Steve Loft wrote:
Our normally poor FM radio reception is even worse than usual at the
moment - we're picking up some Spanish stations quite well where Radio 2
ought to be. Something to do with the weather?

Could be trophospheric ducting (anaprop - which is) or Sporadic - E
(which isn't) Steve.

I don't know if phases of the moon, alien invasions or earthquake
activity have anything to do with it though...

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In the days before the Internet I used to take advantage of the earth's
shadow at this time of year to capture fax broadcasts from Australia
there was a period for an hour around dusk when AXI / AXM used to come
hammering in around 7MHz. It was so good some nights I could recieve fax
broadcasts on my hf150 in wideband synchronous AM mode (from Australia!)
and got some cracking images.. Shadow / grey line (??) propogation I
think it was called...

Les
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