Skegness Log: 26-04-14 (FM)

Band 2 Sporadic E: 26-04-14:
 88.0 1012  E  Radio Nervión, Bilbao=Bilbo/Ganeta (PVA-BI) E343 RN______  1130km
 88.0 1020  E  RNE Radio 5 Todo Noticias, Unid site Flute music and Spanish OM, as web
 87.7 1030  E  Hit FM, Jerez de la Frontera/San Cristóbal (AND-CA) E200 HI__FM__  1904km

Band 2 General Scatter: 26-04-14:
 88.0 0941  F  France Culture, Alençon/Mont d'Amain (61) French OM and YL, as 98.0  498km
 89.4 0942  F  France Musique, Brest/Roc Trédudon (29) French OM and YL, as 88.7  604km
 95.3 0944  F  France Inter, Troyes/les Riceys (10) Very weak but music as 103.7  643km
 89.9 0952  F  France Musique, Rennes/Saint-Pern (35) OM, as 88.7  564km
 89.0 1025  F  France Culture, Le Mans/Mayet (72) OMs, as 98.0  599km
107.1 1236  D  SWR4 Rheinland-Pfalz, Haardtkopf (rlp) German song, as web  593km

The first Es of the season and some aircraft scatter to northern France at last.

Brocken and Torfhaus were quite stable late in the evening with slow and steady fades. This was either tropo or troposcatter.

I decided to leave the meteor scatter DXing alone for a few days as I am sure the amount of web stream recording I have done over the last few weeks will have taken this month's bandwidth well over the 500GB mark!!

Good DX!

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

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

Aerial:
Körner 9.2 at 5.5 metres AGL. Yaesu G-5500 elevation/azimuth rotator.