[DX Archive] FMDX Es 2010 and Monday update-not a lot

Not much to report the last few days unfortunately.

FMDX vlog 19th &20th June 2013

video here 

FMDX vlog 19th &20th June 2013

video here

I found some old raw video clips on an old HDD, so made a couple of compilation videos.

[DX Archive] FMDX Es 2010

At a previous QTH in Blackpool UK, I had an almost equally poor aerial as I have now, but had far less noise!

Part 1 is here: click link 

Part 2 is here: click link too 

You will note that RDSS (1998) displays the  ECC Country data on stations that broadcast it.

 2010 Es equipment:

Kenwood KTF-3010

RDSS

Communal UHF TV aerial

Analysis of IQ WAV data file Es 12062013-German unids

Analysis of IQ WAV data file Es 12062013

On Wednesday 12th June 2013 I recorded some I/Q WAV data files in an SDR application.
These can be analysed later. Here is a video of a data file being played back one frequency at a time. Non RTL-SDR users might find it interesting.
Any help with unids appreciated, but please no guessing :)

Video

DX-wise, conditions have been flat here, although I suspect there'll be some SPE this evening:)

I am still finding stations in my I/Q WAV files from 12th June. Unfortunately due to a malfunction of the recording plug-in in SDR#, I lost seven I/Q WAV files which were full of stations-so be warned, when recording check the time AND the MB are both ticking over when you record in SDR#.

Sporadic-E Vlog 14th June

Sporadic-E Vlog
A couple of "tents' from MRC and one from Portugal. The others are positive.
Click here to watch this video

unids from 12th June, also some are identified

I/Q wav data file leading to 13:30 UTC 12th June 2013 Sporadic-E.
All stations received at the same time, although clips have been edited.
1) 89.0 CZE Ostrava/Hostalkovice Radio Impuls 42.7kW
2) 88.4 POL Bielsko-Biala/G.Magurka Radio Maryja 10kW
3) 88.3 POL Siedlce/Aosice  PR 1 30kW
4) 88.1 unid
5) 88.0 unid German
6) 88.5 2 stns?
7) 88.2 unid German

Some clips have more than one station!
Clip 1) 89.0 is over permanent Manx FM Snaefell.
 video here
.....
I/Q WAV data files 12th June 2013 12:44 [1) & 2] /12:54 [3)]/12:41 [4)] UTC via Es. Noxon DAB stick RTL-SDR
1) 87.6 I Attimis/Località Porzus Easy Network
2) 88.3 HRV HRT-HR1?
3) 87.7 HRV HRT-HR1?
4) 87.6 D Bayern? (mentions Passau)
click here
............
I/Q WAV data file 12th June 2013 12:58:48 UTC via Es. Noxon DAB stick RTL-SDR
1) 87.7 I Castenedolo Radio ECZ-inBlu v 10e18/45n28 ID atoh 13:00utc
2) 87.9 I Bologna Punto Radio (Bologna) 11e21/44n28  _PUNTO__ _RADIO__
3) 89.4 AUT Sankt Pölten/Jauerling Hitradio Ö3 100kW 15e20/48n20 ID 13:00 utc
4) 88.8 I several listed Radio Deejay ID
5) 88.2 I Resiutta-Calvario (RAI) RAI Radio1 Friuli-Venezia Gi 1kW 13e13/46n23 5201
6) 87.6 ID?
7) 88.3 R. Maria ?
8) 89.2 AUT Graz 1/Schöckl Hitradio Ö3 80kW 15e28/47n12
video here

Help needed with unids received via Es

Unids via Es ( includes two CZE with RDS)
These were taken from the same I/Q WAV data file, so all at the same time. 13:23 12th June 2013
Fortunately the first two had RDS so that probably narrows things down a bit.
Blackpool UK
Video here



The following are audio recordings of German stations just a few minutes earlier than the above video.

87.7 here
89.5 here
88.8 here
88.2 here

88.2 and 89.5 are the same station.

All helpful gratefully received :)

Too much Sporadic-E..

