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Sunday, 31 August 2014

Skegness Log: 31-08-14 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter:
 93.5 0816 CZE Frekvence 1, Ústí nad Labem/Buková hora (US) Pops, as web  991km **

Band 2 General Scatter:
105.2 0836  D  Radio RST, Schöppingen (nrw) OM (ads?) then pops, as web. Own programme  482km


** Personal Skegness 'First'

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:
Sony XDR-F1HD with Konrad i2c modification

Aerial:
Körner 9.2 @ 5.5 metres agl. QTH is 3 metres asl.

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

Saturday, 30 August 2014

Skegness Log: 30-08-14 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter:
 93.2 0106 AUT Ö2 - Radio Steiermark, Bruck (Mur) 1/Mugel (ste) Gentle German YL song, as web 
               1233km **
 93.2 0302 BEL RTBF Classic 21, Brussel/Financietoren=Bruxelles/Tour des Finances (bru) French
               YL bumped up suddenly over its own scatter!  376km **
 93.2 0325  D  Bayern 2, Passau/Kühberg (bay) Own Schlager show. Off night programming at this
               time. As web  1051km **
 93.2 0709  D  WDR 2, Teutoburger Wald/Bielstein (nrw) Tom's Diner, as web. not on night
               service at this time  591km **


** Personal Skegness 'First'

Two other stations which I believe came through but which were too brief to nail down were France Inter, probably from the Angers site, and the BRF 2 from 5kW Herbesthal. Scatter from Teutoburger Wald and Liege was also persistent.

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:
Sony XDR-F1HD with Konrad i2c modification

Aerial:
Körner 9.2 @ 5.5 metres agl. QTH is 3 metres asl.

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

The 2014 Sporadic E Season - The Worst and The Best?

... a personal summary.

This year's E season has been a complete mystery to many of us. Not only do the vast majority of European DXers consider this to be the worst European Es season EVER, but it has also behaved in an unpredictable manner, being good at both ends and mostly rubbish in the middle.

Sporadic E is unpredictable at the best of times. That's why it's called "Sporadic"! But when you look back over the season, you see just how upside-down it has been. April saw the first Es on band 2 frequencies. An early start indeed! As we went through May, sporadic E opening just became more and more fleeting and were confined to the bottom of band 2. A "blink and you'll miss it" scenario.

By June I think many of us had almost given up. There were a few decent openings, but nothing on the scale of those from the 2013 season. July seemed to show some improvements but they were short-lived.

Yes, there were a few good openings, but I would say that only two or three came close to those of last year. Some DXers in western Europe would say the biggest openings came around the 2nd and 3rd of July with possibly the best Scandinavian > UK & Ireland paths on record. Conditions on July 3rd gave me my biggest single day's log ever with almost 500 loggings. Check them here.

Conditions tapered off after this and reverted back to their hit and miss/teasing/bottom of the band character. Trying not to blink became hard on the eyes but we had plenty of practice. Yet it's hard to believe then that my personal sporadic E logbook this year has been the biggest I have had here on the east coast! How come? Had it not been for my idea of video recording these brief openings and scanning quickly up and down the band to capture the RDS I would never have achieved this. Quantity is not the same as quality, naturally, but I don't think that's a fair way of looking at any kind of loggings. This method enabled me to catch a lot of stations I would have otherwise missed, including many unusual and valued personal firsts.

In four years of DXing on an empty band here on the east coast, not once have I been aware of any double-hop Es reception. I find this very unusual. Not that I expect to have double hop on tap, I certainly don't. You are either lucky or unlucky with sporadic E. It's a relatively high-angle propagation mode and so your height above sea level is not too important. I have been fortunate enough to receive a few tropo extensions to Es out into the near Atlantic, with the Azores, Madeira, the Canaries and Western Sahara coming through, but nothing in the way of double hop to the Middle East, for instance. Not even a sniff of Turkey - one of my DX targets.

