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Driving in Ohio and caught Wavv 101.1 just a few weeks ago! What a Great Catch!
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My best TV DX was in the summer of 1981 from my parents' house in Glocester, RI when I logged 34 separate "Channel 2's". All over the Atlantic coast, across the Gulf coast, into Texas, up to Nebraska, then west & northwest to Wyoming & North Dakota and finally out to Nevada. Never got to the West coast though. The following spring, I used it as part of my independent science project during my senior year of HS which was, of course, DX-ing and what causes it.
For FM DX, the huge e-skip of July 2003 was my best day. We were living on Cape Cod & I was changing the car battery to my wife's car and, while setting the FM pre-sets, Boston (65M north) & Providence (78M west) stations were completely obliterated. I officially logged 95 signals in a 6-hour period, with another 110 I could not positively identify. Outside the normal tropo catches, I logged SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, TX, AR, MO, TN, IA, IL, IN, MI, WI, MN, OK & NE.
For AM DX, the best catch I had was in 1974 or 1975 when 850AM (then WHDH) shut the transmitter down on a Sunday evening. After about 45 minutes, I was able to log KOA from Denver. Never received a QSL.
For FM DX, the huge e-skip of July 2003 was my best day. We were living on Cape Cod & I was changing the car battery to my wife's car and, while setting the FM pre-sets, Boston (65M north) & Providence (78M west) stations were completely obliterated. I officially logged 95 signals in a 6-hour period, with another 110 I could not positively identify. Outside the normal tropo catches, I logged SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, TX, AR, MO, TN, IA, IL, IN, MI, WI, MN, OK & NE.
For AM DX, the best catch I had was in 1974 or 1975 when 850AM (then WHDH) shut the transmitter down on a Sunday evening. After about 45 minutes, I was able to log KOA from Denver. Never received a QSL.
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KNX out of L.A. in Puerta Vallarta, Mexico-clear like it was local.
February 1968 using a Radio Shack TRF receiver in the South Hills of Pittsburgh, PA around 0200 EST:
KIT/1280 from Yakima, WA. I got a QSL card to prove it and the engineer's letter assured me that they had properly cut from 5,000 watts (day) to the night power of 1,000 watts. They were and still are non-DA at all hours.
Right around that same era I got what I *believe* to be XEMO/860 from Tijuana, BC. They were running English language religion which does square with the format at that time. I never got an ID to prove it but 5,000 watts from the SoCal border to Pittsburgh was pretty good. I think that was when CJBC/Toronto (French CBC) used to sign off around 0100 Eastern.
KIT/1280 from Yakima, WA. I got a QSL card to prove it and the engineer's letter assured me that they had properly cut from 5,000 watts (day) to the night power of 1,000 watts. They were and still are non-DA at all hours.
Right around that same era I got what I *believe* to be XEMO/860 from Tijuana, BC. They were running English language religion which does square with the format at that time. I never got an ID to prove it but 5,000 watts from the SoCal border to Pittsburgh was pretty good. I think that was when CJBC/Toronto (French CBC) used to sign off around 0100 Eastern.
best DX'ing I've Ever Had as far north as left talk wkb In Bufflo NY as far south as charlote's Power house AM WBT As Far As West espn 1000 AM Chicago, but the best when not at home picking up wcbs am when in south carolina last september
The biggest TV DX wow I've ever heard of was KLEE TV from Texas back in the 1900's.
The signal was being picked up in England. The program received was broadcast 3 years
Earlier.
The signal had travelled into space and bounced off something a light year and a half away
and come back to Earth. Very Strange!!!
The signal was being picked up in England. The program received was broadcast 3 years
Earlier.
The signal had travelled into space and bounced off something a light year and a half away
and come back to Earth. Very Strange!!!
Early 60's from Ohio.
AFRTS Ramey AFB Puerto Rico 780 50 watts
KIKI Honolulu 830 250 watts
Rotorura, NZ 1000 10 kw
Radio Salta 830. Salta Argentina, 5 kw.
KTIP Porterville, CA 1450 250 watts
KHSJ Hemet, CA, 1320, 500 watts.
KFAR 660, Farbanks, AK, 10 kw.
AFRTS Ramey AFB Puerto Rico 780 50 watts
KIKI Honolulu 830 250 watts
Rotorura, NZ 1000 10 kw
Radio Salta 830. Salta Argentina, 5 kw.
KTIP Porterville, CA 1450 250 watts
KHSJ Hemet, CA, 1320, 500 watts.
KFAR 660, Farbanks, AK, 10 kw.