... I'm getting to old for this :)

12th June provisional log. (Many recordings still to go through)

87.6 CZE Brno/Kojal Radio Impuls 67kW 16e49/49n22 _IMPULS_ 2203
87.9 CZE Jihlava/Straznik I. VY cs CRo Region-Vysocina s 5.000 Nc 15e27/49n28 711 40 228 R-REGION 2D09

89.1 CZE Plzen/Krasov CRo Radiozurnal 81kW Dh 13e05/50n00 R-ZURNAL 232F
89.7 CZE Pardubice/Krasne CRo Radiozurnal  100kW 15e44/49n49

87.6 E Ourense/Seminario Los 40 Principales Ourense 4kW 07w53/42n20 E04A
87.7 E Sierra de Carrascoy Radio Canela 3kW 01w17/37n50 5158
87.7 E Barcelona/Collserola RAC 1 20kW Nc 02e07/41n25 E251
87.8 E Valencina del Concepción Onda Valencina  0.050kW Nv 06w05/37n25 E011
87.9 E Alpicat RNE Ràdio 4 80kW Dm00e32/41n40 RNE_4___ E314
88.0 E Valga/Monte Xesteiras Radio Galega Musica 30kW 08w35/42n41  RGMUSICA E4E1
88.1 E Chinchilla de Monte Aragón Onda Cero Albacete 6kW 01w43/38n55 894 ONDACERO E2EE
88.1 E Arguis RNE Radio Clasica 40kW Nh 00w24/42n18 RNE-CLAS E212
88.2 E Monte Paramo RNE Radio Clasica 70kW Dh 07w30/42n48 RNE-CLAS E212
89.5 E Xistral RNE Radio Nacional Galicia 20kW  07w36/43n28 RNE_1 E211
90.3 E Madrid/Torrespana RNE Radio 5 Madrid 100kW Nm03w40/40n25 RNE_5-M_ E215
90.5 E Orihuela/Cabezo Hurchillo SER Orihuela 2kW Nm00w56/38n03 E0FE
91.3 E Denia/Monte Pedreguer Europa FM Radio Marina Alta1kW 00e03/38n47 EUROPAFM _MARINA_ F002
91.9 E Toledo Radio Castilla La Mancha 5kW Nm04w03/39n50 E396
92.4 E Madrid/Parque de la Almudena Radiole Madrid 13.5kW Nv 03w38/40n25 RADIOLE_ E238
92.6 ??XIMA__ E038
93.5 E Barcelona Onda Cero Barcelona 20kW Nm02e11/41n23 ONDACERO E2EE
94.9 E Lugo Onda Cero Lugo 4kW Nm07w33/43n00 ONDACERO E2EE

87.9 I Bologna Punto Radio (Bologna) 11e21/44n28  _PUNTO__ _RADIO__ 5849

88.3 POL Siedlce/Aosice  PR 1 30kW Nh 22e47/52n11 JEDYNKA_ 3211

88.3 POR Muro/Serra do Gerês RDP Antena 1 10kW  08w12/41n49 ANTENA_1 8201
90.8 POR Lousa/Trevim Radio Comercial 44kW  08w11/40n05 1575km video




Here is a video of the stations with RDS received on a car stereo connected to a netbook running RDS Spy.
Indoor rectangular quad loop antenna

