cd637299 said:
gar fla said:
It seems to me anyway those who get the most E Skip are in the northeast, midwest, and southern states like Texas to Alabama.
We aren't so lucky here in Florida as are many other parts of the country but I guess we make up for that by having some of the best tropo. ;D
Ah, but look at it this way....not only long haul Tropo here in FL, but also:
Where other DXers rack up states, Florida DXers are blessed to be able to rack up countries!
cd
Yeah, and where I am, I'm lucky to rack up
counties! My next *STATE* logged that's still within my own country will be my first outside the one I live in.
On the other hand, I have about 21 Mexicans and 43 US-based stations audible on my newly-acquired Tecsun PL-398mp, or almost 33% stations outside my own country available 24/7. (I didn't include a few fringe DX frequencies that were too weak to determine their identity based on format and/or radio-locator listed Mexican and US stations with the same format and I hadn't figured out which they were.) That includes fringe signals, though - if you only include the locals, that would be 20 Mexicans and 19 US-based locals, making 51+% of the local stations originate outside my own country. (I didn't include locals that have a very poor signal, nor did I include DX that has a good signal.)
Who else has 30-50% or more of your stations available 24/7 originating outside the country you live in?
And who besides me gets mostly regular near-24/7 reception from a station 210+ miles away, using only a portable radio with its factory-supplied antenna? (In my case it's 103.3 KVYB Santa Barbara at 212 miles northwest of me.)
I'm still waiting for my first e-skip and real tropo, though. (I don't count Santa Barbara as tropo cause reception is too regular for that.) I think I'd love it if I could get my e-skip dxing started in style - for example have stations from Australia, Asia, Europe and Africa all blasting in on one frequency above 107 MHz so strong that not only does it sound like an AM graveyard at night on the east coast would when using a full-wavelength omnidirectional receive antenna, it completely blanks out my reception (on my Tecsun radios) of my strongest local, 89.5 KPBS, a 2.7 kW IBOC station 4.6 miles away whose tower I can see from my yard.
Even better may be if it completely wipes out reception of a station at the opposite end of the band even if I'm standing right at their general population maximum exposure field contour. (I think I'll stop short of wanting to be notified of 10,000-mile channel 51, cell phone, wifi, etc. e-skip courtesy of my reception of an RF burn, though, and inability to receive a 2+ MW station on 153 kHz even with the transmitter jacked directly into my receiver's antenna input.
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