Skegness Log: 29-04-14 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter:
103.2 1832 CZE CRo Dvojka, Votice/Mezivrata (ST) Czech YL song, as web  1069km **
106.6 1858  D  SWR4 Baden-Württemberg, Waldenburg (bwü) German OM/YL song, as web  786km **
 94.9 2127  F  France Inter, Bourges/Neuvy (18) Brief burst of modern R&B song, as web.                Belmont almost nulled with 9.2  672km **

Band 2 General Scatter:
100.4 1223  D  WDR 2, Bonn/Venusberg (nrw) Meatloaf song, as 93.2  538km
107.3 1224  D  hr4, Heidelstein (Rhön) [bay] (hes) Dana Winner song, as web  729km
100.9 1225  D  Hit Radio FFH, Heidelstein (Rhön) [bay] (hes)  Barely audible. Ads, as web.
               Mixing Wrotham and Schoten  729km
107.2 1229  D  WDR Eins Live, Ederkopf (nrw) Pops, as 106.7  592km
107.0 1230  D  WDR Eins Live, Olsberg (nrw) Ads, as 106.7  592km
105.3 1231  D  B5 aktuell, Kreuzberg (Rhön) (bay) German OM, as web  732km
 90.7 1233  D  WDR 4, Bonn/Venusberg (nrw) Pops, as web  538km
 96.4 1421  D  NDR Info, Aurich (nds) YL info (traffic?), musical jingle  478km
102.5 1658  D  hr4, Großer Feldberg (Taunus)/hr (hes) Noise free. German pop song, as web  647km

 94.9 2049  G  BBC London 94.9, London/Crystal Palace (EN-GTL) Phone in. As web. Belmont down
               to 7dB, nulled by 9.2  194km

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Meteor Scatter Notes:
I almost nulled BBC Radio Lincolnshire on 94.9 this evening, reducing it to around 7dBf (GTK display). This allowed BBC Radio London to join in every now and again at equal levels. I then recorded a few web streams and was pleased to hear France inter, presumably from the Bourges transmitter, briefly dominate the very weak Bemont via meteor scatter.

Aircraft/General Scatter Notes:
Since I now appear to be able to receive transmitters like Heidelstein, Hoher Meissner, Torfhaus and Kreuzberg Rhon on a regular daily basis, often at noise free levels during scatter peaks, I wonder how useful such loggings are. I know some DXers like to see all loggings as a representation of the conditions, even if they are sometimes on the repetitive side, but I suspect that many DXers do not. In view of the Es season being upon us I will leave out most of these duplicate loggings in future and only post them here occasionally.

For the last few days I have been able to listen to Brocken on 94.6 almost constantly, with regular fading of course. Even some the signal can last many minutes, never quite dropping out completely. This makes me wonder what summertime scatter conditions will bring. Maybe I will be able to increase on my current scatter distance record.

Thinking about scatter, Kenwick Top is spectacular for this with transmitters like Raichburg, Sonneburg and Remda coming in noise free whenever I have visited. I have never heard these via scatter from home and they will now become my 'target' transmitters at home. I may need a lot of luck here due to my location being low down, almost at sea level.

Good DX!

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

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

Aerial:
Körner 9.2 at 5.5 metres AGL. Yaesu G-5500 elevation/azimuth rotator.

Skegness Log: 28-04-14 (FM)

Band 2 General Scatter:
 99.0 0932  D  hr1, Hoher Meißner (hes) German YL, as web  684km
105.1 0935  D  Hit Radio FFH, Hoher Meißner (hes) Pops, as web  684km
 97.3 0937  D  WDR 3, Kleve/Bresserberg (nrw) Classical music, as 97.0  420km
 95.8 0939  D  NDR 1 Niedersachsen, Aurich (nds) Noise free stereo. Pops, as 91.1  478km

Good DX!

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

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

Aerial:
Körner 9.2 at 5.5 metres AGL. Yaesu G-5500 elevation/azimuth rotator.