here it is

13th June morning

87.6 E Badajoz COPE Badajoz 4kW 06w56/38n52 75 __COPE__ E2CA
87.7 E Jerez de la Frontera Hit FM 6kW 06w09/36n38 HIT_FM_ E200
87.8 E Villena SER Radio Villena2kW 00w51/38n38  __SER___ E039
87.8 E Valencina del Concepción Onda Valencina  0.050kW Nv 06w05/37n25 E011
88.0 RNE Radio 5 three listed E215
88.1 ? C178 unlisted
89.2 E Sevilla Europa FM Sevilla1.2kW 06w04/37n24 EUROPAFM E2ED
90.3 E Jerez de la Frontera Onda Cero Jerez 6kW Nm06w09/36n38 ONDACERO E2EE
90.4 E Yecla  Onda Cero Yecla 2kW 01w05/38n37 ONDACERO E2EE
90.5 E Ávila/Cerro Herrero COPE Ávila 2kW 04w30/40n40 188 _COPE___ _AVILA__ E2CA
91.40 E Tomelloso Radio Surco 2kW 03w01/39n08 R.SURCO_ E206
91.6 E Valencina del Concepción Sevilla F.C. Radio 1kW 06w04/37n25  SFCRADIO E028
93.1 E Valladolid RNE Radio Clasica 30kW 04w42/41n37 RNE-CLAS E212
93.1 E Ayamonte SER Costa de la Luz 1.2kW 07w23/37n13  __SER___ E239
97.6 E Alcala de Henares Onda Cero Alcala 4kW 03w20/40n27 ONDACERO ALCALA__ E2EE
97.7 E Pinto Los 40 Principales Madrid Sur  0.830kW Dm03w42/40n14 CUARENTA MAD-SUR_ E07C
98.0 E Guadalcanal/Hamapega COPE Radio Sierra Norte (Alanis) 30kW 05w46/38n03 _RADIO__ _SIERRA_ E006
100.1 E Écija COPE Radio Astigi 2kW Nm05w03/37n33 E199
100.8 E Toledo Onda Cero Toledo 2kW 04w02/39n54 ONDACERO E888
103.2 E Aranjuez esRadio Madrid 2 2kW Nm03w35/40n01 5287

90.4 POR Lisboa/Monsanto Radio Nostalgia 5kW Nm09w12/38n44 NSTALGIA 8059


All of these gave RDS data as can be seen here

11th June Algeria Es log and video

87.6 ALG Aflou  Radio Laghouat  70kW 2225km
87.7 ALG Aïn N'sour  Radio Chlef  70kW 2012km
88.4 ALG Chrea Chaine 3  70kW 1986km
88.4 ALG Nador Chaine 2  70kW 2117km
88.7 ALG Akfadou  Radio Soummam 70kW 1998km
90.6 ALG Ksar El Boukhari Radio Medea 0.1kW 2041km
91.5 ALG Radio El Bahdja Chrea 70kW 1986km.
91.8 ALG Akfadou Chaine 2 70kW 1998km
92.6 ALG approx. 50km east of Algiers Chaine 1 1996km
92.7 ALG Tessala Radio Oran 70kW 2067km
94.0 ALG Aïn N'sour Chaine 1 70kW 2012km
94.7 ALG Chrea Jil FM 70kW 1986km
98.0 ALG Chrea Chaine 1 70kW 1986km

FMDX Vlog 11-06-13 Es Part 2 Algeria
click here

The Spain log will follow soon.

Sporadic-E 11th June 2013-first part

Quite good Es conditions this evening.

I've uploaded two videos so far:

91.5 BBC R3 Holme Moss 250kW 85km, being overtaken by
ALG Radio El Bahdja Chrea 70kW 1986km.

click here

Spain all with ID and/or RDS (Captions on the video)
Pioneer DEH-4700MP
DIY rectangular quad loop (indoor)
RDS Spy v1.00

and here

Es logs 9th June 2013

Here are my Es logs from yesterday (9th June)
Thanks to YT user w4wdx for his help with the Spanish stns.

ALGERIA

87.6 ALG Kef El Akhal Chaine 3  70W 2078km
87.6 ALG Aflou  Radio Laghouat  70kW 2225km
87.7 ALG Aïn N'sour  Radio Chlef  70kW 2012km
87.8 ALG Mecheria  Chaine 1  70kW 2258km
88.4 ALG Chrea Chaine 3  70kW 1986km
88.400 ALG Nador Chaine 2  70kW 2117km
(6 stns)

