1270 0400 USA WTSN, Dover (NH) Two IDs on the hour by YL Weak 5168 km **
1140 0459 CUB CMIP Radio Surco, Morón (ca) CMAP call letters and Radio Surco ID Weak 7333 km
1440 0559 USA WHKZ, Warren (OH) Mentioning WHKZ Warren and The Word Weak 5940 km
** Personal First
Good DX!
John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1m ASL
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.com
Receiver: Elad FDM-S2 SDR Receiver
Antenna: Movable 10ft x 25ft flag (home) Various Beverage antennas 'on location' in rural Lincolnshire.
Monday, 29 February 2016
Sunday, 28 February 2016
Skegness Log: 2016-02-28 (MW)
1350 0435 MEX XEQK-AM Tropicalísima 1350, México D.F/San Lorenzo Tezonco (dif) Tropicalisma
ID heard with lively tropical music. Briefly rising up to match Kingstown
Radio Weak 8904 km **
1640 0600 USA WTNI Biloxi (Gulfport) (MS) WTNI ID in noise Weak 7294 km
1470 0627 MEX XEAI-AM Radio Fórmula 3, México D.F/Granjas Esmeralda (dif) Radio
Fórmula catorce setenta ID Fair 8904 km
1410 0629 MEX XEBS-AM La Más Perrona, México D.F/Iztacalco (dif) La Más Perrona ID Fair
8901 km
1380 0630 MEX XECO-AM Romántica 1380, México D.F/Barrio Zapotla (dif) Clear ID on good
signal peak Fair 8900 km
1650 0637 MEX XEAZR-AM ZER Radio 1650, México D.F. (dif) Zer Radio spoken ID by YL and
OM, then George Michael's Careless Whisper Fair 8898 km
1270 0638 MEX XERPL-AM La Poderosa, León (gua) IDs noted at 06:38:12 and 06:41:33
Weak 8910 km **
1590 0642 MEX XEVOZ-AM La Mexicana, Los Reyes Ac
** Personal First
Another good Mexican morning.
Good DX!
John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1m ASL
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.com
Receiver: Elad FDM-S2 SDR Receiver
Antenna: Movable 10ft x 25ft flag (home) Various Beverage antennas 'on location' in rural Lincolnshire.
ID heard with lively tropical music. Briefly rising up to match Kingstown
Radio Weak 8904 km **
1640 0600 USA WTNI Biloxi (Gulfport) (MS) WTNI ID in noise Weak 7294 km
1470 0627 MEX XEAI-AM Radio Fórmula 3, México D.F/Granjas Esmeralda (dif) Radio
Fórmula catorce setenta ID Fair 8904 km
1410 0629 MEX XEBS-AM La Más Perrona, México D.F/Iztacalco (dif) La Más Perrona ID Fair
8901 km
1380 0630 MEX XECO-AM Romántica 1380, México D.F/Barrio Zapotla (dif) Clear ID on good
signal peak Fair 8900 km
1650 0637 MEX XEAZR-AM ZER Radio 1650, México D.F. (dif) Zer Radio spoken ID by YL and
OM, then George Michael's Careless Whisper Fair 8898 km
1270 0638 MEX XERPL-AM La Poderosa, León (gua) IDs noted at 06:38:12 and 06:41:33
Weak 8910 km **
1590 0642 MEX XEVOZ-AM La Mexicana, Los Reyes Ac
** Personal First
Another good Mexican morning.
Good DX!
John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1m ASL
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.com
Receiver: Elad FDM-S2 SDR Receiver
Antenna: Movable 10ft x 25ft flag (home) Various Beverage antennas 'on location' in rural Lincolnshire.
Thursday, 25 February 2016
Migration To New Hosts
After much disappointment concerning the reliability of my current hosting company, Dataflame, I am just about to start on the process of migration to the new hosting company.
Decision who to move to has not been an easy decision as no one single company ticks all the proverbial boxes. I was tempted to look for something 'cheap and cheerful' as I have often heard it said that all the hosting companies are just about as bad as each other. So why pay a lot? But, after analysing several different hosting packages, it seems that they all work out at roughly the same prices anyway.
But it's always about the luck of the draw. Some people use a company for years and don't have a single problem, while somebody else uses the same company and experiences many problems.
