These were logged with my mast tilted to almost 90 degrees, where I lowered it because of the recent storms. So the beam was effectively vertically polarised, beaming 240 degrees and at ground level.
Mode Date UTC Frequency ITU Service Location Region Distance (km) Details RDS PI/PS
Tropo 23.02.20 0719 102.80 G Pirate FM Redruth EN-CNW 374 Music " "
Tropo 23.02.20 0719 103.90 G BBC Radio Cornwall Redruth EN-CNW 374 Weather " "
Tropo 23.02.20 0721 104.30 G BBC Radio Devon Beacon Hill North (B) EN-DVN 256 Music " PI logged: C91A PS logged: BBCDevon "
Tropo 23.02.20 0730 93.70 G Express FM Portsmouth/Ladywood House EN-HPS 74 Sports News//Web " "
Mike Fallon
Saltdean
East Sussex
UK
N50°48' W0°1'
IO90XT
Receivers: * Sony XDR-F1HD (PC controlled via Seeeduino board & XDR-GTK software v.1.0) * Elad FDM-S2 SDR * Airspy HF+ Discovery * Airspy R2 SDR * Airspy Mini * SDR Play RSP1A *
Antenna: P.Körner designed 19.4 Yagi (with improved gain & F/B ratio) horizontal at 11m agl / 92m asl on a Tennamast 7.6m telescopic / tiltover mast
* GP cut for ~30MHz * TGN ULNA 3018 Mk.IV Band 2 masthead preamp * 2 x CCW Multicouplers feeding all tuners/SDRs * Yaesu G1000DXC rotator *
Software: SDR# v1732 * SDR Console v3 * Elad FDM-SW2 v3.027 * RDS Spy v1.03 *
My Airspy HF+ Discovery is online (when I’m not using it) via SDR# SpyServer at sdr://212.139.208.227:5555
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