I had high hopes for this tropo as the forecasts looked excellent for good conditions across the North Sea. So far it has been something of a non-event. There was some tropo to SE England and East Anglia on Monday evening as well as Barbelkreuz on 101.0 and 105.5. I also heard Mullaghanish on the car radio yesterday morning driving near Andover (Lyric FM, 99.6). Yesterday evening however, conditions were flat. Very disappointing, at least in southern England.
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Powerplay- Anything from Somerset (Mendip)? something might come in off the back of the antenna during lift. Once the Sussex Coast mux evolves to become Sussex and moves to 10B, you may be in with a chance of London 3 or Bournemouth.
Nick- Has been flat as the proverbial here. Even Caen and Cherbourg have barely reached audible levels.
Nick- Has been flat as the proverbial here. Even Caen and Cherbourg have barely reached audible levels.
adc, you have reminded me, I actually heard France Inter on 87.9 from Pic du Midi last Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, only very weak and with slow fading. This has been my best log of this 'lift', and that was before the tropo was supposed to arrive!
Originally Posted by brumlad36:
“Hi Powerplay / FmBandScan
I have received the following in Lincoln, UK.
9D (208.064 MHz): DAB+ Zuidwest, from The Netherlands, at various times over the past few days.
I use an external, rotatable, 5 element Band III (DAB) antenna.
There is a powerful TX at Roosendaal/Alticom Toren, 40kW!
This seems to be the first Netherlands DAB+ DX, that comes in here at my QTH.
A very useful and up to date website is this :-
http://www.ukwtv.de/cms/niederlande-dab.html
Chris.”
“Hi Powerplay / FmBandScan
I have received the following in Lincoln, UK.
9D (208.064 MHz): DAB+ Zuidwest, from The Netherlands, at various times over the past few days.
I use an external, rotatable, 5 element Band III (DAB) antenna.
There is a powerful TX at Roosendaal/Alticom Toren, 40kW!
This seems to be the first Netherlands DAB+ DX, that comes in here at my QTH.
A very useful and up to date website is this :-
http://www.ukwtv.de/cms/niederlande-dab.html
Chris.”
Hi brumlad36
Cheers for the link and I could see from the Hepburn chart that the best conditions were up towards your way, supposed to have good sea paths in September to.
Fingers crossed for good DX before the winter
Originally Posted by adc82140:
“Powerplay- Anything from Somerset (Mendip)? something might come in off the back of the antenna during lift. Once the Sussex Coast mux evolves to become Sussex and moves to 10B, you may be in with a chance of London 3 or Bournemouth.
Nick- Has been flat as the proverbial here. Even Caen and Cherbourg have barely reached audible levels.”
“Powerplay- Anything from Somerset (Mendip)? something might come in off the back of the antenna during lift. Once the Sussex Coast mux evolves to become Sussex and moves to 10B, you may be in with a chance of London 3 or Bournemouth.
Nick- Has been flat as the proverbial here. Even Caen and Cherbourg have barely reached audible levels.”
Now that's interesting about the Sussex mux move to 10B, when is this happening? Yes I can often here BBC Somerset from Mendip on 95.5 here.
not sure when it's going to happen, but the plan is to add more tx sites to the north, and have better coverage throughout the county. It's part of the local DAB buildout
https://www.gov.uk/government/upload..._12_14__1_.pdf
I'm not sure what the DAB nulls are like from Mendip- I can get Somerset DAB at home no problem (Fordingbridge) using a 4 element rooftop, but not a thing from SE Wales, also using Mendip- I have to go up to Godshill (that's the Hampshire one, not the IoW one) in the car for that.
https://www.gov.uk/government/upload..._12_14__1_.pdf
I'm not sure what the DAB nulls are like from Mendip- I can get Somerset DAB at home no problem (Fordingbridge) using a 4 element rooftop, but not a thing from SE Wales, also using Mendip- I have to go up to Godshill (that's the Hampshire one, not the IoW one) in the car for that.
Conditions are flat here, R2's from Wrotham on 89.1, Oxford 89.5, NHT 88.1, Sutton Coldfield 88.3 just bubbling above noise level and Rowridge 88.5 a little bit stronger.
