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In the evening time there was some small tropo towards the north from me.
In a attempt to catch some new stations on DAB+ I found four new channels never seen before.

It was 9C from the North of Germany, 12B and 12D from Norway and 13B from Danmark.

Johan-Drieborg.

This is my Es log from 15 may, lots of stations fading in and out on the same frequency almost the whole day. So it was very difficult to ID a lot of them. But it was great fun so early in the saison to see such a great and long opening. 744 87.50 I Radio Subasio Sigillo/Monte Columeo (Monte Cucco) ...

A nice opening towards CZE and SVK, but only one station to hear from this country. Loads of Germans also and they where load! So maybe thats why the CZE and SVK could not be heard. 1733 95.60 CZE Vltava Plzen 541 1832 100.10 CZE Dvojka Pardubice 701 1836 103.20 CZE Dvojka Votice 655 1842 91.40 CZE ...

Great reception again John.
Amazing what this receiver can do with weak and short messages!

Johan-Drieborg.

Thanks Brian to share your update also on Skywaves. Because I just start to build the Körner19.3 and have some material left I also try to build your yagi. Also because the freq is much wider then my DL6WU. Thanks for the information about the mounts for the elements. Already send Sven a mail to ord...

Thanks again for the advice Brian. But as a hamradio operator you also know you have lots of ideas and more antennas then towers. I have some limited space overhere, and erected alreeady 2 small towers and some poles around the house. Will see what I can do to bring the DAB not to close to the Körne...

When I cam home this afternoon from work there was a small TR (?) opening going on towards CZE. If you look at Hepburn around that time there was no sign of a TR path. Could hear only the stations below in the log and already most of that stations had deep qsb, but wqith the help from FMList and the...

Brian thanks very much to model this antenne also. It looks like it does a good job. I can say also in practice it is working well. What you see in the pictures is how I tested the antenna if it is working. Actually the pipe where I mounted the antenna is from plastic. Next week I will mount the ant...

To build your own DAB+ antenne is not so difficult. From Rob PE1ITR I got a design for a 10 elements DAB antenna with a boom almost 3 meter long. For the boom I used the 20x20 mm Alu as in the Körner 15.12, the diameter for the elements are 10mm so I could use again the Nuxcom element holder. Drill ...

This week I started also to look what I can see on the DAB band in my area. Till my surprise it is much more then I thought! I am using a OIRT antenna to recieve those signals, but already started to build a 10 elements DL6WU DAB antenna. If it is finished I will publish it also in this forum. The "...

Nice conditions towards BEL and F in the afternoon and evening in the North part of the Netherlands. Could hear station about 950 km away from my qth. I don't speak France but what is this FMList a great help to ID the stations also when you listen to the streams on the FMList page. Great work guys ...

A very good day for DXing and a lot of new stations and offcourse a lot of old ones. This was a superb day for watching how my new Körner antenna was working, and must say it is perfect. I am very happy I build this antenna at least because it brings in a lot of new fun into listening to the radio! ...

Into the NE part from the Netherlands all the coast stations from NOR are booming in!
Already 3 times scant the band but can't find new stations.

What to do now?

Johan-Drieborg.

Also in the Netherlands (east part) the band is open to several direction.
F-BEL-G are all comming in.
Also SUI is now but it's weak.

Johan.

When I came home from work in the afternoon foudn a nice tropo opening towards Belgium and France. At the office I already saw what others put into there logs. When I came home I rushed to the shack and could log some new ones in both country's. 1541 88.50 F France Culture Bourges 733km 1543 88.70 F...

Wow Brian good looking!
We never saw that yesterday!
Will tell it to Gerard and we will see how it is working.

Thanks for the tip!

Johan.

Most of the time when you go out with antennas, radio's and more stuff in the Netherlands people think you are playing with a transmitter and are a pirate stations. Most people not only in my country know that overhere we have thousands of radio pirates, because most people like those stations they ...

Last week I told you about the building of my Körner 15/12. Today my friend Gerard Noordhof, PE1BBI, was at my house to test his new build Körner 15/12. We did lot of test with several radiostations and at the end we found out that both antenna where almost work the same! Gerard changed some things ...

This afternoon I did a small check to see if I could find some new stations not heard before. In about 3 hours time I found 18 new stations, no big distance this time. But always nice to find new ones. 1459 96.10 D SWR1 Rheinland-Pfalz, Koblenz 329 1500 97.80 D NDR 1 Welle Nord, Bungsberg 258 1504 9...

Last two evenings I could hear some stations that where not in my log before (SR P1 Hörby I can hear every day). Some nice ones between 500 - 600 kilometer away. Nice distance and some stations did it via TR scatter. But it is very nice nice to hear stations pop up out of the noise! 21-10: 1842 90.1...