Since the main concern is that the company I use should be 'reliable', I decided in the end to go for a major player who, in theory, should be 'big enough to deliver'. So I now start the task of leaving Dataflame, getting everything unlocked and hopefully back online with my new hosting company, 1&1 Internet, within 24 hours. Am I being optimistic? Probably. Let's see.
So all my emails and both websites will be offline for a short period. It's possible that a few emails might get lost in the process, however, any stray emails should be re-presented to me over the next two to three days after the the new hosting takes effect.
Thanks to those on the Skywaves Group who gave me hosting suggestions. I didn't take up any of the suggested companies and, in fact, chose to go with the one company which I was advised NOT to move to ... 1&1 Internet. About ten years ago, I used to manage a website for a company who had their website on 1&1 Internet's servers and I was always impressed by their reliability and connection speeds. Hopefully I will enjoy the same reliable service today.
2016-02-27 01:10 Edit:
Yesterday afternoon, a 1&1 Internet operator in the Philippines told me that the migration from Dataflame's servers to 1&1's had begun and advised that I should now wait for a few hours for migration to take effect.
I understand a little about how migration works and how it takes time for domains to spread around the WWW. I've been here twice before, so I can remember that much.
However, some seven hours after being told that the migration from Dataflame's servers had already begun (and all my emails suddenly stopped working), I am receiving email from Dataflame's servers once again. Something has clearly gone wrong. I am wondering if 1&1 have passed me back to Dataflame, lol. "Not that John Faulkner, send him back, QUICK!" :O)
Did I really expect this migration to go that smoothly? Of course not!
So more phone calls tomorrow. And this comes the day after eBay delete 161 of my shop listings! So it's 'business as usual' in the Faulkner household.
You really couldn't make this up!
2016-02-28 13:25
... and several hours later, more telephone calls to 1&1 confirmed my suspicions, that no transfers had taken place at all!
Today's problem was that I had to make further payments in order for the transfers to take place. 1&1 were trying to charge me for an extra domain - the one which is included free of charge for the first year. I can only assume this was the reason for the hold-ups. The Philippino operator insisted I had to pay for both domains. I told her she was wrong but she wouldn't listen.
Then I telephoned Sales in the USA where the operator conformed that the first domain was free. So it was back to the Philippines and, as luck would have it, I got through to the same Philippino operator who had changed her mind and agreed that the first domain was free, therefore she would now initiate the transfers and take care of the nameservers, etc.
Christ on a fucking bike! How complicated is this?
An hour later and, still, everything points to Dataflame. Another entry for my Daily Shit page!
2016-02-28 13:55
At last, something is happening. Both domains are now showing in my 1&1 account and I have been able to test email on one account. That one is working at least. My G1VVP account is still stuck with Dataflame - and this one was transferred first - supposedly. I don't think so!
Just over 24 hours from initiating the transfers and only the second one has fully transferred. So it's yet another phone call to the operator in the Philippines.
2016-02-28 20:55
Finally, it's all working. Not sure why it took quite this long but it could have been much worse. Minor cock-ups on the part of 1%1 and Dataflame behaved.
Admittedly, these have only been minor problems, but I can't say it has been a great start with 1&1. I can only hope that my new hosting lives up to 1&1's 'uptime' figures, which were 99.98% last week.
Decision who to move to has not been an easy decision as no one single company ticks all the proverbial boxes. I was tempted to look for something 'cheap and cheerful' as I have often heard it said that all the hosting companies are just about as bad as each other. So why pay a lot? But, after analysing several different hosting packages, it seems that they all work out at roughly the same prices anyway.
But it's always about the luck of the draw. Some people use a company for years and don't have a single problem, while somebody else uses the same company and experiences many problems.
Since the main concern is that the company I use should be 'reliable', I decided in the end to go for a major player who, in theory, should be 'big enough to deliver'. So I now start the task of leaving Dataflame, getting everything unlocked and hopefully back online with my new hosting company, 1&1 Internet, within 24 hours. Am I being optimistic? Probably. Let's see.
So all my emails and both websites will be offline for a short period. It's possible that a few emails might get lost in the process, however, any stray emails should be re-presented to me over the next two to three days after the the new hosting takes effect.
