Skegness Log: 03-05-13

Tropospheric:  93.2 0823 BEL RTBF Classic 21, Bruxelles/Tour des Finances (bru) Oldies, as web  377km
 92.3 0825 BEL RTBF Vivacité, Anderlues/Mont-Sainte-Geneviève (wal-hnt) YL, as 101.8. Peterborough nullable now  409km
 93.2 0825  D  WDR 2, Teutoburger Wald/Bielstein (nrw) Exchanging with Bruxelles  591km
 92.0 0827  D  WDR 5, Münster/Baumberg (nrw) Clear, noise free, as web  494km
 92.8 0848  D  NDR 1 Niedersachsen, Lingen-Damaschke (nds) German OM talk, as web. Over Profondeville  477km
 94.6 0901  D  MDR 1 Radio Sachsen-Anhalt, Brocken (san) OM ID and news  713km
 99.0 0905  D  hr1, Hoher Meißner (hes) ID after news, weather or traffic, pops  684km
 97.3 0909  D  WDR 3, Kleve/Bresserberg (nrw) Separable from LBC with classical music  421km
 95.2 0914  D  MDR Figaro, Sonneberg/Bleßberg (thü) Light pops. Web // Followed for 20 mins. New personal scatter record at 793km **
 91.0 0936  D  hr1, Sackpfeife (Biedenkopf) (hes) Billy Joels "My Life", as web  612km
 88.3 1455  F  France Culture, Laval-Evron/Mont Rochard (53) No QRM from Sutton Coldfield now!  550km
 97.2 1509  F  France Musique, Hirson/Landouzy-la-Ville (02) Sinister sounding organ recital, as 88.7  446km

** Personal Skegness 'First'

It was good while it lasted! My noise returned late afternoon on the 3rd, masking all weak signals once again. OFCOM here I come. It was nice to have a good run up and down the band though to see what could be heard and I made a few notes. During the 'silence' I increased my scatter distance to 793 km with the weak reception of MDR Figaro from Sonneburg consistently fluttering up and down on 95.2 in parallel witht he web audio for 20 minutes.

Listening may be restricted over the weekend while the family are over but I'll try and squeeze in some DXing time.

You have to laugh! Some neighbours on our street have decided that I must be working for the police because of the new antenna on the roof. I've already been down this route some years ago when I was approached by a drug dealer who approached me with a crowbar because he thought the same thing.

Good DX!

John, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) Approx. 1m ASL
skegnessdx.blogspot.co.uk
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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