Skegness Log: 14-05-14 (FM)

Band 2 Sporadic E:
 87.6 1740 CZE Radio Impuls, Brno/Kojál (JM) 2203 _IMPULS_  1219km
 88.1 1742 ROU SRR Radio România Actualitati, Petrosani/Parâng (HD) FF00. Presume Petrosani 
               1877km
 89.0 1742 ROU Radio ZU, Bucuresti (BU) E2AA Radio_ZU  2107km
 91.2 1744 ROU Magic FM, Three sites. Probably Alexandria. E210 MAGIC_FM
 87.6 1746 BUL BNR Radio Shumen, Shumen/RRTS Venets (shm) 8236 ___BNR__ _SHUMEN_  2220km
 91.8 1750 ROU SRR Radio România Actualitati, Alexandria (TR) Jingle ID  2091km **
 88.4 1808 MRC MFM Oriental, Taourirt (otl) Vocal ID  2102km
 91.6 1809 MRC Radio Mars, Béni-Mellal/Tazerkounte (tda) ID in ad break  2397km
 92.9 1810 MRC SNRT Chaîne Inter, Béni-Mellal/Tazerkounte (tda) Arabic OM, as web  2397km **
 94.0 1812 MRC Aswat, Béni-Mellal/Tazerkounte (tda) Phone caller, as web  2397km
 89.2 1813 MRC MFM Oriental, Béni-Mellal/Tazerkounte (tda) 1283 __MFM____. Jingle ID too! 
               2397km **
 89.8 1813 MRC SNRT Chaîne Inter, Béni-Mellal/Tazerkounte (tda) French OM talking about
               Morocco  2397km
 90.6 1814 MRC SNRT Al Idaâ Al-Watania, Boumalne-Dadès (smd) Arabic OMs, as web 
               2475km **
 91.1 1816 MRC Médina FM, Tanger (ttn) Phone in, as web  1991km
 91.7 1841 MRC Radio Mars, Tétouan (ttn) Arabic OM, as web  2007km

Band 2 Meteor Scatter:
106.9 1107  D  B5 aktuell, Grünten (Allgäu) or Brotjacklriegel OM ID
 98.7 1308  G  BBC Radio 1, Perhaps Melvaig. Snippet of BBC R1 presenters, as 98.3 **
 87.7 1903  E  Europa FM, Alcalá de Henares (MAD-M) E5ED  1439km **

Band 2 General Scatter:
103.5 0504  D  RPR 1., Ahrweiler/Schöneberg (rlp) ID and pops  553km
106.3 0510  D  SWR4 Rheinland-Pfalz, Bad Marienberg (rlp) SWR4 ID sung in song  592km
107.6 0512  D  big fm (Rheinland-Pfalz), Bornberg (rlp) YL in ads, as web  640km
103.0 0517  D  BFBS Radio, Bielefeld/Hünenburg (nrw) OM ... Call, text or email BFBS  564km
107.3 0538  D  hr4, Heidelstein (Rhön) [bay] (hes) german YL song, as web  729km

** Personal Skegness 'First'

Mixing the propagation modes today!

I have uploaded some more videos to my YouTube channel, demonstrating scatter from stations like HR4, Heidelstein on 107.3.

Good DX!

John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) <3m ASL.
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.co.uk
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOrAbHyPpIflDXo62HWyOiA

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.