Skegness Log: 14-08-14 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter:
 89.0 1054 CZE Radio Impuls, Ostrava/Hostálkovice (MO) Jingle ID  1287km

Band 2 General Scatter:
100.5 0911  G  Classic FM, Meldrum (SC-ABS) Classic FM programming in brief Belmont
               power cut  501km **
 95.3 1641  D  YOU FM (hr), Hardberg (hes) Pops, as web  712km
107.3 1642  D  hr4, Heidelstein (Rhön) [bay] (hes) Jeanette song, as web  729km

** Personal Skegness 'First' via the respective mode

This is my rather feeble Perseids effort for 14th, plus a few bits of scatter I had, unexpectedly, because scatter conditions are dire at the moment.

My time for DXing the Perseids today was cut short due to 1: Daughter and family visiting (good!). 2: A radio friend visiting, none other than Ian Kelly and family (also good) and 3: Acquiring a lodger, somewhat unexpectedly (not sure at this point!). So it was a busy day and great to see family and radio friends alike.

Yesterday, I also raised the 9.2 to its maximum height, which is about a meter higher than it ever has been here. I had originally lowered this right down this week due to the strong, gusty winds we've had. I didn't get any real chance to try the 9.2 at its new height though as the winds suddenly returned to their strong gusty levels again. Funny that, the pathetic excuse of a met orifice told us yesterday that we would have a ridge of high pressure settling things down over England. Oh, it was going to be dry too! Being used to their gross inaccuracies we just expected the opposite to happen - which it did! Their corrected forecast for today has dumped the high pressure in favour of a low pressure system (they really didn't see this coming? !!!) adding in gusty winds and thundery downpours. Oh what a total surprise I never saw that one coming! (Sorry, another attack on our useless met orifice is long overdue). I actually thought I might have coined the term "met orifice" but it looks like other's got there first. Some interesting reading here folks!

http://www.mtbbritain.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=12876
https://twitter.com/Metorifice
http://mickysmuses.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/uk-met-orificeand-pacific-sea-level.html
http://angryexile.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/talking-through-the-met-orifice/

Oh, here's one I did a while ago:
http://skegnessdx.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=Met+Orifice

I am beginning to wonder if the met orifice just copy what they read in the daily epxress.

Good DX!

John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) <3m ASL.
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.co.uk
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/g1vvp
Vimeo Channel: https://vimeo.com/skegnessdx

Receivers:
Sony XDR-F1HD with Konrad i2c modification

Aerial:
Körner 9.2 @ 5.5 metres agl. QTH is 3 metres asl.

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