Skegness Log: 07-04-14 (FM)

Band 2 Meteor Scatter: 07-04-14:
 97.5 0012 AUT Ö1, Linz 1/Lichtenberg (obe) Classical music, as web  1111km **
 97.5 0038  D  SWR3, Bornberg (rlp) German OM over song, as web  640km **
 97.5 0452 DNK DR P4, Næstved - Øverup/Køgevej 291 (sjl) Simply Red song, as web  782km **
 97.5 0748  D  MDR Info, Suhl/Erleshügel (thü) German OM talk, as web  768km **

** Personal Skegness 'First' by the respective mode

97.5 was tonight's chosen frequency. There was a big increase in the number of MS pings too. Unsurprisingly, regular bursters were Ö1 from Linz (100kW) and SWR3 from Bornberg (25kW), often appearing together in the same burst! Next to that, 5kW MDR Info from Suhl was also quite regular.

There were quite a few bursts from unidentified German language stations which I hadn't recorded. I can only presume that they were low powered Austrian or Swiss transmitters. Germany, Switzerland and Austria has become of particular interest lately and I endeavour to record all German language streams to be certain I am logging the correct station, but all Swiss station's web streams simultaneously dropped out after only eight minutes of recording on this occasion - at precisely 00:13:35 GMT in fact. I also tend not to record the stations with flea powered transmitters, i.e. 50 watts or less. Perhaps I should.

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.