after phonecall and she found us also big old RTV Vikom-stickers!
- Radio AS 103.7 MHz. Quite big station. (QSL to JMS)

Bogatic 19.5: - Radio Nesvil 93.2 MHz (QSL to HKU, PÄ). Real countryside station. The owner found my old C-casette/report. Very poor audio now on their signal.

Vladimirci 19.5 : - Radio Vladimirci 89.6 MHz (Heard by HKU). Small countryside station.

Koceljevo 19.5: - Tim Radio 91.7 MHz (QSL to HKU, JMS e-mail before). The sexiest station ever seen!!
- Radio 5 90.8 MHz (QSL to JMS, MWE)

Valjevo 20.5: - Radio Valjevo 88.6 + 1386 kHz. We were on the air. The chief engineer gave complete tour at the radio-museum. He put old 50 W tx on air for us at the museum!! (QSL to JMS, JUS, MWE, MB)
- Radio Glas Crkve 90.1 /94.7 MHz. Religious. (QSL to JMS, HKU)
- Radio Desetka 91.9 MHz. Station was closed. One sticker was found from the window of their ex-office!

Lazarevac 20.5: - R. Kiss 87.6 MHz (JMS had e-mail-QSL before and his photo was on the wall!!). Pro station for younger people with nice jingles!
- Radio Lazarevac 89.3 MHz . We were interviewed to the programme (QSL to HKU).

Smederevo 21.5: - Radio Smederevo 96.1 MHz. We were on the air live and Lordi + Teräsbetoni was played!! (QSL to JMS)
- Radio S 97.9 MHz. This station was closed. Nothing found...

Pozarevac 21.5: - X Radio 100.5 MHz. They made CD for us!! (QSL to HKU,JMS,JJS)
- Boom 93 93.4 MHz, The most pro station we saw! (QSL to HKU, JMS, JJS)

Belgrade 21.5: Beograd 202 104.0 MHz/national. We were on the air live nationwide on Wed evening with DJ Alek. (QSL JMS)

Jim's family arrived to Belgrade so I visited 3 stations alone on 22.5.
Grocka 22.5: - X Radio 90.4 MHz . I got nice photo-album! (QSL to HKU, JJS)
Belgrade 22.5: - MIP Radio 93.7 MHz. Owned by big Partizan foot-/basketball team. They gave me complete tour and jersey with my name!!! Great !!!! (QSL to HKU)

- Radio S 104.7 MHz. Very big national station!!! (QSL to HKU, JMS, MB, MWE)

Utö FM-DX-pedition 7-14.6.2008

We are listening FM in Utö-island (map) for one week. Listeners are Harri Kujala (HKU, from Naantali), Jukka Soini (JJS, from Kurikka) and Jussi Suokas (JUS, from Joensuu).
We have four H- and V-antennas (4 x 8 el. yagi) with amplifiers.
QTH is nice cottage (own kitchen, WC, bedrooms) close the sea with open view to S and SW.
The cost of this is 100 € / night. Seems to be good place for FM-DXing.
We leave antenna towers here, so it is easier to come again - or anybody else. CLICK THE PHOTO >>>

LOG Sat 7.6.2008 (Times utc)
Short opening to Italy, about 15 minutes going up and down

88.4 MHz - Radio Cuore with local ad to Pisa-area but this is supposed to be MO-tx. 08.58-
90.15 MHz - Radio Zeta, Caravaggio, Italy. Never heard befpor on this frg / 87.5 MHz. 09.00-

NICE OPENING TO SOUTH ITALY from 16.40 to 19.00 UTC.

A few highlights ! Red= First time in Finland:

89.3 MHz - Radio Day, Frosinone, Italy. Possibly Rome-tx. 1642-
90.6 MHz - Radio Celje, Celje, Slovenia. 1648-
91.4 MHz - Radio Omega Sound, Rome. 18.02-
100.0 MHz - Radio Play Capital, Chieti province. New network owned by Delta Uno. 16.59-
100.5 MHz - Idea Radio Alternativa, Latiano (BR). 17.30-

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 the capital. I will do that trip with my DX-friend (Jim from Espoo), so it 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 during the brodcast.

The happenings in Serbia does not look good just now. I hope everything will go better because we have already booked the flights!!