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Friday, 27 September 2013

Skegness Log: 27-09-13 (FM)

Band 2 Tropospheric:
 87.8 1031  F  France Inter, Paris/Tour Eiffel (75) Phone caller, as 103.7  497km
 89.0 1033  F  RFI Paris, Paris/Tour Eiffel (75) YL, as web  497km
 94.3 1040  F  Radio Orient, Paris/Tour Eiffel (75) Asian music, as web, then ads  497km
 92.1 1042  F  Le Mouv', Paris/Tour Eiffel (75) Scissor Brothers, as web  497km
 96.9 1044  F  Voltage, Paris/Tour Eiffel (75) In the mix, ID and OM  497km **
 97.4 1048  F  Rire et Chansons, Paris/Tour Eiffel (75) Toto song, as web  497km
100.3 1051  F  NRJ, Paris/Tour Eiffel (75) French pops, as web  497km **
102.3 1055  F  Ouï FM, Paris/Tour Eiffel (75) Rock song, as web  497km **
103.1 1057  F  RMC, Paris/Tour Eiffel (75) OM talk, sd web  497km **
103.5 1058  F  Virgin Radio, Paris/Tour Eiffel (75) Pops, as web  497km **
104.3 1059  F  RTL, Paris/Tour Eiffel (75) Presume Paris. OM ID  497km
104.7 1059  F  Europe 1, Paris/Tour Eiffel (75) Paris adverts, ID. TWO bars!  497km **
105.1 1102  F  FIP, Paris/Tour Eiffel (75) Pop song, as web. TWO bars!  497km
105.5 1103  F  France Info, Paris/Tour Eiffel (75) As 105.2  497km
105.9 1104  F  RTL 2, Paris/Tour Eiffel (75) Rock song, jingle ID  497km
107.1 1106  F  France Bleu 107.1, Paris/Tour Eiffel (75) Weather, as web  497km
107.5 1107  F  Africa No.1, Paris/Fort de Romainville (93) African French OM and phone in, as web  496km **
 90.4 1109  F  Nostalgie, Paris/Tour Eiffel (75) Nostalgie jingle, v weak  497km **
101.1 1111  F  Radio Classique, Paris/Tour Eiffel (75) Violin concerto, as web  497km **
101.9 1120  F  Fun Radio, Paris/Tour Eiffel (75) Brief appearance. Ad break, as web  497km **
 88.2 1126  F  Générations, Bagnolet(Paris)/Tour Mercuriales Ouest (93) Blurred Lines song,
               as web  498km **
 92.8 1129  F  Music Box, Pontoise/Vaux-sur-Seine (95) Country style song, as web  475km
 93.3 1130  F  France Culture, Beaumont-sur-Oise/les Sablons (95) OM  YL, as 98.0  466km **
 87.6 1133  F  France Inter, Beaumont-sur-Oise/les Sablons (95) Tentative. V difficult xf RTL  Nostalgie.
               Deep voiced OM, as web. V difficult copy  466km **
 95.4 1536  F  RTL, Fécamp/les Plantis (76) Adverts, as web  377km **
 98.0 1604  F  ID FM, Paris-Nord/Sannois (95) French rap, as web. xf unid English, not
               BBC Three Counties  484km **
 99.2 1614  F  Chérie FM, Abbeville/Huchenneville (80) Jingle ID between songs  359km **
105.1 1631  F  Résonance, Fécamp/les Plantis (76) OMs lively discussion, then pop music, as web  377km **
106.0 1637  F  RTL, Montargis/Pannes (45) OM serious discussion, as web  595km **
 89.2 1646  F  NRJ, Fécamp/les Plantis (76) Club beats and accordeon, as web  377km **
 89.8 1648  F  Canal FM Sambre Avesnois, Avesnes-sur-Helpe/Pont-sur-Sambre (59) Accordeon music and
               French YL, as web  405km **
 88.9 1655  F  Contact, Noyon/Maison Rouge (60) Dance songs and jingle ID  456km **
101.5 1754  G  Radio Plus, Coventry/Mercia House (EN-WMD) Pops and ID. V difficult under
               Tacolneston  148km **
102.5 1801  G  Galaxy, London pirate Soulful oldies, as web **
 87.7 1819  F  France Bleu Nord, Valenciennes/Château d'eau (59) OMs and YL discussion, as web.
               Briefly over RTL  381km **
 87.9 1821  F  Fun Radio, Yvetot-Autretot/le Bout du Haut (76) ID in adverts  389km
104.1 1935  F  RTL, Abbeville-Mareuil 2 (80) OMs conversation and ID  356km **
107.5 2110  G  Sovereign Radio, Eastbourne/Butts Brow (EN-ESU) Jingle ID and pops  262km


** Personal Skegness 'First'


WHAT IS HAPPENING? The tropo season got underway with a BANG here on Monday (23rd) but it keeps on going! I never expected any of this today!

