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Friday 20 November 2015

Skegness Log: 20-11-15 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter:
 97.3 0418 HRV HRT-HR 1, Psunj (sb) C201 HRT-??_1 1500km
 97.7 0418 HRV HRT-HR 3, Papuk/Kapovac (vt) C203 ????HR?? 1523km
 99.1 0418 AUT Antenne Steiermark, Graz 1/Schöckl (ste) A943 ??TENN?? 1261km
 93.3 0420 HRV HRT-HR 1, Beli Manastir (os) C201 1552km
 98.1 0420 HRV HRT-HR 2, Beli Manastir (os) C202 1552km
 98.9 0420 HRV HRT-HR 2, Biokovo/Sveti Jure (st) C202 1643km
 96.4 0422 POL PR 3, Poznan/Srem (WP) 3233 _T?????? 1127km
 94.8 0424  D  SWR3, Linz (Rhein)/Ginsterhahner Kopf (rlp) Pops, as 96.5  560km
 96.5 0424  D  SWR3, Waldenburg (bwü) D3A3 786km
 98.5 0424  D  Bayern 3, Wendelstein (bay) D313 ????RN?? 1024km
 96.5 0425 SRB Radio Beograd 2/3, Crveni Cot (Voj) D2F6 1659km
 97.6 0425 SRB Radio Beograd 2/3, Beograd/Avala (Srb) D2F6 1740km
 97.4 0431  I  RAI Radio2, Menconico/Monte Penice (RAI) (pv) 5202 _RADIO?? 1136km
 97.5 0435 DNK DR P4, Næstved - Øverup/Køgevej 291 (sjl) 9902 ??????JL 782km
 94.8 0439 AUT Ö2 - Radio Salzburg, Salzburg 1/Gaisberg (ORS) (sal) A802 1080km
 97.5 0456 AUT Ö1, Linz 1/Lichtenberg (obe) A201 1111km
103.4 0503  F  France Info, Lyon/Mont Pilat (42) F206 ??IN???? 917km
103.6 0503  F  France Bleu Provence, Marseille/Grande Etoile (13) F405 BLEUPROV 1149km
103.7 0503  F  France Bleu Bourgogne, Dijon/Nuits-Saint-Georges (21) F205 BLEUBOUR 745km **
100.6 0505  D  Deutschlandfunk (DLF), Witthoh (Tuttlingen) (bwü) D210 ????F_?? 834km
100.7 0505  D  Energy Stuttgart, Güglingen (bwü) 1309 758km
101.3 0505 HRV HRT Radio Pula, Ucka (ri) C318 1330km **
101.7 0505  D  Radio Salü, Saarbrücken/Schoksberg (saa) D3B8 ??????E_ 628km
102.5 0505  D  Radio 7, Witthoh (Tuttlingen) (bwü) OM vocal ID  834km
102.7 0505  F  Radio Mélodie, Sarreguemines/Nousseviller (57) F793 643km **
104.0 0505  D  big fm (Rheinland-Pfalz), Koblenz/Kühkopf (rlp) D3A9 590km
104.7 0505 HRV HRT Radio Rijeka, Ucka (ri) C319 ??RI???? 1330km
104.9 0505  D  Hitradio Ohr, Offenburg (bwü) D40D 751km
103.8 0509 ROU SRR Radio România Actualitati, Arad/Siria (AR) EE00 1706km
100.1 0518 CZE CRo Dvojka, Pardubice/Krásné (PA) 232E ??DV???? 1127km
100.9 0518 SVK Europa 2, Poprad/Králová hola (PO) 534F 1459km
102.0 0518 CZE CRo Dvojka, Brno/Kojál (JM) 232E R-?????? 1219km
102.7 0518 CZE CRo Vltava, Pardubice/Krásné (PA) 232D 1127km
103.5 0518 SVK SRo 1 Rádio Slovensko, Žilina/Krížava (ZA) 5201 1363km
100.2 0526 POL PR 3, Wroclaw/G.Sleza (DS) 3233 1147km
102.1 0529 POL PR 3, Bydgoszcz/Trzeciewiec (KP) 3233 _TROJK?? 1186km **
103.6 0529 POL PR Radio Merkury, Walcz/Rusinowo (Pila) (ZP) 3755 1060km
103.0 0533 HRV HRT Radio Zadar, Celevac (zd) C31B ??ZA???? 1499km
100.1 0537  D  RBB Fritz, Casekow (brb) D333 923km
103.1 0537  D  RBB Fritz, Pritzwalk (brb) Alternative pops, as 100.1  790km
104.0 0539 SVK Fun Rádio, Banská Bystrica/Suchá hora (BB) 5340 1392km
102.8 0542 HRV HRT Radio Osijek, Beli Manastir (os) C317 R-OS???? 1552km
103.7 0545  D  SR Unser Ding, Saarbrücken/Schoksberg (saa) D3B5 Ding__?? 628km
100.3 0549  S  SR P4, Skövde/Åsbotorp 2/Billingen TM (vg)   PI reg logged: ED24 1023km
101.7 0554 AUT FM 4, Graz 1/Schöckl (ste) A213 __FM4___ 1261km
102.1 0554 AUT FM 4, Multi-tx Alternative pops, as 101.7
100.9 0557 POL PR Radio Merkury, Poznan/Srem (WP) 3755 ??EL*_61 1127km
105.5 0601 CZE Evropa 2, Votice/Mezivrata (ST) 2204 EV?????? 1069km
103.9 0604 HRV HKR-Hrvatski Katolicki Radio, Psunj (sb) C204 1500km
105.7 0607  D  B5 aktuell, Wendelstein (bay) D315 1024km
104.1 0639  I  Radio Subasio, Bagno a Ripoli/Poggio Incontro (fi) 53FD 1323km
107.9 0640 POL Radio Maryja, Ryki/Janiszewska (LB) Conditions point to Ryki 3232 1473km **
105.0 0651 CVA Radio Vaticana 105 Live, Cittá del Vaticano/Palazzina
               Leone XIII (cva) 4104 Vati???? 1542km

