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E skip in Big cities

I lived 1 mile from Downtown Bellevue (WA). Tons of skyscrapers up to 500+ feet high. I've had E-skip from right in downtown (KACV 89.9 Amarillo, TX 1350mi 7/18/12), and skip from my QTH 1 mile south of town (Winnipeg and Regina, SK, plus KSMT 102.1 CO and even loads of tropo) - when I had KALW et. al on 8/2/12 when E-skip was intense to San Francisco for about a half hour, I was one mile SOUTH of my QTH. (Mercer Slough Business Park ). KVTI 90.9 got QRMed by someone else, no one was using 91.7 at the time (KXOT had shut off), so it was interesting when I heard something fade up. It was the end of some public radio show and I thought it was KSVR Mt Vernon via really good aircraft scatter, nope, I heard "This is 91.7 KALW, San Francisco" instead.

However, Bellevue seems to have an issue with signal strength. Probably skyscrapers causing it, but signals were very weak on the dBu scale. KISM 92.9 was down to 4 dBu, while KAFE was at less than 1dBu! Go up 10 miles and KAFE goes up to 20+ dBu.

I'd imagine I could have gotten on some E-skip openings if I was right in Downtown Seattle, with the hills blocking Seattle FM signals to multipath by the waterfront. (KXXO and KGY are rock solid there)

-crainbebo
 
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