Last year I flew with Thomas Cook from Newcastle to Kos and I DX'd most of the journey on the way there, it was really fun. I might be able to do the same tomorrow, we will see. I am flying Thomas Cook again so I might be allowed.

That's good news! Could you try AM for me too, I'd like to know if there is any interference on a plane.

Sure, if I have the chance I'll try it, I remember last year I briefly tried 747 AM but I didn't get anything, but I'll try again if I have the chance to.

Odd that Genesis should come in of all stations - it's barely audible anywhere in London...

I hope you get the chance to do a bandscan in Sharm El Sheikh. The tropo in the eastern Mediterranean/Red Sea in summer is very intense. If you have a decent radio and are sat on a high balcony I'd imagine you could get some interesting logs with distances of ~1000 km.

It was the only pirate I could hear. It's appeared this evening too but at very low levels.

Some lower powered Belgians coming through now on the vertical FM5.

99.4 Topradio, Gent
101.0 Nostalgie Vlaanderen, Oostvletern
105.5 Topradio Westhoek, Staden
107.6 Costa FM, Koksijde

101.0 and 107.6 are noise free on peak. Quite choppy signals for tropo though. I think some of this is just very good aircraft scatter.

Also receiving Rire Et Chansons from Abbeville on 107.1

Good DX!

John
Skegness, Lincolnshire

Troposcatter:

107.3 0825 BEL VBRO, Diksmuide/IJzertoren (vlg-wvl) Johnny Nash song, as 107.5 web 292 km
107.5 0825 BEL VBRO, Poperinge (vlg-wvl) Johnny Nash song as 107.3 web 304 km
107.7 0828 G Chelmsford Radio 107.7, Chelmsford/Church Green (EN-ESX) Retro Years quiz 160 km
107.2 0835 BEL Radio Bingo, Roeselare/Zilverberg (vlg-wvl) Jingle ID 313 km
105.5 0848 BEL Topradio, Staden/Stadenberg (vlg-wvl) Club beats, as web stream 299 km
106.2 0848 F France Bleu Nord, Calais/Mont d'Hubert (62) French phone in, as 94.7 266 km
97.0 0901 BEL VRT MNM, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw/Norkring Toren (vlg-vbr) ID and news 376 km
98.2 0901 HOL Radio 4, Loon op Zand/Alticom Toren (nbr) ID after news, jingle 366 km
99.0 0903 BEL Randstad FM, Mechelen/Douaneplein (vlg-ant) Jingle ID after news. Pops 371 km
99.2 0904 F RTL 2, Calais/Mont d'Hubert (62) U2s Pride, as web stream 266 km
102.5 0906 F RFM, Calais/Mont d'Hubert (62) Queen, as web stream 266 km
102.9 0908 BEL Nostalgie Vlaanderen, Schoten (vlg-ant) Lime track, as web stream 354 km
103.1 0909 BEL Q-Music, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw/Norkring Toren (vlg-vbr) POps, as web stream 376 km
107.5 0937 HOL Scheldemond FM, Oostburg/Watertoren (zee) Spoken ID jingle 296 km
87.5 1046 G UNID, Funky FM? 1022 _Essex__. Unattended
90.5 1424 HOL Arrow Jazz FM, Rotterdam/Alticom Toren (zho) Jazzy vibes, as 90.7 313 km
99.4 2240 BEL Topradio, Gent/IVAGO Proeftuinstraat 43 (vlg-ovl) Club song, as web stream 333 km
101.0 2241 BEL Nostalgie Vlaanderen, Oostvleteren/Elzendamme (vlg-wvl) Jingle ID. Noise free 295 km
107.1 2306 F Rire et Chansons, Abbeville/Huchenneville (80) OM YL comedy sketch, as web stream 359 km
106.9 2310 F Skyrock, Béthune/Fresnicourt-le-Dolmen (62) F214 SKYROCK_ 341 km
107.6 2325 BEL Costa FM, Koksijde (vlg-wvl) 60FE COSTA_FM 276 km
97.8 2329 HOL Radio 2, Westdorpe/Verkavelingsweg (zee) 8202 323 km
107.2 2353 BEL Radio Bingo, Roeselare/Zilverberg (vlg-wvl) 6000 _BINGO__ 313 km
90.2 2355 HOL 100% NL, Roosendaal/Alticom Toren (nbr) 83D3 334 km

Difficult to be certain about the mode of propagation of the above loggings although I suspect troposcatter: Slow fade-ins/outs lasting a few seconds. Not choppy like aircraft scatter and definitely not sustained enough to be a full-blown tropo.