Thanks to those on the Skywaves Group who gave me hosting suggestions. I didn't take up any of the suggested companies and, in fact, chose to go with the one company which I was advised NOT to move to ... 1&1 Internet. About ten years ago, I used to manage a website for a company who had their website on 1&1 Internet's servers and I was always impressed by their reliability and connection speeds. Hopefully I will enjoy the same reliable service today.
2016-02-27 01:10 Edit:
Yesterday afternoon, a 1&1 Internet operator in the Philippines told me that the migration from Dataflame's servers to 1&1's had begun and advised that I should now wait for a few hours for migration to take effect.
I understand a little about how migration works and how it takes time for domains to spread around the WWW. I've been here twice before, so I can remember that much.
However, some seven hours after being told that the migration from Dataflame's servers had already begun (and all my emails suddenly stopped working), I am receiving email from Dataflame's servers once again. Something has clearly gone wrong. I am wondering if 1&1 have passed me back to Dataflame, lol. "Not that John Faulkner, send him back, QUICK!" :O)
Did I really expect this migration to go that smoothly? Of course not!
So more phone calls tomorrow. And this comes the day after eBay delete 161 of my shop listings! So it's 'business as usual' in the Faulkner household.
You really couldn't make this up!
2016-02-28 13:25
... and several hours later, more telephone calls to 1&1 confirmed my suspicions, that no transfers had taken place at all!
Today's problem was that I had to make further payments in order for the transfers to take place. 1&1 were trying to charge me for an extra domain - the one which is included free of charge for the first year. I can only assume this was the reason for the hold-ups. The Philippino operator insisted I had to pay for both domains. I told her she was wrong but she wouldn't listen.
Then I telephoned Sales in the USA where the operator conformed that the first domain was free. So it was back to the Philippines and, as luck would have it, I got through to the same Philippino operator who had changed her mind and agreed that the first domain was free, therefore she would now initiate the transfers and take care of the nameservers, etc.
Christ on a fucking bike! How complicated is this?
An hour later and, still, everything points to Dataflame. Another entry for my Daily Shit page!
2016-02-28 13:55
At last, something is happening. Both domains are now showing in my 1&1 account and I have been able to test email on one account. That one is working at least. My G1VVP account is still stuck with Dataflame - and this one was transferred first - supposedly. I don't think so!
Just over 24 hours from initiating the transfers and only the second one has fully transferred. So it's yet another phone call to the operator in the Philippines.
2016-02-28 20:55
Finally, it's all working. Not sure why it took quite this long but it could have been much worse. Minor cock-ups on the part of 1%1 and Dataflame behaved.
Admittedly, these have only been minor problems, but I can't say it has been a great start with 1&1. I can only hope that my new hosting lives up to 1&1's 'uptime' figures, which were 99.98% last week.
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Skegness Log: 2016-02-23 (MW)
972 1700 KOR HLCA KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1, Dangjin (ccg) Time signal and jingle.
YL and OM IDs Weak 8740 km
1269 1700 CHN China Radio Int./Voice of Russia, Xuanwei/SARFT726 (YN) CRI interval
signal down in noise Vweak 8561 km
972 1800 TJK VOA Radio Aap Ki Dunyaa, Orzu (ktl) English ID - "Voice Of America,
Washington DC", mixing Dangjin Weak 5398 km **
** Personal First (Skegness)
First time I've heard the Voice of America on 972. I guess this transmitter is beaming south into Afghanistan. It got me wondering who the likely Afghan suspects are these days? I'm sure there is one which sometimes gets through to the UK.
Also in that general area, I pondered about Pakistani possibilities. If it's only 1008 then I'll have to wait another year or two to go for that one. I had them on 1008 in the 80s when the Netherlands used to sign off for the night. They would appear at local sign-on midwinter around 0100. Nostalgia!
Good DX!
John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1m ASL
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.com
Receiver: Elad FDM-S2 SDR Receiver
Antenna: Movable 10ft x 25ft flag (home) Various Beverage antennas 'on location' in rural Lincolnshire.
