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First good E-skip of the season!!!!

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mc_billy_bob

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I was in the parking lot of the Hermitage, PA Wal-mart and I didn't even have to flip the station to get 3+ e-skip stations. I confirmed 3 and probably got about 4 more.

KZGF- Z94.7- Grand Forks, North Dakota (1,135 road miles)
WOZZ- Rock 94.7- Wausau, Wisconsin (687 road miles)
Razor 94.7- WZOR- Green Bay, Wisconsin (615 road miles)

I also got a 94.7 that mentioned Mankato, MN but I couldn't find one in that area. Also, one that was on only long enough to hear a Skeeter Barnes commercial, which I guess is a chain of restaurants in Nebraska, wish I coulda got confirmation on those two, but it was a good day anyway.


Has anyone else ever got a bunch of stations on one frequency and if so, is there a name for it?
 
i am from pennsauken nj and i got 4 stations using a sony tabletop hd radio. some good e-skip i got here.

94.9 KNCK Concordia KS
94.9 KJRT Tulia TX
95.3 KCSI Omaha NE
95.3 WVRB Lexington KY
 
I need to dig out my receiver and do a little DX'ing.

We had some really weird weather here in VA yesterday and last night: Near 100 degrees actual temperature yesterday, then some really nasty thunderstorms with super-high, damaging winds and hail, then 65 degrees and crystal clear this morning. I'm sure this has something to do with all the long-range signals.
 
Last night, I was outside and there was lightning directly above me and there was a loud clap of thunder and a clicking noise somewhere nearby. Went back in for awhile, then went back out and there was lightning directly above me again followed by a clap of thunder. I was on the north side of this thunderstorm in northern VA. I am thinking that I may be causing this to happen by being outside at an apartment parking lot. The lightning must have looked for a place to strike, either me or near me. Very scary.
 
nocomradio said:
I need to dig out my receiver and do a little DX'ing.

We had some really weird weather here in VA yesterday and last night: Near 100 degrees actual temperature yesterday, then some really nasty thunderstorms with super-high, damaging winds and hail, then 65 degrees and crystal clear this morning. I'm sure this has something to do with all the long-range signals.
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No, that's not the reason.

The reason you are getting e skip in your area today has to do with E clouds about 500 to 600 miles to the west of where you are.

It's the same reason I was getting stations from Kansas today here in Tampa and we haven't had any such kind of weather.

There's still no official known agreed upon reason as to what causes these E clouds to form up in the atmosphere that gives us the E skip.
 
Gar Fla, interesting to note. Seems its happening though in conjunction with the crazy weather, as most often seems to happen in these parts. Even the past couple Winters' we've had some interesting tropo after some major Winter storms.


ddsparxx, I had that same weird clicking and that was with a storm moving North of my location around 9:30 PM. I'm about 75 miles South of NoVa. The light show was incredible with lots of multi-branched lightning. The later storm at around 11:30 PM was a tree-killing, destructive one, with lots of close lightning strikes and ground shaking thunder.
 
nocomradio said:
Gar Fla, interesting to note. Seems its happening though in conjunction with the crazy weather, as most often seems to happen in these parts. Even the past couple Winters' we've had some interesting tropo after some major Winter storms.
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If the e skip you have where you are was related to weather, it would be caused by crazy weather hundreds of miles away because remember, that's where the skip bounces off the E layer to reach your location between where you are and the transmitter of the station you hear hundreds of miles in the other direction of the same E cloud.

Also note that severe weather happens well before and after the E skip season.

Tropo is another story. That is known for a fact to be weather related and has to do with the weather conditions between your location and where you are hearing stations from.
 
About 25 miles of Tampa today heading north on I-75, I was receiving a station out of Kansas on 96.9, a country music station and then on 98.3, I was receiving KWQW a talk FM licensed to Boone, Ia (just north of Des Moines) this was around 4:30 PM, both stations were coming like locals for about 10 minutes and then they quickly exited.


drt,
st. petersburg,fl
 
Yeah, it was a good E skip afternoon the short time it lasted.

I'm still impatiently waiting for some E skip from the northeast (Philly and New York).

When I grew up in New Jersey, it seemed like there were so many summer days when the TV stations would come in strong from Florida.

Those were the old analog TV stations, channel 2 from Miami and Daytona Beach which would have local quality signals for brief periods and sometimes channel 3 from Tampa would briefly over ride channel 3 from Philadelphia on the TV set with rabbit ears.

It was always in the late morning/early afternoon too. The late afternoon brought in stations from the midwest and sometimes the early evenings, they were from up in Canada.

Back then, I wasn't paying much attention to FM, so I guess maybe the skip from Florida didn't push beyond channel 6 that often.
 
