Skegness Log: 16-04-14 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter: 16-04-14:
104.9 2329 POL Radio ESKA, Wroclaw/G.Sleza (DS) Pops, as web  1147km **

Band 2 General Scatter: 16-04-14:
 99.0 1646  D  hr1, Hoher Meißner (hes) ID and Bruno Mars song  684km
 92.1 1647  D  NDR 2, Torfhaus (Harz-West) (nds) Pops, as web  707km
106.3 1649  D  SWR4 Rheinland-Pfalz, Bad Marienberg (rlp) Soft pops, as web  592km
104.9 1810  D  big fm (Rheinland-Pfalz), Ahrweiler/Schöneberg (rlp) ID and German rap  553km
 99.6 1812  D  hr-info, Sackpfeife (Biedenkopf) (hes) German OM, as web  612km
103.0 1812  D  BFBS Radio, Bielefeld/Hünenburg (nrw) Chat and pops. Almost noise free  564km
 98.7 1817  D  AFN Wiesbaden-The Eagle, Großer Feldberg (Taunus)/hr (hes) Military ads  647km
 97.3 1821  D  WDR 3, Kleve/Bresserberg (nrw) Classical, as web  420km
 94.4 1823  D  NDR Kultur, Steinkimmen (nds) Piano music, as web  543km
 93.6 1824  D  SWR4 Rheinland-Pfalz, Scharteberg (Eifel) (rlp) French song, as web  550km
 92.0 1827  D  WDR 5, Münster/Baumberg (nrw) Noise free  493km
 90.2 1832  D  NDR Kultur, Lingen-Damaschke (nds) German YL over piano music, as web  477km
 88.3 1840  D  Nordwestradio, Bremen-Walle (bre) Peaking above Sutton Coldfield, as web 565km
107.1 1843  D  SWR4 Rheinland-Pfalz, Haardtkopf (rlp) Jolly song, as web  593km
105.6 1844  D  SWR4 Rheinland-Pfalz, Donnersberg (rlp) Jolly song, as 107.1  656km
102.3 1915  D  Radio ffn, Steinkimmen (nds) REM song, as web  543km

** Personal Skegness 'First' via the respective mode

The Körner 9.2 is on the roof of the bungalow at last! The permissions letter came through yesterday, but the aerial contractor who was coming today let me down. As luck wouldhave it, I found somebody else who was free this afternoon. The 9.2 is approximately two metres above the roof, perhaps slightly higher than at the last address.

The rotator is not connected at the moment due to problems drilling large enough holes through the brickwork to feed the control cables through. Even the aerial contractor did not succeed with his SDS drill, so I am forced to use a couple of external connection boxes and run the dreaded CAT5 cable into the room. This is just thin enough to squeeze through. The 9.2 is currently fixed east-south-east.

Reception of Hoher Meißner, Torfhaus and Brocken were almost noise free on scatter peaks during the late afternoon.early evening. Bielefeld on 103.0 has also been received as well as I have ever heard it, practically noise free when lifting up.

Providing I don't get any more internet disconnections tonight I will be monitoring 104.9 for meteor scatter.

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, one meter AGL, fixed south-east.