Skegness Log: 10-06-14 (FM)

Band 2 Sporadic E:
 87.7 1026  E  Europa FM, Alcalá de Henares (MAD-M) E5ED __RO____  1439km
 87.9 1027  E  RNE Radio 5 Todo Noticias, Cambil/Sierra Almadén (AND-J) E215 RNE_5-J_  1740km
 90.6 1028  E  Radio Marca, Hornos de Moncalvillo/Serradero (RIO-LO) Vocal ID  1223km **

** Personal Skegness 'First'

Poor! Puny! Paltry! Pathetic! Piddling! These words perfectly picture my personal painstaking pursuits in today's petty propagational DX performance. Portugal (which also begins with P) came in for a while too, but signals were sparse and well below RDS levels.

I think I can say without any shadow of a doubt that this year's season is not as good as last year's. In fact I don't personally recall one this bad EVER! You can't have it good all the time of course, but we knew it was going to be difficult to live up to last year's season.

Good DX!

John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) <3m ASL.
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.co.uk
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOrAbHyPpIflDXo62HWyOiA

Receivers:
Sony XDR-F1HD with Konrad i2c modification

Aerial:
Körner 9.2, 5.5 metres above the ground. QTH is 3 metres above sea level

Rotator:
Yaesu G-5500 azimuth & elevation rotator, allowing antenna to be vertical or horizontal, etc.