Keks FM Sankt Peterburg

Just arrived to my summer house. It is located near Russian border so I can sometimes hear some foreign stations. Soon I notice on 91.10 new Russian station called Keks FM. I don't know if it use RDS or not because signal is maybe too weak for RDS. If I remember right last summer I heard Kanal Melodia on this frequency .

Another new station from Sankt Peterburg seems to be Radio Zenit. It is football club owned station. This one I heard already on 89.70 last year when it started.

YLE Radio Peili expansion

Expansion of Radio Peili has been hot topic in Finland radio scene for couple of last weeks. After closing down all AM-radio operations both on SW and MW there has been talks about 4th nationwide FM-network.

First phase has already started 4th of June:

- Iisalmi 107,9 MHz
- Lappeenranta, Imatra 100,7 MHz
- Kemi, Tornio 101,6 MHz
- Kemijärvi, Sodankylä 102,4 MHz
- Mikkeli 101,8 MHz
- Posio 104,0 MHz
- Rovaniemi 106,8 MHz
- Taivalkoski 106,5 MHz

Second phase will go on 16th of June:

- Kerimäki, Savonlinna 103,2 MHz
- Kiihtelysvaara, Joensuu 100,4 MHz
- Nilsiä 90,8 MHz
- Vuokatti 101,2 MHz
- Ylläs 100,7 MHz

And there is also some changes between YLE Radio Suomi and Radio Peili.

I have just started my summer holiday (still raining ...) and I will try confirm these changes as soon as possible.

The Spirit Of Radio

There are many songs dedicated to radio but this master piece from Canadian progressive hard rock band Rush is my absolute favorite. If never heard of them you can watch and listen it at YouTube in many versions but this one has nice slide show and lyrics included.


Second to remember is Irish folk pop group called Corrs and their live performance of unplugged listen to the radio.

So nice, maybe you want more attitude try Capital Radio from punk rock band The Clash.

The dance floor artists did't forget radio. Somehow best of bunch for me is Donna Summer and on the radio.

KLF summer radios

Although some heavy rain showers and low temperature here in Finland today the dance music station radio KLF have started summer radios. In Helsinki frequency is 100.00 MHz and I can easily receive it on RDS levels here in Järvenpää. RDS PS (station name) is simple [ KLF ] but PI code in use is bit strange [1111]. Usually PI-codes in Finland start with number 6.


Other frequencies in use are 93.80 (Turku) and 101.60 (Tampere). Temporary license allow transmissions from 1.6. to 31.8.2008. If you can't receive any of these they have Internet stream available.

Future of the FM-radio

Analog FM-radio has been great success over the last 2-3 decades. How it is going to survive in the future? Number of radio stations is still raising in eastern Europe. Last release of famous European FM handbook 2002-2003 edition was amazing 760 pages long when editors finally give up. Editors of FMLIST try to continue their work. You can get some idea about the number and coverage of FM-radio stations from this world map build from FMLIST database.

So what is the answer? DAB-radio has gain little success in some countries but for me it is obvious that the future for FM-radio will be great and we FM-radio hobbyist will have many years of joy with our listening hobby.