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FM Skip DX season is here!

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dtvdxer

Finally some real good FM skip in the northeast this morning (5/14), noted best between 9am and 10am, some signals lingering til around 11:30am. I was receiving many strong stations generally from the New Orleans, LA area.. including top of band WZKX-107.9 "Kicker Country" Bay St.Louis, MS, and "Mustang-107.1" KOGM Opelousas, LA with just 750 watts. News WWL-105.3 New Orleans, LA was first new log of the morning and also "Tix-94.3" oldies WTIX Galliano, LA was in over local "Kicks-94.3" country WKXP. Other new logs included WXRR-104.5 and WWOZ-90.7 for the first time.
While I was getting LA-MS, SC DXers were getting IA-MN, and Dxers around the Great Lakes were getting mostly Florida. Reverse paths also should have been DXable this morning.
 
Tropo has been happening all year long along the Gulf Coast...E skip thru the mid belt of the US has also happened...In fact, May is kinda late for E Skip and tropo (especially along the weather affected Gulf and other coastlines)...met and knew the previous owner of KOGM.....one of the few small town single ops left.....damn shame he passed..

6m ham band has been seeing E skip for several months at short times....looks like the regular openings are coming though....which is fine with me. Time to get the 6m antennas in the air!
 
You're sure right. I had country music coming in well this morning on 93-5 and thought it was Crockett, Texas station KBPC. That is, until I heard a commercial for some grocer in central Kansas. Could not hold it long enough for an ID confirmation and subsequent log, but that's pretty good considering we've got a local on either side of the channel, in KQBU and KQBT.
 
ContinuousWave said:
Tropo has been happening all year long along the Gulf Coast...E skip thru the mid belt of the US has also happened...In fact, May is kinda late for E Skip and tropo (especially along the weather affected Gulf and other coastlines)...met and knew the previous owner of KOGM.....one of the few small town single ops left.....damn shame he passed..

6m ham band has been seeing E skip for several months at short times....looks like the regular openings are coming though....which is fine with me. Time to get the 6m antennas in the air!
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I take it you are likely in the western Gulf region.

Here in Florida, it's been the worst tropo season I can remember.
 
gar fla said:
I take it you are likely in the western Gulf region.

Here in Florida, it's been the worst tropo season I can remember.
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Yep, the Continuous One is located in Beaumont. As for me, the Kansas catch was pure luck here in Houston. First time I've heard from the signal, and sure wish I could have added it to the books. C'est la vie, there will be other opportunities. You aren't kidding about the poor conditions this year, gar. I have yet to hear some of my regulars here this season, 94-9 out of Laredo being the most glaring example.
 
The tropo season has also been crappy here in San Antonio as compared to last May. I had high hopes since there were a few real good tropo days here in late March and late April.

I'm still waiting for the e-skip season to kick in as well. I saw that an S.A. ham on the TV FM Skip Log had some e-skip in late April, but there was nothing for me that day. Last year the season started for me on May 25.
 
Well, I got my wish yesterday! Shortly before 9 a.m. I noticed that local KSYM 90.1 was off air, presumably because of the previous night's severe storms. Soon thereafter I had a fade up of Christian pop with an ID of Air 1 Positive Hits - 90.1 Chillicothe, 99.3 Columbus. So it was WOHC, 7 kW at 1,107 miles. It was there for about two more minutes and gone.

I had nothing more that morning, but in the afternoon I logged new ones from WI (WCLQ 89.5 - 89Q in Wausau) and MN (KXXR 93.7 - 93X in Minneapolis and KNOW 91.1 - MPR in Minneapolis-St. Paul). MN is a new state for me on FM. Woohoo!

This e-skip season started for me at exactly the same time as last year - the day before Memorial Day.
 
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