Skegness Log: 30-04-13

Sporadic E:
105.6 0647 HNG MR 1 Kossuth Rádió, Gerecse (KoE) B203 KOSSUTH_ (Unattended)  1418km **
105.6 0650 ROU SRR Radio Resita, Resita/Semenic (CS) FF03 (Unattended)  1801km
 89.3 0732 BIH Radio FBiH, Vlasic (sar) F012 RADIO-F.  1600km **
 91.5 0734 BIH Radio Kalman, Sarajevo/Grdonj (sar) F0F2 KALMAN__  1678km **
 93.6 0735 BIH Big Radio 1, Banja Luka/Krcmarice-Stjepanova glava (srp) F027  1540km **
 88.5 0736 ROU Pro FM, Resita/Semenic (CS) E059  1801km
 88.6 0737 HRV City Radio 88.6, Velika Gorica/Kravarsko (zg) Vocal ID  1410km **
 88.0 0743 POL PR 1, Krosno/Sucha Góra (PK) 3211 POLS_4E_  1530km
 90.7 0744 POL PR 1, Solina/G.Jawor II (PK) Music, as 88.0  1591km
 87.6 0751 SVN Slovenija 1, Mozirje (ce) Radio Slovenia, Pervii Programme ID  1295km **
 89.5 0753 MNE Radio Crne Gore 1, Rosaje/Kacuber (RO) 63C1 ___RCG1_  1851km
 92.4 0759 AUT 01, Several low power sites Vocal ID **
 88.4 0802 SVN Radio 1, Krvavec (lj) 9357 RADIO___ Vocal ID too  1271km **
 96.1 0806 HRV HRT-HR 2, Labinstica or Vinkovci C202
 98.1 0807 HRV HRT-HR 2, Belje/Beli Manastir (os) C202 HRT-HR_2  1552km
 88.9 0811 SRB Radio Index, Beograd/Torlak (Srb) 6288 _INDEX__  1739km **
 90.2 0811 SRB Radio K4 Shqip, Goles (Kos) D101 RADIO_K4  1927km **
 91.2 0813 AUT Ö1, Graz 1/Schöckl (ste) A201   1262km **
 89.2 0814 AUT Hitradio Ö3, Graz 1/Schöckl (ste) A203  1262km
 93.3 0814 HRV HRT-HR 1, Belje/Beli Manastir (os) C201 HRT-HR_1  1552km
 87.7 0816 SRB Radio Novi Sad 1, Iriski Venac (Voj) D2F3  1668km **
 97.0 0820 BIH BH Radio 1, Vlasic (sar) F001  1600km
 97.7 0822 SRB RTK Radio Blue Sky, Goles (Kos) 92C5 _R_T_M__  1927km **
 99.1 0824 BIH BN Radio, Visegrad-Tmor (bpd) F038 _RTV_BN_  1737km **
 92.7 0829 BIH RTRS Radio Republike Srpske, Kozara/Lisina (srp) F042 RTRS-RRS  1511km **
 94.4 0831 BIH Radio Igokea, Kotor Varos/Lipovac (srp) F000 Vocal ID  1559km **
 88.1 0833 HRV HRT Radio Sljeme, Zagreb/Sljeme (zg) C31C R-SLJEME  1382km
 87.8 0835 HRV Radio Zabok, Zabok/Grdenci (kr) C46C _ZABOK__  1371km **
 90.5 0840 MKD Makedonsko Radio 2 (Vtora prog.), Stip/Turtel (EA) 4202  2072km **
 91.8 0845 BIH RTV TK (Tuzlanskog kantona), Srebrenik/Okresanica (tuz) 5100  1624km **

Unidentified:
 87.8 0748  ?  Tentative. Radio Antena Stajerska, Celje?, ? 9961 ANTENA_S 
 87.6 0754 GRC UNID. Presume Greece., ? PI 1201 
 91.6 0803  ?  Radio Fokus, ? D288 RADIO___ FOKUS___
 88.0 0809  ?  Unid, ? ABC News in English
 98.0 0820  ?  Unid, ? PI: 4201
103.0 0825  ?  UNID, ? PI: D069

Meteor Scatter:
105.0 1359 CVA Radio Vaticana 105 Live, Cittá del Vaticano/Palazzina Leone XIII (cva) Long burst of OM on phone, as web stream  1543km

Tropospheric:
 93.8 1048  F  France Musique, Sens/Gisy-les-Nobles (89) Nostalgia, as web stream  577km
 94.6 1050  G  BBC Radio Berkshire, Henley-on-Thames (EN-OXF) Nice peak out of the noise. REM, as web  197km
 94.2 1116  F  France Culture, Nantes/Haute-Goulaine (44) OMs talk, as 98.0  675km
107.7 1125 LUX Den Neie Radio (DNR), Blaschette/Kandel (gld) Pops, as web stream  557km
 88.9 1140 LUX RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg, Dudelange/Ginsterberg (gld) Virtually constant now via scatter. Peaks noise free.  574km
 92.1 1142  F  France Musique, Laval-Evron/Mont Rochard (53) Clasical music, as 92.0  550km
 91.1 1144  F  France Inter, Villers-Cotterêts/Fleury (02) French OM and music, as 103.7  474km
 97.9 1324  F  France Culture, Troyes/les Riceys (10) OM, stronger than 98.0  643km
 89.6 1719  F  France Culture, Villers-Cotterêts/Fleury (02) Nice peak. OM as 98.0  474km
 95.6 1722  F  France Musique, Caen/Mont Pinçon (14) As 88.7. So easy to null Norfolk now!  469km
 88.9 1732 HOL Radio Noord-Holland, Amsterdam/Alticom Toren (nho) OM talking, as web stream  321km
 98.0 1736 HOL Radio Decibel, Amsterdam/Alticom Toren (nho) Dance tunes, as 97.6  321km
104.0 1743 BEL Bel RTL, Bruxelles/The Hotel (bru) OM with high voice, as web stream  378km

** Personal Skegness 'First'

Two hours of E skip this morning (although I was asleep for the first hour) brought in Greece, Bosnia, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Austria, Hungary. Poland, Romania and Serbia! That's eleven countries logged within an hour and we aren't even out of April! What is happening? I'm sure this won't be a sign of things to come, but it's an early and exceptional start to the season. The Es gently grazed the bottom of band 2 again a couple of hours later and continued to make their presence felt further north for some time.

General scatter conditions improved here too during daylight hours with some good signals coming in from northern and central France. The new 9.2 antenna has opened up many frequencies and it's fun discovering what has been uncovered. Germany has also picked up today with a few txs getting over the noise. At the time of writing this (late evening) the band has gone as flat as a very flat pancake!

Good DX!

John, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) Approx. 1m ASL
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Receivers:
Sony XDR-F1HD (tropospheric)
Kenwood KT6040 (sporadic E & meteor scatter)
Icom IC7000 (OIRT)
Conrad RDS Manager

Aerials:
Rooftop Körner 9.2, 8m AGL
Yaesu G-5500 azimuthal/elevation rotator

Software:
RDS Spy v0.99