Skegness Log: 27-04-14 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter: 26-04-14:
 87.6 0831 CZE Radio Impuls, Brno/Kojál (JM) 2203 _IMPULS_. AFs: 106.0 100.3 87.6 99.0 100.9 102.3  1219km

Band 2 General Scatter: 26-04-14:
107.9 0624  D  BR Klassik, Kreuzberg (Rhön) (bay) Operatics, as web  732km
105.3 0625  D  B5 aktuell, Kreuzberg (Rhön) (bay) German OM, as web  732km
107.3 0630  D  hr4, Heidelstein (Rhön) [bay] (hes) Dreamy song, as web  729km
 90.0 0820  D  SWR3, Haardtkopf (rlp) Alphaville Big In Japan, as web  593km
 92.1 0852 HOL 100% NL, Hulsberg/Emmaberg (lim) Shouting Dutch song, as 90.2  455km
 93.0 0853 HOL Radio 10, Westdorpe/Verkavelingsweg (zee) Bad Michael Jackson, as 87.7  322km
 93.3 0855 HOL Ujala Radio, Amsterdam/Alticom Toren (nho) Indian music, as web  320km
 95.3 0856 HOL BNR Nieuwsradio, Zwollerkerspel/Alticom Toren (ove) OMs, as 95.4  396km
 97.7 0900 HOL Radio Veronica, Mierlo or Arnhem. Suspect Mierlo Ads, as 96.3 **
 96.3 0901 HOL Radio Veronica, Loon op Zand/Alticom Toren (nbr) ID and news  365km
103.0 1113  D  BFBS Radio, Bielefeld/Hünenburg (nrw) Pops and YL ID. 21dB scatter peak.
               Strongest here yet at 21dB!  564km

** Personal Skegness 'First' via the respective mode

The Czech meteor scatter occurred live while tuning across the band.

Scatter was poor to begin the day but soon improved.

Good DX!

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

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

Aerial:
Körner 9.2 at 5.5 metres AGL. Yaesu G-5500 elevation/azimuth rotator.

Skegness Log: 26-04-14 (FM)

Band 2 Sporadic E: 26-04-14:
 88.0 1012  E  Radio Nervión, Bilbao=Bilbo/Ganeta (PVA-BI) E343 RN______  1130km
 88.0 1020  E  RNE Radio 5 Todo Noticias, Unid site Flute music and Spanish OM, as web
 87.7 1030  E  Hit FM, Jerez de la Frontera/San Cristóbal (AND-CA) E200 HI__FM__  1904km

Band 2 General Scatter: 26-04-14:
 88.0 0941  F  France Culture, Alençon/Mont d'Amain (61) French OM and YL, as 98.0  498km
 89.4 0942  F  France Musique, Brest/Roc Trédudon (29) French OM and YL, as 88.7  604km
 95.3 0944  F  France Inter, Troyes/les Riceys (10) Very weak but music as 103.7  643km
 89.9 0952  F  France Musique, Rennes/Saint-Pern (35) OM, as 88.7  564km
 89.0 1025  F  France Culture, Le Mans/Mayet (72) OMs, as 98.0  599km
107.1 1236  D  SWR4 Rheinland-Pfalz, Haardtkopf (rlp) German song, as web  593km

The first Es of the season and some aircraft scatter to northern France at last.

Brocken and Torfhaus were quite stable late in the evening with slow and steady fades. This was either tropo or troposcatter.

I decided to leave the meteor scatter DXing alone for a few days as I am sure the amount of web stream recording I have done over the last few weeks will have taken this month's bandwidth well over the 500GB mark!!

Good DX!

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

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

Aerial:
Körner 9.2 at 5.5 metres AGL. Yaesu G-5500 elevation/azimuth rotator.

First Band 2 Es Of The Season!!

The Es season has started!

I have just heard Spain and Algeria at the bottom of band 2.

Where it will go from here is anybody's guess, but it's the same start date as last year! We can only hope that is a good omen!

Good DX!

John

Skegness Log: 25-04-14 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter: 25-04-14:
104.5 0008 CZE CRo Vltava, Ústí nad Labem/Buková hora (US) Classical music, as web  991km
104.5 0014  D  big fm (Rheinland-Pfalz), Ober-Olm (rlp) German presenter, as web  649km
104.5 0024 CZE Frekvence 1, Brno/Kojál (JM) YL phone caller, as web  1219km
104.5 0743 SVN Radio Ognjisce, Krvavec (lj) Pops song, as web  1271km **

