Skegness Log: 25-01-14 (FM)

Band 2 Tropospheric:
 89.4 1243  F  France Musique, Brest/Roc Trédudon (29) F203  604km
 89.9 1245  F  France Musique, Rennes/Saint-Pern (35) F203  564km
 95.4 1250  F  France Inter, Brest/Roc Trédudon (29) F201 __INTER_  604km
 94.2 1251  F  France Culture, Nantes/Haute-Goulaine (44) Talk, as 98.0  675km
 90.6 1252  F  France Inter, Nantes/Haute-Goulaine (44) OM, as 103.7  675km
 89.2 1253  F  France Culture, Cherbourg-Octeville/Digosville (50) OM, as 98.0  413km
100.7 1256  F  France Bleu Cotentin, Cherbourg-Octeville/Digosville (50)
               French song, ID, France Bleu Le Weekend. Noise free  413km
 95.6 1311  F  France Musique, Caen/Mont Pinçon (14) F203 MUSIQUE_  469km
 91.5 1312  F  France Culture, Caen/Mont Pinçon (14) F202 _CULTURE  469km
 93.8 1425  F  France Inter, Parthenay/les Chateliers (79) Michel Polnareff song, as 103.7  712km
 91.8 1426  F  France Musique, Bourges/Neuvy (18) As 88.7  672km
 89.0 1429  F  France Culture, Le Mans/Mayet (72) Om, as 98.0  599km
 92.6 1430  F  France Inter, Le Mans/Mayet (72) OMs, as 103.7  599km
 97.0 1430  F  France Musique, Le Mans/Mayet (72) Classical, as 88.7  599km
 97.8 1431  F  France Culture, Brest/Roc Trédudon (29) Never matching the strength
               of the other Brest outlets  604km
 98.1 1431  F  France Culture, Chartres/Montlandon (28) OM, as 98.0  531km
 94.6 1433  F  France Inter, Chartres/Montlandon (28) OM, as 103.7  531km
 87.9 1436  F  France Culture, Parthenay/les Chateliers (79) OM, as 98.0  712km

I didn't start to listen to the radio until after midday, so I don't know if I missed much before.

Nice to see RDS with these weak/fair signals, something which I never report much of, unless I have been using the KT6040. Traditionally, tropo DXing is done with the XDR-F1HD here, which is very poor with RDS, but the GTK software really comes into its own now.

Tropo conditions didn't take off in any great way here. No Spanish stations were heard. Nothing from the SW of France either. Mostly it was just a small enhacement to the bigger TDF outlets in NW France.

88.2 was monitored for meteor scatter overnight but no RDS stored.

Good DX!

John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) <2m ASL.
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.co.uk

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 FM5, one metre AGL