Skegness Files 2016-01-01 (Au Es > FIN S NOR ISL)

[John Faulkner, Skegness]

Auroral Es Files from the early morning of 2016-01-01:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/wfr65 ... 3.4%29.ape

http://www.mediafire.com/download/1ts9p ... 3.4%29.ape

http://www.mediafire.com/download/ih71v ... 8.8%29.ape

http://www.mediafire.com/download/io1k4 ... 3.3%29.ape

http://www.mediafire.com/download/5i6rb ... 8.9%29.ape

http://www.mediafire.com/download/f0t86 ... 8.0%29.ape

You will need the Monkey's Audio compression tool to decompress the files, available here: http://www.monkeysaudio.com/

Note: Mediafire sometimes throws up pop-up ads. These are harmless. Just close them.

Good DX!

[Tim Bucknall]

0103
87.6 someone playing black hole sun by soundgarden, very brief
87.7 YLE YKSI xf dance pop playing largo new world symphony (hovis bread music!)
87.8 unid playing J-LO "On the floor"
87.8 EE report from Brazil "right now the weather is warm, we also celebrate ?? we also celebrate xmas like the christians all over the world"
87.9 YLE YKSI
87.9 SR P1, yl tlk
88.0 YLE YKSI
88.1 classical wk, not YLE, pretty much has to be LR 3 from Daugavpils, Latvia
88.2 EZL
88.5 YLE YKSI
88.6 E203 Prince mx xf R&B
88.9 YLE YKSI
89.0 yl: "hello paola, welcome to finland!" Paola : "thankyou!"
89.0 unid w/ Barry Manilow Mandy
89.0 unid w/stand by you by rachel platten
89.2 YLE YKSI
89.4 unid w/ "turn the music louder" by KDA
89.5 YLE YKSI
89.6 RTE 1, Mt leinster!, Brf pk at start of file. talk about post offices
89.8 YLE YKSI
89.9 YLE YKSI, poor
89.9 Rachel Platten song // 89.0
90.0 swedish om
90.2 song "the only ones" by melody club
90.3 SR P1 swedish yl/om
90.3 pop
90.5 YLE YKSI (poor)
90.5 Curtis steigers "wonder why"
90.7 SR p1 swedish yl/om //90.3 E201
90.7 YLE YKSI
91.1 serious tlk
91.1 KDA song // 89.4
91.1 closer by tegan & sara
91.2 unid, sounds like "utra fm" w/ steve miller baltic states? ( if you make an audio file of this i can sned it to my latvian friend)
91.3 blank carrier over BBC R3, almost at rds level. Iceland?
91.3 rock mx
91.4 Finnish OM PI 6207
91.6 YLE YKSI (poor)
91.6 rock/metal with widdly guitar solo
91.7 twangy song "the only ones" by "melody club" //90.2
91.8 soul mx "you send me" by percy sledge
91.8 RTE 2FM, Irish OM: "??????today??? yesterday"
92.0 classical, SR p2, 300 watts!
92.0 Finnish OM PI 6207 //91.4

[Tim Bucknall]

92.1 YLEX 6202
92.4 swedish om
92.5 "the heat is on"
92.5 unid phone interview
92.6 YLEX //92.1
92.8 YLEX
92.8 classical SR p2? not in at same time as 92.0 so can't check //
92.9 more unid classical no //
93.0 heavy metal "in deaths embrace by dimmi borgir" seems //91.6
93.0 bad girls by donna summer
93.2 YLE YKSI
93.3 unid w/classical

[daveB]

I remember that opening very well. I won't attempt to access the posted files - download speed is only 5 Mbps

If you have files that span the the period 0140 - 0145 UTC - look for reception of the Faroe Isles. I got full RDS on 89.9, 92.8, and also 94.3 MHz. Finland Norway Sweden Island and Wales all received.

[Tim Bucknall]

nice one Dave, i was called away before i could finish the files but Ireland was a surprise

i missed this opening i think but i did record the 16/6/17 spectacular, i'll share band II files when i can get at them
i've uploaded an OIRT file on here i think but it just sounds like normal e skip at that frequency

[Nick Gilly]

I missed the opening on 1.1.16 but I have plenty of recordings from the 16.6.17 opening that Tim mentions. The band was open for much of the day, and I had Moscow on 87.9 (with PI code) and 88.7 towards the end of that day's activity.