YL and OM IDs Weak 8740 km
1269 1700 CHN China Radio Int./Voice of Russia, Xuanwei/SARFT726 (YN) CRI interval
signal down in noise Vweak 8561 km
972 1800 TJK VOA Radio Aap Ki Dunyaa, Orzu (ktl) English ID - "Voice Of America,
Washington DC", mixing Dangjin Weak 5398 km **
** Personal First (Skegness)
First time I've heard the Voice of America on 972. I guess this transmitter is beaming south into Afghanistan. It got me wondering who the likely Afghan suspects are these days? I'm sure there is one which sometimes gets through to the UK.
Also in that general area, I pondered about Pakistani possibilities. If it's only 1008 then I'll have to wait another year or two to go for that one. I had them on 1008 in the 80s when the Netherlands used to sign off for the night. They would appear at local sign-on midwinter around 0100. Nostalgia!
Good DX!
John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1m ASL
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.com
Receiver: Elad FDM-S2 SDR Receiver
Antenna: Movable 10ft x 25ft flag (home) Various Beverage antennas 'on location' in rural Lincolnshire.
Sunday, 14 February 2016
Skegness Log: 2016-02-14 (MW)
1140 0200 CUB CMIP Radio Surco, Morón (ca) Full ID including call letters. Total CBI fade
at this time Weak 7333 km **
1190 0300 CLM HJCV Radio Cordillera, Bogotá D. C. (bdc) Full ID with frequency, etc.
Weak 8566 km
1400 0301 GRD Harbour Light of the Windwards, Carriacou/Tarleton Point (cpm) Beautiful
music from the Harbour Light, your source for quality music ... Talking
Book programme. No trace of CBG Fair 7033 km
** Personal First (Skegness)
Good DX!
John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1m ASL
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.com
Receiver: Elad FDM-S2 SDR Receiver
Antenna: Movable 10ft x 25ft flag (home) Various Beverage antennas 'on location' in rural Lincolnshire.
at this time Weak 7333 km **
1190 0300 CLM HJCV Radio Cordillera, Bogotá D. C. (bdc) Full ID with frequency, etc.
Weak 8566 km
1400 0301 GRD Harbour Light of the Windwards, Carriacou/Tarleton Point (cpm) Beautiful
music from the Harbour Light, your source for quality music ... Talking
Book programme. No trace of CBG Fair 7033 km
** Personal First (Skegness)
Good DX!
John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1m ASL
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.com
Receiver: Elad FDM-S2 SDR Receiver
Antenna: Movable 10ft x 25ft flag (home) Various Beverage antennas 'on location' in rural Lincolnshire.
Friday, 12 February 2016
Skegness Log: 2016-02-12 (MW)
1380 0444 CAN CKPC Brantford ON Country, as web. Followed for 20 mins. Mixing another
country station and a US talker. Fair 5767 km
1270 0700 USA WXYT Detroit MI Call letters heard in local burbly QRN Weak 6028 km
1440 0700 USA WMAX Bay City MI Area weather forecast then WMAX ID spoken quickly.
Fair 5953 km **
1440 0700 USA WHKZ Warren OH ID - Bringing The Word to northern Ohio, a service of
Salem Media Group. 1220 WHKW ID. Fair 5940 km
1540 0700 USA KXEL Waterloo IA 15-40 KXEL Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Fox News Radio
IDs Fair 6547 km
1600 0700 USA WAAM Ann Arbor MI WAAM heard twice under WUNR. Also Fox News Radio ID.
Fair 6036 km **
** Personal First (Skegness)
An interesting morning with conditions favouring the Michigan area. Thanks to everybody who listened to my recording of 1440. The general consensus was that this was WMAX. Thank you Matthias, Max, Torgeir, Paul C, Thomas Cobley, etc. for your help with this.
There were a lot of stations which 'got away' this morning. Very good conditions for February too, usually a less interesting month. Saying this somewhat cautiously, but I think we are now, very gradually, starting to wave goodbye to the solar maximum. There have been more days of DX in 2016 than there were at the end of 2015.
Good DX!
John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1m ASL
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.com
Receiver: Elad FDM-S2 SDR Receiver
Antenna: Movable 10ft x 25ft flag (home) Various Beverage antennas 'on location' in rural Lincolnshire.
country station and a US talker. Fair 5767 km
1270 0700 USA WXYT Detroit MI Call letters heard in local burbly QRN Weak 6028 km
1440 0700 USA WMAX Bay City MI Area weather forecast then WMAX ID spoken quickly.
