Best DX on a non-DX radio

[Schroedingers Cat]

Our Sony 6R-11 Supersensitive TRF was the first radio I heard KNX 1070 on in SE Michigan. It was circa 1969, and of course my first impression was traffic and weather every 10 minutes. I heard KFI 640 and even KNBR 680 on a Sony AM FM Cassette Portable. The FM on it was great for the time, before all the new stations, translators, LPs, Canadian border squeeze ins, and IBOC, or in my opinion IBOAC sidebands.

 

[nd2023]

I’ve heard e skip on a cheap clock radio, overriding a local.

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

I’ve heard e skip on a cheap clock radio, overriding a local.

We used a Magnavox Stereo Theater from 1962 that had an older type AGC on FM and had a tuning meter/signal strength meter which showed fast variations in signals. Sporadic E has fast variations in signals, and the tuning meter would bounce up and down with the signal. The maximum signal from the Sporadic E had to be close to inverse free space levels. The meter would display higher than many stations coming from 30 or 40 miles away, so it would capture stations not far outside the local area in some cases. The grandfathered superpower stations >100 kW ERP would also be close to that during tropospheric events, but the fading was much slower than Sporadic E.