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Best Seek DX!

K

KB3HEY

Question for all you DX'ers out there. That includes me. Hitting the seek button on your radio in your vehicle, what is the best DX one has received? As of today I am still seeking! Sorry for the pun. I am sure there are some good ones out there!

Bob- KB3HEY
 
Several years ago, I was driving a 1995 Ford Probe with a Delco factory radio... all of which require absurdly high signal levels in order to activate seek. (This one needed close to 60 dBu, from several months of informal yet diligent observation.) In Minneapolis, an Idaho Falls signal hit my seek on 93.1... and in the southern suburb of Lakeville, 94.1 KILO-Colorado Springs (classic rock) hit my seek as I was driving west just starting to climb a 150-foot hill.

(Incidentally, when I arrived at my parents' place, we were being visited by an aunt who had just moved back to MN from Colorado Springs. She was a classic-rock fan, but not the radio geek I am... so I decided to play some mind games. "Hey Lynette... you'll never believe what I heard on KILO on the way in." She actually proceeded as if this were a normal conversation, asking me what I'd heard... until finally catching herself ten seconds later and asking me, incredulously, how I knew about KILO. ;D)
 
KB3HEY said:
Question for all you DX'ers out there. That includes me. Hitting the seek button on your radio in your vehicle, what is the best DX one has received? As of today I am still seeking! Sorry for the pun. I am sure there are some good ones out there!

Bob- KB3HEY
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Just a few weeks ago - I was travelling towards Albuquerque on I-40 in Eastern NM, and hit the seek button. It landed on a Branson, MO station. We listened to it with very few fades for almost 2 hours.

This is part of the "dry line" skip that I posted about before. Whereever that dry line forms in Eastern NM or West Texas every day, it creates a relatively stable reflection that can allow incredible catches. I remember being in Ralls, TX, and got stations from San Diego and LA for half an hour before we drove on. Incredible. Stable with almost no fades. I have never failed to get incredible DX under that dry line. Too bad I won't be travelling out there any more.
 
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