Skegness Log: 12-03-15 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter:
 89.0 0231  I  Radio Classica Bresciana, Brescia/Colle Vedetta-via Buttafuoco (bs)
               53FE and classical music  1108km
 89.9 0308 POL PR 2, Zielona Góra/Jemiolów (LU) 3222  1008km
 94.7 0413 HOL NPO Radio 4, Rotterdam/Alticom Toren (Waalhaven) (zho) 8204  313km **
105.0 0732 LTU LRT Klasika, Truikiai/LRTC Plungės RRS  (Plu) C322 __Ryto__  1418km **

** Personal 'First'

Not a lot heard this morning. The antenna was vertical and pointing north-north-west, so maybe that's why. Yesterday I only saw one single meteor burst in the seven hour recording period, which was too low for RDS. But yesterday I was beamed vertical to the north-west.

Some short MS this morning too with Rotterdam getting through on 94.7. I'm pretty sure that was Radio Decibel too on 97.6, also Rotterdam, but it didn't produce RDS. It was definitely MS as there wasn't a trace of it either side of the burst with the antenna almost to the north and vertical.

Back to the east tomorrow!

Good DX!

John Faulkner
Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) <3m ASL.
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Receivers:
Elad FDM-S2 (Meteor Scatter)
Sony XDR-F1HD with Konrad i2c mod. (Tropo/Scatter)

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 File Analyser & RDS Spy via VAC.
XDR-GTK v0.3.1 for the Sony XDR-F1HD

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