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Es to Arizona, two more new stations - 6/5/20

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crainbebo

Has Eskip become a weekly normalcy or what? Another opening at lunchtime resulted in two new stations out of Phoenix. Logged quite a bit with a brand new Sangean ATS-909X, purchased off an eBay auction for $160. The RDS / PTY/ RT seemed to work out well in this case! Times Pacific, and I don't have exact times but this Es was all between 12:15-12:40PM local time. In order:

88.7 tentative KNAU Flagstaff, AZ with classical, very weak signal in and out with KDMB Moses Lake.
92.3 KTAR Glendale, AZ; with Dave Ramsey show over KZUS Ephrata. Relog, 98KW at 1028 miles.
90.3 KFLR-FM Phoenix, AZ; with references to 'myflr.org' and Family Life Radio in between songs. NEW #603, 100KW at 1028 miles.
93.7 KRQQ Tucson, AZ; with '93-7 KRQ' ID. Relog, 93KW at 1136 miles.
96.1 KLPX Tucson, AZ; with RDS on 909X, 'KLPX-FM'. Relog, 82KW at 1135 miles.
93.3 KDKB Mesa, AZ; with song match to 'Personal Jesus' by Depeche Mode. Relog, 100KW at 1028 miles.
(Had something chewing up 100KW KATS-94.5, but didn't defeat its signal - likely KOOL Phoenix)
97.9 KUPD Tempe, AZ; over KZTB with rock music and 'Arizona's Real Rock' '98 KUPD' IDed by that deep and familiar voice of David Lee. Finally nailed this one, it was well wanted. NEW #604, 100KW at 1028 miles.
98.7 KMVP-FM Phoenix, AZ; sports talk and partial RDS decode 'ARIZONA'. Relog, 100KW at 1028 miles.
99.9 KESZ Phoenix, AZ; with RDS '99.9 KEZ'. Relog, 100KW at 1028 miles.
100.7 KSLX Scottsdale, AZ; with Bon Jovi's 'You Give Love a Bad Name' and RDS with song title and '100.7 KSLX'. Relog, 100KW at 1028 miles.
102.5 KNIX Phoenix, AZ; RDS '102.5 KNIX' and Toby Keith's 'I Love This Bar.' Relog, 100KW at 1028 miles.
104.7 KZZP Mesa, AZ; over KKRV Wenatchee with RDS ID 'KISS FM'. Relog, 100KW at 1028 miles.
Top of band with 107.9 KMLE Chandler, AZ; Kenny Chesney's 'She's Got it All' // playlist. Relog, 96KW at 1028 miles.
95.5 KYOT Phoenix, AZ; reference to KFYI-550. Relog, 100KW at 1028 miles.

Took a nosedive around 12:40 and wiped out of FM after that. Two new ones, nothing to be ashamed about. Also had Classical on 89.5 over KSOH Wapato (likely KBAQ), Whitney Houston on 104.3 (likely KAJM, but no ID no log), and an SSer on 105.1 (likely KHOV).

RDS pics attached from 909X. The RDS will trigger at about 50% signal strength on that radio. But they will be 'saved' if they fade out and I don't change the channel. Some PHX signals got up over 70% at peak, so this cloud was strong yet brief. Looks like the camera is reflecting off the screen so they aren't very good pics but at least you can see the RDS reading.
KMVP RDS - https://www.mediafire.com/view/qcz4cr8yfvgasin/P1070317.JPG/file
KESZ RDS - https://www.mediafire.com/view/21m12818a0rnmzp/P1070318.JPG/file
KSLX RDS - https://www.mediafire.com/view/c86z282cvic564w/P1070319.JPG/file
KNIX RDS - https://www.mediafire.com/view/sum0k4jbsk4vlbl/P1070320.JPG/file
KZZP RDS - https://www.mediafire.com/view/4cbwtnlutzrfdfg/P1070321.JPG/file

A couple of audio recordings will come later today.
 
Those stations are the main reason why I've never heard any E-skip on FM in Phoenix. :D
 
KeithE4 said:
Those stations are the main reason why I've never heard any E-skip on FM in Phoenix. :D
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Is this why I never seem to hear any E-Skip in the Phoenix area? I have tried many times, but the FM dial is so congested here, I feel like it is next to impossible to catch anything here.
 
Your FM dial is about as packed as I've ever seen. Every open channel is translators or LPFMs now! Talk about pieces of the pie 56 ways. The AM dial is far better.
I think the only real open channels in Phoenix to try for DX are 88.1, 88.5, 90.1, and maybe 1 to 2 others. That's it. And that has to take a radio that can defeat the slop from adjacents like KVCP.
 
