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Sunday 27 November 2016

Skegness Log: 2016-11-27 (Tropospheric: Germany)

Band 2 Tropospheric:
107.5 0023  D  BB Radio, Berlin/Schäferberg (brb) BB Radio jingle  864km
106.9 0045  D  Antenne Niedersachsen, Braunschweig-Broitzem (nds) Pops, as 105.7  691km
106.6 0047  D  Antenne Brandenburg, Pritzwalk (brb) German pop song, as web  790km
 98.7 0049  D  MDR Kultur, Auerbach/Schöneck (sac) Classical, as web  881km **
 89.0 0052  D  89.0 RTL, Brocken (san) Jingle ID  712km
 89.2 0053  D  NDR 2, Osnabrück/Schleptruper Egge (nds) Pops, as web  525km
102.9 0103  D  Radio PSR, Leipzig Wiederau (sac) Pops, as web  843km **
 99.0 0109  D  hr1, Hoher Meißner (hes) Pops, as web  684km

** Personal First

I tuned in during the early hours of this morning, not expecting to find anything out of the ordinary, but I had a nice surprise. There was weak tropo to central and eastern Germany. Reception of Berlin, then Auerbach, then Leipzig, built up my appetite for more. I looked for Plzen in the Czech Republic since Auerbach was coming in, but it was not to be. But I was very pleased with a couple of personal firsts.

Good DX!

John Faulkner
Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) <3m ASL.
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.co.uk
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/g1vvp
Vimeo Channel: https://vimeo.com/skegnessdx

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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