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This thread is to plan for a collective listening exercise on 12th april from 0400-0800utc The time has been chosen to give the best chance of long distance tropo and meteor scatter Here’s a simple primer on meteor scatter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_and_FM_DX#Meteor_scatter_propagation We ju...

Good question
I’ll look for one

I’ll also start a new thread for the event

Thanks I didn’t know about this storm but I noticed it was good this morning

Great to hear from you Jorge
We could aim for Sunday 12th april 0400-0800utc?
It will give us time to notify everyone who might be interested

High power midlands pirate 87.5 vertical, could be as high as 10kw

This should get out, anyone hearing it?

Should be possible meteor target for dxers in Europe

I chose the alert forum to get the word out

i asked for a dx test,
we got one!

Radio Mexico 85.7 broadcasting for us

Fusion FM Birmingham 87.5
stonking signal, vertical Pol

it must be getting out well , theres also a mild lift on currently

who's hearing this?

Your tecsun will tune below 87
Keep an ear out for Dutch pirates in the 85-87 range

recording software crashed at 02:30 but the German 60 watter on 87.45 came in on one burst so i think its possible

i've requested a dx test between 0400 & 1000utc
thats the best time for meteor and extreme tropo scatter

good thinking re: weekends, i'll record then

the woman talking?

Cymru back to relaying world service again!
Just to confuse the hell out of me

good news from the Dutch forum
"we are all horizontal polarized.
The most stations using 100 watt, and some stations 1kw or more with 9elm/11elm horizontal beams between 85.00 MHz and 87.10 MHz"

so powers are relatively high and polarisation is horizontal

I'm recording overnight tonight

well, 99.9 was unusually quiet here but i''m only 40 minutes into playback Bigic1 in Serbia built an aerial for the radio in his phone, and he actually caught a ping he recorded overnight and plays back the audio through audacity and can see the audio peaks on the file well done Bigic! another dxers...

we're doing a test recording overnight on 99.9 (the chat group compared our bands and settled on 99.9. if you have a strong local on 99.9 and wish to participate 106.4 is our second choice) if you can make IQ files then 192khz or wider is perfect for those unable to make IQ files, audio recordings a...

They’re now announcing 95.2 any idea where the tx is?

luckily it seems 85.500 exactly is not allocated in the UK here's whats around it but bear in mind that more and more activity is moving to mobile phones these days 85.450 71.950 TONBRIDGE COUNCIL, TONBRIDGE KENT AM KimmyJS19 Jun 2005 85.450 71.950 L036 OFCOM LOW BAND CHANNEL NUMBERS UK WIDE FM Kimm...

I’m having trouble with the elads clock
When playing back recordings the time is consistently 45 seconds slow at the top of the hour
I’ve repeatedly updated my pc clock but elad is unchanged

Ideally I need to solve this before our Listening exercise
So we can properly compare weak traces

Any aerial that receives well will be fine for meteor
You need raw gain, so use whatever gives the strongest signals.
The Aerials will need to be outside preferably on the roof

What times can you listen/record?

I'm sure its possible, I've received very low power STL and studio talkback frequencies via e skip because the band is so clear in this range. it must be a popular band, aerials are available! https://www.innovantennas.com/en/shop-page/554/99/vhf-uhf-ham-radio-antennas/85mhz-86mhz-yagis/5el-85-5mhz-...