Flying-Dutchman said:
That reception has since been discounted as a hoax/scam. Someone trying to sell "special" TV sets managed to fake a KLEE-TV ID slide. Personnel who'd worked at the station at the time saw the reception photo & said it didn't match any ID the station had ever run. (ISTR someone felt it was a retouched Kleenex ad!)
Wow! It was a hoax! I've read this story in England and heard about it in Indiana many
times over the years. Here's the rest. http://www.broadcasting101.ws/klee.htm
times over the years. Here's the rest. http://www.broadcasting101.ws/klee.htm
my fm distance ive got was serveral Miami fm's during Hurricane andrew in august of 92
i got KFI out of la once i cant recall the year i got it but it came in over the cuban blasters LOL one night
i got KFI out of la once i cant recall the year i got it but it came in over the cuban blasters LOL one night
I've been DXing radio since the mid 80's and a few events maintain memory.
I used to live in Louisiana and from there experienced some super F2, TEP, E skip and tropo on VHF.
-December 1989 regular F2 propagation on 50MHz included Europe, Australia, Caribbean, Africa, and Japan
-There were a couple long path F2 openings to Japan on 50MHz in 1989 and 1991. In the morning beaming southeast across Africa. I never made any contacts but heard a few stations. Considering this is the long way around to Japan, is the furthest terrestrial radio signals I've ever heard. Must be over 15,000 miles
-In November 1991 there was an intense aurora event that went as far south as the Caribbean. I think this is the only time that has happened since then. And the only time I have heard aurora signals on 6 and 2 meters from the deep South. Later that evening 6 meters erupted with powerful TEP like signals from the Caribbean and South America that lasted till after midnight. The next day 6 meters was absolutely incredible to the Pacific. Other hams may remember those two events. The FM band must have been a buzzing mess.
-In February 1992 I recall an F2 opening on 6 meters that lasted an hour that was exclusevly to Malawi, Africa. All over 8000 miles. There were 5 or 6 ham operators all in with good signals. I never knew there were so many 7Q7's on ham radio yet alone 50MHz all at once!
-I had an Icom R1 handheld receiver. Tiny, not the best receiver but it worked. It covered 1-1300MHz AM and FM. One day sitting in my living room I tuned in a shortwave station on it with just the 4 inch rubber duck antenna. Radio Abu Dhabi? I forget. I do remember it was from the United Arab Emirates. The other side of the planet. It was very strong, on the 15 MHz shortwave band. Best DX ever heard on a handheld radio.
-June 21, 1994 was a special day for E skip. It was so intense that two meters was open for 3 hours solid. Everything from Connecticut south to North Carolina was into my shack in Louisiana. I worked one ham in New Jersey who was on a FM handheld to an outside antenna. 70 something contacts.
- June 1995 I had the pleasure of operating radio from England with a temporary ham license. E skip on VHF was a blast. The eastern European OIRT FM band 65-74 MHz was fun to DX but hard to ID. I caught one super E skip opening on 2 meters and with just 25 watts and a 5 element beam made over a dozen contacts in Malta, Italy, Spain and the islands in the Med.
- May 1998 from Florida the best tropo ever experienced. On two meters made contact with ham in South Dakota at 1069 miles. Listened to another contact between a Tampa area ham with N0KQY in northeast Kansas at a whopping 1300+ miles.
- July 6, 2004 Intense E skip that got as high as 222 MHz. TV7-13 signals were crossing this. Many 2 meter E skip contact in the northeast US including my furthest into Maine at 1353 miles. Many remember this opening!
- started serious FM DXing in 2005 from here in Florida. The best tropo was April 16, 2006 with incredibly strong signals from several FM stations from the Veracruz, Mexico coast almost 1000 miles and into Texas almost 800 miles.
- July 2006 heard a station in Italy on 50 MHz E skip. Over 5000 miles. No contact though. Furthest E skip signal.
- best overall E skip was July 29, 2007. Starting with FM DX to Iowa, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota and Kansas in the late morning , switching southeast to the shortest skip ever heard including 2 FM translators and an LP-FM in the Melbourne, FL area 383-400 miles very strong and solid for 10 minutes along with the shortest 6 meter E skip in 20 years with KB4CRT Micanopy, FL at 268 miles. S9+++ signal. After that E skip went all over including short skip into Texas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky on FM, 2 meter E skip into Texas, the midwest and my shortest at 592 miles into the St. Louis area. 162 MHz weather stations were heard from Texas and Illinois on E skip and a TV channel 7 from Mexico. By far the best E skip ever.