PORTUGAL

87.6 POR Seixal RDS 1.5kW 1750km
87.7 POR Serra do Mendro RDP Antena 1 20kW 1767km
87.9 POR Lousa/Trevim  RDP Antena 1 8201 34kW 1575km
88.1 POR Monchique/Fóia  Radio Comercial 10kW 1882km
88.3 POR Muro/Serra do Gerês RDP Antena 1 10kW 1388km
88.7 POR Lamego Radio Comercial  8203 5kW 1457km
88.7 POR Serra de Montejunto RDP Antena 2 10kW 1689km
90.2 POR Serra de Montejunto (or Guarda/P.Vento Radio ) Radio Renascença ___RR___ 8221 10kW 1689km
90.4 POR Lisboa/Monsanto Radio Nostalgia 5kW 1740km
90.8 POR Lousa/Trevim Radio Comercial COMRCIAL 8203 44kW 1575km (over BBC R3 Winter Hill)
91.7 POR Lousa/Trevim RFM 8231 56kW 1575km
91.7 POR Valença do Minho Radio Vale do Minho 0.5kW 1374km
92.5 POR Porto/Monte da Virgem RDP Antena 2 44kW 1471km
92.7 POR Amarante ERA FM _ERA_FM_ 80A1 2kW 1447km
92.9 POR Portalegre/Serra da Marrada Alta RDP Antena 2 10kW 1755km
93.2 POR Lisboa/Monsanto RFM 36kw 1740km
95.3 POR Moita Tropical FM TROPICAL 8049 1.5kw 1743km
(17 stns)

SPAIN España

87.6 E Los 40 Principales Ourense/Seminario (GAL-OU) 4kW 1325km
87.6 E Onda Cero (Calamocha) Calamocha (ARA-TE) 0.5kW 1440km
(or Onda Cero Plasencia/Ciudad Deportiva (EXT-CC) 2kW 1548km)
87.7 E Alcala de Henares Europa FM Alcala de Henares ID "Europa FM" no RDS 4kW 1486km
 ( or Priego de Cordoba  1.2kW)
87.7 E Sierra de Carrascoy Radio Canela _CANELA_ 5158 3kW 1782km
90.4 E Onda Cero (Yecla) Yecla (MUR-MU) ONDACERO E2EE 2kW 1697km
(or Onda Cero Mérida (EXT-BA) 1kW 1675km )
90.6 E Los 40 Principales (Santiago) Santiago de Comp.(GAL-C) E235  8 kW 1285km
91.7 E RNE 3 E213 RNE Radio 3 Caspe (ARA-Z) 5kW 1416km
92.1 E RNE Radio Clásica Moaña/Monte Faro Domayo (GAL-PO) E239 60kW 1345km
92.8 E RNE 5 E215 RNE Radio 5 (Lugo) Monte Páramo (GAL-LU) RNE_5_LU E615 70kW 1267km
92.9 E RNE-CLAS E212 RNE Radio Clásica Antequera (AND-MA) 1kW 1879km
93.1 E RNE-CLAS E212 RNE Radio Clásica Valladolid/Cerro de San Cristóbal (CAL-VA) 30kW 1362km
93.1 E SER (Costa de la Luz) Ayamonte (AND-H) E239 1.2kW 1876km
93.5 E Cadena Dial (Extremadura) Badajoz/Cansa Burros (EXT-BA)  CAD-DI?? E274 4kW 1689km
94.2 E SER (Radio Extremadura) Badajoz (EXT-BA) __SER___ ED39 4kW 1688km
95.2 E SER three listed
95.2 E RNE Radio Nacional - Punta Umbría (AND-H) RNE_1___ E211 80kW 1872km
95.6 E SER (Radio Lugo) Lugo (GAL-LU) 4kW 1249km
(17 stns)

Phew! what a scorcher.

9th June Vlog
Started slowly late this afternoon, and got strong through the evening. My best Es yet this season, certainly in terms of RDS and stations logged. Algeria, Portugal & Spain.
Local BBC R3 got zapped by Radio Comercial from Portugal.
Pioneer DEH-4700MP and indoor  DIY  rectangular quad loop.(Mounted adjacent to South-facing window)
click here to be beamed to my Vlog on YouTube
www.youtube.com/user/pe1etr

The recording plug-in for SDR# failed, but I hadn't realized and lost 7 I/Q WAV recordings. I probably missed many loggings.

