Es catches 22.05.2020 - 24.05.2020

22.05.2020

09:30	69.59	MHz	404	Radio Rossii	Shakhun'ya (tent.)	17	kW	1330	km	46	°
09:51	67.04	MHz	DAG	Radio Rossii	Kochubey (tent.)	20	kW	1370	km	113	°
10:10	69.95	MHz	DAG	GTRK Dagestan	Gergebil/Gora Zuberkha	20	kW	1540	km	118	°

24.05.2020

10:13	69.08	MHz	404	Radio Rossii	Kuznetsk (tent.)	17	kW	1140	km	68	°
10:17	66.62	MHz	404	Radio Rossii	Buzuluk (tent.)	17	kW	1520	km	72	°
10:19	67.07	MHz	404	Radio Rossii	Novospasskoye (tent.)	17	kW	1230	km	69	°
10:20	71.09	MHz	404	Radio Rossii	Saratov (tent.)	17	kW	1090	km	77	°
10:21	70.04	MHz	404	Radio Rossii	Kuvandyk (tent.)	17	kW	1890	km	76	°
10:23	66.44	MHz	404	Radio Rossii	Perelyub (tent.)	17	kW	1380	km	75	°
10:27	68.84	MHz	404	Radio Rossii	Meshcherskoye (tent.)	17	kW	980	km	70	°
10:34	68.48	MHz	404	Radio Rossii	Yershov (tent.)	17	kW	1250	km	78	°
10:43	70.40	MHz	404	Radio Rossii	Veshkayma (tent.)	17	kW	1200	km	64	°
10:58	68.36	MHz	404	Radio Rossii	Stepnoye (tent.)	17	kW	2070	km	67	°
11:00	68.68	MHz	404	Radio Rossii	Mezhozernyi	0.4	kW	2000	km	67	°

All the stations were identified by ID jingles, RDS, playlists or parallel web streams. Power values are ERP, distances are approximate.

RX: Airspy Mini SDR
ANT: 80 mb dipole

Skyline Radio Germany back on the air 2020

 SKYLINE RADIO GERMANY - BACK ON THE AIR IN 2020! - PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!

IT'S ALWAYS ROCK'N'ROLL - NOTHING ELSE MATTERS!

Shortwaveradio.de kindly gave us the 5th possibility to be on air with some brandnew shows via their transmitters in Northern Germany.

If you would like to try to catch our programmes, 6 hours on May 30th, 2020, Saturday before Whitsun, 14.00 - 20.00 UTC would be a good time to give us a listen again.

Try the 75 and 49 metre band shortwave on 3975 and 6160 kHz! Let's keep fingers crossed that propagation is good again!

We received more than 40 reception reports again in December 2019 and we hope we can be as successful as then again! So don't hesitate to write in again.

It might be a good chance for you to grab our first brand-new 2020 eQSL-card design! Attention: This one is available as eQSL-card only!

For our listeners outside of Europe: please check the various WebSDRs, and we will verify every correct reception report with our eQSL also.

We look forward to your reception reports, criticisms and commendations to: SKYLINE RADIO GERMANY, P.O.Box 2702, 6049 ZG Herten, The Netherlands or via e-mail to: skylineradiogermany/at/web.de

Have a great time with us and Good DX,

DJ Jan-Hendrik

Source: station's mailing list

Es catches 17.05.2020 - 19.05.2020

17.05.2020

15:58	88.60	MHz	TUR	Radyo Harman - Ankara	Ankara-Dikmen	3	kW	1180	km	170	°
15:59	90.00	MHz	TUR	Radyo Manavgat - Manavgat	Manavgat/Türkbeleni Tepe	1	kW	1510	km	177	°
17:36	88.50	MHz	???	UNID (Kurdish?)	?	?	kW	????	km	???	°
17:36	89.40	MHz	SYR	SRTV 1 Dimashk (tent.)	Ayn al-Arab	150	kW	1630	km	154	°
17:36	90.00	MHz	TUR	TRT Radyo 1	?	?	kW	????	km	???	°
17:37	88.80	MHz	TUR	TRT Radyo 1	?	?	kW	????	km	???	°