I used to live in Louisiana and from there experienced some super F2, TEP, E skip and tropo on VHF.
-December 1989 regular F2 propagation on 50MHz included Europe, Australia, Caribbean, Africa, and Japan
-There were a couple long path F2 openings to Japan on 50MHz in 1989 and 1991. In the morning beaming southeast across Africa. I never made any contacts but heard a few stations. Considering this is the long way around to Japan, is the furthest terrestrial radio signals I've ever heard. Must be over 15,000 miles
-In November 1991 there was an intense aurora event that went as far south as the Caribbean. I think this is the only time that has happened since then. And the only time I have heard aurora signals on 6 and 2 meters from the deep South. Later that evening 6 meters erupted with powerful TEP like signals from the Caribbean and South America that lasted till after midnight. The next day 6 meters was absolutely incredible to the Pacific. Other hams may remember those two events. The FM band must have been a buzzing mess.
-In February 1992 I recall an F2 opening on 6 meters that lasted an hour that was exclusevly to Malawi, Africa. All over 8000 miles. There were 5 or 6 ham operators all in with good signals. I never knew there were so many 7Q7's on ham radio yet alone 50MHz all at once!
-I had an Icom R1 handheld receiver. Tiny, not the best receiver but it worked. It covered 1-1300MHz AM and FM. One day sitting in my living room I tuned in a shortwave station on it with just the 4 inch rubber duck antenna. Radio Abu Dhabi? I forget. I do remember it was from the United Arab Emirates. The other side of the planet. It was very strong, on the 15 MHz shortwave band. Best DX ever heard on a handheld radio.
-June 21, 1994 was a special day for E skip. It was so intense that two meters was open for 3 hours solid. Everything from Connecticut south to North Carolina was into my shack in Louisiana. I worked one ham in New Jersey who was on a FM handheld to an outside antenna. 70 something contacts.
- June 1995 I had the pleasure of operating radio from England with a temporary ham license. E skip on VHF was a blast. The eastern European OIRT FM band 65-74 MHz was fun to DX but hard to ID. I caught one super E skip opening on 2 meters and with just 25 watts and a 5 element beam made over a dozen contacts in Malta, Italy, Spain and the islands in the Med.
- May 1998 from Florida the best tropo ever experienced. On two meters made contact with ham in South Dakota at 1069 miles. Listened to another contact between a Tampa area ham with N0KQY in northeast Kansas at a whopping 1300+ miles.
- July 6, 2004 Intense E skip that got as high as 222 MHz. TV7-13 signals were crossing this. Many 2 meter E skip contact in the northeast US including my furthest into Maine at 1353 miles. Many remember this opening!
- started serious FM DXing in 2005 from here in Florida. The best tropo was April 16, 2006 with incredibly strong signals from several FM stations from the Veracruz, Mexico coast almost 1000 miles and into Texas almost 800 miles.
- July 2006 heard a station in Italy on 50 MHz E skip. Over 5000 miles. No contact though. Furthest E skip signal.
- best overall E skip was July 29, 2007. Starting with FM DX to Iowa, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota and Kansas in the late morning , switching southeast to the shortest skip ever heard including 2 FM translators and an LP-FM in the Melbourne, FL area 383-400 miles very strong and solid for 10 minutes along with the shortest 6 meter E skip in 20 years with KB4CRT Micanopy, FL at 268 miles. S9+++ signal. After that E skip went all over including short skip into Texas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky on FM, 2 meter E skip into Texas, the midwest and my shortest at 592 miles into the St. Louis area. 162 MHz weather stations were heard from Texas and Illinois on E skip and a TV channel 7 from Mexico. By far the best E skip ever.
From Coldwater, MI
Distance records:
FM e-skip: KSII 93.1 El Paso, TX- 1,375 miles
FM tropo: KBRK 93.7 Brookings, SD- 634 miles
LPFM/translator: WRHC-LP 106.7 Three Oaks, MI- 84 miles
AM: XEEP 1060 Mexico City- 1,663 miles
AM Canada/U.S.- KMTI 650 Manti, UT- 1,402 miles
I briefly DX'ed TV as a wee lad in the 90's, but I never kept records. I wish I had. I do remember seeing CITY-57 from Toronto during one fall evening in 2000.
Distance records:
FM e-skip: KSII 93.1 El Paso, TX- 1,375 miles
FM tropo: KBRK 93.7 Brookings, SD- 634 miles
LPFM/translator: WRHC-LP 106.7 Three Oaks, MI- 84 miles
AM: XEEP 1060 Mexico City- 1,663 miles
AM Canada/U.S.- KMTI 650 Manti, UT- 1,402 miles
I briefly DX'ed TV as a wee lad in the 90's, but I never kept records. I wish I had. I do remember seeing CITY-57 from Toronto during one fall evening in 2000.
