04 July 2021

Three pirate FM stations were received in Ukraine during sporadic propagation from the Netherlands

 The sporadic propagation on 26th of June 2021 at 16.00 - 17.00 UTC time slot has been quite fruitful in Kyiv: many stations from the Netherlands, Belgium and United Kingdom, but the most interesting are the pirate (unlicensed) broadcasters which were also active that moment, because Saturday evening is one of the most popular broadcast time among them.

Here what I was able to receive and identify with my Airspy Mini SDR and 80 mb inverted Vee dipole antenna (as you can see, some interesting Es catches are sometimes available even without special directional VHF antennas, such as "Yagis" or log-periodic ones, thanks to the high output power levels used by the Dutch FM pirates):

1. Goud Van Oud - 87.5 MHz - 16.18 - 16.30 UTC - RDS PI: 678F, PS contained: "GOUD / VAN OUD":


Unfortunately, I have not found any iformation about this station in Internet (https://radiogoudvanoud.nl/ is a different one, I guess), except for a WhatsApp number: 06 5555 5992.

2. Sirocco en Lawaai Papagaai - 88.8 MHz - 16.16 - 16.20 UTC - RDS PI: 884A, PS and radiotext contained "Sirocco / Lawaai / Papagaai":


Typical Dutch "pirate" music repertoire. This station was the most easy to identify, thanks to the informative RDS.


3. UNID (possibly Tik Van De Meule (T.V.D.M.)?) - 90.1 MHz - 16.14 - 16.18 UTC - RDS PI: 3276, PS contained: "VOOR / REACTIES" (tent.) phrase. On some YouTube clips, Tik Van De Meule has this phrase in its RDS PS, however, I don't know if it is a common phrase for many pirates or it is rather typical only for Tik Van De Meule. Also Tik Van De Meule was mentioned in pirate streams list for 90.1 MHz one of the next days:


Hungarian DXer EnJoe from Békés has also received the same station on 90.1 MHz that day, PS logged by him is: "GI??ERFM". Any ideas what it could be?

Any help with the third one or corrections are appreciated!

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