Logs from South-West of France - Sunday, December 13

[Toutatis]

Fine weather and fair propagation this Sunday.
Some stations heard :

0753 6220 55545 Mystery Radio
0809 5815 43443 Orion Radio
0832 6882 45444 Pirate Music
0841 6421 35433 Laser Hot Hits
1056 12257 34433 WR International - 1105 : end
1106 6325 45434 Radio Merlin Int
1123 6210 45544 Radio Borderhunter
1136 6400 45544 Weekend Music Radio
1148 6310 43433 Radio Condor - co-channel with Radio l'Arboç - 1153 : end
1155 6305 55545 Radio Boomerang - very strong signal - 1159 : end
1325 6300 35433 Unid
1357 6310 44544 Unid - tent : Radio Malaisy
1844 6220 43533 Mystery Radio

Good listening, by Toutatis !

[JoJo]

Hello Toutatis,

thanks for the log.

[Dave Jones]

Hi Toutatis,
Many thanks for the logs of WR International for this Sunday 13-01-2008.

Dave Jones.

[Box73]

Tnx for the logging.

It seems latest antenne is working rather nice for 'DX', however (as expected) local signal is a bit troublesome.
(but this could be more related to the poor local propagation nowadays)
Unfortionally my neighbour does need his acres again when spring arrives.

[Toutatis]

Can you confirm if you were the Unid station at 1155 on 6305 kHz ?
What type of antenna were you using ?

Greetings
Toutatis

[Box73]

Yep, that's correct.

Technically spoken, I was using a collinear array of two end-fed full wavelenth radiators.
It seems to work very nice for the long(er) distances, but local signals are somewhat disappointing.

But that's the principle of antennas: With equal power, when signal is increased in certain directions/distances, the signal in (some) other directions/distances has to be lower in strength.

With nowadays bad local propagation this seems just the right type of antenna to use.