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Tropo - N France, Belgium, SW Germany

This alert was from Tuesday. A cold front went through yesterday (Thursday) morning, killing the tropo, but Spain had already disappeared here and the tropo was generally lack lustre. I should have said it was RNE5 from Lierganes on 105.0. This was all I heard, though Nick in Whitchurch (Hants) had ...

RNE5 has been slowly fading in and out here in Reading for the past half hour, very weak. Despite this, signals from the French regulars are poor, notably Brest, which is normally good if I hear Spain. Seems like narrow ducting is the order of the day, rather than widespread enhancement. Don't just ...

Many Latvians at RDS level and high up the band.

Ian Kelly
Reading

Not particularly strong Arabic station floating in and out now on 87.9.

Ian Kelly, Reading, UK

Good signals from Le Mans, and Ussel and Mende have appeared too. Not sure I've had the latter before.

Wasn't sure whether to add a new thread, or add to another! After a lull in the tropo whilst we were blanketed in fog all day Sunday and this morning, conditions improved this afternoon as the fog lifted, opening up to Germany. Now, Denmark is in with steady signals from Rangstrup, 94.8, 97.2, etc. ...

Tropo from Austria has now made it to Reading, with Salzburg up to noise free mono on 94.8, 99.0 and 90.9. The Czech Republic is also hanging around from earlier on 91.4 and 101.7.

Poland has at last made it into Berkshire, a weak signal from RMF FM on 98.4 from Gdansk. Never had Poland on tropo here before.

Just seen on the FMLIST feed that Holme Moss has been logged in Plock, Poland and Mazeikiai, Lithunia via tropo in the last hour or so. That's some ducting! It should work in reverse...

Meanwhile, my part of southern England remains a largely DX free zone...

A fail here on my final day in Kent as well. Conditions the poorest this morning since arrival. Even UK Raw faded out. There was no repeat of the Irish reception that occurred on Monday evening.

Radio NaGael 94.0 Mt Leinster, Ireland, almost fully quiting mono on indoor 3 ele and XDR in temp holiday location at Greatstone, SE Kent!

This might possibly be Omega Radio, a London pirate, which seems to vary between 104.0 and 104.1, which is an Afro Caribbean station. Not sure which they are on at present. They're online at http://www.omegafmradio.co.uk.

Jack FM have two relays for Wallingford and Watlington in Oxfordshire on 106.4 which are even closer together. No idea if they are synchronised.

I've read there are some new DAB outlets in Lincolnshire. Could they be desensing your DAB tuner for LBC?

On a short holiday at Greatstone on the south east coast of Kent. Haven't noticed anything exotic through the wall of French semi locals as yet, Boulogne et al, but an unfamiliar band to me. No Germans or Spain noted as yet. However, a weak Radio Devon 103.4 heard and West London pirate UK Raw heard...

Ireland returned after sunset, with Mount Leinster joining Kippure, on several frequencies.

Lyric FM from Kippure made it through to Reading this morning on 98.7. Ireland is a rare visitor here. Heard it off beam on the horizontal. Let's hope for a repeat as the sun goes down.

John, you'll know I had the same absence of mind some years ago now, when I headed out to Ashley Warren (near Watership Down in North Hampshire), the hotspot for Iberian tropo), and I forgot the mast too. This was the one and only occasion I heard Portugal via tropo, which I managed with the 3 eleme...

I checked out FMLIST, but noted that there is no listing for RSA / Radio Sol de Almijara, but I tracked down their website http://www.rsafm.org/, which gives some more details about the station. Their relay of WRN is mentioned, and checking the link out from their site to WRN's own website confirms ...