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Saturday, 24 May 2014

Skegness Log: 24-05-14 (FM)

Band 2 Sporadic E:
 88.1 1800 ALG Radio Batna, Metlili (5) Top of the hour ID  2033km
 91.2 1807 ALG Radio Biskra, Metlili (5) Arabic YL singer, as web  2033km
 94.4 1808 ALG Chaîne 1, Metlili (5) Arabic OM over music, as web  2033km
 87.7 1818 ALG Radio Bouira, Zouggara (35) Tragic sounding Arabic song, as web  1856km **
 91.1 1826 ALG Radio Djelfa, Sbaa Mokrane (17) YL Arabic song, as web  2081km
 87.7 1827  I  R Venere, Lecce or Specchia Vocal ID
 87.9 1836  I  R101, Cammarata/Monte Cammarata (ag) 5215 _R_101__  2007km
 91.1 1836  I  RAI Radio1, Cammarata/Monte Cammarata (RAI) (ag) 5201 __RAI___ _RADIO1_  2007km
 88.0 1841  I  Radio 105 Network, Alcamo/Monte Bonifato (tp) 5211 _105_FM_  1949km
 87.6 1844  I  Virgin Radio, Monte Erice vetta/Piana delle Forche (tp) Web address heard  1927km
 88.4 1845  I  RAI Radio1, Monte Erice vetta/Piana delle Forche (tp) 5201  1927km **
 90.2 1846 ALG Chaîne 1, Dirah (10) Arabic OM  YL, as web  1915km
 92.1 1848 ALG Radio Ouargla, Ouargla (30) Presume with Arabic phone in  2392km
 92.6 1849 ALG Chaîne 1, approx. 50km east of Algiers Arabic stuff, as web  1843km
 90.0 1851 LBY Sama FM, Unknown transmitter. D311 Arabic music and pops
 87.6 1853 ALG Radio Laghouat, Aflou (3) Arabic OM, as web  2120km
 87.8 1854 ALG Chaîne 1, Mecheria (45) Football commentary, as web  2177km
 97.4 1855 ALG Chaîne 3, Mecheria (45) Lively Arabic pops, as web  2177km
 88.4 1902 ALG Chaîne 3, Chréa (9) Prayer, ID and YL news, as web  1872km
 88.0 1913  E  Megaparty FM, Benitatxell/Puig Llorença (VAL-A) Megaparty Jingle ID between
               pops  1605km **
 90.7 1914 ALG Chaîne 1, Aflou (3) Arabic OMs, as web  2120km
 93.9 1916 ALG Chaîne 2, Aflou (3) Arabic pops, as web  2120km


** Personal Skegness 'First'

A slow, teasing and slightly disappointing opening, but still nice to have some Es. It was one of those opening which felt like it took a long time to hear very little.

My logging of an unidentified Arabic station on 90.0 is interesting. The PI code, D311, was correct, according to the software - in other words there was no question mark next to it, so error checking would have been done. I received a suggestion that this might be Libya. Is "D" their prefix? I cannot find the RDS Country Code List which used to be available on the internet. It seems there are a few Libyans using RDS now.

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

Aerial:
Körner 9.2, 5.5 metres above the ground. QTH is 3 metres above sea level

Rotator:
Yaesu G-5500 azimuth & elevation rotator, allowing antenna to be vertical or horizontal, etc.

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