Skegness Log: 07-11-15 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter:
 87.9 0357  I  Radio Sportiva, Bologna/Colle Barbiano/Via Santa Liberata (bo)   PI logged: 5244 1256km
 92.8 0357  I  Radio Studio Delta, Cesena/Frazione Borello-Via Luzzena 5366P-Monte Cavallo (fc)  53FB ??udio?? 1328km
 95.2 0414  I  Radio Italia Anni 60, Montegrimano T./Monte San Paolo (pu) Suspected site with 97.3 burbling too  5495 ?????6??  1360km **

** Personal First

I beam towards Denkark and southern Sweden and all I receive is Italy! Oh well.

Very disappointing this morning as hardly any MS activity was detected, plus I ran out of hard drive space again and only got three hours recorded. A bit of file shuffling has now more than doubled my available space up to 850 GB so hopefully more results tomorrow. I will be beaming south-west this time in case the forecast tropo materialises.

Good DX!

John Faulkner
Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) <3m ASL.
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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.