Skegness Log: 08-11-15 (FM)

Band 2 Tropospheric:
 91.4 1218 CZE Radio Impuls, Plzen/Krašov (PL) Sports promo and OM ID  947km
 97.5 1221  D  MDR Info, Suhl/Erleshügel (thü) Outside broadcast, as web  768km
 88.4 1222  D  Bayern 2, Pfaffenberg (bay) OM, as web  712km
107.7 1224  D  Hit Radio FFH, Hohes Lohr (hes) Jingle ID and pops  639km
107.6 1225  D  Antenne Thüringen, Remda (Saalfeld) (thü)  D3F8 ANT.THUE 788km
106.9 1226  D  Hitradio RTL Sachsen, Leipzig Wiederau (sac) Weather Girls song,
               as web  843km
103.2 1227  D  Antenne Bayern, Ochsenkopf (bay) ID in ad  865km
103.6 1230  D  MDR Thüringen, Remda (Saalfeld) (thü) Smokie song, as web  788km
105.4 1232  D  Hitradio RTL Sachsen, Chemnitz/Geyer (sac) Pops, as web  904km
 88.2 1234  D  Bayern 2, Büttelberg (bay) YLs, as web  812km
 89.8 1234  D  MDR JUMP, Chemnitz/Geyer (sac) Jingle ID  904km
 91.4 1243  D  Bayern 1, Büttelberg (bay) OM ID drop-in  812km
 96.0 1249  D  Bayern 2, Ochsenkopf (bay) OMs, as web  865km
 96.3 1250  D  Bayern 3, Kreuzberg (Rhön) (bay) ID and pops  732km
 97.9 1252  D  Bayern 3, Dillberg (bay) German pops, as 96.3  878km **
 87.8 1259  D  WDR 2, Schwerte/Sommerberg (nrw) Pops, as web  525km
 89.1 1309 CZE CRo Radiožurnál, Plzen/Krašov (PL) YL, as web  947km
 96.8 1319  D  Bayern 1, Hoher Bogen (bay) Stevie Wonder, as web  975km
 96.6 1321  D  Deutschlandfunk (DLF), Leipzig Wiederau (sac) Opera, over UNID  843km **
 94.7 1322  D  Bayern 3, Hoher Bogen (bay) Bayern 3 Hitmix with Claudia ....   975km
 95.2 1322  D  MDR Figaro, Sonneberg/Bleßberg (thü) Classical, as web  793km
 89.4 1328  D  NE-WS 89.4, Düsseldorf/Rheinturm (nrw) ID - News 89 4 die beste hits  488km
 93.0 1410  D  BFBS Radio, Braunschweig/Drachenberg (nds) BFBS ID  712km
 93.9 1410  D  MDR 1 Radio Sachsen, Leipzig Wiederau (sac) OM, as web  843km **

** Personal First

I think I came into this opening quite late. How long the band had been open I have no idea, but I know other UK DXers had been receiving German signals for several hours. I guess it was just beginning to peak since German signals increased for the first hour, but then faded away abruptly not long after 1400.

Good DX!

John Faulkner
Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) <3m ASL.
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.co.uk
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Receivers:
Elad FDM-S2 (Meteor Scatter and sporadic E)
Sony XDR-F1HD with Konrad i2c mod. (Tropo/Scatter)

Aerials:
Körner 9.2 @ 5.5 metres agl. QTH is approximately 3 metres asl, 1km from the sea.
Fringe Electronics 20dB pre-amp.

Software:
Elad FDM-SW2, SDR Console File Analyser & RDS Spy via VAC.
XDR-GTK v0.3.1 for the Sony XDR-F1HD

Rotator:
Yaesu G-5500 azimuth & elevation rotator, allowing antenna to be vertical, horizontal, etc.