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E-Skip 2013 Season

It was exactly a week ago I got my first E Skip of the season and I made a post. It vanished.

I made a re-post a little later. That was eaten by the board as well and gone for good too.

So I'll post again.

Interesting thing is that nothing was showing up on the DX Sherlock map between here and Kansas at the time. I happened to turn on my radio which I left on an empty frequency and it had a station on it.

This only lasted for less than a half hour but it was strong while it did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV1NszTU4Cc
 
Nice Catch Gar

Again what does the Red on the VHF Propagation Map??

It was Sacramento to the South like to LA, Is the a Tropo??
 
That was tropo for sure.

The minimum distance for E skip is between 400 and 500 miles and that is not nearly as common as the skips of around 1,000 miles.

I think the red means it's in the category of greatest distance which is 750 km or more.
 
Don't even rely on the 6M VHF maps this weekend. The ARRL VHF Contest is messing it up. You may see MUFs of 110 mhz even though the MUF might just be 55 mhz. Rely on FM static.

-crainbebo
 
Thanks

I don't know why E's are rare here in CA, OR and WA

It's like the East Coast get's slammed with E-Skip like most days in the summer
 
Europe seems to be bombarded with Es much more than the Americas; however, the last 2 days it seems like we're in February & not June (Europe looks dry too)!

cd
 
cd637299 said:
(Europe looks dry too)!

cd
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Nope. They just had a HUGE FM/144 opening yesterday from Netherlands/Germany/UK to Spain/Portugal. 2M was lit up like a Christmas tree on the propagation maps, and the MUF was 222 mhz at one point (which unfortunately Europeans don't use).

-crainbebo
 
^ I meant today it looked bad in Europe. A guy in Portugal caught Iran on ch E2 yesterday.

I am just hoping for a big Es opening during the last week of June when I plan to be bringing my stuff on vacation.

cd
 
I'm bringing to give up on FM DXing here

Since 2009, I got only analog on Ch 2-5, That might change

I only got 1 FM Skip on 89.5, Nothing to exciting
 
If the conditions are right, that's a typical distance for tropo ducting but I would not get my hopes up right now.

The forecast map doesn't look good for it.

http://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo_wam.html#hour6

Notice the Pacific ocean between California and Hawaii. I've heard that some have received tropo reception between California and Hawaii in the past.


But you might want to check the FM band early in the morning because at least you may be able to hear some distant FM stations from the central valley that you don't usually hear because of tropo enhancement which is not the same as tropo ducting.
 
I suppose Fresno could make it when tropo is up.

-crainbebo
 
gar fla said:
If the conditions are right, that's a typical distance for tropo ducting but I would not get my hopes up right now.

The forecast map doesn't look good for it.

http://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo_wam.html#hour6

Notice the Pacific ocean between California and Hawaii. I've heard that some have received tropo reception between California and Hawaii in the past.
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The CA/HI tropo path is unique and famous. It is usually limited to a layer about 3,000-5,000 feet above sea level, but it is quite common. Hams (and at least one FM DXer in Hawaii) would go to a mountainside location at the right altitude and set up portable equipment, and hear/work similar stations at the same latitudes in California - all while LA, San Fran and Honolulu - near sea level, would have no unusual VHF propagation at all.

Supposedly, the duct was discovered by airline pilots passing into that altitude range.
 
Good tropo here in Akron this morning. The Pittsburgh FMs were coming in like locals when I drove to work... even as I drove by the local FM tower, there was no interference or overloading. And sure enough, the tropo forecast map indicated good tropo for today in my area.
 
I think there was some tropo yesterday here in WestSacramento

At random time, I get 997 now in good some not so good, 981 Kiss FM is the same tiing

Last night aroud 9pm, I was listening to 997 now..by the table with the antanna on the chair, today at the same area, nothing
 
Got some E Skip late this morning here in Tampa from San Angelo, Texas.

I checked the DX Sherlock maps and there was a couple of Es clouds that were in the 80 to 90 Mhz range over NE Alabama so I thought maybe I'd check to see if anything is coming in from the upper Midwest because I've had E Skip in the past on FM where the MUF was much below the FM band.

So when I turned on the radio, I stopped on 100.1 where there was a station. The guy mentioned San Angelo and the 'Concho Valley'. Looked it up and I was hearing KCLL @ 1103 miles.

It soon faded to nothing.

And there were no Es clouds at all shown on the real time map between here and San Angelo.
 
Posted on another thread ....

I got an all-timer for me in North Texas ... listening on 104.1 FM, went down a hill, the signal of the station I was listening to faded, and all of a sudden I heard a car ad ... for a dealership in Conway, South Carolina.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYAV
 
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