Skegness Log: 20-12-15 (FM)

Band 2 Aurora:
 87.7 1853 HOL Radio 10, Lelystad/Alticom Toren (fle) Jingle ID and pops  350km **
 92.7 2339  G  BBC Radio Scotland, Bressay or Forfar Briefly over Sutton Coldfield, as web **
 94.3 2341  G  BBC Radio Scotland, Black Hill (SC-NLA) As web stream  405km **
 94.7 2342  G  BBC Radio Scotland, Sandale (EN-CUM) As web stream  288km

Band 2 Auroral Es:
 88.0 2202 FIN YLE Radio Yksi, Joutseno/Pappilankangas-Valtatie no 6 (ek)
               6201 YL????SI 1899km **
 87.6 2210 FIN YleX, Jyväskylä/Taka-Keljo Ronsuntaipaleentie (ks) Presumed with
               Finnish song  1793km **
 89.9 2211 FIN YLE Radio Yksi, Jyväskylä/Taka-Keljo Ronsuntaipaleentie (ks)
               6201 YLE_YKSI 1793km **
 92.7 2213 FIN Iskelmä, Varkaus/Könönpelto-Pitkälänniementie (ps)  62AD KOTI-___ 1907km **
 87.7 2218 FIN YLE Radio Yksi, Eurajoki - Euraåminne/Korvenkulma-Porintie 899 (st)
               6201 YLE_YKSI 1561km **
 88.1 2218 FIN YLE Puhe, Kuopio/Vehmasmäki-Möykkylänmäentie (ps)  6207 1905km **
 88.3 2218 FIN YLE Puhe, Tampere-Tammerfors/Kämmenniemi-Vähä - Koveron Tie (pi)
               OM, as 88.1  1684km **
 89.4 2218 FIN YLE Radio Yksi, Pieksämäki/Pirttimäki-Kokkomäentie 68 (es) Organ recital,
               as 87.7  1867km **
 92.0 2218 FIN YLE Puhe, Eurajoki - Euraåminne/Korvenkulma-Porintie 899 (st)
               6207 1561km **
 92.5 2218 FIN YLE Puhe, Jyväskylä/Taka-Keljo Ronsuntaipaleentie (ks)  6207 YL??PUHE 1793km **
 92.8 2218 FIN Iskelmä, Kontiolahti/Pyytivaara (pk) Different PS to FM List
               6765 ISKELMA* ***REX** 2019km **
 90.7 2219 FIN YLE Radio Yksi, Tampere-Tammerfors/Kämmenniemi-Vähä - Koveron Tie (pi)
               Organ recital, as 87.7  1684km **
 90.2 2220 FIN YLE Radio Yksi, Lieksa/Koli-Verkkovaara (pk) Organ recital, as 87.7  2024km **
 91.6 2220 FIN YLE Radio Yksi, Kuopio/Vehmasmäki-Möykkylänmäentie (ps) Organ recital,
               as 87.7  1905km **
 90.0 2224 NOR NRK Petre, Gamlemsveten (mr) Club music, as 91.3  1105km **
 91.3 2224 NOR NRK Petre, Bremanger (sf)  F203 ??????3_ 1009km **

** Personal First via the respective mode

I probably missed the peak of the Auroral Es, which appeared to peak a few minutes before I became aware of them, as indicated by the number of loggings of UK stations made in Finland. Sveriges Radio P1 was also heard on 87.6 and 90.3 via Auroral Es.

A further burst of Auroral Es appeared briefly around midnight, but nothing came up to RDS levels.

Radio 10 from Lelystad on 87.7 was received via aurora. Interesting to monitor this signal while I rotated the antenna from the north-north-east, where Radio 10 peaked, through east where the signal faded completely, then almost to the south-east where it returned via regular scatter. The auroral signal was there when the scatter wasn't. Also, the auroral version of Radio 10 was distorted, whereas the regular scatter version was clean.

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.