18.05.2020

11:49	87.90	MHz	GRC	Erotokritos FM	Iraklion/Rogdia (tent.)	4	kW	1720	km	197	°
11:58	90.70	MHz	GRC	Dream FM 90.7	Iraklion/Rogdia (tent.)	1	kW	1720	km	197	°
11:59	88.10	MHz	GRC	Fly FM 88.1	Iraklion/Rogdia (tent.)	0.5	kW	1720	km	197	°
12:09	88.80	MHz	GRC	Skai FM (tent. new frequency?)	?	?	kW	????	km	???	°
12:23	87.50	MHz	GRC	Radio Amore (tent.)	?	?	kW	????	km	???	°
12:25	88.30	MHz	GRC	Viva FM 88.3	Katerini/Kontariotissa	?	kW	1290	km	212	°
12:30	91.80	MHz	GRC	Prisma FM (Sifnos)	Sifnos/Artemonas	?	kW	1560	km	199	°
12:31	90.50	MHz	GRC	ERA 1 Proto Programma (tent.)	Borsas	8	kW	1530	km	207	°
12:32	88.80	MHz	GRC	Loud 88.8 (tent.)	Kalampaka/Koromilia	0.5	kW	1380	km	214	°
12:32	91.30	MHz	GRC	ERA 2 Deutero Programma	Akarnanika/Perganti	100	kW	1480	km	214	°
12:33	89.60	MHz	GRC	Super FM 89.6	Hania/Malaxa	2	kW	1730	km	200	°
12:40	88.90	MHz	GRC	Hit FM 88.9	Athina/Ymittos (tent.)	54	kW	1480	km	203	°
12:40	89.20	MHz	GRC	Music 89.2	Athina/Ymittos (tent.)	40	kW	1480	km	203	°
12:40	89.50	MHz	GRC	Ekklesia ti Ellados (tent.)	Athina/Ymittos (tent.)	60	kW	1480	km	203	°
12:41	88.60	MHz	GRC	Legend 88.6 (Athens)	Athina/Ymittos (tent.)	30	kW	1480	km	203	°
12:42	88.00	MHz	GRC	Menta FM 88 (tent.)	Athina/Ymittos (tent.)	40	kW	1480	km	203	°
12:42	92.00	MHz	GRC	Galaxy 92 FM (tent.)	Athina/Ymittos (tent.)	32	kW	1480	km	203	°
12:45	87.60	MHz	BUL	BNR Radio Shumen	Shumen	100	kW	810	km	201	°
12:45	89.00	MHz	BUL	BG Radio	Shumen	0.46	kW	830	km	200	°
12:45	91.40	MHz	BUL	Darik Radio (Varna) (tent.)	Shumen	3	kW	830	km	200	°
12:50	88.90	MHz	BUL	BNR Radio Horizont (tent.)	Royak	3	kW	840	km	197	°
13:07	89.30	MHz	GRC	Radio Paleohora	?	?	kW	????	km	???	°
13:09	90.10	MHz	???	UNID in Arabic	?	?	kW	????	km	???	°
13:12	92.30	MHz	GRC	Lampsi 92.3 FM	Athina/Ymittos (tent.)	100	kW	1480	km	203	°
13:48	90.90	MHz	GRC	ERA 3 Trito Programma	Athina/Ymittos	100	kW	1480	km	203	°
13:49	89.30	MHz	GRC	ERA 3 Trito Programma	Kalamata/Likodimo/Petalidi	35	kW	1640	km	208	°
13:49	90.40	MHz	GRC	Kanali 1 Piraeus	Athina/Ymittos	40	kW	1480	km	203	°
13:50	88.00	MHz	GRC	Life FM 88.0	Kalamata/Likodimo/Petalidi	1	kW	1640	km	208	°
14:10	97.40	MHz	GRC	Rythmos 97.4 (tent.)	Hania/Malaxa	2.5	kW	1730	km	200	°
14:35	98.20	MHz	GRC	Magic FM 98.2	Hania/Malaxa (tent.)	2	kW	1730	km	200	°
14:58	94.40	MHz	GRC	ERA 1 Proto Programma	Charakas-Akhendrias	35	kW	1760	km	196	°