Fair 5953 km **
1440 0700 USA WHKZ Warren OH ID - Bringing The Word to northern Ohio, a service of
Salem Media Group. 1220 WHKW ID. Fair 5940 km
1540 0700 USA KXEL Waterloo IA 15-40 KXEL Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Fox News Radio
IDs Fair 6547 km
1600 0700 USA WAAM Ann Arbor MI WAAM heard twice under WUNR. Also Fox News Radio ID.
Fair 6036 km **
** Personal First (Skegness)
An interesting morning with conditions favouring the Michigan area. Thanks to everybody who listened to my recording of 1440. The general consensus was that this was WMAX. Thank you Matthias, Max, Torgeir, Paul C, Thomas Cobley, etc. for your help with this.
There were a lot of stations which 'got away' this morning. Very good conditions for February too, usually a less interesting month. Saying this somewhat cautiously, but I think we are now, very gradually, starting to wave goodbye to the solar maximum. There have been more days of DX in 2016 than there were at the end of 2015.
Good DX!
John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1m ASL
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.com
Receiver: Elad FDM-S2 SDR Receiver
Antenna: Movable 10ft x 25ft flag (home) Various Beverage antennas 'on location' in rural Lincolnshire.
Friday, 5 February 2016
Skegness Log: 2016-02-05 (MW)
1470 0659 USA WWNN, Pompano Beach (FL) Health talk, as per David Hamilton's clip.
V v weak 7095 km
Good DX!
John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1m ASL
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.com
Receiver: Elad FDM-S2 SDR Receiver
Antenna: Movable 10ft x 25ft flag (home) Various Beverage antennas 'on location' in rural Lincolnshire.
V v weak 7095 km
Good DX!
John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1m ASL
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.com
Receiver: Elad FDM-S2 SDR Receiver
Antenna: Movable 10ft x 25ft flag (home) Various Beverage antennas 'on location' in rural Lincolnshire.
Tuesday, 2 February 2016
Skegness Log: 2016-02-02 (MW)
1380 0541 VEN YVNG Ondas del Mar, Puerto Cabello (cbb) Ondas Del Mar ID between lively
LA rhythms Weak 7637 km **
** Personal First (Skegness)
Nice to be able to access 1380 better now France has vacated 1377. A personal first here!
Good DX!
John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1m ASL
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.com
Receiver: Elad FDM-S2 SDR Receiver
Antenna: Movable 10ft x 25ft flag (home) Various Beverage antennas 'on location' in rural Lincolnshire.
LA rhythms Weak 7637 km **
** Personal First (Skegness)
Nice to be able to access 1380 better now France has vacated 1377. A personal first here!
Good DX!
John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1m ASL
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.com
Receiver: Elad FDM-S2 SDR Receiver
Antenna: Movable 10ft x 25ft flag (home) Various Beverage antennas 'on location' in rural Lincolnshire.
Monday, 1 February 2016
Skegness Log: 2016-02-01 (MW)
1320 0331 VEN YVWP Radio Apolo, Turmero (arg) Short Radio Apolo sung jingle ID
Fair 7627 km
1430 0332 PTR WNEL Radio Tiempo, Caguas (PR) Jingle ID with Radio Tiempo sung three times
in succession Fair 6825 km **
1500 0335 VEN YVRZ Radio 2000 AM, Cumaná (suc) En Dos Mil, la ponche(?) y ocho minutos
Fair 7396 km
1280 0400 PTR WCMN NotiUno, Arecibo (PR) Noti Uno ID heard in splatter Fair 6849 km
1440 0400 NCG YNRM Radio Maranatha, Managua (mng) A mention of Ríos de Agua Viva. This
church and Radio Maranatha apparently have strong links - thank you to Mauricio
Molano Sánchez for help with this. Weak 8705 km **
1400 0404 CLM HJAS RCN Antena 2, Barranquilla (atl) Antena Dos IDs in promos. Thank you
Mauricio Molano Sánchez for help with site. V weak 8049 km **
** Personal First (Skegness)
A good Latin American morning with stations only on the top half of the band.
