Skegness Log: 06-09-15 (FM)

Band 2 Troposhperic:
 95.6 1148 IRL South East Radio, Mount Leinster (CW) Ads, OM and Annies Song song.
               As web  480km
105.2 1201 IRL TXFM, Three Rock Mountain (D) Irish accented YL news.
               Checked web stream and 100% //  437km
100.3 1205 IRL Nova 100, Three Rock Mountain (D) Ad break, as web  437km
 92.6 1210 IRL RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, Truskmore (SO) Gaelic OM, as 94.0  587km
 87.5 1250  G  Merseyland Alternative Radio, Somewhere in Merseyland!
               Samantha Sang dirge, as web **
 96.1 1331  G  BBC Radio Cumbria, Morecambe Bay (EN-CUM)
               Ambleside traffic news. ID  258km

** Personal 'First'

Quite a poor tropo to the west and Ireland this morning with only weak signals. Kippure (not logged above) was the exception with noise-free signals on 98.7, Lyric FM and on 100.9, Today FM. Neither were quite strong enough for RDS.

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:
Elad FDM-S2 (Meteor Scatter and sporadic E)
Sony XDR-F1HD with Konrad i2c mod. (Tropo/Scatter)

Aerials:
Körner 9.2 @ 5.5 metres agl. QTH is approximately 3 metres asl, 1km from the sea.
Fringe Electronics 20dB pre-amp.

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.