Good DX!

John
Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1m ASL

Receivers:
Sony XDR-F1HD (tropospheric)
Kenwood KT6040 (sporadic E & meteor scatter)
Icom IC7000 (OIRT)
Conrad RDS Manager

Aerials:
Rooftop Triax FM5, 8m AGL
Yaesu G-5500 azimuthal/elevation rotator

Software:
RDS Spy v0.97
VAC v4.10

I am receiving occasional bursts of RNE5 on 105.0 but I am trying to decide if it is very weak tropo or meteor scatter.

Tours is also on the frequency but everything is extremely weak and Cambridge 105 (also very weak) is determined to have the last word, resulting in a burbling mess. All three stations seem to come up on the frequency at the same time.

Good DX!

John
Skegness, Lincolnshire

89.6 Westside Radio, Southall being received now. Not sure how well this generally gets out but it's a first timer for me.

Good DX!

John
Skegness, Lincolnshire

Belgium is again coming through nice here.
I haven't been getting much Es lately because there's now some Pirate station called Essex on 87.5. Hopefully they'll start pushing through soon.

No Spain here although Brest is up to 1 bar on the XDR beaming east so conditions to Brittany must be good. I also heard some weak French on 94.1 but that was swamped by Tacolneston.

I am sometimes getting what I presume is Metro Love Radio on 92.2 with reggae and ads/DJ chat. it keeps disappearing into the co-channel weak Radio 3 signal though. Also a weak blank carrier on 91.6 which i presume is Genesis Radio again.

Our cat died yesterday afternoon so I did no dxing yesterday and I won't be around much today as I have to make a coffin and bury it.

I have just had a listen and I can hear boom boom music in the back of the box on 87.5 so that maybe a weak Distinct fm.

Heart from Sutton coldfield is here on 100.7 but no foreign stuff.


Andy

Sorry to hear about your cat Andy You certainly didn't miss much in the way of E-skip yesterday. I doubt if there'll be any E-skip in the UK today though as I have the day off work (he says using reverse pychology to tempt Fate the other way...).

A bit of tropo about though - I'm listening to RTBF Pure FM on 101.1 from Wavre although the signal is unstable and pretty weak - only marginally better than normal summertime conditions.

France Bleu Breiz Izhel on 93.0 from Brest still in with 1 bar here so I'd imagine this tx is getting out across a large part of the south & west of the UK at present.

I'm hearing a weak signal from France Culture Angers on 91.4 despite beaming east! Must be a very good lift to NW France.

France Inter 99.8 in now from Lyon/Mont Pilat with a weak signal. Thought I also heard French on 94.3, maybe France bleu Creuse? I just tried for France Inter Gueret on 100.7 but just LUX on there at present.

Not getting a thing on my radio here :yawn:

Gueret tx now in with France Musique 90.8 the clearest. 94.3 is fighting with Wenvoe and 100.7 was mixing with LUX.

Just sat down for a brew and RADIO NORBA appeared on 87.5 I thought at first it was tropo because it was so stable until it RDS'ed.


Andy

Greece trying on 87.6 here, presumably Laikos FM.

My reception of Radio Norba has appeared no dx sherlock so it's linked to fm list I did not know that.

There are other stations coming and going I'm off digging.

Andy

Hi all, I'm interested in getting a Sony ICF 2001D but I'm not sure whether they are good or it is just all hype, I'm not sure I can justify the cost of spending a lot on one radio, but if they really are good DX machines maybe my mind can be changed.

Has anyone had any experience with one of these or any of the Sony ICF models?

Cheers.

Starting to get more active now, Greece/Balkans from the sound of things.

Tropo is really building up here. London, France & Belgium received with good reception. No E skip yet for me.