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DX TODAY

T

ThatGuyOnTheRadio

FL to New England and back is in full swing today.

Heard 95.1 WXTK out of West Yarmouth, MA today while on SR200 in Ocala. Lasted about a minute before WAPE started coming in again.

From the looks of the N. New England and Boston boards, they were catching Orlando and Miami in their areas, respectively.

Love this time of year!!
 
yep you are right Tibbs.....we are entering the "sporadic E skip" season (usually mid may until late July) and the FM band will be hopping with all kinds of strange signals.....In July 2001, WPAP was picked up by dxers in Italy (some of Rob's Italian brothers)....it was 1pm in Italy and 6am here when they were listening.

cceng
 
Italy, you say? I'll bet my lunch (and next year's Tower Site Calendar) that the name on the DX report was "Bellabarba." It's a father and son pair from Italy who are notorious scam artists. Google the name and you'll get all kinds of phony reports they've sent in.

Trans-Atlantic FM DX is possible, under very rare circumstances - but over much shorter paths. The first confirmed instance was WFRY 97.5 Watertown NY being heard in Ireland a few years back...but there's proof of that in the form of a recording. That path is about 1000 miles shorter than Florida-to-Italy would have been, if it were for real.
 
I'd hold any FM DX to Italy with suspicion because of the rampant piracy of the airwaves there. From what I hear, the legal broadcasters in that country can barely meet their own coverage areas for all the activity. In some urban areas there are supposedly hundreds of illegal transmitters on every available frequency.
 
I got a DX card from Italy back when I was a young jock at the Big 54/WGTO, Cypress Gardens (motto: "Yes, we're licensed to a ski show!")--but with 50K @ 540 and a DA shooting straight into the Atlantic, I figured they probably got us on the skip most every night. I'm sure they now enjoy Rush & Glenn Beck from "Orlando's Right Talk 540/WFLA" (WFLF) much more than those Dolly Parton & Eddie Rabbit tunes we were playing back in the seventies...
 
I don't recall their names but they did include a detailed listed of commericals and music with exact times which matched our records....we were not streaming WPAP at this time so there was no way for them to use the stream to get that info.....

cceng
 
RNR,

I'd much prefer the Dolly Parton and Eddie Rabbitt tunes any day.

My grandfather lived in Kissimmee..I'd listen to the country on WFIV-AM 1080 during the day and then to
540 at night.
 
Yep, this is the time of the year for FM DX in Florida. 19 years ago this week, I moved to Ocala. Rented a mobile home with a medium-sized TV antenna and rotor. Of course, I immediately connected this to my Sangean ATS-803A.

Within a few days of moving in, there was a major band opening. I was able to hear two stations I had previously worked for in Iowa, one station I had previously worked for in Kansas, plus three stations I grew up listening to in Minnesota!
 
Alan McCall said:
Wasn't WFIV daytime only for years? Kind of traditional, mostly live country in the WSM mode except for the Mike Fitzgerald "Solid Gold Country" show
every afternoon? When it went 24 hours, it had about 25 watts so you had to be next door at the Highway Patrol office to hear them. Now they're up to
190 watts and can be heard all the way out to Hunter's Creek. Are they protecting WTIC or KRLD? Anyway, they are doing a hell of a job.
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Wasn't WFIV daytime only for years? Kind of traditional, mostly live country in the WSM mode except for the Mike Fitzgerald "Solid Gold Country" show
every afternoon? When it went 24 hours, it had about 25 watts so you had to be next door at the Highway Patrol office to hear them. Now they're up to
190 watts and can be heard all the way out to Hunter's Creek. Are they protecting WTIC or KRLD? Anyway, they are doing a hell of a job.
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I'm pretty sure they were still a daytimer then. It had the "hometown" country sound that I liked (still do, but it's pretty much non-existant these days.)
 
Snagged 101.7 Chuck-FM out of Charleston, SC today in SW Gainesville.

Held it for a good 10 minutes (and about a mile or so of driving), in and out fighting with WDVH-FM
 
When I lived in the Philly suburbs in the 70s an italian neighbor had some relatives from Italy visit PA and they said they got WFIL 560 regularly. They said they never got WIBG 990. In the 80s I swapped airchecks with Geoff Wolfe in Austrailia who said he got Los Angeles a few times on AM radio. He used long wire beverage antennas and in Austrailia the stations are on in between frequencies so there is no direct interference. Wonder how the multipath of several hops across the ionosphere made them sound. An AM DXer in S. FL said he doubts that even if these distances were possible it would be so garbled you could not understand the audio.
 
Stevations,

That DXer in S FL wasn't me....! I have heard Geoff's clips.....legit reception. AM is garbled *here*....but if the signal shoots out to the west or southwest, the sky's the limit, if you have the proper beverage antenna & radio.

As for me, the only AM DXn I seem to do anymore is the daytime variety in remote locations....but of course, you know that.... ;)

cd
 
Logged:
Houston
Naw Orleans
North & South Carolina
Tampa
Georgia
and Mexico.
(no ID's in English)

What kind of antenna are you guys using?

-Rob
 
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