11m CB USB strong Es conditions. (RTL2832U/FC0013)

11m CB USB strong Es conditions. (RTL2832U/FC0013)

Very strong cx on the 11m CB band.
Received in Blackpool UK
Terratec Noxon DAB stick RTL2832U/FC0013
SDR#
Broken UHF aerial on chimney
video here

There is some misinformation about the FC0013 tuner. Many sources give the lower frequency limit as 45-50MHz. It actually tunes down to 21MHz, although there are some image problems. The 11m CB and 10m Ham band work fine though.

A further wide FM panadaptor experiment

I have now tapped the IF after the two 10.7 MHz Ceramic filters in the Denon tuner.
RDS in SDR# is ahead of the tuner's own display.
Camera is on a tripod but wasn't level - no Oscar for Cinematography for me!
Sample rate is 192kHz. Bandwidth 136kHz.
video here
Aluta Continua!

Es 7th June

Difficult to get anything last night due to heavy local QRM, but a few made it through.

FMDX vlog Es FIN NOR S  7th June 2013
video here


Log 
 20:55-22:10 UTC (approx)

Norway

88.3 NOR Kopparen/Vallersund NRK P1 NRK Sør-Trøndelag 50kW
88.5 NOR Hemnes/Vettahaugen NRK P1 NRK Nordland  36kW
88.7 NOR Oslo/Tryvann NRK P1 NRK Østlandssendi 90kW

Sweden

SR-P1 (more than one site for some)
87.6
87.9
88.3
88.5
89.4
92.9 S Lycksele/Knaften-Rålidsberget TM  SR P1 60kW
93.8 S Skellefteå/Prästfäbodsberget TMSR P1 60kW
88.2 S Tåsjö/Hoting-Tåsjöberget TM SR P4 Västerbotten 60kW (Only one)



FINLAND
YLE 1 (more than one site)
87.6 Posio (only one)
88.2
89.2

RDS with a bandwidth of 96kHz

RTL SDR in SDR# - RDS and stereo at a bandwidth of 96kHz
video here

Another demo of RDS with a 96kHz bandwidth. This time in SDR Console V2.0 replaying an SDR I/Q WAV data file from yesterday.
I can't record the full screen display of RDS console with my screen grabber, so this was filmed with a Canon FS100 camcorder. I have narrated this video.
Denon TU-260LII, CCW SDR-4+ panadaptor.

video here

Further SDR panadaptor experiments

No sporadic-E noted yesterday at this location. I have been trying some more experiments feeding the 10.7MHz IF from a Denon TU-260LIII tuner in to a CCW SDR-4+.

SDR I/Q WAV file
Try playing this back in your favourite SDR application. you might need to reverse I and Q.
I have used a slight offset from the centre freq. The sample rate is 192kHz, file size 30.8MB.
all comments are welcome.

Download the file

(Please note this is a data file and not an audio file)

Video:
Experiment: Panadaptor 10.7MHz IF wide FM CCW SDR 4+
Using my laptop's internal sound card with 24bit 192kHz setting. Most laptops including mine have a very poor sound card for SDR purposes, even though the sample rates look impressive. they tend to have high latency, high noise floor and poor channel separation.

Video here

I've ordered an inexpensive, but very good external USB sound card for further experiments,
The Behringer UCA-202. It has very low latency, low noise floor, and excellent channel separation, making it ideal for SDR use. It is also very small. The down side is that the maximum sample rate is 96kHz.
I thought it was better to try this at 23 Pounds, rather than a 100 Pound sound card!
(Reading reviews it seems that in order to better the UCA-202 you would have to spend 100 Pounds at least)

