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DX and E-Skip Records

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Lawppy

What are your personal DX'ing and e-skip records?

From Coldwater, MI:

Longest translator catch: W204BF 88.7 Fort Wayne, IN- 58 miles
Longest tropo catch: KICK 97.9 Palmyra, MO- Around 375 miles
Honorable mention: WOVO 105.3 Glasgow, KY- Around 350 miles
Another honorable mention: WIL 92.3 St. Louis, MO- Around 325 miles

Longest e-skip catch: KGFC 88.9 Great Falls, MT- 1343 miles
Shortest e-skip catch: WPOC 93.1 Baltimore, MD- 470 miles
WERQ 92.3 Baltimore, MD- 470 miles

One interesting fact.. I have received both tropo and e-skip from Pennsylvania (of all states). I've heard Erie's WRTS 103.7 and WXTA 97.9 through tropo and i'm pretty confident that I heard Philly's WMMR 93.3 during the same e-skip that brought the Baltimore stations last summer.

I would love to extend some of these records. I think the front line of radio stations in Idaho (Idaho Falls, Pocatello, etc) are all possible through e-skip
 
E-Skip Records for me:

In Cherry Hill, NJ (home):

KKCI Goodland, KS (1420 Miles)

From Corolla, NC (beach house):

It's a tie- KKBA Kingsville, TX and KFTX Kingsville, TX (both 1427 miles)... however, if the FCC's records are accurate, then KKBA would win the tiebreaker, as their tower is slightly further south than KFTX's.
 
Don't have the milage figures but:

Tropo: I live near the Gulf of Mexico so I get tropo from Corpus Christi and Browsville,Tx. (about 500 miles away) with about 40% of days having some sort of tropo going catching stations about 200 miles North of me normally...

Es: Should be KKOT 93.5 Columbus,Nebraska (caught about 10 years ago) was country at time...
But got Email verification from KRDO 95.1 Colorado Springs,Colorado about 4 years ago and got them and a few stations in Boulder at the same time...

Never tried the translators and I got some stations a while back that were either Tropo or Es from Southern Florida around Naples and Miami...

It seems to me Es been doing better this year than in the last few years...

RFLA
 
> What are your personal DX'ing and e-skip records?

From Poughkeepsie, NY, with new log started early May 2003.

Longest translator catch: W273AB 102.5 Owego, NY - 41 watts - 118 miles
Longest tropo catch: WLHT - 95.7 Grand Rapids, MI AND WFUR - 102.9 Grand Rapids at 609 miles.

Longest e-skip catch: KDGE - 102.1 Ft. Worth - Dallas, TX 1421 mi.
Shortest e-skip catch: WZZN - 94.7 Chicago IL 708 mi.

NO state logged on both trop and skip, however, Ontario, CANADA has 1 skip station and 5 trops.

Total 601 stations from 32 states plus DC and 4 provinces.

Best frequency: 94.9 with 20 logs, 17 states & provinces.
 
Re: DX and E-Skip Records from Downunder

Hi

My records:

Es - KSBS 92.1 American Samoa - 2700 miles. (Double Hop Es)

Tropo - Tie between 6ABC 94.5 Albany WA - 1242 miles (West) OR New Zealand also 1242 miles in the other direction (East)!

Meteor Scatter - 90.0 4SCP Invercargill NZ - 1242 miles.

Aircraft scatter - 91.5 2JJJ Grafton NSW - 434 miles.

dxer2_2000
 
Re: DX and E-Skip Records from Downunder

My record so far this year:

From Lockhart Texas:

WUSV US98 San Carlos Park, Florida "Country Legends" 6-15-05 (PC RADIOCARD) 992 miles
FM antenna Main stereo: WRMF Palm Beach, FL 11:21am 6-15-05. 1086 miles
 
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