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Wednesday 10 July 2013

Skegness Log: 10-07-13 (FM)

Sporadic E:
 87.6 1643 GRC Laikos 87.6, Thessaloniki/Hortiatis (cmc-tsk) Greek music, as web  2208km

Tropospheric Log:
 88.0 1600 NOR NRK P1, Gulen/Bråsviksåta (sf) F201 _NRK_P1_  924km
 88.3 1602 NOR NRK P2, Lyngdal (va) F202 _NRK_P2_  697km
 89.1 1606 NOR NRK P1, Bergen/Ulriken (ho) F201 _NRK_P1_  861km
 91.1 1609 NOR NRK Petre, Bokn/Grønnestadvegen (ro) OM outdoors, as 91.8  745km
 91.8 1609 NOR NRK Petre, Bjerkreim/Urdalsnippa (ro) F201 _NRK_P3_ OM outside, as web  703km
 92.5 1610 NOR NRK P2, Greipstad/Eidsåvegen (va) F202 _NRK_P2_  734km
 92.6 1611 NOR NRK Petre, Stord/Kattnakken (ho) F203 _NRK_P3_  812km
 93.3 1613 NOR NRK P1, Lønahorgi (ho) Pops, as web  916km
 93.5 1614 NOR NRK P1, Bokn/Grønnestadvegen (ro) F201 _NRK_P1_ Pops, as 93.3  745km
 93.6 1616 NOR NRK P1, Bremanger (sf) OMs talk, as web  1009km
 93.7 1617 NOR NRK P2, Hovdefjell (aa) YL, as web  806km
 94.2 1619 NOR NRK P1, Bjerkreim/Urdalsnippa (ro) F202 _NRK_P2_  703km
 94.8 1639 NOR NRK P2, Bergen/Ulriken (ho) F202 _NRK_P2_  861km
 95.0 1800 NOR NRK Petre, Lyngdal (va) Live concert, as web  697km
 96.0 1801 NOR NRK P1, Stord/Kattnakken (ho) News, as web  812km
 97.0 1803 NOR NRK Petre, Greipstad/Eidsåvegen (va) Live concert, as others  734km
 97.3 1803 NOR NRK P2, Bokn/Grønnestadvegen (ro) F202 _NRK_P2_  745km
 97.6 1806 NOR NRK P1, Lyngdal (va) F201 _NRK_P1_  697km
 98.7 1807 NOR NRK P2, Bjerkreim/Urdalsnippa (ro) F202 _NRK_P2_  703km
 99.6 1808 NOR NRK P2, Stord/Kattnakken (ho) Jazz, as 98.7  812km
100.1 1809 NOR Radio Norge, Greipstad/Eidsåvegen (va) Soft rock, as web  734km
101.0 1811 NOR Radio Norge, Bjerkreim/Urdalsnippa (ro) Soft rock, as 100.1  703km
101.4 1811 NOR Radio Norge, Gulen/Bråsviksåta (sf) Soft rock, as others  924km
101.8 1812 NOR Radio Norge, Stord/Kattnakken (ho) Soft rock, as others  812km
102.0 1813 NOR Radio Norge, Lyngdal (va) Soft rock, as others  697km
102.5 1813 NOR Radio Norge, Bergen/Ulriken (ho) Soft rock, as others  861km
102.8 1814 NOR P4 R Hele Norge, Bokn/Grønnestadvegen (ro) F214 P4_NORGE  745km
107.1 1827 NOR R Lyngdal, Raumsland (va) Light pops, as web  697km
107.9 1830 NOR Jærradion/Jæren Misjonsradio, Bærlandsnuten (ro) YL love song, as web  712km
 91.4 2117 DNK DR P1/DR P2, Thisted/Hanstholmvej 46 (njy) Classical, as web  681km
100.6 2200 NOR Radio Norge, Lønahorgi (ho) Plinky twangy music, as web  916km
106.9 2212 NOR Radio 102, Steinsfjell (ro) Various tracks, as web  762km **
 87.7 2255  G  Radio Ramadhan, Sheffield Rotherham and Sheffield numbers in ad break **
107.2 2306 NOR Radio 1, Lifjell (Stavanger) (ro) Jingle ID between pops  726km **

** Personal Skegness 'First'


The forecast suggested a BIG tropo to Norway this morning but it was some way below that here. The opening covered a wider area than on the 8th and signals reached three bars from many of the bigger transmitters, but the locals were very weak indeed, such as Radio Lyngdal, which was crystal clear and with RDS on the 8th.

For this log, I decided to avoid repetition and concentrated on the Norwegian side of the tropo, plus any other DX which hadn't been logged in the previous few days, but many Danish and German stations were still coming through with decent strengths.

I logged two new Norwegian locals which were very weak indeed and I had to take extra care that I was 100% correct, so a lot of checking against the web streams was necessary.

For example, this is how Radio 102 sounded:

First recording: https://app.box.com/s/n6ss9c7nditysu30mdrs
... Very poor indeed with back to back music and web stream comparison.

Second: https://app.box.com/s/s0z1r9q3pjovwdemso0q
... Slightly better back to back songs and web stream comparison.

I did this several times to be certain.


Radio 1 from Lifjell made things slightly easier for me with an ID:

https://app.box.com/s/5d2vfr52fesr8b8utasy


I also noted that all the local stations I heard are in coastal areas of south-west Norway, which would make sense.


FANTASTIC to see many of the above getting right across to the west and south of England, especially Radio Lyngdal with Andy in Shropshire. I know from the chat room that Jim in Bournemouth was hearing the Norwegians when they had dipped right down here. I guess the duct was moving around. Excellent stuff indeed!


Good DX!

John, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1.7m (5'9") ASL. Ref. Google Altitude Maps
Website: skegnessdx.blogspot.co.uk

Personal All Time VHF Logbooks: https://sites.google.com/site/skegnessdx/vhf-band-2-logs
VHF Band 2 DX Recordings: https://sites.google.com/site/skegnessdx/skegness-vhf-band-2-fm-dx-recordings

Receivers:
Sony XDR-F1HD (tropospheric)
Kenwood KT6040 (sporadic E & meteor scatter)
Icom IC7000 (OIRT)
Conrad RDS Manager

Aerials:
Rooftop Körner 9.2, 8m AGL www.box.com/s/h1a5z3bu94vppln3zsfn
Yaesu G-5500 azimuthal/elevation rotator

Software:
RDS Spy v1.00r2 www.rdsspy.com

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