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E-skip opening today (Saturday 21 March 1730Z)

I used to use that map to check out FM reception when I was in Florida and it would show the long orange or red swaths going from my area for hundreds of even a thousand miles away.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the frequencies they represent are well below the FM and even TV frequencies.

I rarely heard anything distant on FM when that map indicated long distance reception.
 
gar hi said:
I used to use that map to check out FM reception when I was in Florida and it would show the long orange or red swaths going from my area for hundreds of even a thousand miles away.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the frequencies they represent are well below the FM and even TV frequencies.

I rarely heard anything distant on FM when that map indicated long distance reception.
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The maps generally hold pretty true for me, for TV reception in general. From my location in Columbia SC, I am able to DX all across the Atlantic coastal plain from most of North Carolina down through South Carolina, Georgia, and much of Florida. Sadly, I have not seen any e-skip ever since the mass switchover to digital in 2009. For the almost-forty years prior to that, from the time I first got interested in DX as a youngster, I've seen stations from as far away as Wyoming, Saskatchewan, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and in all likelihood Mexico and Cuba. I have a very limited amount of VHS footage.
 
IM42A said:
The maps generally hold pretty true for me, for TV reception in general. From my location in Columbia SC, I am able to DX all across the Atlantic coastal plain from most of North Carolina down through South Carolina, Georgia, and much of Florida. Sadly, I have not seen any e-skip ever since the mass switchover to digital in 2009. For the almost-forty years prior to that, from the time I first got interested in DX as a youngster, I've seen stations from as far away as Wyoming, Saskatchewan, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and in all likelihood Mexico and Cuba. I have a very limited amount of VHS footage.
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You should upload that "very limited amount of VHS footage" to YouTube.
 
gar hi said:
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the frequencies they represent are well below the FM and even TV frequencies.
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The map shows propagation on the 144 mhz band, which is above FM and below VHF-high. E-skip is very rare at 144 mhz, so the map shows where tropospheric propagation is occurring. For E-skip, this map is much better as it shows the current maximum usable frequency: QSO/SWL real time maps and lists

The only TV E-skip I've ever seen was in summer 2022 when there was a weak signal on channel 3 which would have to be Cuba as I was hearing FMs from the Florida Keys at the same time.
 
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ente said:
The map shows propagation on the 144 mhz band, which is above FM and below VHF-high. E-skip is very rare at 144 mhz, so the map shows where tropospheric propagation is occurring.
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E-skip is rare, but not unheard of. I was able to work Alabama and Georgia while driving in Wisconsin on 2 meter simplex back in the late '70s. Never in Arizona, though.
ente said:
For E-skip, this map is much better as it shows the current maximum usable frequency: QSO/SWL real time maps and lists
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That map is not found.
ente said:
The only TV E-skip I've ever seen was in summer 2022 when there was a weak signal on channel 3 which would have to be Cuba as I was hearing FMs from the Florida Keys at the same time.
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Again, I've only rarely seen E-skip on TV frequencies in Arizona. In fact, the only time I saw it was Channel 2 in Spokane WA putting a decent signal into Phoenix back around 1997. But in the Midwest, it was fairly regular in the analog days. KTVK Phoenix and the PBS station in Tampa were semi-regulars in the '70s and '80s. With digital, forgeddaboudit.
 


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