Skegness Log: 12-08-13 (FM)

Band 2 Sporadic E:
 88.5 1046  F  France Musique, Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano (20A) F203. Seemingly via Es  1432km **
 88.0 1054  F  France Musique, Ajaccio/Coti-Chiavari Chialone (20A) F203  1414km
 88.5 1056  E  Máxima FM, Toledo/Cerro de los Palos (CAM-TO) E236  1516km **
 88.2 1057  E  RNE Radio Nacional, Madrid/Torrespaña (MAD-M) E211  1447km
 88.4 1058  E  Cadena Dial, Córdoba/Sierra de Córdoba (AND-CO) E237 __DIAL__  1738km
 89.0 1147  E  Onda Melodía, Torrent/Perentxissa=Calicanto (VAL-V) E2DA  1527km
 90.5 1152  E  SER, Orihuela/Cabezo Hurchillo (VAL-A) E0FE __SER___ ORIHUELA  1682km
 90.7 1153 MRC Cap Radio, Nador (otl) 1301 CAPRADIO  2016km
 91.5 1153 MRC Aswat, Boukhouali (otl) 1116 ASWAT___  2104km **
 92.4 1155  E  Radio Nacional, ? 0000 RNE_____ Actual PI and PS
 93.3 1156  E  Radio Castilla La Mancha, Alcaraz (CAM-AB) E396 RCM___LM  1626km **
 87.6 1157  E  RNE Radio Nacional, Alcaraz (CAM-AB) E711 RNE1_CLM  1626km **
 88.6 1159  E  Onda Cero, Baza (AND-GR) E2EE ONDACERO  1759km
 89.2 1202  E  SER, Baza/Cerro del Jabalcón (AND-GR) E239 SER_BAZA  1750km **
 89.8 1209  E  Radio Andalucía Información, Granada/Cerro del Sombrero (AND-GR) E333  1800km
 94.5 1231  E  RNE Radio 3, Herencia Navajo (CAM-CR) Percussion piece, as web  1565km **
 89.8 1232  E  RNE Radio Clásica, Herencia Navajo (CAM-CR) E212  1565km
 88.0 1234  E  RNE Radio 5, Alhaurin el Grande/S. Mijas/Mte Viego (AND-MA) E215 RNE_5-MA  1879km
 87.9 1254  E  RNE Radio 5, Cambil/Sierra Almadén (AND-J) E215 RNE_5-J_. Unattended  1740km
 87.9 1312  E  RKM Radio Solidaria, Oliva/Tossal Gros (VAL-V) 1000 __RKM___. Unattended  1584km **
 87.9 1335 POR RDP Antena 1, Lousã/Trevim (coi) 8201 ANTENA_1. Unattended  1588km
 87.9 1344  E  Kiss FM, Ares (GAL-C) E2EC KISS_FM_. Unattended  1250km
 87.9 1405  I  Radio Camaldoli Stereo, Ercolano-Vesuvio/Area Osservatorio (na) 5006. Unattended  1731km

** Personal Skegness 'First'


Unidentifieds:
 89.2 1059  E? UNID, ? AA45 89.2____
 88.4 1158 MRC MFM, unid site. 1283 __MFM___


I am still struggling to get the frequencies on the MFM webiste to display correctly in Chrome, Firefox and IE so this will have to be listed as UNID site for now.

France Musique from Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano (20A) was s nice surprise. I am pretty sure 91.8 was there too but I couldn't give this my full attention as I was on the phone at the time sorting out (and getting very frustrated with) Sky, trying to sort out their regular overcharging tactics.

So, another good day of Es but one where I had to miss lots of it while I spent two hours on the phone trying to find a decent alternative to Sky (phone, TV and narrowband) and failing. How do we manage to put up with the dreadful level of service we get from our media providers in this country?

Good DX!

John, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1.7m (5'9") ASL.
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