So, as I usually do at this time of year, this has been my assessment of the 2014 season. In some ways I am glad the Es haven't been occurring on a daily basis as they virtually did in in 2013. There has been a good deal of frustrating though, not just with the teasing conditions. I missed a couple of the better openings too, as I'm sure we all do, but that's the luck of the draw for you. I can conclude that, for me, the Es this year have been fleeting, teasing, mostly quite weak and bottom-of-the-band, but above all, they are sporadic and that's why we love them!

Good DX all!

John

Friday, 29 August 2014

Skegness Log: 29-08-14 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter:
 87.6 2235 CZE Radio Impuls, Brno/Kojál (JM) 2203 _IMPULS_. Radiotext and AFs. 37dBf  1219km

OIRT Sporadic E:
 68.24 0817 UKR Radio Mariya v Ukraini, Antopil'/RFKRRT, vul. Kyivs'ka, 12 (RI) Jingle ID 
                1803km
 66.53 0818 UKR UR 1 Persha Prog., Antopil'/RFKRRT, vul. Kyivs'ka, 12 (RI) OM, as web 
                1803km
 67.46 0818 UKR UR 2 Radio Promin', Antopil'/RFKRRT, vul. Kyivs'ka, 12 (RI) Phone
                caller, as web  1803km
 69.68 0820 BLR BR Radio Brest, Brest/Rakitnica (BR) Pops, as web  1593km
 70.91 1754 UKR Radio Mariya v Ukraini, Vinnytsya/VFKRRT, vul. Maksymovycha, 23 (VI) OM and
                YL, as web  1992km
 71.75 1755 UKR UR 2 Radio Promin', Lozova/TFKRRT, vul. Pol'ova, 13 (TE) Ad break, as web  1793km
 71.93 1755 UKR UR 3 Radio Kul'tura, Balanivka/VFKRRT (VI) YL, as web  2096km
 73.55 1756 UKR Radio Mariya v Ukraini, Horodok/KHFKRRT, vul. Radyans'ka, 1a (KM) OM and YL,
                as web  1871km **
 73.73 1757 UKR Radio Mariya v Ukraini, Kul'chiyivtsi/KHFKRRT (KM) As others  1907km **
 67.70 1758 UKR UR 1 Persha Prog., Khmel'nyts'kyy/KHFKRRT, prosp. Myru, 43 (KM) OM, as web 
                1887km
 69.35 1759 UKR UR 3 Radio Kul'tura, Vesternychany/OORTPTS, vul. Voroshylova, 115a (OD) Jingle
                ID  2139km **
 69.83 1759 UKR UR 1 Persha Prog., Lozova/TFKRRT, vul. Pol'ova, 13 (TE) Local music, as web 
                1793km
 69.92 1800 UKR UR 1 Persha Prog., Pervomais'k/MFKRRT, Pidgornyans'ke shose, 13 (MY)
                ID and news, as web  2209km **
 70.46 1800 UKR UR 2 Radio Promin', Khmel'nyts'kyy/KHFKRRT, prosp. Myru, 43 (KM) News,
                as web  1887km
 70.76 1801 UKR UR 1 Persha Prog., Kul'chiyivtsi/KHFKRRT (KM) YL news, as web  1907km
 71.69 1801 UKR UR 1 Persha Prog., Vinnytsya/VFKRRT, vul. Maksymovycha, 23 (VI) YL news,
                     as web  1992km
 72.89 1802 UKR UR 2 Radio Promin', Kul'chiyivtsi/KHFKRRT (KM) OM news, as web  1907km
 66.98 1803 UKR UR 1 Persha Prog., Kirovohrad/KFKRRT, vul. Sadova, 88 (KH) YL news, as web 
                2282km
 67.82 1804 UKR Svitle radio Emmanuyil, L'viv/LFKRRT, Vysokyy zamok, 9 (LV) Religious talk,
                over piano music, as web  1674km
 68.48 1818 MDA RFE/RL, Straseni/STRV (ST) Vocal ID  2105km **
 70.31 1820 MDA RFE/RL, Edinet/SRTV (ED) OMs, as other frequency  1966km

Band 2 Sporadic E:
 90.2 1808 MDA Radio Noroc, Nisporeni (NS) Dance music, as web  2083km **
 88.0 1812 POL PR 1, Krosno/Sucha Góra (PK) 3211 __DYNKA_. AFs point to this tx  1530km
 88.6 1812 POL PR 2, Tarnów/Lichwin (MP) 3222  1465km
 87.6 1814 BUL BNR Radio Shumen, Shumen/RRTS Venets (shm) 8236  2220km


** Personal Skegness 'First'

I wonder why we don't have more openings to Moldova on band 2, considering the distance. It's the same as southern Italy or the regular Algerian stations for most of us in the UK, so why the relative absence? Yet another mystery of sporadic E.


