Holbeach Log: 2020-06-14 (Es: DNK S)

 88.0 1120  S  Star FM, Vännäs/Granlundsberget TM (vb) E245 1629km **
 88.6 1126  S  RIX FM, Ånge (vn) Jingle ID  1381km **
101.2 1155  S  Megapol, Unlisted site E243 MEGAPOL_ **
 97.2 1224 DNK DR P3, Rangstrup/Gammel Tøndervej 28 (sdk) More likely to be Es due to signal 
                      strength 9203 617km **
 91.8 1231  S  SR P1, Arjeplog/Galtispuoda TM (no) 300 watts. As 88.3  1736km

** Personal first

I am quite sure that my reception of Rangstrup on 97.2 was sporadic E. Although I can receive the Rangstrup transmitter on aircraft/troposcatter, this transmitter never reaches anything close to RDS levels in these modes and is only ever down in the noise. It's rare too and and requires good scatter conditions. I would find it hard to believe that it came up to RDS levels by chance at this time, so I am logging this a 100% sporadic E. I even went as far as monitoring 97.2 for four hours after the Es event and Rangstrup did not surface once. This beats my shortest sporadic E distance record by 23 km. Rangstrup is 617 km. This overtakes my previous record of 640 km from 98.7 NDR Kultur from Hannover Hemmingen (nds) on June 21st 2015.

Due to time constraints I am only logging personal firsts and other stations of interest, so my loggings do not reflect the conditions for the day.

Good DX!

John Faulkner
Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 3m ASL.
Holbeach, Lincolnshire (JO02ar) 3m ASL.
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Receivers:
Elad FDM-S2 (Meteor Scatter and sporadic E)
Sony XDR-F1HD with Konrad i2c mod. (Tropo/Scatter)

Antenna:
Skegness, Lincolnshire:
Körner 9.2 @ 5.5 metres agl. QTH is approximately 3 metres asl, 1km from the sea.
Fringe Electronics 20dB pre-amp.
Holbeach, Lincolnshire:
2 x Triax FM5, H & V (Crossed, on the same boom) 5 metres agl. QTH is approximately 3 metres asl
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 (Skegness)
Yaesu G-250 Rotator (Holbeach)