Anyone get any long distance DX catches yesterday (Monday June 16) up there in Montana? I was getting one of your FM stations down here in East Texas. Is there tropospheric ducting going on now? I am not sure I understand exactly how that works, but I think if I can hear a Montana station maybe Montana listeners should be able to pick up a Texas station (at least during yesterday's conditions).
I was driving up from Houston to the Dallas area yesterday and scanning the channels after getting outside of Houston and when I was just about to Centerville, Texas -- 101.3 FM came in loud and clear. I wasn't familiar with any 101.3 in the area (with 101.1 in Houston and Dallas that hogs the space for 101.3 in between) so I kept listening. I heard a weather forecast for highs of 80 and lows in the 50s, so although I was hoping that there was an arriving cold front (we need to cool down here in Texas were it has been close to 100 degrees) I figured it was coming from out of state. Then I heard livestock auction numbers for cattle and pork bellies from the "Northern Ag Network." Texas is not exactly a "Northern Ag" kind of state. I heard a PSA from the Montana Department of Transportation reminding people it was against the law to use off road (and non highway taxed) diesel in their on road vehicles. That made me think the station was in Montana, but it could have been a PSA just played along with the agricultural report over the ag net. The station faded and then alternately boomed in as I drove for about 1/2 hour from about 10:20 to 10:50 a.m. central time. After listening to some old time country music from the 1950s it seems, I finally caught the station ID -- KIKC in Forsyth Montana. Mapquest says it is about 1500 road miles from Centerville, Texas to Forsyth Montana. Looking this station up, it has 100,000 watts in a town of only 1944 people.
Anyone else hear any long range DX yesterday? Did anyone in Montana here any stations from Texas?
I was driving up from Houston to the Dallas area yesterday and scanning the channels after getting outside of Houston and when I was just about to Centerville, Texas -- 101.3 FM came in loud and clear. I wasn't familiar with any 101.3 in the area (with 101.1 in Houston and Dallas that hogs the space for 101.3 in between) so I kept listening. I heard a weather forecast for highs of 80 and lows in the 50s, so although I was hoping that there was an arriving cold front (we need to cool down here in Texas were it has been close to 100 degrees) I figured it was coming from out of state. Then I heard livestock auction numbers for cattle and pork bellies from the "Northern Ag Network." Texas is not exactly a "Northern Ag" kind of state. I heard a PSA from the Montana Department of Transportation reminding people it was against the law to use off road (and non highway taxed) diesel in their on road vehicles. That made me think the station was in Montana, but it could have been a PSA just played along with the agricultural report over the ag net. The station faded and then alternately boomed in as I drove for about 1/2 hour from about 10:20 to 10:50 a.m. central time. After listening to some old time country music from the 1950s it seems, I finally caught the station ID -- KIKC in Forsyth Montana. Mapquest says it is about 1500 road miles from Centerville, Texas to Forsyth Montana. Looking this station up, it has 100,000 watts in a town of only 1944 people.
Anyone else hear any long range DX yesterday? Did anyone in Montana here any stations from Texas?