Two unidentifieds from this opening:


https://app.box.com/s/8tt95vhgbyciflll56ju
https://app.box.com/s/uc5rdphe0memrlm7suy


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:
Sony XDR-F1HD with Konrad i2c modification

Aerial:
Körner 9.2 @ 5.5 metres agl. QTH is 3 metres asl.

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

Skegness Log: 29-08-14 (MW)

 981 2200 CHN CNR1, Multi-tx Chinese time pips Weak
1224 2200 CHN Chinese time signal Vweak
1539 2200 CHN CNR 1, Golmud/SARFT916 (QH) Chinese time signal Vweak  7135 km


Yes, these are mostly time signals I can hear, often the only recognisable things which are able to penetrate through the QRM, but things should improve as the season progresses.

Good DX!

John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1m ASL
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.com

Receiver: Perseus SDR
Antenna:  10ft x 25ft flag at 28 degrees
Software: Perseus v4.1a; Mestor    

Thursday, 28 August 2014

Skegness Log: 28-08-14 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter:
 97.2 0848  S  SR P3, Uddevalla/Herrestad TM (vg) YLs talking, as web. Live listening  922km
 93.3 1106 HRV HRT-HR 1, Beli Manastir (os) C201. Live listening  1552km

Band 2 Aircraft Scatter:
 97.2 0840 DNK DR P3, Rangstrup/Gammel Tøndervej 28 (sdk-sjy) Rock song, as web. Scatter  617km
 93.3 0841 DNK DR P1, Aalborg-Frejlev/Svenstrupvej 25 (njy) Danish OM, as web. Scatter  740km
 95.1 0850 DNK DR P2, Rangstrup/Gammel Tøndervej 28 (sdk-sjy) Opera, as web. Scatter  617km
 91.8 0945 NOR NRK Petre, Bjerkreim/Urdalsnipa (ro) Pops, as web  703km


Very good scatter to the north-east today. Scatter has been well below par for the last two or more weeks. This may well tie in with our recent unseasonal weather. Unseasonal? I mean, how can we have temperatures of freezing point and a ground frost in the middle of summer? It's a joke!

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:
Sony XDR-F1HD with Konrad i2c modification

Aerial:
Körner 9.2 @ 5.5 metres agl. QTH is 3 metres asl.

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

Denmark & Norway via Aircraft Scatter

Nice scatter conditions to Scandinavia this morning and not a hint of tropo. 

97.2 Danmarks Radio 2, Rangstrup, via aircraft scatter at 617 km

91.8 NRK Petre, Bjerkreim, via aircraft scatter at 703 km

Wednesday, 27 August 2014

Skegness Log: 27-08-14 (FM)

Band 2 Auroral:
 87.8 1803 NOR NRK P1, Hovdefjell (aa) YL news then Brian Ferry, Lets Stick Together, as web 
               805km **
 88.0 1824 NOR NRK1, Gulen or Bagn Music, as web **


** Personal Skegness 'First' via this mode

I have removed a couple of Dutch stations, 87.9 Omroep Zeeland and 88.0 NPO2, from this log as I originally thought they were received via aurora. Their signals peaked to the NNW, the same direction as the aurora at the time, and sounded very scratchy. There was a definite distinction in directivity with their signals fading away completely between N and E and then returning to their regular scatter. After some studies I am still not 100% certain that they could just have been received 'off the back', so I have removed them from the log.

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:
Sony XDR-F1HD with Konrad i2c modification

Aerial:
Körner 9.2 @ 5.5 metres agl. QTH is 3 metres asl.

