Tropo brings N-ether-lands on FM

Perhaps this spell of chucking filly (spoonerism) weather may be drawing to a close. At least, the high pressure appears to be slowly moving away.

As a result, today has brought a spell of short-range but relatively consistent tropospheric ducting, meaning a number of Dutch FM stations are now audible - both in Garforth and Clowne, and on the journey to and from said locations.

This morning, I first noted Arrow Classic Rock (Holland) on 87.7 FM. A welcome return (albeit probably short lived) to my radio of a ststion I used to listen to sometimes on 675kHz, when it used to broadcast on MW.

Arrow Classic Rock was still there this evening, now occasionally strong enough to read the RDS, which scrolls as follows:

ARROW
CLASSIC
ROCK
ARROW-NL
*AFLITS*

According to FMLIST, this was from the Lelystad/PTT Toren transmitter (chuffa chuffa whoo whoo, lol)

A number of other Dutch stations were heard this evening, as follows:

88.0 Radio 2 (announced as Radio Tre), RDS = RADIO 2
91.8 Radio 1, RDS = RADIO 1
92.6 FFN (announced thereas)
96.8 3-FM (or was it V-FM?)
100.7 Q-Music

There were other Dutch stations heard, very weakly, but reception of these was very difficult due to fading and/or their proximity of UK-based stations in frequency.