Skegness Log: 05-02-14 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter:
107.4 0136 POL Radio Zet, Krosno/Sucha Góra (PK) Polish song, as web. two second burst 
               1530km **
107.4 0137  D  SWR4 Rheinland-Pfalz, Koblenz/Dieblich-Naßheck (rlp) Slow pops,
               as web  591km **
107.4 0142  I  Radio Suby, Palombara Sabina/Monte Gennaro (rm) Distinctive jazzy
               piece, as web  1543km **
107.4 0217  I  Radio Suby, Palombara Sabina/Monte Gennaro (rm) More jazz, as web.
               Six second burst  1543km
107.4 0239 POL Radio Zet, Krosno/Sucha Góra (PK) OM, as web. Four second burst  1530km
107.4 0337  I  Radio Suby, Palombara Sabina/Monte Gennaro (rm) Jazz version of
               Lets face The Music And Dance, as web  1543km
107.4 0617  D  Hitradio Ohr, Lahr/Schutterlindenberg (bwü) Trance/rock epic,
               as web  752km **
107.4 0711  I  Radio Suby, Palombara Sabina/Monte Gennaro (rm) Italian rap, as web 
               1543km
107.4 0844  D  Radio Wuppertal, Wuppertal/Westfalenweg (nrw) YL presenter, as web.
               On local announcement slot  508km **
107.4 0935  D  delta radio, Kaltenkirchen (shs) Rihanna song, as web  647km **

Band 2 Aircraft Scatter:
 87.6 0726 BEL Nostalgie Vlaanderen, Oudenburg/Zeeweg (vlg-wvl) New site? Triggerfinger,
               as web  288km **
 87.9 0729 HOL Omroep Zeeland, Goes/Alticom Toren (zee) Mika song, ID  303km
100.0 0747  D  WDR 4, Münster/Baumberg (nrw) German song, as 101.3  494km
102.5 0755 HOL Radio 538, Tjerkgaast/Alticom Toren (fri) Jingle ID after phone caller. Noise free briefly  361km
 94.8 0757 HOL Radio 4, Smilde/Alticom Toren (dre) Classical music, as web  408km
107.9 0759  D  WDR Eins Live, Münster/Baumberg (nrw) ID and news  494km

** Personal Skegness 'First'

Poor aircraft scatter conditions today. Perhaps not surprising considering the atrocious weather. The winds didn't batter the east coast too badly overnight but I understand there is a more vigourous storm system working its way across the Atlantic for Saturday.

On the meteor side, one of the NRW local stations was a regular visitor to 107.4, but since there are several stations which carry the same overnight programme it is impossible to know which one/s were received. Radio Wuppertal was spotted later, however, with a local female presenter which wasn't in parallel to the others (Lippe, etc.)

Another one I'm fairly sure I heard several times this morning was Antenna Karnten from Spittal (2.7kW) but the pings were just that little bit too brief to be 100%. Maybe next time.

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:
Triax FM5, one metre AGL
Rooftop Körner 9.2, 8m AGL & Yaesu G-5500 azimuthal/elevation rotator (temporarily out of action due to local noise issue)