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e-skip alerting on this board

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As we head towards e-skip season, I bet many of you remember reading about an e-skip opening on this board, but completely missing out on it yourself. I wish there were a way to get an email or text message if people report e-skip here. One e-skip cloud can affect half the country. It would also be great to have a live DX chat, which could help us ID stations better, especially since e-skip is reciprocal. I don't feel like watching channel 2 or listening to a blank FM station all the time. Maybe there's a way to have a TV card tuned to channel 2 all the time and alert if it receives a signal.
 
The WTFDA DX club has an email list for propagation alerts. But you will get many emails. You have to be a paid member. http://www.wtfda.org/

You can monitor the TV / FM skip log free
http://dxworld.com/tvfmlog.html

you can watch the six and two meter prop maps free

http://www.vhfdx.net/spots/map.php?Lan=E&Frec=50&Map=NA

You can get a scanner that covers 54-108 MHz, like the older Radio Shack PRO2004, 2005, 2006 and monitor vacant TV2-6 channels, or FM freqs with a squelch set so that when a signal comes in it will open the squelch and alert you.
That is my most effective method.
 
DX World is a good message board for e-skip alerts. If someone from Florida is reporting channel 2 from Detroit, then I know to keep my guard up for e-skip around here. It helped me get into several rounds of e-skip that I otherwise would have missed out on last year.

There are also tons of people who write on this board who need help ID'ing e-skip catches. They all help each other a lot. It's definitely a good place to go. Try it out! I am a frequent visitor.
 
There is also a site run by a DXer from Lexington, KY called DX FM.com. He has a "DX cam" that displays what he's getting from Lexington on ch 2. There's also an audio feed from various frequencies, information on solar activity & meteor showers (yes, you can DX by meteor scatter). Just about anything FM or TV DX-related.
http://www.dxfm.com
 
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