With three inches of fresh snow on the ground and a bitter northerly air flow at -2°C (the local Skegness Weather station puts the actual temperature 'feel' at -7°C) I am very surprised to be receiving European scatter.
This was Luxembourg's at 09:05 this morning on the horizontal FM5:
100.7 Honnert Comma Eins, Dudelange, Luxembourg 0907 21-01-13
It was a poor signal but it managed to push through.
About half an hour later I noticed an unusual phenomenon: The signal polarisation from European stations seemed to be all over the place. I have horizontally polarized Langengerg, Germany, for instance, on 101.3 actually coming in better on the vertical FM5, yet the vertically polarised Ijsselstein transmitter in Holland, also on 100.7, actually came in better on the horizontal FM5!
This was what Ijsselstein sounded like - quite a good peak to say it was the wrong polarisation:
100.7 Q Music, Ijsselstein 0925 21-01-13
When using the FM5 vertically I heard this very weak pirate station on 97.0:
97.0 Geweld Uit Enter, Enter (Overijssel) Afternoon 21-01-13
AThere was also a bit of meteor scatter on 97.0, still on the vertical!
Sorry about the scratchiness. This is a bug in my Delta 66 sound card which happens occasionally.
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