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Wednesday 23 March 2016

Skegness Log: 2016-03-23 (FM)

Band 2 Troposhperic:
 92.0 1640  F  Radio 6, Boulogne-sur-Mer/Mont d'Herquelingue (62) Lots of jingle IDs in promo
               288km

 93.3 1641  F  Rire et Chansons, Boulogne-sur-Mer/Mont Lambert (62) French wit, not as
               good as Radio 6 92.0  285km

 91.8 1642  F  Radio Uylenspiegel, Hazebrouck/Cassel (59) French folk music, as web  300km
 94.0 1653  G  Touch FM, London pirate Vocal ID between aggressive drum and
               base **

 94.7 1658  G  Saint FM, Burnham-on-Crouch/Mayland Hill (EN-ESX) DJ, etc. as web  168km

** Personal First

Some birthday tropo. Nice to hear the conditions up a little.

Good DX!

John Faulkner
Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) <3m ASL.
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.co.uk
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/g1vvp
Vimeo Channel: https://vimeo.com/skegnessdx

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.

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