Logs of Saturday 7th May 2016

6305 @ 1743 Merlin - 35434; "Oh Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison, 35333 @ 1947
6285 @ 1746 Focus - 35343; Low Modulation at times, speech louder, "Deamon Lover" by Shocking Blue @ 1804
6260 @ 1904 Ronalisa - 35333; ID and chat, "Ronalisa" by Tjeerd, and CD
6291 @ 1909 Caroline - 24222; Weak, but audible - "Sonne" by Schiller ft Unheilig
6205 @ 1915 Coast FM - 45544; Tenerife station, relay, "Easy Love" by Sigala
6214U @ 1918 MiniPower - s8; "Just An Illusion" by Imagination
6325 @ 1924 Zodiac - 35434; "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who
6335 @ 1935 Lowland - 3-45433; "Bang - A - Boomerang" by ABBA
4026 @ 1940 Laser - 3-45433; "Best Is Yet To Come" by LuvBug
4015 @ 1942 Laser - 44434; "Do It Again" by Steely Dan, slight SSB QRM
5805 @ 1944 Focus - 35443; "Running Bear" by Johnny Preston, quite low modulation
5835 @ 1946 Laser -34333; "Don't Drop Bombs" by Liza Minnelli, slight utility QRM
6423 @ 2011 Studio 52 - 35333; ID and greets to people in Chat, "Get Away" by Maywood
6400 @ 2018 Totaal - 23232; ID, music, then faded into noise
6260 @ 2022 Mazda - 45544; ID and hello to people in Chat, "Rock n Roll is King" by ELO
3930 @ 2031 Batavia - 34333; ID and chat in Dutch
6325 @ 2107 Montferland - 3-45444; "Beautiful Day" by U2, greetings to me
6291 @ 2141 Sallandseboer - 35433; "The Reflex" by Duran Duran, "Reckless" by Afrika Bambaataa
6214 @ 2148 BarraQuda - s8-9; "For Once In My Life" by Stevie Wonder

Conditions were affected by the activity of the sun, and short skip conditions varied tremendously. Merlin was s9 + 20 and then completely gone, and then the signal returned and so on! However, there were still strong signals on the band, even at 2200 UTC this evening. As I write this I am listening to Sallandseboer on 6291 - 45444, then down to 24222! This, of course, is what makes the band so much fun.