Band 2 General Scatter: 25-04-14:
 89.4 1011  D  NE-WS 89,4, Düsseldorf/Rheinturm (nrw) You Can Leave Your Hat On song,
               as web  488km
 92.8 1013 BEL RTBF Musiq'3, Profondeville-Rivière/Sart à Soile (wal-nam) 6353 MUSIQ3__  440km
105.3 1015 HOL NPO Radio 1, Hulsberg/Emmaberg (lim) Dominating. OM, as web  455km
107.4 1015  D  Radio Kiepenkerl, Coesfeld (nrw) Tentative. OM and phone caller, seemingly as 
               web though unable to
               rule out Radio Lippe. Mixing Radio Wuppertal  480km
107.4 1015  D  Radio Wuppertal, Wuppertal/Westfalenweg (nrw) Own programming with OMD song,
               as web  508km
107.3 1555  D  hr4, Heidelstein (Rhön) [bay] (hes) Schlager, as web  729km
 92.4 1610  D  NDR 1 Niedersachsen, Osnabrück/Schleptruper Egge (nds) German OM with news
               after Linz faded  525km
 92.3 1611  D  WDR 2, Sackpfeife (Biedenkopf) [hes] (nrw) German OM after Anderlues faded  612km
 91.8 1613  D  WDR 2, Hohe Warte (nrw) More regular than Profondeville lately. German
               OM, as web  544km
107.9 1615  D  BR Klassik, Kreuzberg (Rhön) (bay) Classical music, as web. Dominating Munster 
               732km
100.8 1620  D  NDR 1 Niedersachsen, Stadthagen/Bückeberge (nds) Guitar song, as web, on Bremen   
               606km
 98.8 1621  D  NDR Kultur, Osnabrück/Schleptruper Egge (nds) YL, as 90.2  525km

** Personal Skegness 'First' via the respective mode

A very repetitive night of meteor scatter. Just three stations popped up, but repeatedly, over and over again! They were: CRo Vltava, Ústí nad Labem; Big FM (Rheinland-Pfalz), Ober-Olm and Frekvence 1, Brno. I did not hear any other station via meteor scatter until shortly after 0700 when Radio Ognjisce, Krvavec broke the monotony.

General scatter continues to bring new stations to my logbook and much of it is noise free.

Radio Kiepenkerl on 107.4 was a possibility earlier today (25th), though I couldn't rule out this being Radio Lippe as the programming on their web stream sounded similar to that of Radio Kiepenkerl's. It definitely wasn't Radio Wuppertal. It would be useful to know if and when these local NRW stations have their own programming, rather than just inserting local IDs and drop-ins.

Good DX!

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

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

Aerial:
Körner 9.2 at 5.5 metres AGL. Yaesu G-5500 rotator.

Skegness Log: 24-04-14 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter: 24-04-14:
103.1 0231 POL PR Radio Koszalin, Koszalin/Gologóra (ZP) Polish soft rock song, as web  1085km **
103.1 0652  D  Deutschlandfunk, Erfurt-Haarberg (2kW) or  Gießen (630W) German OM talk, as web.
               Three second burst **
104.5 2340  D  big fm (Rheinland-Pfalz), Ober-Olm (rlp) YL phone caller, as web  649km **
104.5 2343 CZE Frekvence 1, Brno/Kojál (JM) OM phone caller, as web  1219km **
104.5 2356 CZE CRo Vltava, Ústí nad Labem/Buková hora (US) Classical rendition of
               Beatles song, as web  991km **

