Telephone calling to Serbia, Radio Puls (Despotovac)

On Saturday 23rd June 2007 I heard Serbian FM-station on 91.1 MHz. I heard commercial spot of "Cafe-Pizzeria Fontana" in Despotovac-city and another spot to Kragujevac (mp3 of my reception).
Radio Puls (www) operates on this frequency in Despotovac, Serbia.

A few days after listening I found Radio Puls' webpage and I phoned to this station and tried to get audio-QSL-verification via phone. There were nobody talking English, but I think the lady understands what is going on and gives me confirmation. She says "Yes" to my clear question!

I recorded this telephone calling (length 1 min 30sec, size 1,3Mb). Listen

I have phoned to a few Balkan FM-stations and gave them a surprise like this (smaller exotic stations)! Only a few of those people there talks English! Perhaps it is not fun for them, but for me it is. (Naturally I use Skype which gives only a few cents/minute costs).

E-mail from Radio Ten, Begijnendijk, Belgium

On the 15th of July 2007 I heard Radio Ten (www) from Begijnendijk, Belgium. It is a local FM-station which operates on 107.6 MHz with 100 W!
I e-mailed an MP3-clip to this station asking confirmation of this distant signal-skip to Finland!!

On 26th of July I had a nice reply from this station and I got mp3-clip back!
That was a studio recording from that very moment which I heard. Very nice surprise!!

Here is a clip of what I heard from this station: MP3-clip (skip)
And here is that same moment with studio-quality got from the station: MP3-clip (studio)

Sporadic E to Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria and France

This was a little surprise to have sporadic E once again this week. Now we had strong signals from Turkey (Istanbul), Romania and Bulgaria. For the end shortly French FM-stations.

LOG Sat 21.7.2007 (Times UTC)

• 88.7 MHz - Chérie FM. Local id to 88.7 Gray-relay, France - 08.20
• 90.1 MHz - Radio Z, Zimnicea, Romania - 07.35-
• 90.2 MHz - Radio Kerne, Kerne, France - 08.23-
• 90.6 MHz - Radio 2000, Istanbul, Turkey ("Radyo iki bin") - 07.43-
• 92.2 MHz - Radio Trinitas. Romanian religious network. - 08.10-
• 95.8 MHz - Radio Vitamin, Istanbul., Turkey - 07.48-
• 100.0 MHz - R Focus. New network in Bulgaria - 07.36-
• + some network ID's like Fresh FM (Bul), Darik (Bul), Kiss FM (Rom) etc.

London FM- pirate stations in Finland, Fri 20.7.2007

On Friday 20th July 2007 there were nice Es-condition to UK (London and SW England) and NW France (Bretagne). I heard many local stations from England up to 108 MHz. The most interesting part of this opening were several London pirate stations! This is rare!

LOG Fri 20.7.2007 (Times UTC)

• 87.5 MHz - UK's Finest (pir.), Buckinghamshire (London) - 11.51- mp3
• 87.5 MHz - Lynx FM (pirate), London. Audible for almost 1h, hard fading - 12.10- mp3
• 90.8 MHz - Charge FM (pirate), Essex - 12.35-. See Charge FM dj's on the air on YouTube !!! Increbly fast talking. I suppose they take sms-messages all the time ?? mp3
• 94.6 MHz - Kool FM, London (pirate, tent. with club-spots) - 12.24- mp3
• 95.4 MHz - Roots FM (pirate), London - 12.04- mp3
• 102.0 MHz - Touch FM, Stratford, UK - 12.09-
• 102.0 MHz - Town 102, Ipswich - 12.43-
• 105.6 MHz - Ivel FM, Chard, UK - 12.12-
• 106.6 MHz - tentatively Original FM, Southampton - 12.02-
• 107.0 MHz - Atlantic FM, Redruth - 12.06-
• 107,5 MHz - Fen Radio, Wisbech, UK - 12.10-
• 107.7 MHz - Star 107.7, Weston-super-Mare, UK - 12.06-
• 107.8 MHz - Radio Jackie, London - 12.02- mp3
• + many other UK-locals around 95-97 MHz and around102-103 MHz.

FM-conditions to Russia and Ukraina, Mon 17.7.2007

On Monday evening 17.7.2007 there were good opening to Russia and Ukraina on FM! I heard strong signals from FM-stations from Moscow, Kiev and some other cities.

LOG Mon 17.7.2007 (Times UTC)

• 87.5 MHz - Business FM, Moscow, Russia - 16.41-
• 91.0 MHz - Pomestnoye Radio, Moscow. New station! - 16.33-
• 91.6 MHz - Radio Kultura, Moscow - 16.38-
• 95.6 MHz - Jam FM, Kiev, Ukraina - 16.46-
• 96.4 MHz - Hit FM, Kiev, Ukraina - 16.46-
• 100.0 MHz - Avtoradio, Poltava-local - 16.49-
• 102.1 MHz - Kiss FM, Mykolaiv-transmitter, Russia - 17.01-
• 88.8 MHz - Radio Shanson, Tiraspol, Moldova 17.14-
• also many other stations like Hit FM, Nashe R etc.

Listening Greek pirates on MW, Sun 16.7.2007

I tuned Greek pirates on MW (1600 - 1700 kHz) till late Sunday night. A lot of stations were on the air but difficult to identify.

LOG Sun 16.7.2007 (Times UTC)

• 1385 kHz Greek pirate announcing mobile-number. Readable signal. I think this station will be identified with my Greek agent. 21.20-
  
• 1626 kHz Radio Anatolia from Kilkis, North Greece. This station seems to be on the air almost every evening giving his mobile-number (same number for years). Quite good signal even at 19.30utc! 19.30-

• Many stations were on the air with reports to each other with good signals!