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E Skip season is here

MarioMania said:
I thought something was coming in very weak, Maybe my eye's playing tricks

look closely
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I could see something too at the beginning. Very weak but still a signal.

Has to be E skip considering how far the nearest analog channel 2 is and the time of day where tropo couldn't be that good to pull in a station from several hundreds of miles.

It would be interesting to see more video if another opening comes up.
 
Now you seen something..I'm in Vallejo, CA Vancouver BC in Canada might be in Range on Ch.2

I live in a an area is not good with Analog

CBUT - Vancouver BC Canada
XHLPT - Televisa, La Paz X)H) L)a P)az-T)V
XHSJT - Televisa, San Jose del Cabo X)H) S)an J)ose del Cabo-T)V
XHGWT - Televisa, Guerrero Negro
 
Is it possible the E Skip season is winding down early?

I keep checking and checking the DX Sherlock site and the clouds seem to be fewer and fewer each day and lower in MUF.

I'd hate to think the two events I got so far will be it.
 
Much as I hate to say it, after the last 4 days in the FL Keys, it sure seems that way.

Got RCN Colombia on ch 2 (very nicely I may add) on Monday, but no more than 10 minutes of an opening. Tuesday I caught 2's in Dominican Republic & Venezuela, brief opening. Wednesday, nothing. This morning (Thursday) had an FM Es opening which ended before 12 noon.

Time to work on my house.

cd
 
It could be, though I hope not. Here in NE Illinois, we had one fantastic afternoon of e-skip on the 4th and that was it. Mind you, it has to be good here because there are very few vacant channels available in this area. So, strong enough to knock off fringe stations is needed for us to hear e-skip in this area.

As I said, great on Sunday and nary a trace of it since then. Theoretically, we still have a couple of weeks to go in prime e-skip season - so there's still hope.
 
June is the hot month for it. I caught my first 4 DTVs via E-skip last month, and one more on July 4th.

Unlike Tropo, which can be forecast to a degree, one cannot forecast e-skip, and so it's a roll of the dice.

cd
 
Nick said:
There was almost constant e-skip in June
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Not where I am, not at all.

I only had two days with e skip events all season and they were both in June, though.

I was so hoping to get e skip from Philly or New York but the way things are going, I keep thinking that old phrase they say in sports, Better luck next year.

When I grew up in New Jersey, there was so much e skip and quite often it was from central and south Florida.
 
I'm wondering if I'm too close in for Florida on ESkip from TN. I had FL a lot in Ohio and Indiana, haven't heard it at all here. Its all been NE, WY, CO, ND TX and Mexico
 
I think e skip can happen as close as 500 miles but it's not that common and when it does, it's not as good as the 1000 mile or so standard skips.
 
From TN I think you have a better chance of hearing low power Cuba FMs than I do in FL!

cd
 
I think the Es season is come and gone. June might have worn down the chances of skip for July.
 
Very VERY weak Spanish on ch 2 this afternoon---possibly the World Cup consolation game...but a picture couldn't surface.

It may be time to clean this house.

cd
 
eskipper411 said:
I think the Es season is come and gone. June might have worn down the chances of skip for July.
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I doubt it. I looked back at my FM DX log, to see the date each year I got my last new E-Skip logging. During the past 7 seasons the average last date for FM E-Skip was August 9th, which was also last year's (2009) date. The earliest end of the season for me was July 30 in 2003, and the latest was in 2005 with FM E-Skip logged on August 26th!!!, although there was nothing logged between August 3 and 26 that year. And the TV skip season should go a little longer because of the lower frequencies.

June was very active, after a bit of a slow start, but it's not unusual to go a week or two without any E-Skip activity in the midst of the season. This year's e-skip season got off to an early start for me, with 250 watt translator W265BV-100.9 from Florida on May 3rd, the first of 85 new FM loggings so far this E-Skip season.
 
My experience has been that the skip season is good through the first week of August. Most DXers look at the calendar and stop looking for Es on August 1st so they miss out. This years skip season seems to be a dud. Some DXers feel the sunspot cycle has nothing to do with Es, only the lower frequencies. I do not agree. Solar flares knock out DX and sunspots (magnetic storms) increase DX. I read an article from the Washington Post recently ( which is not available now to view, it expired ) that stated scientist are seeing very little activity from the sun, suspots or flares. It said this is really unusual and they did not know what to think of it, maybe something strange is brewing. The artical did not mention DX but did say certain solar activity can knock out communications. Other people think E skip is related to wind shear from thunderstorms. I am not sure if we have an usual summer of thunderstorms.
 
Actually in June the e-skip season was great. There were more e-skip days than days with no skip, and we even had 6 e-skip days in a row. My friend at one point "blamed" me when all the stations on her radio had e-skip interference several times in June.
 
Just got back from a weeks vacation on the Oregon Coast, Fort Steven State Park near Warrenton, Oregon. On our arrival I decided to tune in KJR-FM from Seattle which usually comes in on the Northern Oregon Coast. To my surprise, I found a battle between two stations on 95.7, going back and forth with Classic Hits. Turns out the other station was KNDK-FM from Langdon, ND.
Later my wife and I decided to drive up to Astoria and on the way I pushed the button for 98.7 KUPL. At first I only noticed that the station was coming in strong, then heard the station ID as KOUT Rapid City. Wow! I was blown away at how it was coming in like a local. Not too long after it faded out.
I also got unknown stations on 95.5 and 97.1 that day, over the Portland stations but they didn't stay in long enough to get an ID.
 
Wow! When did you get KNDK/KOUT? On the 5th I had great Es from ND/MB/MN and Baja California later in the evening.

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
Wow! When did you get KNDK/KOUT? On the 5th I had great Es from ND/MB/MN and Baja California later in the evening.

-crainbebo
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Yes, It was on the 5th of July. I wish I could have logged the other areas you mentioned.
That was really the first FM Es of that distance that I have received. I thought getting Seattle or Medford was great. :)
 
I just picked up an E-skip couldn't ID it, it was a CHR on 89.1. I heard it play David Guetta "Sexy Chick" followed by Lady Gaga "Bad Rommance"with no ID or sweeper.During Lady Gaga it suddenly faded out.An RL search suggested it could be a translattor in Texas.Can Someone help?
 
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