Band 2 General Scatter: 24-04-14:
102.6 0957  D  NDR 2, Stadthagen/Bückeberge (nds) Adele song, as web  606km
101.2 1011  D  Bremen Vier, Bremen-Walle (bre) Pops, as web  565km
 97.4 1026  D  Deutschlandradio Kultur, Brocken (san) German YL and OM, dominating Linz  712km
 97.2 1027  D  Deutschlandradio Kultur, Inselsberg (thü) German YL, as Brocken 97.4  739km
 98.0 1030  D  NDR 1 Niedersachsen, Torfhaus (Harz-West) (nds) Dr. Hook song, as web. Over
               Lille/Amsterdam  707km
 88.3 1202  D  Nordwestradio, Bremen-Walle (bre) News. Dominating Sutton Coldfield  565km
103.5 1226 HOL Radio Gelderland, Ugchelen/Alticom Toren (gel) Noise free scatter. Lively Dutch
               phone in at this time  391km
 89.9 1537  D  NDR Kultur, Torfhaus (Harz-West) (nds) Vocal ID in pile-up  707km
 92.5 1811  D  MDR 1 Radio Thüringen, Inselsberg (thü) German YL, as web, mixing with v weak
               BBC R4  739km
 93.0 1812  D  SWR2, Haardtkopf (rlp) Classical, as web  593km
 94.4 1813  D  hr1, Großer Feldberg (Taunus)/hr (hes) Caain Sensible, as web  647km
 99.0 1816  D  hr1, Hoher Meißner (hes) Bee Gees song, as web  684km
 98.5 1821  D  SWR3, Scharteberg (Eifel) (rlp) Queen song, as web  550km
103.5 1836  D  RPR 1., Ahrweiler/Schöneberg (rlp) ID and traffic  553km
103.5 1838  D  Deutschlandfunk (DLF), Torfhaus/DTAG (nds) Suddenly over Ahrweiller. OM,
               as web  707km
107.5 1842 HOL Scheldemond FM, Oostburg/Watertoren (zee) Gentle song, as web  296km
105.5 1843 HOL Scheldemond FM, Oostburg/Watertoren (zee) Gentle song, as 107.5  296km
 87.7 1845  F  RTL, Saint-Omer/Wisques (62) Phone caller, as web  299km
 90.7 1847 BEL VRT Radio 2, Brussegem (vlg-vbr) YL phone caller, as web. alternating with
               Ijjselstein  366km
 91.6 1850 HOL Radio Veronica, Amsterdam/Alticom Toren (nho) Europe song and ID  320km
 96.3 1852 HOL Radio Veronica, Loon op Zand/Alticom Toren (nbr) Dutch OM, as 91.6  365km
103.6 1857 HOL Radio 10, Amsterdam/Alticom Toren (nho) 83D2 RADIO_10  320km
104.1 1858 HOL Radio 10, Arnhem/Kema Toren (gel) Sister Sledge, as 103.6, etc.  397km **
104.0 1902 BEL Bel RTL, Bruxelles/The Hotel (bru) Short jingle, some Info after YL news
               and ID  377km

** Personal Skegness 'First' via the respective mode

Good DX!

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

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

Aerial:
Körner 9.2 at 5.5 metres AGL. Yaesu G-5500 rotator.

Skegness Log: 23-04-14 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter: 23-04-14:
 97.7 0119  D  DasDing (SWR), Reutlingen (bwü) Plinky plonky techno track, as web  811km **
 97.7 0121  D  SWR1 Rheinland-Pfalz, Haardtkopf (rlp) OM talk, as web  593km **
 97.7 0138  I  RAI Radio 2, Multi-tx. Monte Peglia most likely Jazzy music, as web **
 97.7 0146  D  Deutschlandfunk (DLF), Berlin/Alexanderplatz (brb) Berlin most likely tx of
               several. Three second burst  880km **
 97.7 0342  G  BBC Radio 1, Multi-tx Brief enhancement // Manningtree **

Band 2 General Scatter: 23-04-14:
 98.1 0835  D  NDR 2, Aurich (nds) Briefly dominating Nordhelle  478km
 98.6 0836  D  WDR 5, Olsberg (nrw) Dominating Egem  592km
 87.6 0837  D  hr3, Sackpfeife (Biedenkopf) (hes) Aerosmith track, as web  612km

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At 0211 on the 23rd I heard a meteor burst lasting two and a half minutes. It was a jumble of noise with DLF being the only recognisable station, lifting out of the mess for a couple of seconds.

Good DX!

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

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

Aerial:
Körner 9.2 at 5.5 metres AGL. Yaesu G-5500 rotator.

Skegness Log: 22-04-14 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter: 22-04-14:
104.7 0507 HNG MR 3 Bartók Rádió, Nagykanizsa/Újudvar (Zal) Vocal ID  1398km **

Band 2 General Scatter: 22-04-14:
 90.2 1154  D  MDR JUMP, Inselsberg (thü) Pops, as web. Briefly mixing with Lingen  739km

** Personal Skegness 'First' via the respective mode

Catching up with the loggings after a few busy days.

Good DX!

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

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

Aerial:
Körner 9.2 at 5.5 metres AGL. Yaesu G-5500 rotator.

FM Band - Spectral Scan

Using the XDR-GTK software, I made a spectral scan of the FM band here, beaming 100 degrees.