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DX from Montana

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HoustonListener

Anyone get any long distance DX catches yesterday (Monday June 16) Is there tropospheric ducting going on now? I am not sure I understand exactly how that works?
I was driving up to the Dallas area yesterday and scanning the channels after getting outside of Houston and when I was just about to Centerville 101.3 FM came in loud and clear. I wasn't familiar with any 101.3 in the area (with 101.1 in Houston and Dallas that hogs the space for 101.3 in between) so I kept listening. I heard a weather forecast for highs of 80 and lows in the 50s, so although I was hoping that there was an arriving cold front (we need to cool down) I figured it was coming from out of state. Then I heard livestock auction numbers for cattle and pork bellies from the "Northern Ag Network." Texas is not exactly a "Northern Ag" kind of state. I heard a PSA from the Montana Department of Transportation reminding people it was against the law to use off road (and non highway taxed) diesel in their on road vehicles. The station faded and then boomed in as I drove for about 1/2 hour from about 10:20 to 10:50. I finally caught the station ID -- KIKC in Forsyth Montana. Mapquest says it is about 1500 road miles from Centerville, Texas to Forsyth Montana. Looking this station up, it has 100,000 watts in a town of only 1944 people.

Anyone else hear any long range DX yesterday? Did anyone in Houston here KIKC 101.3 or was that not possible inside the range of 101.1?
 
I had a E-skip a few weeks ago in Lavaca county WRVV 97.3 a 1364 mile skip.
 
Only thing I noticed out of place this morning was WBJO/Baton Rouge overpowering KZNE/College Station before KZNE switched to daytime power. This from Austin County, where KZNE is usually pretty clear day or night.
 
purpledevil said:
Only thing I noticed out of place this morning was WBJO/Baton Rouge overpowering KZNE/College Station before KZNE switched to daytime power. This from Austin County, where KZNE is usually pretty clear day or night.
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AM and FM skip are two different animals....what you heard was critical hours where the band goes extremely good for DX 1 hour before and after sunrise and sunset.....(hence the critical hours for power, etc on some licenses of AMs)...
That's not unusual in CH...Normal daytime or nighttime hours, operations and range can be fine...but in CH, off bets are off ;)

FM usually has ducting along the coast, etc.....BUT to hear more than a few hundred miles is definitely DXing on the FM band...105.3 LIVE FM out of Dallas was making it to the Beaumont area this afternoon...THAT is unusual...but with the summer heating, it happens...(heck I remember KDMX MIX102.9 in Dallas can get blasted away by Univision's 102.9 out of Houston in Garland, Ft Worth and other DFW areas....thanks to the ducting up the Trinity river!!! THAT happens on a regular basis during summer!!)
 
I've caught that myself, just not as far as you. I have family in Corsicana and there are times when KTHT overruns KEGL and KLTN obliterates KDMX when I'm up there. Gotta question for you, since you brought up 102.9. When it was at even higher power (250kw?) just how far did the original KQUE reach? I'm pretty sure that there was a 102.9 in Dallas at the same time.
 
purpledevil said:
I've caught that myself, just not as far as you. I have family in Corsicana and there are times when KTHT overruns KEGL and KLTN obliterates KDMX when I'm up there. Gotta question for you, since you brought up 102.9. When it was at even higher power (250kw?) just how far did the original KQUE reach? I'm pretty sure that there was a 102.9 in Dallas at the same time.
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When KQUE FM was at superpower, it was at 600ft or so....It didnt reach any further than it does now at 100KW at 1000ft as far as its normal 1mV contour....I dont know if it interfered with KMGC back then....I do recall it did not have any better coverage to the east toward Beaumont (where Dave Morris owned KAYC AM and KAYD FM)...I have heard KEGL cover KTHT (which transmitter site is near Shepherd NORTH of Cleveland) in Willis, TX for some time....listened to Stern for over an hour once before the Eagle faded out...
 
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