104.8 0654 CZE CRo Vltava, Ostrava/Hoštálkovice (MO) 232D R-VLTAVA 1287km
106.8 0700 ROU SRR Radio România Cultural, Arad/Siria (AR) EE01 ??LTURAL 1706km
103.5 0709 HRV HKR-Hrvatski Katolicki Radio, Zagreb/Sljeme (zg) C204 1381km
104.6 0709 AUT FM 4, Salzburg 1/Gaisberg (ORS) (sal)   1080km
104.9 0709 POL Radio ESKA, Wroclaw/G.Sleza (DS) 3293 ????KA?? 1147km
105.6 0711 POL PR 2, Katowice/Kosztowy (SL) 3222 Dw?????? 1333km
107.6 0711 POL Radio eM, Katowice/Kosztowy (SL) 3E88 Radio_?? 1333km
102.6 0714  F  France Bleu Alsace, Mulhouse/Belvédère (68) F405 781km **
103.0 0714  I  RAI Radio1, Menconico/Monte Penice (RAI) (pv) 5201 ????O1__ 1136km

** Personal First via this mode

What an odd morning! There was almost zero activity from meteor scatter between 0300 and 0400 I extracted just one PI code - D311 on 90.7 which could be Grünten or Oschenkopf. It's a regular one so I ignored it, but there were no other strong pings. Then at 0418 the band suddenly opened up with decent bursts of meteor activity at regular intervals. At one point there were so many meteors that I wondered if the Leonids had woken up and finally arrived several days late. I'm sure that wouldn't be likely. It was probably just a good morning for random meteors.

It's interesting to see a few recent personal firsts now making regular appearances. I sometimes wonder if the various showers have their own individual propagational characteristics, such that each shower favours its own paths of propagation.

Good DX!

John Faulkner
Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) <3m ASL.
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.co.uk
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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.

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