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E-skip on 9/4

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I was driving around last night and noticed many stations coming in. There was slight tropo so I thought all the stations were coming in on tropo. There was also moderate to strong tropo the past 2 nights. It's September and e-skip was the last thing on my mind, so I was tuning around trying to match the formats I heard to known tropo station formats. What was confusing was that I positively IDed some tropo stations, so I thought every station was coming in via tropo. I thought this was "the big one" and I was getting stations from beyond my usual tropo range (still didn't think it was e-skip). After I IDed 95.1 as WAPE from Jacksonville, FL (I initially thought it was a local WAYV 95.1 with the same format that's frequently enhanced by tropo) I was ecstatic since I thought I was getting tropo to Florida from NJ (someone heard NJ-FL tropo last April, and I thought the remnants of Lee might be setting up a big tropo duct tonight)! But the signals were acting like e-skip and I was getting many different areas that weren't near a coast. A quick look on DX World confirmed that it was e-skip.

A little "disappointed" that it was "only" e-skip, it was a pretty good opening like what we have in June. The MUF went past 107.9 and it lasted over an hour. Prior to this year, I never heard e-skip in April and September.
 
Agreed!

I observed short-skip to your neighborhood on April 27th. This was my earliest ever observed Es in my location. My brief Es yesterday to FL, AL, MS, LA made for my latest reported Es (September 4th!) From what i've gathered, both are very rare!
 
Although to varying degrees, I have had E-skip in every month but February (actually one Feb 28 I think I had it, but nothing IDable).

Sep 27. 1990 was quite an exhausting Es day for me (lots of Central America & Colombia stuff---my first catch of Panama on any "band", 90.9 RPC Radio).

cd
 
The earliest Eskip I had in VA is mid May last year and never had in August or Sept., though I had a couple of Eskips around Christmas before. I looked at the Sherlock map and the MUF appeared to be around the 6-meter band along the Gulf coast.
 
Using a Global Tuners node in Nova Scotia (near St. Margaret's Bay), logged the following stations; unIDs as well. This was around 7:30-8:15 ET time.

88.7: unID gospel, strong at times, faded during ID
88.9: WFSU Tallahassee, FL; mentions of FSU; 850 phone number; Fresh Air Weekend. 1475 mi+!
88.9: unID jesuscaster
89.5: unID BBN, could be one of two in GA, or ???
93.5: unID preaching of terrible quality mixed with music
94.9: WTNT Tallahassee, FL; several IDs for "949 TNT"; commercials for local businesses. 1475 mi+

Using a Global Tuners node in Ajax, Ontario, logged the following

93.3: unID rap mixed with Star 93.3 (fringe local), could be NOLA
94.3: WTIX New Orleans, LA; WTIX IDs and oldies music.

-crainbebo
 
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