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E-skip on Channel 2

Great videos, Mario!! I really enjoyed them.

It makes me miss analog TV and those videos are among the best e skip vids I've seen on YouTube.

I was looking at the DX Sherlock Sporadic E site late this afternoon and I noticed E clouds above southern California in the 80 to 106 MUF range.
 
MUF means 'maximum usable frequency'.

Analog channel 2 is from about 55 to 60 mhz.

Analog channel 6 goes up to about 87.5 mhz which is at the lower end of the FM band.

The MUF being in the 80 to 106 range means that the FM band was being affected too.

Here's the map I always check many times a day this time of year.

If you see a numbered cloud a few hundred miles away from your location above 60 mhz, you can check channel 2.

If it goes higher and higher, that means channels 3,4 5, and eventually 6 will be affected if it moves above 87 mhz.

If it goes beyond that, it means e skip is now affecting FM.

http://www.vhfdx.info/spots/map.php?Lan=E&Frec=MUF&ML=M&Map=NA&DXC=N&HF=N&GL=N
 
I actually received an analog channel 2 last December with Fox Programming during a sporatic-E event. Obviously, it was a low powered station (LP) which was not required to go digital when the "big switch" was mandated. From my location in Lexington, KY that signal seemed to be coming from the SW direction. I wonder who is still analog on Channel 2 with regular Fox programming??? Any ideas.
 
KR4BD said:
I actually received an analog channel 2 last December with Fox Programming during a sporatic-E event. Obviously, it was a low powered station (LP) which was not required to go digital when the "big switch" was mandated. From my location in Lexington, KY that signal seemed to be coming from the SW direction. I wonder who is still analog on Channel 2 with regular Fox programming??? Any ideas.
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XHRIO Reynosa, Mexico. (a full-power 100kw station) (covers Brownsville/Harlingen/etc.)
 
Hadn't considered a Mexican station along the border! But you are right. I remember when I lived in Southern California in the early 1960's, XETV Channel 6 from Tijuana carried the ABC network for the San Diego area....
 
The TV4 with Fairly OddParents is an XHGC-5 relayer from somewhere in Northern Mexico (Canal Cinco), as it airs that program.

-crainbebo
 
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