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From 28.6 - 14.7 I stayed in St. Petersburg Russia. Although being quite busy with exploring the city I found a bit time to check the bands. I stayed in a home not far away from the TV tower, so my Sangean ATS 909 and my VR500 had a hard time. Unfortunately the residential house had very heavy interference all day long on LW / MW / SW, so it was not a good place to DX. Even listening to the local MW-Tx of DW, BBC & RFI was quite difficult. I checked TV channel E2 range for carriers but had no luck, however on Sunday 11.07 when we stayed at my friends datcha about 80km north, just 90km off the Finnish border I got German TV sound on E2, one of the carriers indicated it came from Biedenkopf. Interestingly this happened when a large thunderstorm developed not far from us. The signal did not stay very long. Exactly the same I have observed several times at home in Germany. so thunderstorms do have an effect, although the reason is unclear to me

FM
Contrary to FM stations in Siberia the ones in SPb do modulate quite nicely, my Sangean with the narrow filter displayed RDS without problems. To my surprise Dinamit FM carries no more RDS, last year when I flew over SPb it had RDS. Hit FM and Melodia carry separate programming on OIRT and CCIR band.
On Tuesday 13.07 from 10:00-11:15 (when I left) a number of stations (marked as "o" ) where off the air, due to Profilaktika (maintenance)

TV
Since we were close to the TV tower only VHF channels were viewable, on UHF were too much reflection, as we only used the built-in antenna of the TV set.

LW & MW
Due to heavy interference I only listened to DW to get news from Germany.
  


Not far from this site in the Professor Popov street is the Popov museum located in a room of the university. I was the only visitor and got a guided tour. Popov made major inventions in the field of radio communications but could not file patents, since the developments were treated as military secrets. Marconi however used them and got pretty rich.
 FM
66,3
67,45
68,24
68,66
69,05
69,47
71,24
71,66
72,14
72,68
73,1
73,82
87.5
88.0
88.4
88.9
90.1
90,6
91,1
91,5
100,5
100,9
101,4
102
102,4
102,8
103,4
104
104,4
104,8
105,3
105,9
106,3
107
107.4
107,8



o

o

o

o
o



o
   n

o n
o n

o
o n

o

   n
   n


   n


   n
o n
o

R. Rossii
Mayak
Love Radio
R. Hit (own programming, not // 90,6)
R. Gardarika
R. TRK "Peterburg" / 18:00-01:00 Klassika
R. Baltica (20-22:00 R. Svoboda)
R. Retro
Nashe Radio
Europa Plus
Kanal Melodiya (own programming, not // 91,1)
R. Maximum
unused
Radio Retro 88.0_FM / RETRO_FM
Avtoradio __AVTO__ / __RADIO__
Klassika Peterburg CLASSICA
Ermitazh
R. Hit RADIOHIT (own programming, not // 68.66)
Kanal Melodiya (own programming, not // 73,1)
Ekho Moskvy / Ekho Peterburga
Europa Plus _EUROPA_ / __PLUS__
R. Petrograd PITER_PS
Eldoradio
R. ROKS ROKS____ / RADIO /102.00
R. Studio, _STUDIO_
R. Maximum MAXIMUM
Dinamit ( had RDS in July 2003 when I flew over it)
Nashe Radio
Shanson SHANSON
R.Baltika BALTIKA
Love Radio
R. Sputnik SPUTNIK
R. Rekord RECORD
Majak-24
Radio Leningrad
Russkoye R. PYCCKOE
  o - were switched off on 13.July 10:00 - 11:15 due to Profilaktika
  n - no RDS

TV
R1 Pervij Kanal
R3 5-Kanal (TRK Peterburg)
R6 STS
R8 RTR
R11 TNT
R22 TVZ / NVN
R25 7TV
R27 TV3
R29 Kultura
R31 STO
R33 NTV
R36 Nevski Kanal
R38 Mus TV
R40 REN TV
R43 Sport
R49 Obedinennoe TV / Rambler Telecenter
R51 Novij Kanal / MTV

LW & MW
198 Majak
549 Majak
684 ??
828 R. Svoboda
873 R. Rossij
1053 R. Maria
1089 R. Teos
1125 R. Orfey
1188 DW
1260 BBC
1323 Grad Petrov (religious)
1440 RFI
1494 Golos Rossij

Additionally I found in Rasdole (75km north of SPb)
88,0  YLE_YKSI   (Joutsena, Finland)
90,9  YLEX   (Joutsena, Finland)
98,5  YLESUOMI   (Joutsena, Finland)
100,1 Doroshnoe Radio DORO_HOE /  SPB  / 100_1_FM (Simagino near Zelenogorgsk)
103,1 R. Studio _STUDIO_ (Vyborg)
106,3 NOVA   (Mikkeli, Finland)  Horiz,  Vertical.: R.Rekord SPb

Thanks go to Victor Rutkovsky, I took some of his list and verified it.










From these antennas I have received on numerous occasions TV channel R1 and all OIRT-FM radio stations in central Germany, it is just the right distance for sporadic E propagation.
 
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6. Aug 2004   Jürgen Bartels