Many stations heard - very few identified.
Some unusual frequencies were occupied and there were often two or three stations on some frequencies. Nice to hear clear DX on frequencies like 1340 and 1490. But luck did not go my way with the tops of each hour. Everything faded either at the wrong moment or during the gaps between songs. But luck was definitely going my way with Radio Maranatha on 1440 - my first reception of Nicaragua on medium wave and it's thanks to Mauricio Molano Sánchez in Salamanca for his help IDing the station.
Good DX!
John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1m ASL
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.com
Receiver: Elad FDM-S2 SDR Receiver
Antenna: Movable 10ft x 25ft flag (home) Various Beverage antennas 'on location' in rural Lincolnshire.
Fair 7627 km
1430 0332 PTR WNEL Radio Tiempo, Caguas (PR) Jingle ID with Radio Tiempo sung three times
in succession Fair 6825 km **
1500 0335 VEN YVRZ Radio 2000 AM, Cumaná (suc) En Dos Mil, la ponche(?) y ocho minutos
Fair 7396 km
1280 0400 PTR WCMN NotiUno, Arecibo (PR) Noti Uno ID heard in splatter Fair 6849 km
1440 0400 NCG YNRM Radio Maranatha, Managua (mng) A mention of Ríos de Agua Viva. This
church and Radio Maranatha apparently have strong links - thank you to Mauricio
Molano Sánchez for help with this. Weak 8705 km **
1400 0404 CLM HJAS RCN Antena 2, Barranquilla (atl) Antena Dos IDs in promos. Thank you
Mauricio Molano Sánchez for help with site. V weak 8049 km **
** Personal First (Skegness)
A good Latin American morning with stations only on the top half of the band.
Many stations heard - very few identified.
Some unusual frequencies were occupied and there were often two or three stations on some frequencies. Nice to hear clear DX on frequencies like 1340 and 1490. But luck did not go my way with the tops of each hour. Everything faded either at the wrong moment or during the gaps between songs. But luck was definitely going my way with Radio Maranatha on 1440 - my first reception of Nicaragua on medium wave and it's thanks to Mauricio Molano Sánchez in Salamanca for his help IDing the station.
Good DX!
John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1m ASL
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.com
Receiver: Elad FDM-S2 SDR Receiver
Antenna: Movable 10ft x 25ft flag (home) Various Beverage antennas 'on location' in rural Lincolnshire.
Skegness Log: 2016-02-16 (FM)
Band 2 Tropospheric:
87.9 0752 F France Inter, Pic du Midi (65) OM and YL, as 87.9 1136km
88.2 0744 F France Culture, Ussel-Meymac/Mont Bessou (19) Sombre music, as 98.0 853km
90.4 0742 F France Inter, Clermont-Ferrand/Puy-de-Dôme (63) OMs, as 103.7 842km
90.6 0816 F France Inter, Nantes/Haute-Goulaine (44) YL, as 103.7 675km
91.1 0736 F France Musique, Niort/Maisonnay (79) Vocal ID 774km
92.2 0741 F France Musique, Tours/Chissay [41] (37) OM and YL, as 91.1 646km
95.5 0756 F France Musique, Clermont-Ferrand/Puy-de-Dôme (63) Jovial studio chat, as 88.7
842km
103.4 0842 F France Info, Lyon/Mont Pilat (42) As 105.2 917km
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.
87.9 0752 F France Inter, Pic du Midi (65) OM and YL, as 87.9 1136km
88.2 0744 F France Culture, Ussel-Meymac/Mont Bessou (19) Sombre music, as 98.0 853km
90.4 0742 F France Inter, Clermont-Ferrand/Puy-de-Dôme (63) OMs, as 103.7 842km
90.6 0816 F France Inter, Nantes/Haute-Goulaine (44) YL, as 103.7 675km
91.1 0736 F France Musique, Niort/Maisonnay (79) Vocal ID 774km
92.2 0741 F France Musique, Tours/Chissay [41] (37) OM and YL, as 91.1 646km
95.5 0756 F France Musique, Clermont-Ferrand/Puy-de-Dôme (63) Jovial studio chat, as 88.7
842km
103.4 0842 F France Info, Lyon/Mont Pilat (42) As 105.2 917km
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.
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