Skegness Log: 13-01-14 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter:
 89.4 0408 AUT Hitradio Ö3, Sankt Pölten/Jauerling (nie) Traffic news. Thanks to W4WDX
               for help.  1182km **
 89.4 0453 POL Radio Zet, Luban/Nowa Karczma (DS) Polish language. Only one
               possibility. Tnx W4WDX  1036km **
 89.4 0453 CZE Kiss Hády, Boskovice/Habrí (JM) 500W! Czech language. Only one
               possibility. Thanks W4WDX.  1201km **
 89.4 0726  S  SR P1, Borlänge or Arvidsjaur Swedish language. Two possibilities.
               Tnx W4WDX **
 89.4 0729 POL PR 1, Kraków/Choragwica (MP) Mixing Radio Zet. Tnx W4WDX  1407km **

** Personal Skegness 'First' via this mode

After uploading a video to YouTube showing yesterday's s meteor scatter, I have received a lot of correspondence and analysis from Philip, W4WDX, an Austrian DXer who now resides in the USA, for which I am very grateful. It's probably reasonable to make assumptions to certain signals which arrive via meteor scatter, though certainly not all. I would have missed these were it not for Philip. I have never logged anything where I haven't heard the ID or seen the RDS, but it can occasionally be quite obvious which station or transmitter you are receiving, judging by the language alone. This was a particularly good haul. If only my own language recognition was better. 

But beware: Care is definitely needed. After the recent spate of excellent meteor scatter it is clear that even low power FM broadcast signals can propagate quite successfully under the right meteor conditions.

Good DX!

John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) <2m ASL.

Receivers:
Sony XDR-F1HD with Konrad i2c modification & XDR-GTK software.

Aerial:
Rooftop Körner 9.2, 8m AGL & Yaesu G-5500 azimuthal/elevation rotator
Triax FM3, 1m AGL