Skegness Log: 25-03-15 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter:
 89.5 0320 CZE Country Radio, Praha/ul. Vinohradská 2396/184 - Stimbuilding (PR) 2337 COUN____  1033km **
 88.6 0425  I  Radio Radicale, Rocca di Papa/Monte Cavo vetta (rm) 5210 RADIO___ ______LE  1568km
 89.1 0425  I  Radio Cusano Campus, Rocca di Papa/Monte Cavo (rm) 508C CU__NO__  1568km **
 90.3 0425  I  Radio Deejay, Rocca di Papa/Monte Cavo (rm) 5214 ______Y_  1568km

** Personal Skegness 'First'

Meteor scatter has generally been very poor over the last few nights. I have been hoping for signals from Scandinavia and have been beaming north-east with the 9,2 vertical. Still, Italy manages to come through. Also some Irish signals came in on one short burst this morning, but nothing identifiable, apart from Newstalk outlets on 107.0, 107.2, 107.4, 107.6 and 107.8. There was no way of working out which sites they were from, but the Irish station on 104.9 was interesting, playing what I presume was an advert for someone located at 7 (27?) Burn Hill or Bird Hill. I wonder who that was.

Videos of today's new ones:

89.5 Country Radio, Praha: http://youtu.be/6Scvtaksdao
89.1 Radio Cusano Campus, Rocca di Papa: http://youtu.be/Mt6x-iZRBEA

Good DX!

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