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Monday, 12 May 2014

Skegness Log: 11-05-14 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter:
 87.6 1141 CZE Radio Impuls, Brno/Kojál (JM) 2203  1219km

Band 2 Tropospheric/Scatter:
 89.7 2001  D  WDR 3, Münster/Baumberg (nrw) Screechy classical, as web, over a nulled
               Tacolneston  493km


Continuing with my mission to reduce all Belmont outlets to nothing, I removed Lincs FM almost completely today. This was the most difficult one to remove. A bit of playing around with the direction and polarisation of the 9.2 did the trick, but the beamwidth of the null was extremely tight. It was interesting to hear the signal from Lincs FM fading in and out on aircraft scatter. We live only a couple of miles from a local airfield and I suspect it's the local planes which are causing this effect as much as the high altitude passenger planes. I even observed the signal flutter in and out rather abruptly as a pigeon (or duck?) flew past the antenna!

I recorded meteor scatter on 102.2 but none of it was in parallel with any of the web streams I recorded. It was the same with the meteor scatter I recorded on 88.8 yesterday.

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.

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