Skegness Log: 23-03-14 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter: 23-03-14:
107.9 0058  D  Radio TON Neckar Alb, Sickingen/Wasserturm (bwü) Slow pop song, as web 
               806km **
107.9 0114  D  R SA, Döbeln (1kW) or Auerbach (100W)  Blues rock track, as web **
107.9 0152  D  delta radio, Lübeck Berkenthin (shs) Billy Idol styled song, as web.
               Two second burst  690km **
107.9 0154  D  Rockland Radio, Hohe Wurzel [hes] 6.2kW or Bitburg (100W) Heart song, as web **

** Personal Skegness 'First'

I recorded 107.9 once again in the hope that I might catch some low power German stations and tonight I got lucky!

I was able to record all German language web streams, including those from Austria, with the exception of Einslive which already comes in well on scatter. This way I would be able to determine which stations were carrying shared overnight programming, thus reducing the risk of logging the wrong station. And another surprise - I never expected to hear such regularity of two low power stations.

Radio TON Neckar Alb and R SA became the most common bursters on this frequency tonight, whereas they were not heard at all on previous nights - I only heard the higher powered regulars. Rockland Radio was also a nice catch, but both Rockland and SA have two transmitters on the frequency so I cannot be sure which one I received.

Another interesting thing is that all loggings and observations were made within the first hour of monitoring. Meteor scatter suddenly dropped down after this.

Despite a very disturbed day with thunder storms, scatter has been superb.

Good DX!

John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) <3m ASL.
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.co.uk

Receivers:
Sony XDR-F1HD with Konrad i2c modification & XDR-GTK software.

Aerial:
Triax FM5, five meters AGL.