I've gotten some pretty good signals tonight. I heard WNCT for the first time squirt through on 107.9. However, it wasn't as good as it could have been. Most stations came from the north, and most of them were the usual suspects from Florence, Myrtle Beach, and other areas. I did hear WSFL on 106.5.
 
Sorry for the duplicate post in the other thread...

I live in Oklahoma City and managed to hear KBYI in Rexburg, ID along with class A WROO in Greenville, SC and KISS FM 97.7 in Guatemala City this evening... All from a stock car stereo.
 
What a HUGE joke here! No skip at all, not even low FM. I heard reports of TV8 Mexico and TV9 Canada by a DXer in Florida, from the TVFM Skip Log, as well as full-blown midwest skip around 5:30-6PM Pacific time from DXers in Michigan, etc, and a couple hours of 144 mHz. I wonder how DeadElvis did on 2m?

-crainbebo
 
Great E-skip day. lol I seriously did not have to move the dial off of 94.7, each station would stay on for about 2 minutes until fading into another one. It was cool to actually be able to identify 3 of them and that they were actually from that far away. P.S. The 94.7 from Grand Forks was a pretty happening station, I didn't know they got down like that out there.
 
nocomradio said:
I had that same weird clicking and that was with a storm moving North of my location around 9:30 PM. I'm about 75 miles South of NoVa. The light show was incredible with lots of multi-branched lightning. The later storm at around 11:30 PM was a tree-killing, destructive one, with lots of close lightning strikes and ground shaking thunder.
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The thunderstorm that brought lightning directly above me is the one that brought lots of lightning around 11:30. This storm stayed mostly south and east of my location. I noticed way too much lightning to the south of me.

I usually look at this everyday: http://thunderstorm.vaisala.com/explorer.html

I know this is getting off-topic...sorry
 
Had some great ES to Watertown NY as well. Most notable was WPWX 92.3 from Chicago in HD for several seconds, even with a Watertown local on 92.5. I was able to tune to HD2. I think this is my shortest distance HD lock via ES at around 600 miles, they are usually around the 1000 mile range.
 
I use the Sherlock site constantly but I didn't know about that second link you gave.

That includes E skip too?
 
As of late Saturday afternoon (6PM-ish EDT) the e-skip is still coming into NC. Seems to be from Gulf Coast.

I'm hearing KHLA Jennings (Lake Charles), LA, and KKBQ Pasadena (Houston), TX, both on 92.9. Also one or two other un-IDs, one that sounds like a regional Mexican format.
 
So much to go through. Friday's Es went through the FM dial. Didn't have time to scan the non-comms. Hoping I can decipher more this weekend. At times, signals were 3, 4 & 5-deep.

93.1 KHMY Pratt, KS "My 93-1" (Hot AC) 100K-C 1121.2 mi *re-log*
93.5 KLXK Breckenridge, TX "K-Lakes 93-5" (Country) 50K-C2 1156.7mi *re-log*
93.7 KPIO Pleasanton, KS "KPIO" (Religious) 25K-C3 945.0mi
95.3 KMGZ Lawton, OK "Magic 95" (Hot AC) 14K-C3 1117.3mi *re-log*
95.3 KCSI Red Oak, IA "Country Sunshine" (Country) 22.5K-C3 1050.8mi *re-log*
95.5 KAIQ Wolfforth, TX "Latricolor Purostrancazos" (Regional Mexican) 100K-C1 1317.2mi *re-log*
97.1 KVRP Haskell, TX "Big Country 97" (Country) 100K-C1 1203.1mi
97.9 KODM Odessa, TX "Lite Rock 98" (AC) 100K-C1 1355.4mi
99.9 KBAT Monahans, TX "K-BAT 99.9" (Active Rock) 100K-C1 1375.8mi
100.1 KCLL San Angelo, TX "Cool 100" (Oldies) 50K-C2 1261.8mi
101.1 KDDX Spearfish, SD "X-Rock" (Active Rock) 100K-C 1514.3mi
101.1 KONE Lubbock, TX "Rock 101.1" (Classic Rock) 100K-C1 1318.9mi
101.3 KMMZ Crane, TX "La Caliente 101.3" (Regional Mexican) 100K-C1 1365.2mi
101.3 KOXE Brownwood, TX "KOXE Country" (Country) 100K-C1 1174.5mi
101.9 KWFR San Angelo, TX "101.9 The Fire" (Classic Rock) 100K-C1 1259.5mi
101.9 KRWK Fargo, ND "Rock 102" (Classic Rock) 96K-C1 1320.1mi
104.3 KLQB Taylor, TX "104.3 La Que Buena" (Regional Mexican) 48K-C2 1101.9mi
106.7 KZZA Muenster, TX "La Bonita 106.7" (Regional Mexican) 75K-C 1066.9mi
 
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