Skegness Log: 27-02-14 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter:
 96.1 0047 ROU SRR Radio România Cultural, Oradea=Nagyvárad (BH) Clarinet piece, as web.
               Two second burst  1677km **
 96.1 0050 SVN Slovenija 3, Beli Kris (kp) Piano concerto, as web. Two second burst  1278km **
 96.1 0054  F  France Culture, Bayonne/la Rhune (64) Probably Bayonne. French YL,
               as web. Three second burst  1104km **
 96.1 0124  D  SR 3 Saarlandwelle, Moseltal (Perl) (saa) German pop song, as web.
               Three second burst  588km **
 96.1 0847  D  Bayern 2, Hühnerberg (bay) Not on nachtservice. YL over classical music,
               as web. Ten second burst.  871km **

** Personal Skegness 'First'

It was 96.1 tonight. Radio Romania Cultural from Oradea at 1677 km was the most consistent MS station by a long way, featuring several times each hour.

The internet dropped as per usual, this time around 0300. I spoke to Sky about this and they explained that they are still conducting line tests and will be doing so every night into early March so they can find the optimum speed for this connection. Tests are usually conducted around 02:00 and I have been told that they do drop the line at this time.

Good DX!

John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) <3m ASL.
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.co.uk

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

Aerial:
Triax FM5, four meters AGL, currently fixed horizontally to the south-east.