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Probably my last E-skip opening in Ellensburg. 6/29/22 (3 new!)

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crainbebo

I am moving back to Yakima, WA as of July 1st. Last night I dropped off 80% of my stuff at a storage unit in Yakima. This morning I went back and have been mostly cleaning and tidying up the apartment for the next owner. In the meantime, there was Es on the drive back to Ellensburg and a little bit after I returned. About 40 minutes to SD and NE with three new.

11:05AM - 90.5 KXCV Maryville MO (100KW, 1352 mi) with RDS 'KXCV', on I-82 just south of Manastash Ridge
11:08AM - 94.1 KQCH Omaha, NE (95KW, 1270 mi) with 'Channel 94-1' RDS and ID
11:10AM - 94.7 KNEN Norfolk, NE (100KW, 1178 mi) with ad for Slumberland Furniture of Norfolk
11:13AM - 96.5 KSOM Audubon, IA (100KW, 1322 mi) with local ads and RDS 'KSOM'
11:28AM - 93.9 KSWN McCook, NE (50KW, 1089 mi) community calendar mentioning Culbertson NE, '93.9 The Zone' ID
11:29AM - 94.1 KNEB-FM Scottsbluff, NE (100KW, 907 mi) with farm report and 'THE BRAND' RDS
11:30AM - 88.3 KLMP Rapid City, SD (NEW! 63KW, 825 mi) with mention of 'MyFaithRadio.com'. KLMP is now a Northwestern Media station, which owns KTIS, KDNW, and other religious stations in the Midwest.
11:40AM - 92.7 KBRB-FM Ainsworth, NE (26KW, 1057 mi) with a lost '80s hit! 'I'm Your Man' by Wham!, ID, and the drawing of a winner for free ice cream courtesy of H&R Food Center in Ainsworth. Small town radio at its finest.
11:41AM - 89.3 KBHE-FM Rapid City, SD (NEW! 9.8KW, 859 mi) with SDPB mentions
11:45AM - 89.3 KXNE-FM Norfolk, NE (NEW! 42KW, 1184 mi) with Afternoon Concert on Nebraska Public Media, clear ID, in and out with KBHE and a third UNID joined in occasionally.

Total is still 900-something as I still haven't finished DX recordings from last July!
 
crainbebo said:
I am moving back to Yakima, WA as of July 1st. Last night I dropped off 80% of my stuff at a storage unit in Yakima. This morning I went back and have been mostly cleaning and tidying up the apartment for the next owner. In the meantime, there was Es on the drive back to Ellensburg and a little bit after I returned. About 40 minutes to SD and NE with three new.

11:05AM - 90.5 KXCV Maryville MO (100KW, 1352 mi) with RDS 'KXCV', on I-82 just south of Manastash Ridge
11:08AM - 94.1 KQCH Omaha, NE (95KW, 1270 mi) with 'Channel 94-1' RDS and ID
11:10AM - 94.7 KNEN Norfolk, NE (100KW, 1178 mi) with ad for Slumberland Furniture of Norfolk
11:13AM - 96.5 KSOM Audubon, IA (100KW, 1322 mi) with local ads and RDS 'KSOM'
11:28AM - 93.9 KSWN McCook, NE (50KW, 1089 mi) community calendar mentioning Culbertson NE, '93.9 The Zone' ID
11:29AM - 94.1 KNEB-FM Scottsbluff, NE (100KW, 907 mi) with farm report and 'THE BRAND' RDS
11:30AM - 88.3 KLMP Rapid City, SD (NEW! 63KW, 825 mi) with mention of 'MyFaithRadio.com'. KLMP is now a Northwestern Media station, which owns KTIS, KDNW, and other religious stations in the Midwest.
11:40AM - 92.7 KBRB-FM Ainsworth, NE (26KW, 1057 mi) with a lost '80s hit! 'I'm Your Man' by Wham!, ID, and the drawing of a winner for free ice cream courtesy of H&R Food Center in Ainsworth. Small town radio at its finest.
11:41AM - 89.3 KBHE-FM Rapid City, SD (NEW! 9.8KW, 859 mi) with SDPB mentions
11:45AM - 89.3 KXNE-FM Norfolk, NE (NEW! 42KW, 1184 mi) with Afternoon Concert on Nebraska Public Media, clear ID, in and out with KBHE and a third UNID joined in occasionally.

Total is still 900-something as I still haven't finished DX recordings from last July!
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Awesome! I might have caught my first E-skip in Wenatchee today. I got an internship there over the summer so I'm commuting daily (the drive is okay except the occasional dumbass).
 
crainbebo said:
I am moving back to Yakima, WA as of July 1st. Last night I dropped off 80% of my stuff at a storage unit in Yakima. This morning I went back and have been mostly cleaning and tidying up the apartment for the next owner. In the meantime, there was Es on the drive back to Ellensburg and a little bit after I returned. About 40 minutes to SD and NE with three new.
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Have a safe and successful move to Yakima.
 
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Good luck in Yakima. One of the things that interests me is when people are from somewhere totally foreign to me. Yakima, WA. My main takeaway from my brief Wiki-induced knowledge of Yakima is that Gary Puckett grew up there. So there you go, next time I hear "Young Girl", I can say, "Did you know Gary Puckett grew up in Yakima?" People will look at me like dogs who just heard a whistle. Then again, that's about half of my average conversation reactions.
 
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Good luck in Yakima. One of the things that interests me is when people are from somewhere totally foreign to me. Yakima, WA. My main takeaway from my brief Wiki-induced knowledge of Yakima is that Gary Puckett grew up there. So there you go, next time I hear "Young Girl", I can say, "Did you know Gary Puckett grew up in Yakima?" People will look at me like dogs who just heard a whistle. Then again, that's about half of my average conversation reactions.
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Not only that, but Union Gap is a nearby town!
 
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How long do these E-skip receptions last, on average (if there is an average)? Just curious.
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In my experience, it can last anywhere between 30 minutes to a few hours, depending on conditions. I’ve had E-skip availability in North Iowa last about 3 hours before fading away.
 
^^^^^ Thanks for the replies. I've only experienced tropo, and the longest FM tropo I heard (and my longest FM reception) was of a station in the Dalles, OR from here in the Seattle-Tacoma metro, and it lasted for at least 10-15 minutes before I had to tune out. The only E-skip I've personally dealt with is on CB, which often experiences E-skip during the summers, and it's often pretty short.

Very cool to hear that it can last a while. No wonder guys can ID the stations so well.
 
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