{"id":38076,"date":"2019-06-05T07:23:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T11:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=38076"},"modified":"2020-02-14T08:21:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T12:21:50","slug":"guest-post-roseanna-snags-some-unexpected-fm-dx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/guest-post-roseanna-snags-some-unexpected-fm-dx\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post: Roseanna snags some unexpected FM DX"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Roseanna, who shares the following guest post originally published on her blog, The Girl with the Radio<\/a>:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Unexpected FM madness!<\/h1>\n

I would like tho share with you a once in a lifetime Sporadic-E event that happened to me today along with videos of the catches I received during it.<\/p>\n

It was about 12:00 UTC (1PM local time) and I was listening to NRJ on my personal FM transmitter (106.3MHz) when all of a sudden my pop music fuzzed and turned into classical music. It was then that I knew something was happening and I didn\u2019t want to miss it!<\/p>\n

I jumped up, got out my phone camera and started scanning around trying to find distant FM stations and my goodness did I get some amazing catches!<\/p>\n

There was no tropo forecast for my area nor some of the places I heard and I wasn\u2019t prepared in the slightest so I ask for your forgiveness on the shaky unprofessional footage and I hope you enjoy watching the following catches that I received!<\/p>\n

For those interested my setup is a Sony ST-SE570<\/strong> with a \u201cbunny ear\u201d telescopic aerial with the ground positioned vertically and the feed positioned horizontally. I put the feed to be facing at 90 degrees East to West.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer: the order in which these stations were received has been altered to make this blog post more fun, the times in UTC are in the video titles for those of you interested in the chronological order in which I received these stations!<\/p>\n

First stop: Czechia!<\/h2>\n