True. It's great to have so much content on the radio here. It just makes it so that you can't hear out-of-state FM radio basically ever.
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You've been missing out. A couple weeks ago, KDRT-LP 95.7 in Davis CA was logged by a DXer in Laramie WY. Meanwhile, San Francisco has had some pretty good openings lately to TX/CO/etc....
 
asugeorge1 said:
Is this why I never seem to hear any E-Skip in the Phoenix area? I have tried many times, but the FM dial is so congested here, I feel like it is next to impossible to catch anything here.
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I never got much E-skip on TV, either. The last one I remember receiving was KREM-TV Channel 2 Spokane WA in 1999.

Now, per W9WI.com, there are only 10 full-powered stations on RF Channel 2 in the US, and 3 running more than 10 kW ERP in Canada. I have no info on Mexico, Cuba, or anywhere else in Lain America and the Caribbean. Anybody able to receive them via E-Skip?
 
KeithE4 said:
I never got much E-skip on TV, either. The last one I remember receiving was KREM-TV Channel 2 Spokane WA in 1999.

Now, per W9WI.com, there are only 10 full-powered stations on RF Channel 2 in the US, and 3 running more than 10 kW ERP in Canada. I have no info on Mexico, Cuba, or anywhere else in Lain America and the Caribbean. Anybody able to receive them via E-Skip?
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I was never able to get good E-Skip on TV channel 2 in Phoenix, Arizona, but I was able to get it on TV Channel 3 one summer in the late 1990’s in Chicago, Illinois. I remember not understanding what was happening, but my grandparents had a powerful rooftop antenna on their house and Channel 3 in Chicago is empty so I was confused as to what was going on. I remember picking up a station from the Black Hills of South Dakota that got strong, then faded and then a station from Sacramento, California came across with their local news. There were other stations, but those two were the most memorable that I still remember to this very day. I have never experienced any tv or fm E-Skip ever since I moved to Phoenix in 1997.
 
asugeorge1 said:
I was never able to get good E-Skip on TV channel 2 in Phoenix, Arizona, but I was able to get it on TV Channel 3 one summer in the late 1990’s in Chicago, Illinois. I remember not understanding what was happening, but my grandparents had a powerful rooftop antenna on their house and Channel 3 in Chicago is empty so I was confused as to what was going on. I remember picking up a station from the Black Hills of South Dakota that got strong, then faded and then a station from Sacramento, California came across with their local news. There were other stations, but those two were the most memorable that I still remember to this very day. I have never experienced any tv or fm E-Skip ever since I moved to Phoenix in 1997.
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In the Chicago area back then I remember getting channel 3 from Kalamazoo, Mi during tropo, but I never had the E-skip success on that channel that you had. Nice going!
 
I have had several good E-skip logs on channel 3 in the good old analog days in Chicago including WFCB (Hartford, CT), KIII (Corpus Cristi, TX), KATC (Lafayete, LA), WEDU (Tampa, FL), KACB (San Angelo, TX), but the most common log on this channel used to be KENW (Portales, NM), which was logged every summer. Common tropo logs included WWMT (Kalamazoo, MI), WISC (Madison, WI, WCIA (Champaign, IL).
 
CADXER said:
I have had several good E-skip logs on channel 3 in the good old analog days in Chicago including WFCB (Hartford, CT), KIII (Corpus Cristi, TX), KATC (Lafayete, LA), WEDU (Tampa, FL), KACB (San Angelo, TX), but the most common log on this channel used to be KENW (Portales, NM), which was logged every summer. Common tropo logs included WWMT (Kalamazoo, MI), WISC (Madison, WI, WCIA (Champaign, IL).
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I forgot about channel 3 in Madison. I picked that up a few times in the analog era.
 
I can't tell you everything I DXed via ESkip in the 60s and 70s (mostly) but I had Cuba on 3 and 6 (I particularly remember a propaganda cartoon, where a kid was the hero helping to overthrow "el gobierno de" some imperialist or the other, to cheering crowds once the good, revolutionary government was in place. WEAR-3 in Pensacola, FL was kind of regular. WPBT, PBS in Miami was always an early indicator of a southern band opening. Plenty of Texas in that era too.



radioman148 said:
I forgot about channel 3 in Madison. I picked that up a few times in the analog era.
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gr8oldies said:
I can't tell you everything I DXed via ESkip in the 60s and 70s (mostly) but I had Cuba on 3 and 6 (I particularly remember a propaganda cartoon, where a kid was the hero helping to overthrow "el gobierno de" some imperialist or the other, to cheering crowds once the good, revolutionary government was in place. WEAR-3 in Pensacola, FL was kind of regular. WPBT, PBS in Miami was always an early indicator of a southern band opening. Plenty of Texas in that era too.



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Where were you at the time? I remember getting Miami on TV in the Chicago area, but never Cuba.
 
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