19.05.2020

07:58	68.87	MHz	404	Radio Voskreseniye	Nizhniye Sergi	17	kW	2010	km	59	°
08:00	67.79	MHz	TAT	Kunel Radiosy	Yar Chally	4	kW	1580	km	59	°
08:01	69.92	MHz	404	Radio Orfey	Yekaterinburg	4	kW	2100	km	58	°
08:05	69.29	MHz	404	Radio Rossii	Baranchinskiy (tent.)	17	kW	2060	km	54	°
08:10	67.01	MHz	404	Radio Rossii Ural	Nizhniye Sergi	17	kW	2010	km	59	°
08:10	68.72	MHz	404	Radio Rossii Perm	Oktyabrskiy	6.3	kW	1890	km	58	°
08:10	70.43	MHz	404	Radio Rossii Ural	?	?	kW	????	km	???	°
08:11	66.62	MHz	404	Radio Rossii Orenburg (tent.)	Buzuluk	17	kW	1520	km	72	°
08:11	67.10	MHz	404	Radio Rossii Perm	Barda	17	kW	1790	km	56	°
08:12	68.36	MHz	404	Radio Rossii Chelyabinsk	Stepnoye	17	kW	2070	km	67	°
08:14	66.65	MHz	404	Radio Rossii Perm	Kungur	17	kW	1890	km	55	°
09:05	70.07	MHz	404	Radio Rossii	Kurilovo (tent.)	17	kW	1410	km	36	°
09:26	67.07	MHz	404	Radio Rossii	Novospasskoye (tent.)	17	kW	1230	km	69	°

UNID in Arabic - 18.05.2020 - 13.09 UTC - 90.1 MHz, the signal had quite wide deviation, audio was not parallel with web-streams of Al Qur'an Al Karim (LBN), ERTU Al-Quran al-Karim (EGY), SBA Al-Quran al-Karim (ARS) and Radio Masr (EGY):

All the stations were identified by ID jingles, RDS, playlists or parallel web streams. Power values are ERP, distances are approximate.

RX: Airspy Mini SDR
ANT: 80 mb dipole

Will russia restart shortwave jamming?

Interesting results of shortwave observations and following discussion started by Token forum member were posted on HFU message board: strange DSB-modulated signals on at least four frequencies: 5708, 9008, 9022 and 9024 kHz were regularly active in April between 0300 and 0500 UTC on weekdays. Sometimes on two frequencies simultaneously.

The audio sounded like looped recording of mixed male and female voice speeches taken from programs of USSR All-Union Radio: short clippings of local and international news concatenated and mixed into the one recording. I just recalled that I have already heard this sound formerly when listened to audio clips posted by American DXers. That was sample from Rimantas Pleikys' website, dedicated to deliberate radio jamming, and described as: "Speech-like signal (USSR 1976-1988, USSR/Poland  1980-1988)". The audio, as it turns out, was identical!

What is the "speech-like signal jamming"? Some people of the older generation in ex-USSR countries are probably remember that phenomenon and well familiar with it. Others can find clear answer in Rimantas Pleikys' article "Radio Jamming in the Soviet Union, Poland and other East European Countries". Rimantas writes that some countries of the Soviet Bloc started to broadcast speech resembling signal since year 1976. This was quite efficient jamming technique, because its sound, composed of male and female announcers speech, is well conformed with typical timbre of the human voice.

Signal strength, simultaneous broadcasts on several frequebcies and regular schedule basis of the strange April transmissions actually argue in favour of its official origin and tell us that it was not a fraud/joke organized by some radio pirates. Moreover, numerous TDoA analysis attempts, carried by American DXers, reveal signal source somewhere near Khabarovsk area (russia).

Thus, deliberate jamming is the leading assumption on purpose of these transmissions for the moment. It was rather test, not actually a real jamming yet, as no other signals were observed on the same frequencies. However, it remains unclear what is the possible target of the jamming, because all russian-language "enemies' voices" have already left shortwave bands since Soviet/post-Soviet era? May be it's a preparation for an assistance to "Chinese comrades" in fight against VOA, RFA, RTI, SOH?

The frequencies selected for the tests allow for conclusions that some NATO utility stations operating on adjacent channels could be potential targets. Some of them are using Link-11 (MIL-STD-6011) standard NATO protocol, but I guess, the speech resembling signal is more suitable for jamming of voice communications.

eQSL from Radio Northern Europe International

Thanks to Roseanna for the nice QSL from Radio Northern Europe International via Channel 292.