Skegness Log: 25-12-13 (FM)

Band 2 Scatter:
 96.1 0723 BEL RTBF La Première, Wavre (wal-bra) French OM alternating with BBC Solent  397km
 99.1 0725 BEL RTBF Classic 21, Anderlues/Mont-Sainte-Geneviève (wal-hnt) Gerry Rafferty. Noise free peak. 33dB  409km
103.0 0742  D  BFBS Radio, Bielefeld/Hünenburg (nrw) OM Christmas sermon, as web  565km
100.4 0743  D  WDR 2, Bonn/Venusberg (nrw) Enya track, as web. Briefly noise free  538km
 98.1 0750  D  WDR 3, Nordhelle (nrw) Stable peak. Almost noise free  554km
100.0 0751  D  WDR 4, Münster/Baumberg (nrw) Vocal ID, Rod Stewart Christmas song  494km
103.8 0751  D  WDR 4, Nordhelle (nrw) Stable peak. Almost noise free. As Langenberg 101.3  554km
101.7 0752  D  WDR 4, Kleve/Bresserberg (nrw) Nice peak. Stable-ish, as 100.0. 30dB  421km
101.0 0754  D  WDR 2, Bärbelkreuz (Eifel) (nrw) Christmas song, as web. 28dB  520km
 87.7 0815 HOL Radio 10, Lelystad/Alticom Toren (fle) Still getting through on the horizontal this morning  351km
 87.9 0816 HOL Omroep Zeeland, Goes/Alticom Toren (zee) Still getting through on the horizontal this morning  303km
 97.8 0817 HOL Radio 2, Westdorpe/Verkavelingsweg (zee) Still getting through on the horizontal this morning  323km
 98.7 0821  D  AFN Wiesbaden-The Eagle, Großer Feldberg (Taunus)/hr (hes) Down in the noise  648km
 98.8 0830  F  France Culture, Reims/TDF Hautvillers (51) Suddenly up to 30dB then squashed by Wrotham  516km
 91.8 1616  F  France Musique, Bourges/Neuvy (18) Classical music, as 88.7  672km

Some early morning scatter.

Good DX!

John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) <2m ASL.

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

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