Skegness Log: 05-04-14 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter: 05-04-14:
 95.5 0012  D  SR 3 Saarlandwelle, Göttelborner Höhe (saa) Bee Gees song, as web  629km **
 95.5 0629  D  BR Klassik, Büttelberg (bay) Piano concerto, as web  812km **
 95.5 0706  F  France Musique, Clermont-Ferrand/Puy-de-Dôme (63) YL news, as web.   842km **
 95.5 0721  D  hr2, Hoher Meißner (hes) Talking about Baroque music, as web  684km **

Band 2 Scatter: 05-04-14:
102.5 1613 BEL Q-Music, Genk/VRT Zendmast (vlg-lim) Suddenly over Radio 538  431km
102.5 1613 HOL Radio 538, Tjerkgaast/Alticom Toren (fri) Dutch OM, as web  360km
102.9 1614 BEL Nostalgie Vlaanderen, Schoten (vlg-ant) Commodores Brick House, as web  354km
100.8 1629  D  WDR 2, Aachen/Stolberg (nrw) ID and verkehrsservice  483km
101.0 1630  D  WDR 2, Bärbelkreuz (Eifel) (nrw) Verkehrsservice, as 100.8  519km
105.5 1631  D  WDR Eins Live, Bärbelkreuz (Eifel) (nrw) Pops, as 106.7  519km
103.1 1635 BEL Q-Music, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw/Norkring Toren (vlg-vbr) Pops, as web  376km
103.5 1649 HOL Radio Veronica, Roosendaal/Alticom Toren (nbr) Briefly over Essex with
               pops, as web  334km
103.5 1655 HOL Radio Gelderland, Ugchelen/Alticom Toren (gel) End of song and OM ID  391km
 99.8 1656  D  NDR 2, Steinkimmen (nds) Fade in. Soft rock song, as web  543km
 93.5 1657  D  WDR 2, Nordhelle (nrw) Marillion song, as web  553km
 90.6 1659  D  WDR 5, Teutoburger Wald/Bielstein (nrw) German OM, as web  591km
 93.2 1659  D  WDR 2, Teutoburger Wald/Bielstein (nrw) Marillion song, as 93.5  591km

** Personal Skegness 'First' via MS

95.5 was interesting overnight in that the overwhelming majority of pings and bursts were from SR3, Gottelborner Hohe. Of the few which were not SR3 (four or five pings) they were from a mystery classical music station and one I did not record. Other transmitters started to come in after 0600, France Musique being the most consistent, very likely the Clermont Ferrand transmitter.

All general scatter was received with the FM5 horizontal. I re-positioned this vertically during the afternoon but it killed off all the scatter, with the exception of Langenberg. Back in horizontal again and the Dutch scatter returned. When my one metre high FM3 and FM5 were vertical at the last QTH I noticed the same lack of scatter. Vertical really does not work well on band 2 when low down.

Good DX!

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

Receivers:
Sony XDR-F1HD with Konrad i2c modification & XDR-GTK software.

Aerial:
Triax FM5, one meter AGL, fixed south-east.