Skegness Log: 28-08-15 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter:
 88.0 0530  E  Radio Galega Música, Valga/Monte Xesteiras (GAL-PO) E4E1 __MU__CA  1339km
 90.6 0530  E  Los 40 Principales, Santiago de Compostela (GAL-C) E235 __AR____  1321km
 91.0 0530  E  Los 40 Principales, A Coruña (GAL-C) Pops, as 90.6  1268km

The 9.2 antenna was vertical and to the west tonight, the idea being to look for Irish stations. I heard several stations with fit the bill, i.e. were playing Irish music and there were also several stations which had Irish accented speakers. None of them were strong enough for RDS though.

Truskmore was almost certainly present during one burst as there was Irish music on 88.2 (RTE-1), pops on 90.4 (2FM) and Irish music on 92.6 (Radio Na Gaeltachta). There was also Irish music on 87.8 (RTE1 Clermont Carn), parallel with 88.2 to further back this up. I think there's not question the first three were 100% Truskmore, but I'd sooner wait for the RDS before logging them.

Good DX!

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

Aerials:
Körner 9.2 @ 5.5 metres agl. QTH is approximately 3 metres asl, 1km from the sea.
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 rotator, allowing antenna to be vertical, horizontal, etc.