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

Tuesday, 26 August 2014

Skegness Log: 26-08-14 (FM)

Band 2 OIRT:
 67.13 1824 RUS Radio Rossii, Sortavala/RTPS (KR) Russian OMs, as web  2025km

Band 2 Sporadic E:
 90.7 0918 ALG Chaîne 1, Aflou (3) YL, as web  2120km
 87.6 0919 ALG Radio Laghouat, Aflou (3) Presume, as 90.7 Chaine 1 received. Arabic/French OM 
               2120km
 88.6 0926  E  IB3 Ràdio, Es Mercadal/El Toro (BAL-MN) E2A0 IB3RADIO  1492km
 87.9 0928  E  RNE Radio Clásica, Bunyola/Alfabia (BAL-ML) Classical, as web  1503km
 88.4 0930 ALG Chaîne 3, Chréa (9) Presumed. French OM  1872km
 87.8 0950  E  Catalunya Música, Calonge/Mas Nou (CAT-GI) Classical music, as web  1275km
 88.1 0952  E  Los 40 Principales, Rocacorba (CAT-GI) E235 40_PRINC  1245km **
 87.6 1636  I  R101, Cagliari/Palazzo Griffa (ca) 5215 _R_101__  1688km
 88.0 1636  I  Radiolina, Sassari/Monte Oro (ss) Normal Greenbaum song, as 88.2  1513km
 88.2 1639  I  Radiolina, Capoterra/Poggio dei Pini (ca) Vocal ID after pops  1689km
 88.6 1639  I  RDS - Radio Dimensione Suono, Tempio Pausania/Monte Limbara (ot)
               5264 *_RDS_*_  1521km
 88.9 1639  I  RAI Radio1, Tempio Pausania/Monte Limbara (RAI) (ot) 5201 __RAI___ _RADIO1_ 
               1521km
 89.4 1640  I  RTL 102.5, Tempio Pausania/Monte Limbara (ot) 5218 RTL102.5  1521km
 87.5 1642  I  Radio Maria, Sant'Antioco/Località Batteria/Monte Cresia (ci) 51CC R.MARIA_ 
               1684km
 93.3 1642  I  Radio Italia Solo Musica Italiana, Teulada/Su Calcinau (ca) 5220 R_IT__IA  1704km
 91.2 1643  F  Virgin Radio, Saint-Tropez/Saint-Peire (83) F219  1186km
 91.8 1644  F  France Inter, Plan-de-la-Tour (83) Vocal ID  1186km **
 93.0 1645  I  Radio 105 Network, Sinnai/Monte Serpeddi (ca) 5211  1678km
 93.3 1645  I  RAI Radio2, Santu Lussurgiu/Punta Badde Urbara (RAI) (or) 5202 __RAI___  1575km
 89.0 1646  I  Radio Otto Nove Classics, Sinnai/Monte Serpeddi (ca) 58BD OTTONOVE  1678km
 90.7 1646  I  RAI Radio1, Sinnai/Monte Serpeddi (RAI) (ca) 5201 __RAI___  1678km
 95.5 1647  I  Radio Sportiva, Sassari/Monte Oro (ss) 5244  1513km
 97.3 1648  I  RAI Radio3, Santu Lussurgiu/Punta Badde Urbara (RAI) (or) 5203 __RAI___  1575km
 99.6 1648  I  R101, Sassari/Monte Oro (ss) 5215 _R_101__  1513km **
101.3 1649  I  Radio Capital, Sassari/Monte Oro (ss) Vocal ID  1513km
103.6 1649  I  Radio Studio One, Sinnai/Monte Serpeddi (ca) 5495  1678km
104.0 1650  I  Radio Studio 2000, Sinnai/Monte Serpeddi (ca) 5499  1678km
 87.7 1651  I  RDS - Radio Dimensione Suono, Santu Lussurgiu/Punta Badde Urbara
               (or) 5264 *_RDS_*_  1576km
107.3 1651  I  Radio Maria, Sinnai/Monte Serpeddi (ca) 51CC ____RI__  1678km
107.6 1651  I  Radio Maria, Capoterra/Poggio dei Pini (ca) OM, as 107.3  1689km **
 87.9 1652  I  R101, Sant'Antioco/Località Batteria/Monte Cresia (ci) 5215  1684km
 92.2 1655 TUN Radio Zitouna FM, Gorraa (bej) Chanting, as web  1976km
 88.0 1656 TUN Radio Zitouna FM, Djebel Zaghouan (zag) Arabic chanting, as others  2016km
 97.8 1656 TUN Radio Zitouna FM, Maktar/Souk Jomaa (kas) Arabic chanting, as web  2039km
 92.7 1658  I  RAI Radio2, Sinnai/Monte Serpeddi (RAI) (ca) Onda Verde programme  1678km
 87.9 1706 ALG Radio Tébessa, Doukhane (12) Phone in, as web  2071km
 87.7 1752 ALG Radio Chlef, Aïn N'sour (48) Back to back Arabic music, as web  1913km
 88.0 1802  E  Megaparty FM, Benitatxell/Puig Llorença (VAL-A) 1000 _Cheryl_ _Cole___
               Megaparty  1605km
 87.8 1804 ALG Chaîne 1, Mecheria (45) Twangy music, as web  2177km
 89.3 1805  E  RNE Radio Nacional, Benicàssim/El Bartolo (VAL-CS) E211 __E_1___  1453km
 89.2 1807  E  Bay Radio, Dénia/La Segària (VAL-A) Phil Collins track, as web  1594km
 87.9 1858  I  Radio Camaldoli Stereo, Ercolano-Vesuvio/Area Osservatorio (na) 5006  1730km
 88.0 1906  I  Radio Capital, Corbara/Hotel Green Park (sa) 5219  1749km
 88.4 1907  I  Radio Globo, Ercolano-Vesuvio/Area Osservatorio (na) 5E29 _GLOBO__  1730km


