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Absolutely EPIC, amazing Es tonight 6/25/13

crainbebo said:
And for us in the Pacific NW, Tropo over 200 miles is RARE altogether. I've only gotten KDUK 104.7 Florence, OR TWICE. 250 mi. The Cascade Mtns, the Olympics, and the Siskiyou Mtns near Medford seem to stop all long range Tr from reaching here.

There can be 500 mi tropo but it's like a holy grail out here. Mike Cherry (a BC DXer) used to go out to the Vancouver Island coast and logged Eureka CA stations a couple of times (mainly KEKA).

-crainbebo
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The longest tropo in the US likely occurs along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Outside of those areas, the Great Lakes area gets some good tropo. For example, I can hear 107.9 WBCV Wausau, WI most summer days in Manistee, MI. And I bet someone in central Wisconsin can probably get 88.7 WIAA Interlochen, MI and/or 103.5 WTCM Traverse City, MI often.
 
And there can be incredible tropo in the Midwest as well. Look at Thanksgiving 1986 and you'll see what happened. 1000 mi tropo reports from many DXers from IL-NY and reports of Ch 34 Oklahoma City from a DXer up in the Northeastern U.S. Incredible opening.

Also the heat wave of July 1995 caused some more incredible tropo with Illinois DXers logging UHF channels (and even TRANSLATORS!) from Colorado.

-crainbebo
 
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