Today's opening began with the Reims transmitter in NE France blasting through with its national TDF outlets on 89.2, 97.8 and 98.8 during the late morning, so I flipped the 9.2 into vertical, expecting to hear local networks from Reims, but heard Paris stations instead - in excess of 20 of them! Some  of them were hitting two bars on the XDR-F1HD. After a necessary trip into town I returned to find conditions had fallen away a little, but they began to recover by the early evening - the same time we had some friends round. They didn't leave until 1am so I missed virtually all of the evening's tropo conditions. Grrrrr!

At the time of compiling this report (2am) I have Lille locals slamming through with THREE bars and instant RDS! I need to get some sleep at some point. When? :O)


Recordings:

105.1 unid 1937 27-09-13
https://app.box.com/s/137ft39m47kv9lcfzn7g

101.5 Radio Plus, Coventry 1753 27-09-13
https://app.box.com/s/z4ysmbj9a0bs9arc8pib

95.5 BBC Somerset, Mendip 1718 27-09-13
https://app.box.com/s/vb4zaxet9mu92m4t3xev

95.4 RTL, Fecamp 1713 27-09-13
https://app.box.com/s/l68iwov1rsmh0l0h0cic

88.9 Contact, Noyon 1656 27-09-13
https://app.box.com/s/enh1xifcmdc0ojk1ehyl

89.8 Canal Sambre, Avesnes 1645 27-09-13
https://app.box.com/s/dfcula0p4uzc8g4mxvqd

105.1 FIP, Paris 1641 27-09-13
https://app.box.com/s/glsdk8wsptfcq374l0gg

99.2 Cherie FM, Abbeville 1613 27-09-13
https://app.box.com/s/z548twyc3qp7m048vo17

107.1 France Bleu 107.1, Paris 1135 27-09-13
https://app.box.com/s/zab2arbjdfs1pf7hkas8

101.9 Fun Radio, Paris 1129 27-09-13
https://app.box.com/s/8qopk4piclawgqmno87v

101.1 Radio Classique, Paris 1109 27-09-13
https://app.box.com/s/cnusfa79210cn29qhmo4

90.4 Nostalgie, Paris 1108 27-09-13
https://app.box.com/s/6ezf7j909kfc3nsb3in6

105.9 RTL2, Paris 1103 27-09-13
https://app.box.com/s/kj71ymg3j8g7fj5mjulg

104.7 Europe 1, Paris 1100 27-09-13
https://app.box.com/s/ubbatsx64eqaa3dktsw3

96.9 Voltage, Paris 1044 27-09-13
https://app.box.com/s/vtla0mtaqtf2g8li68du


One final piece of news which will be of interest to those looking for free clud storage, I discovered yesterday that box.net now give you 10GB storage as standard to free account holders. That's quite amazing! They don't seem to mind you having more than one account either - I have been running two for several years now.


Good DX!

John, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1.7m (5'9") ASL.
Website: skegnessdx.blogspot.co.uk

Personal All Time VHF Logbooks: https://sites.google.com/site/skegnessdx/vhf-band-2-logs
VHF Band 2 DX Recordings: https://sites.google.com/site/skegnessdx/skegness-vhf-band-2-fm-dx-recordings

Receivers:
Sony XDR-F1HD (tropospheric)
Kenwood KT6040 (sporadic E & meteor scatter)
Icom IC7000 (OIRT)
Conrad RDS Manager

Aerials:
Rooftop Körner 9.2, 8m AGL www.box.com/s/h1a5z3bu94vppln3zsfn
Yaesu G-5500 azimuthal/elevation rotator

Software:
RDS Spy v1.00r2 www.rdsspy.com

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