Thread: Atmospherics (merged)

Well the Hepburn maps are showing tropo for the end of the week - the first tropo since the end of October. Pity it seems to retreat to the SW after a day or so.

Adding Minster FM to that on 104.7 And another first for me. RTE 2FM from the 100kw Mount Leinster on 91.8Mhz.

Quote: Originally Posted by KnobTwiddler I used to walk up to the top of Ivinghoe Beacon carrying a 12v battery with an FT290 and a slim jim, plus a Grundig Statellit radio and a homebrew 3 ele beam - I was 20 years younger and radio mad in those days. Another couple of good locations for dxing is Devil's Dyke just North of Brighton and Box Hill North East of Dorking in Surrey. Thanks for the tips on places to check out, although the Mrs...

Had a bit of a play around with the 4 element triax last night- it's not permanently mounted anywhere, so I was able to rotate it a bit by hand.... RDS levels from Rowridge (including Radio Solent) RDS from Sutton Coldfield and Tacolneston Stereo Heart 96.3 from Bristol (or was it Heart 96.3 from Essex- shows were networked so there was no way of finding out) Stereo Heart 96.6 from Northampton Mono BBC Kent 96.7 RDS BBC Cymru (Wenvoe)...

Its not coming from Guildford its coming from alot further away past it.

Looks like the MUF went above 144 MHz this evening with two metre contacts between England and Wales and the Azores and Portugal.

Been getting tropo from Lille and Egem on and off since Sunday, but it's 'off' at the moment and it's been nowhere near as good as the maps predicted. At least not yet...

Quote: Originally Posted by moordown66 Studio Brussel banging in on 102.1 today and radio Broadland on 102.4. Usually get Fox FM if I get anything on that frequency. Studio also hammering in in Newcastle. Also getting some thing on 104.1 that just plays varied music and whispers something FM every now and then. Not sure what it is but I think it's from the continent.

i don't know if this was a lift but on a friends bog standard radio today i was getting Kiss 101.0 from bromsgrove. The radio was truly basic having serious issues with Birmingham stations such as Kerrang and Smooth. again i don't know if it was a lift or my location but it was certainly a surprise

I'm currently getting a decent mono signal from BBC York on 103.7. Quite pleased about that, but a bit disappointed that none of the other Yorks/Humberside stations are coming in just now. Also getting decent mono signals from BBC Devon on 103.4, Capital 95.8 and Smooth East Mids on 106.6, but that's not too unusual for me in lift conditions.