Anything from France or Belgium at your location? I am guessing they might be the source of the Sudbury break up.

I'm getting a pirate on 89.4 with lots of mentions of London locations. Last night there was a voiceover that kept saying what sounded like "CallLondon.com" - I've been to that site and it's just a hotel directory!

Anybody know what this is?

Unknown FM have used that frequency in the past. It's not listed as active at the moment though.

Mt Leinster, Kippure and Mullaghanish all coming in from Ireland very strongly. No 'E's yet.

Probably it was "KoolLondon.com". If Kool London is going out on 89.4 it's almost certainly a mistake, though, I shouldn't think they're unhappy with their long-term channel (94.6) which is one of the better pirate frequencies in London anyway.

There are a few possibilities:

1) Return of Unknown, accidentally relaying Kool due to link problems - unlikely I think, the TX sites are many miles apart, and there have been rumours Unknown have closed
2) New London-based station, accidentally / on purpose relaying Kool, either "bought" the channel from Unknown (i.e. paid their protection money) or just started up having heard the rumours
3) Someone closer to you relaying Kool FM locally

94.6 has been off the air for sometime, but there is a carrier with white noise running on the frequency at present, so it looks like Kool plan a return.

I think this is most likely, as I've been hearing it pretty consistently for the last 2 days, when yesterday I wasn't really getting any actual atmospherics.

A few weak signals from the continent today.

Spain coming through now!

Yes Spain & Algeria here too.

Now all over here, back to normal sadly But my first Sporadic E of the year, I jumped up when I noticed the stereo light was lit up on my tuner!

Italy now in with random & patchy signals.

Now gone. Lasted a short while only.

I had the same around 1935 local time. Some fairly clear Italian stations upto 91Mhz, some in stereo but no RDS. I think the opening only lasted about 5 mins.

I noticed a small opening to Spain at lunch time but it was only for a few minutes and no stations were strong enough to produce RDS.

Early this afternoon one strong Italian station appeared on 87.60 but gone after a minute. In stereo but no RDS.

At this moment - "TSF" from Lisbon on 89.5. Mostly weak but occasionally coming up to stereo, and for a few seconds to give 'T S F' on the RDS.

Yes E-skip heard here from Portugal, Algeria, Spain and a signal from Italy in the last hour or so.

We are in blackpool now went up the tower however the bandscan was very poor on my pl398 seems a bit dead spot however at our place fleetwood band is far more active.i will post video log when back.also radio wave signal seems really poor signal for where its tx is.?

A good opening earlier this evening. Main countries heard were mentioned above in my earlier post but around 6.30 pm local the band also opened up to central Europe & the Balkans with Austria, Slovenia and Serbia identified. Oddly there were no other logs from this area around this time on FMLIST. After this Italy took over although Tunisia, Algeria and Malta (Radju Malta on 93.7) were also heard.

Hopefully more tomorrow and over the Bank Holiday weekend!

I'm not surprised, Wave Radio broadcasts from the tower on 96.5, so it would probably be flattening the front end of your radio even though it only runs 400 watts.

Random signals at the moment.

First Es Ive caught this season here now. No idea where though.

Bloody FM sender on 88.8.Es are quite weak around 87.7 and very low part of the band.

Just heard a brief and weak burst of a French speaking station on 87.60.

Most likely it was Chaine 3 from Algeria, since it was well received in the afternoon when I was doing some scanning.
Today the Es were so & so again, like the past 2 days. I think that the time of proper openings will be in June.

Hi all.


A few recordings from Es openings, from May 16th and May 22nd:


May 16th:


https://app.box.com/s/0ljz90s9jnt966yxqu3b - 87.6 BNR Horizont (edited in the middle to cut out a spell with no signal)

https://app.box.com/s/pfchpzncz6njub9b2dgq - 92.2 BNR Hristo Botev + unid station xfading at times

https://app.box.com/s/kkwcglidi2hcyi7epe2e - 91.6 Radio Fokus, Serbia? (can't find this in FMLIST)

https://app.box.com/s/le0j0jzpxmwy65ezzk1n - 91.2 OE 1 Graz presumed + unid Balkan

https://app.box.com/s/wqf4upmwrbvm652z1tw0 - 103.2 Radio B 92

https://app.box.com/s/jm6x1jy08esuuh9eyveg - 88.9 unid talk (Beograd 1?) + Radio Index



May 22nd:

https://app.box.com/s/89rufluw098ohwfscth7 - 102.5 AFN Rota (interesting how stable the signal is for the first 2 or 3 minutes, like tropo)

https://app.box.com/s/vlkqvdvg7fvwxrt77glt - 87.8 Radio Slovenija Val 202 (I know another DXer in Brighton received this around the same time)

https://app.box.com/s/xzdneow33querohh83nv - 88.7 Bayern 2 presumed then RTRS Radio Republike Srpske (autonomous republic within Bosnia & Herzegovina)

https://app.box.com/s/0g6q0cdmxdoipei8q6tv - 93.7 Radju Malta presumed - is this Maltese? (received on the Yamaha T-2)