Tuesday 4th June SPE log & revised Sun 2nd June SPE log

TUESDAY 4th June

88.2 E Boal/Pico Penouta RNE Radio 3 10kW 1185km
88.3 E Santomera/Cabezos Ásperos COPE Radio Sureste 1kW E486 1753km
89.7 E Murcia Cadena100 Murcia 8kW 1762km
93.2 E Requena Radio Requena 1.2kW 1600km
93.5  E Cartagena SER Radio Cartagena  E739 1808km
video: here
87.6    ALG Radio Laghouat Aflou 70kW    (Arabic) 2225km
*87.7    ALG Radio Chlef Aïn N'sour 70kW 2012km
88.4 ALG Chaine 3 Chrea 70kW(French)1786km
88.4  ALG Nador Chaine 2 70kW (Arabic) 2117km
92.7 ALG Tessala  Radio Oran 70kW 2067km

*Thanks to YT user w4wdx for pointing out an error in my video-old age:)

 4th June vlog
video is here


Revised log 2nd June (Thanks to YT users KonradDX, qwertamdx, senderjaeger and troponick)

89.9 CZE Liberec/JestedCRo Dvojka 15.4kW 1274km

87.5 POL Cz stochowa/Wr czyca PR 1 10kW 1523km
87.7 POL Wroclaw/{órawina PR 2 10kW *DWOJKA* 3222 1398km
87.7 POL Konin/{ólwieniec PR 1 30kW 1435km
87.8 POL {agaD/Wichów PR 3 30kW_TROJKA_  3233 1268km
88.2 POL Kielce/Zwi ty Krzyz RMF FM  120kW_RMF_FM_ 3F44 1666km
88.3 POL Zielona Góra/Jemiolów Radio Zet 60kW RadioZET 3205 1236km
88.4 POL Bielsko-Biala/G.Magurka Radio Maryja 10kW1586km

87.6  D Frankfurt (Oder)/Booßen Antenne Brandenburg Frankfurt 10kW 1179km
87.6 D Jessen MDR Info 1kW 1103km
87.9 D Berlin/Alexanderplatz STAR FM 87.9 1kW 1108km
89.2 D Berlin/Schäferberg 89.2 Radio Potsdam  0.5kW 1092km
88.1 D Wittenberg/Gallunberg MDR 1 Radio Sachsen-Anhalt Dessau 30kW 1072km

Main vlog: here

Supplement: here

I try all day for Es, get vitually nowt, shut down, get on with panadaptor experiments.(I'll write about that tomorrow). After finishing the experiments, I use my CCW SDR-4+ au naturelle and find (eventually) big sigs on 10m. Go to DXMAPS and find mayhem,It's a case of "don't panic Captain Mainwaring!" as I gather myself. Software crashes, dongle failure, camera battery charging -I eventually get sorted and get CZE, POL and D. Even on indoor loop on the wrong side of the building! QRM too heavy other than at bottom of the band unfortunately.

Sunday 2nd June 2013 Es FMDX Vlog
Captions on the video. Stations from CZE,POL and D were identified.
There are some other German stations I'm not sure about.
click here for the video

LOG
89.9 CZE Liberec/JestedCRo Dvojka 15.4kW 1274km

87.5 POL Cz stochowa/Wr czyca
PR 1 10kW 1523km
87.7 POL Wroclaw/{órawina PR 2 10kW
*DWOJKA* + 3222 1398km
87.8 POL {agaD/Wichów PR 3 30kW
 _TROJKA_  3233 1268km
88.2 POL Kielce/Zwi ty Krzyz RMF FM  120kW
 _RMF_FM_ 3F44 1666km
88.3 POL Zielona Góra/Jemiolów Radio Zet 60kW
RadioZET 3205 1236km


87.6 D Jessen MDR Info 1kW 1103km
89.2 D Berlin/Schäferberg
89.2 Radio Potsdam  0.5kW 1092km
88.1 D Wittenberg/Gallunberg
MDR 1 Radio Sachsen-Anhalt Dessau 30kW 1072km

1st June Sporadic-E report

There hasn't been any!

I woke up this morning to find an aurora active down to 50 deg North. This zapped the SPE.

Might be a blank day tomorrow too.

Denon TU-260LII part two

Denon TU-260LII part two

Better Camera angle
Camera on tripod
More graphics
More stations
Radio 3 in stereo

Check it out here!
youtube

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