MW: 700 WLW, Cincinnati
FM: CFQC-FM 92.9, Saskatoon (e-skip)
DT: Nothing but the line-of-sight stations from Mount Bigelow. (Tucson) I have not watched analogue since I got DT, last Spring. When I did watch analogue, my DX record was KTVI, St Louis. (Fox 2) (e-skip)
FM: CFQC-FM 92.9, Saskatoon (e-skip)
DT: Nothing but the line-of-sight stations from Mount Bigelow. (Tucson) I have not watched analogue since I got DT, last Spring. When I did watch analogue, my DX record was KTVI, St Louis. (Fox 2) (e-skip)
July 6, 2004 was the best e-skip I ever had. Over 200 stations logged, and even a TV Channel 11. That skip lasted all afternoon and evening, and was very strong. None of the local stations could be heard reliably, even the 50000 watt stations from 8 miles away.
Best tropo was last September in Long Island. I got CKWM 94.9 from Canada 500 miles away! New Jersey, NYC, Philly, and Norfolk were strong all day, and one translator of an LPFM station was picking up a DX station all day. I remember that there was not a cloud in the sky all day.
Best tropo was last September in Long Island. I got CKWM 94.9 from Canada 500 miles away! New Jersey, NYC, Philly, and Norfolk were strong all day, and one translator of an LPFM station was picking up a DX station all day. I remember that there was not a cloud in the sky all day.
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FreddyE1977
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In 1989 I was able to listen to KJ 97 out of San Antonio, Texas for a good hour or so.
It was on a JVC boombox with whip antenna. And at the time I was approximately
15 miles east of Flint, Michigan. I called them and the engineer said that was their
new record. I also briefly caught TV channel 3 from Bryan, TX in the same area
at around the same time.
It was on a JVC boombox with whip antenna. And at the time I was approximately
15 miles east of Flint, Michigan. I called them and the engineer said that was their
new record. I also briefly caught TV channel 3 from Bryan, TX in the same area
at around the same time.
I remember July 6, 2004 very well. We were having a birthday party for my dad (a milestone birthday party, we'll leave it at that) and family takes precedence over DX'ing any day. Before the party, I was able to confirm 23 stations through Es with some as close as Baltimore!
Last summer was pretty good for Es. I broke a long standing distance record by hearing El Paso, but the best Es opening was the one on June 28th. It was not very impressive in terms of new loggings, but our 50,000 station from 7 miles away was *ALMOST* wiped out. You could seriously hear something trying to take over the strong local signal.
Last summer was pretty good for Es. I broke a long standing distance record by hearing El Paso, but the best Es opening was the one on June 28th. It was not very impressive in terms of new loggings, but our 50,000 station from 7 miles away was *ALMOST* wiped out. You could seriously hear something trying to take over the strong local signal.
Hey freddy, in the summer of 1989 we picked up some Texas stations in central NC for a couple hours, too.
I was too young and interested to bother to write them down though....
I was too young and interested to bother to write them down though....
While at our summer cottage, I've heard various stations during the 80s. North Bay, Ontario had only two working FM's at the time and our 80 foot tower helped me hear some far away stations.
I heard Toronto, Atlanta, (both radio and TV) Charlotte and many other cities. What was cool about this during this event, the clouds were in perfect alignment and it was literary interfering with our local television signals. I saw NBC news blocking Global TV (channel 2) and the CBC wasn't viewable at all.
While in NY (Syracuse) I heard Fort Lauderdale/Miami come in over on the FM one night in the mid 80's The signals were strong, very strong and couldn't believe my ears when I heard the city of license
Sorry I don't have any proof, like my friend in Macomb, IL who keeps logs and snaps photos I didn't.
-Rob
I heard Toronto, Atlanta, (both radio and TV) Charlotte and many other cities. What was cool about this during this event, the clouds were in perfect alignment and it was literary interfering with our local television signals. I saw NBC news blocking Global TV (channel 2) and the CBC wasn't viewable at all.
While in NY (Syracuse) I heard Fort Lauderdale/Miami come in over on the FM one night in the mid 80's The signals were strong, very strong and couldn't believe my ears when I heard the city of license
Sorry I don't have any proof, like my friend in Macomb, IL who keeps logs and snaps photos I didn't.
-Rob
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