Skegness Log: 24-02-15 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter:
 87.8 0314  E  Rock FM, León (CAL-LE) E2CF ______F_  1250km **
 88.2 0344  E  RNE Radio 3, Boal/Pico Penouta (AST-O) E213 RN______  1199km **
 87.6 0407  E  esRadio, Santiago de Compostela (GAL-C) E287   1315km
 90.6 0407  E  Los 40 Principales, Santiago de Compostela (GAL-C) E235  1321km

** Personal 'First'

A vertically polarised westerly 9.2 this morning!

An observation which may be of interest: The first meteor burst I noted this morning, at 0314, lasted four seconds and more than 20 stations, all of them Spanish I believe, came in solidly across the lower quarter of the band. Judging by their strength, each one of these stations *should* have produced RDS, but none did - all except for one station which looked far too weak for RDS, yet DID! The next burst at 0344 lasted roughly twice that length, with lots of good level signals, yet only one of them, which happened to be the weakest signal, delivered the goods. That's how it often is with meteor scatter.

Unfortunately, I forgot to delete yesterday's meteor scatter recordings from my hard drive (that's the sixth time I have forgotten this in two weeks. You think I'd learn!) and so I only grabbed one recording. It seems conditions were much better too so I wonder what other goodies might have been forthcoming.

A late evening 90 minute session with the 9,2 horizontally beaming north-north-west produced no meteor scatter at all.

Good DX!

John Faulkner
Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) <3m ASL.
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Receiver:
Elad FDM-S2

Aerials:
Körner 9.2 @ 5.5 metres agl. QTH is 3 metres asl.
Triax FM3, one metre above the ground as a phasing antenna.
Fringe Electronics 20dB & Labgear 30dB band 2 pre-amps.
HS Publications Antenna Phaser.

Software:
Elad FDM-SW2, SDR Console & RDS Spy via VAC.

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