** Personal Skegness 'First'

Another nice late season opening. It was a bit messy at times with long gaps of nothing, but with lots of little teasers, typical of so many Es openings this summer.

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:
Sony XDR-F1HD with Konrad i2c modification

Aerial:
Körner 9.2 @ 5.5 metres agl. QTH is 3 metres asl.

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

Skegness Log: 26-08-14 (FM)

OIRT Sporadic E:
 67.13 1824 RUS Radio Rossii, Sortavala/RTPS (KR) Russian OMs, as web  2025km

Band 2 Sporadic E:
 90.7 0918 ALG Chaîne 1, Aflou (3) YL, as web  2120km
 87.6 0919 ALG Radio Laghouat, Aflou (3) Presume, as 90.7 Chaine 1 received. Arabic/French OM 
               2120km
 88.6 0926  E  IB3 Ràdio, Es Mercadal/El Toro (BAL-MN) E2A0 IB3RADIO  1492km
 87.9 0928  E  RNE Radio Clásica, Bunyola/Alfabia (BAL-ML) Classical, as web  1503km
 88.4 0930 ALG Chaîne 3, Chréa (9) Presumed. French OM  1872km
 87.8 0950  E  Catalunya Música, Calonge/Mas Nou (CAT-GI) Classical music, as web  1275km
 88.1 0952  E  Los 40 Principales, Rocacorba (CAT-GI) E235 40_PRINC  1245km **
 87.6 1636  I  R101, Cagliari/Palazzo Griffa (ca) 5215 _R_101__  1688km
 88.0 1636  I  Radiolina, Sassari/Monte Oro (ss) Normal Greenbaum song, as 88.2  1513km
 88.2 1639  I  Radiolina, Capoterra/Poggio dei Pini (ca) Vocal ID after pops  1689km
 88.6 1639  I  RDS - Radio Dimensione Suono, Tempio Pausania/Monte Limbara (ot)
               5264 *_RDS_*_  1521km
 88.9 1639  I  RAI Radio1, Tempio Pausania/Monte Limbara (RAI) (ot) 5201 __RAI___ _RADIO1_ 
               1521km
 89.4 1640  I  RTL 102.5, Tempio Pausania/Monte Limbara (ot) 5218 RTL102.5  1521km
 87.5 1642  I  Radio Maria, Sant'Antioco/Località Batteria/Monte Cresia (ci) 51CC R.MARIA_  1684km
 93.3 1642  I  Radio Italia Solo Musica Italiana, Teulada/Su Calcinau (ca) 5220 R_IT__IA 
               1704km
 91.2 1643  F  Virgin Radio, Saint-Tropez/Saint-Peire (83) F219  1186km
 91.8 1644  F  France Inter, Plan-de-la-Tour (83) Vocal ID  1186km **
 93.0 1645  I  Radio 105 Network, Sinnai/Monte Serpeddi (ca) 5211  1678km
 93.3 1645  I  RAI Radio2, Santu Lussurgiu/Punta Badde Urbara (RAI) (or) 5202 __RAI___  1575km
 89.0 1646  I  Radio Otto Nove Classics, Sinnai/Monte Serpeddi (ca) 58BD OTTONOVE  1678km
 90.7 1646  I  RAI Radio1, Sinnai/Monte Serpeddi (RAI) (ca) 5201 __RAI___  1678km
