Skegness Log: 10-05-14 (FM)

OIRT Band Sporadic E:
 67.82 1556 UKR Svitle radio Emmanuyil, L'viv/LFKRRT, Vysokyy zamok, 9 (LV) Gregorian chant
                and OM, as web  1674km
 68.99 1556 UKR UR 2 Radio Promin', L'viv/LFKRRT, Vysokyy zamok, 9 (LV) Music, as web  1674km
 67.04 1557 UKR UR 1 Persha Prog., L'viv/LFKRRT, Vysokyy zamok, 9 (LV) Presumed Lviv but
                not UR1 anymore  1674km
 66.59 1653 UKR UR 1 Persha Prog., Horishnya Vyhanka/TFKRRT, vul. Televizijna (TE) Local
                music, as web  1826km **

Band 2 Sporadic E:
 87.6 1544 SVN Radio MMR, Pecarovci (ms) 9456  1334km
 87.6 1544 HRV Podravski Radio, Durdevac/Micetinac-Veliki Kostanj (kc) C440 PO__RADIO  1436km
 87.6 1545 SRB Bum Radio, Kraljevo (Srb) 8000  1821km

Band 2 Meteor Scatter:
102.3 1325  D  BR Klassik, Wendelstein or Ochsenkopf OM and piano music, as web **

Band 2 Tropospheric/Scatter:
 94.6 0748  D  MDR 1 Radio Sachsen-Anhalt, Brocken (san) ID between pops  712km
 92.1 0753  D  NDR 2, Torfhaus (Harz-West) (nds) ID between pops  707km
 89.4 1519  D  NE-WS 89,4, Düsseldorf/Rheinturm (nrw) Brief but noise free peak. Pops,
               as web  488km

** Personal Skegness 'First' via the mode

Sporadic E Notes:
More teasing Es today! I first noticed some wonderful Gypsy music on 88.7. I thought it was France Musique at first until I checked their stream. Then I realised that the bottom of the band had opened. It seems the Es had reached up to 102.3 at one point, sadly while I was in town. I had left the XDR recording meteor scatter there.

The OIRT band had a few signals too. I heard several stations I could not trace to begin with. I first wondered if double hop was involved as I could not find any web parallels to the DX, but I quickly realised that the stations were probably old familiar Ukraine transmitters which are now carrying Russian services.

Meteor Scatter Notes:
I tried to null all my Belmont frequencies this afternoon, in the hope that I might reduce their signals enough to allow meteor scatter to override them. I heard several meteor bursts over 88.8. It is my ambition to identify meteor scatter on every frequency across band 2. So far I am up around 110 frequencies so there is still a long way to go. This may be a little too ambitious, but I managed to get all Belmont frequencies down below 20dB this afternoon, with the exception of Lincs FM on 102.2 which I could only reduce to 30dB. Belmonts on 90.9 and 93.1 were relatively easy to reduce. I didn't try 98.3, which was almost 100% nullable at the last QTH, or 100.5. 94.9 has already produced Bourges on meteor scatter.

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.