• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Post your latest DX

Into Milford PA (Global Tuners) this afternoon, a big Florida Eskip opening

94.9 WWRM Tampa
107.3 WXGL Tampa
103.5 WFUS Tampa
98.5 WKTK Crystal River
94.5 WCFB Daytona Beach
93.7 WOGK Ocala
92.9 WMGQ Ocala
101.9 WQMP Orlando
92.1 WCTQ Venice
99.5 WQYK St. Petersburg
98.7 WPBB Holmes Beach
92.5 WYUU Safety Harbor
105.5 WDUV New Port Richey 'The Dove'
95.7 WBTP Tampa
99.1 WQIK Jacksonville
95.3 WXCV Homosassa Springs 6KW 'Citrus 95'
104.3 WKZM Sarasota Moody Radio
100.9 WXJZ Gainesville
90.7 WAYR Brunswick GA Way Radio
97.1 WSUN Holliday (ex-97X)
97.1 WOSN Indian River Shores
105.1 WHQT Coral Gables
93.9 WMIA Miami Beach
98.3 WWRZ Fort Meade FL 'MAX'
98.3 W252DF Largo FL CBS Sports 250W // WWBA-820
and lots of unids...still going strong
 
100.1 UNID Spanish Religion leads out into English religious hymns and fades out at TOH. I bet both of these were LPFMs in FL
100.3 UNID 'Classic Country 94.1 and 100.3'?
102.5 WHPT Tampa
95.9 W240DV Orlando 99 watts!!! '...240DV Orlando' Hot 95.9
95.9 W240DB Auburndale FL 220 watts! Joy FM // stream 'Jesus is Coming Back' Jordan Feliz

still going in Milford PA
 
Last edited:
crainbebo said:
Look west cyberdad/radioman148 et. al. , someone in Laurel MT is logging IL/WI right now on sporadic-E skip!
Click to expand...
Well I'm not hearing it now, but I'm not surprised. We had major severe weather move through here a short time ago. Hot air moving into the midwest. I've seen/heard this before this time of year.
 
crainbebo said:
Look west cyberdad/radioman148 et. al. , someone in Laurel MT is logging IL/WI right now on sporadic-E skip!
Click to expand...
We had the attack of the supercells here this afternoon. One blew up around Madison and roared its way through Milwaukee Undoubtedly az reaction to me being up in that area earlier this morning...LOL.

Then, a couple of hours later another one came out of nowhere and roared down I-90 from Rockford to the south side of Chicago. That one just scraped our location. Fortunately minimal damage here, but lots of damage south and southeast of us. AT one point the monster was 60,000 feet tall, producing 2-inch hail, and 80 mile wind gusts. Watches and warnings all over, and I was too glued to the TV to think about DXing. :)
 
Last edited:
cyberdad said:
Fortunately minimal damage here, but lots of damage south and southeast of us. AT one point the monster was 60,000 feet tall, producing 2-inch hail, and 80 mile wind gusts. Watches and warnings all over, and I was too glued to the TV to think about DXing. :)
Click to expand...
I was glued to the TV too. By the time it was over I missed the DX opportunity.
 
For some reason I am missing all the E-skip lately. Guess I am always at the wrong place at the wrong time.

However after the big storm that rolled through the area I turned on the radio and by 9:30 pm good tropo ducting was in effect. The opening was favorable towards central Illinois and St. Louis. Stayed up until 1 am logging stations , including some new ones.

Woke up this morning and checked out the FM band and the tropo opening was still going on. Got WKYU Bowling Green, KY as a new log. Opening is still going on as I write this, so I will probably be glued to the radio all day. Benefits of working from home.
 
Last edited:
CADXER said:
after the big storm that rolled through the area I turned on the radio and by 9:30 pm good tropo ducting was in effect. The opening was favorable towards central Illinois and St. Louis. Stayed up until 1 am logging stations , including some new ones.
Click to expand...
I even got in on a tiny bit of the fun this morning. At about 9:30CDT, I was in the car and got treated to WBNQ, Bloomington IL, blowing out local LPFM WHRU (Huntley, IL) on 101.5. Distance 133 miles. WIBA-FM (Madison, W, Distance 74 milres) is the usual pest for WHRU. I've heard WBNQ here before here, but not for at least two decades.

In other news....Yesterday (6/13) before sunrise, I caught daytimer WAQE, from Rice Lake, WI pulling an all-nighter on 1090. Fair to weak signal with KAAY nulled. 5kw from 281 miles. Fox Sports and local ads.

Also WOMT from Manitowoc, WI and WTAX from Springfield IL took turns on top of 1240. Each for about ten minutes and with a positive ID. 131 miles for WOMT and 181 miles for WCVS. Conditions on the AM band actually weren't very good, but sometimes that helps stations break through that would otherwise get buried. WOMT was a new catch. I've heard WTAX a few times previously.
 