 95.5 1647  I  Radio Sportiva, Sassari/Monte Oro (ss) 5244  1513km
 97.3 1648  I  RAI Radio3, Santu Lussurgiu/Punta Badde Urbara (RAI) (or) 5203 __RAI___  1575km
 99.6 1648  I  R101, Sassari/Monte Oro (ss) 5215 _R_101__  1513km **
101.3 1649  I  Radio Capital, Sassari/Monte Oro (ss) Vocal ID  1513km
103.6 1649  I  Radio Studio One, Sinnai/Monte Serpeddi (ca) 5495  1678km
104.0 1650  I  Radio Studio 2000, Sinnai/Monte Serpeddi (ca) 5499  1678km
 87.7 1651  I  RDS - Radio Dimensione Suono, Santu Lussurgiu/Punta Badde Urbara
               (or) 5264 *_RDS_*_  1576km
107.3 1651  I  Radio Maria, Sinnai/Monte Serpeddi (ca) 51CC ____RI__  1678km
107.6 1651  I  Radio Maria, Capoterra/Poggio dei Pini (ca) OM, as 107.3  1689km **
 87.9 1652  I  R101, Sant'Antioco/Località Batteria/Monte Cresia (ci) 5215  1684km
 92.2 1655 TUN Radio Zitouna FM, Gorraa (bej) Chanting, as web  1976km
 88.0 1656 TUN Radio Zitouna FM, Djebel Zaghouan (zag) Arabic chanting, as others  2016km
 97.8 1656 TUN Radio Zitouna FM, Maktar/Souk Jomaa (kas) Arabic chanting, as web  2039km
 92.7 1658  I  RAI Radio2, Sinnai/Monte Serpeddi (RAI) (ca) Onda Verde programme  1678km
 87.9 1706 ALG Radio Tébessa, Doukhane (12) Phone in, as web  2071km
 87.7 1752 ALG Radio Chlef, Aïn N'sour (48) Back to back Arabic music, as web  1913km
 88.0 1802  E  Megaparty FM, Benitatxell/Puig Llorença (VAL-A) 1000 _Cheryl_ _Cole___
               Megaparty  1605km
 87.8 1804 ALG Chaîne 1, Mecheria (45) Twangy music, as web  2177km
 89.3 1805  E  RNE Radio Nacional, Benicàssim/El Bartolo (VAL-CS) E211 __E_1___  1453km
 89.2 1807  E  Bay Radio, Dénia/La Segària (VAL-A) Phil Collins track, as web  1594km
 87.9 1858  I  Radio Camaldoli Stereo, Ercolano-Vesuvio/Area Osservatorio (na) 5006  1730km
 88.0 1906  I  Radio Capital, Corbara/Hotel Green Park (sa) 5219  1749km
 88.4 1907  I  Radio Globo, Ercolano-Vesuvio/Area Osservatorio (na) 5E29 _GLOBO__  1730km


** Personal Skegness 'First'

Continuing our bizarre Es season. It's been better at either end and mostly rubbish in the middle. Nothing makes sense anymore!

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:
Sony XDR-F1HD with Konrad i2c modification

Aerial:
Körner 9.2 @ 5.5 metres agl. QTH is 3 metres asl.

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