Disappointing here as well. Since Sunday I've only had minor enhancements from Egem, Lille and a few Netherlands sites.
My DAB radio this evening. My location is near Scunthorpe 2 miles west of the River Trent and I am getting BBC 3 Counties radio and MKFM, and BBC Derby is coming in clear as anything. I keep tuning in my radio currently and am amazingly I can't get BBC Nottingham which is the one I often get as it comes from the main East Midlands transmitter.
I have 1Live on 105.5 and DLF 107.1 on the car radio here in Wakefield, along with Denmark and the usuals from Holland.
Some weak Germans starting to appear on the band this evening. So far:
87.6 NDR 2
87.9 v weak talk
89.0 pops, probably RTL Brocken
101.4 Radio SAW Brocken
101.8 DLF
Oliver, earlier this afternoon Holme Moss was logged in Poland and Lithuania via tropo!
Watch out for spectacular ducting.
87.6 NDR 2
87.9 v weak talk
89.0 pops, probably RTL Brocken
101.4 Radio SAW Brocken
101.8 DLF
Oliver, earlier this afternoon Holme Moss was logged in Poland and Lithuania via tropo!
Watch out for spectacular ducting.
Originally Posted by Nick_G:
“Some weak Germans starting to appear on the band this evening. So far:
87.6 NDR 2
87.9 v weak talk
89.0 pops, probably RTL Brocken
101.4 Radio SAW Brocken
101.8 DLF
Oliver, earlier this afternoon Holme Moss was logged in Poland and Lithuania via tropo! Watch out for spectacular ducting.”
“Some weak Germans starting to appear on the band this evening. So far:
87.6 NDR 2
87.9 v weak talk
89.0 pops, probably RTL Brocken
101.4 Radio SAW Brocken
101.8 DLF
Oliver, earlier this afternoon Holme Moss was logged in Poland and Lithuania via tropo!
Watch out for spectacular ducting.”
That is very impressive Nick!
It reminds me of the magic 10/10/10 date when I logged several Polish stations, including one on 105.5 near the Lithuanian border!
Good DX
The tropo has really picked up here in the last hour or so. Signals from northern Germany, Denmark and Sweden in!
Originally Posted by Nick_G:
“The tropo has really picked up here in the last hour or so. Signals from northern Germany, Denmark and Sweden in!”
“The tropo has really picked up here in the last hour or so. Signals from northern Germany, Denmark and Sweden in!”
I'm receiving some very impressive DAB from Netherlands and Denmark.
http://i1064.photobucket.com/albums/...psixoie6px.jpg
http://i1064.photobucket.com/albums/...ps07b1bn5v.jpg
http://i1064.photobucket.com/albums/...pserpquozl.jpg
http://i1064.photobucket.com/albums/...pslvldwwol.jpg
Chris (Lincoln, UK)
From Denmark.
http://i1064.photobucket.com/albums/...psrq0aqwz8.jpg
http://i1064.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7xwjw7mt.jpg
Chris (Lincoln, UK)
http://i1064.photobucket.com/albums/...psrq0aqwz8.jpg
http://i1064.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7xwjw7mt.jpg
Chris (Lincoln, UK)
I've just had 24syv Radio from Denmark on 102.7 (Aalborg - 743km/40kW) with RDS and also on 103.0 (Århus - 745km/60kW). I also had a German station on 103.0, a Dutch one on 88.0 and so far I've had:
106.0 - Gem 106
102.5 - Pulse 1
103.1 - Free Radio (currently listening to this as I write this!)
102.0 - Capital Manchester
106.0 - Gem 106
102.5 - Pulse 1
103.1 - Free Radio (currently listening to this as I write this!)
102.0 - Capital Manchester
Originally Posted by FmBandScan:
“And now Denmark, DR P3 on 91.7, 92.6 and 97
2. I don't want to sleep!”
“And now Denmark, DR P3 on 91.7, 92.6 and 97
2. I don't want to sleep!”
I've got it on 92.6 now as well. 24syv is still on 102.7/103.0.
Last night around 10pm was very poor, but just before work earlier this morning I had BBC Cymru on 104.3, NDR Info on 105.3 and a German Hitradio on 107.3.
Since last night, and to the present time, I am getting Dutch, German and for the first time ever, Danish radio stations.
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