Looks like the tropo opening has died out by this afternoon. Here is a recap of what I heard:

June 13

88.5 WBNH IL Pekin, IL 2307 CDT, religious talk
91.5 WCIC IL Pekin 2321, religious music. Overtook WBEZ for a minute, just enough to get an ID. NEW
92.5 WIL MO St. Louis, 2339, country music

June 14

98.5 WPIA IL Eureka, 0001, Kiss FM. NEW
98.1 KYKY MO st. Louis, 0003, Y98
99.1 KLJY MO Clayton, 0006, Joy FM
99.7 WXAJ IL Hillsboro, 0009, 99-7 The Mix
100.5 WYMG IL Springfield, 0011, Springfield's Classic Rock
101.5 WBNQ IL Bloomington, 0015
102.3 WKZF IL Morton, 0017, KZ 102.3. NEW
102.5 KEZK MO St. Louis, 0019
102.9 WSOY IL Decatur, 0022, Y103
105.5 WCZQ IL Monticello, 0028, Hot 105.5
105.7 WIXO IL Peoria, 0033, X Rocks
106.9 WSWT IL Peoria, 0036, Mix 106.9
106.5 WARH IL Granite City, 106.5 The Arch
107.3 WDKR IL Maroa, Classic Hits, NEW
92.5 WREE IL Urbana, 0101, Rewind 92-5, NEW
89.3 WGNJ IL St. Joseph, 0107, religious talk, NEW
88.9 WKYU KY Bowling Green, 0801, NPR, NEW
88.9 WLXJ IN Battle Ground, 0836, K-Love
92.3 WZPW IL Peoria, 0841, NEW
94.5 WLRW IL Champaign, 0900, Top 40
96.1 WSTO KY Owensboro, 0914, Hot 96
96.1 WQQB IL Rantoul, 0917, Q 96.1
96.5 WAZY IN Lafayete, 0921, Z96.5
98.5 WWVR IL Paris, 0931, The River
99.1 WYXY IL Savoy, 0938, WYXY Classic Country
102.1 WDNL IL Danville, 0955, D102
104.1 WBWN IL Le Rey, 1001, B104
104.5 WFMB IL Springfield, 1003, B104.5
91.7 WBGL IL Champaign, 1026

QTH: Wood Dale, IL
Receiver: Sangean HDT-20
Antenna: outdoor Radio Shack FM antenna pointing south
 
UnID Air1 starion on 89.5 FM about 45 minutes ago, was quite clear on my R-108, and mentions of "Air1". Then it just vanished. At the time, the dxmaps.com website suggested I might be getting Texas? (Also, now the map is all fired up, but I've got a meeting that I'm in, go figure)
 
Last edited:
radioman148 said:
I miss the days when we could receive tropo on the low VHF TV channels.
Click to expand...
Oh yeah, Channel 11 (WLUK-TV) from Green Bay coming in like a local when Chicago's channel 11(WTTW) was off. And my ultimate "canary in the coal mine" for tropo during my college days, KMTV-TV channel 3, from Omaha. Semi-local channel 3, KTVO (Ottumwa, Iowa), would sign off and there would be KMTV....from 250 miles away.
 
cyberdad said:
Oh yeah, Channel 11 (WLUK-TV) from Green Bay coming in like a local when Chicago's channel 11(WTTW) was off. And my ultimate "canary in the coal mine" for tropo during my college days, KMTV-TV channel 3, from Omaha. Semi-local channel 3, KTVO (Ottumwa, Iowa), would sign off and there would be KMTV....from 250 miles away.
Click to expand...
I remember channel 11 from Green Bay. Also channel 3 from Grand Rapids, Mi. And the Milwaukee channels 4, 6, and 12 would come in perfectly during tropo. No snow.
 
CADXER said:
Looks like the tropo opening has died out by this afternoon. Here is a recap of what I heard
Click to expand...
The path to Central Illinois still open this morning as of around 7aam CDT....

91.5 WCIC Pekin, IL Hammering WBEZ. No contest. 135 miles
93.3 WPBG, Peoria, IL Heavy splatter on WXRT, 133 miles

Also from the opposite direction....

98.9, WVCX, Tomah, WI. Fair signal. 159 miles.

Radio was the C. Crane Skywave barefoot
 
Last edited:
"When in doubt, try your luck on a GY channel". (I just made that up.) So this morning at 5am, I landed on 1490. Two catches within five minutes. Each of which came and went, but stayed long enough for me to catch a positive ID. In order...

WDAN: Danville, IL. Talk. 153 miles
WLAW: Whitehall, MI, Country 127 miles

C. Crane Skywave barefoot
 
cyberdad said:
"When in doubt, try your luck on a GY channel". (I just made that up.) So this morning at 5am, I landed on 1490. Two catches within five minutes. Each of which came and went, but stayed long enough for me to catch a positive ID. In order...

WDAN: Danville, IL. Talk. 153 miles
WLAW: Whitehall, MI, Country 127 miles

C. Crane Skywave barefoot
Click to expand...

I'm on WTIQ 1490 Manistique, MI keep an ear out for classic country there. It ID's itself as "Maverick"
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
I'm on WTIQ 1490 Manistique, MI keep an ear out for classic country there. It ID's itself as "Maverick"
Click to expand...
Will do for sure! :)
Didn't you also say you were also on WATK in Antigo, WI (860). If that's true. I'm pretty sure I heard you between tunes one morning a week or so ago. Classic country which went right into local ads, positive ID on top of the channel for 5-10 minutes, then vanished. This would have been a little before 4am CDT.
 


Back
Top Bottom