E-skip, highest MUF?

[Buckeyes2001]

What is the highest MUF you have ever observed with an E-skip opening? Have you ever observed it on TV channels 7-13 or even the UHF channels?

 

[KeithE4]

What is the highest MUF you have ever observed with an E-skip opening? Have you ever observed it on TV channels 7-13 or even the UHF channels?

I worked some E-skip on 2 meters back in the '70s, but I don't recall ever seeing it on the upper VHF channels. I think it's pretty much impossible on UHF.

 

[w9wi]

I've seen an Es signal on channel 7. (almost certainly XHAB-TV Matamoros)

The highest frequency on which Es has ever been reported is just above 222MHz in a ham radio band. Skip *has* been logged in all 12 VHF TV channels. (but not by me!)

Agreed with KeithE4: it is generally acknowledged that skip is impossible on UHF. (although there was a time when skip at 222MHz was believed impossible, so you never know...)

 

[cd637299]

Not near the frequencies listed above, but spring 2010 I caught a NOAA station in north Arkansas, which I thought was tropo, but somebody reported that there was skip that high that day. I guess it was E-skip because nothing near Arkansas Tropo-wise was around.

cd

 

[nd2023]

Someone got a short 400 mile e-skip on channel 13 during the July 6, 2004 epic all day e-skip opening.

 

[muiscmike]

Back in the late 70s when I lived in SW Alabama our family was able to receive a station from Mexico City. It was either channel 2 or channel 4.

 

[crainbebo]

I'm mostly an FM DXer, and the farthest on the dial I've heard was 107.3 mHz (but nothing IDable). I have seen many reports of 2m from WA-CO, WA-NM, etc. I should get a scanner for 162 mHz NOAA stuff! The farthest FM I've ID was 106.3 KAGM in Albuquerque, NM (Power 106).

-crainbebo