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FM Summertime Skip

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Saw some interesting comments about FM skip on the Jersey thread. Just recently in Evansville I tuned in one of my favorite stations, the True Oldies Channel, 97.7 in Madisonville, only to find that it wasn't there. Loud and clear came in a station called WILD 97.7 whose format appeared to me to be Rythmic CHR. I was shocked. Thought my station had changed format on me. Listened a bit longer and heard a spot set loaded with commercials for Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico businesses. Fifteen minutes later, the station faded away and my oldies were back. I've picked up a few stations from about 200 miles out in the summer, but hearing New Mexico in Southwestern Indiana. Wow!
 
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Saw some interesting comments about FM skip on the Jersey thread. Just recently in Evansville I tuned in one of my favorite stations, the True Oldies Channel, 97.7 in Madisonville, only to find that it wasn't there. Loud and clear came in a station called WILD 97.7 whose format appeared to me to be Rythmic CHR. I was shocked. Thought my station had changed format on me. Listened a bit longer and heard a spot set loaded with commercials for Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico businesses. Fifteen minutes later, the station faded away and my oldies were back. I've picked up a few stations from about 200 miles out in the summer, but hearing New Mexico in Southwestern Indiana. Wow!
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That is fun stuff...drives ya crazy when you're alone in the car & there's nobody to say "listen to this!" to. My best one was Flagstaff, AZ's KAFF Country on 92.9 about 30 miles south of Indy.
 
that is an amazing skip! I once was able to pull in what I think was WKBN from Youngstown Ohio (95.9 Kiss FM), last fall I was driving in the Loogootee area. I only heard the 95.9 Kiss FM, so I searched and it was the nearest one I could find.
 
I got Several Jacksonville and Vero Beach stations about 2 hours ago in central indiana. you might have gotten the same Florida Eskip duct i had earlier since you were getting florida's in southern ohio
 
We were doing our yearly live thing at the Fayette County Fair on Wednesday when we were taken over by 94.3 KILO, Colorado Springs....Nice and clear in Connersville. Going get interesting between now and the end of the Sun Spot cycle.
 
Ted Cramer said:
We were doing our yearly live thing at the Fayette County Fair on Wednesday when we were taken over by 94.3 KILO, Colorado Springs....Nice and clear in Connersville. Going get interesting between now and the end of the Sun Spot cycle.
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This is tropospheric ducting, it has little to nothing to do with sunspots and we are near the low point of the current sunspot cycle, sunspot activity should increase over the next 4 to 5 years to the cyclical peak.
 
KyDXIn said:
Do you think the abandonment of the analog TV signals will help or hurt the e-skip?
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This has been a VERY GOOD E-skip season. On analog TV, DXers are reporting plenty of Mexican and Canadian signals. They're also seeing U.S. LPTV stations -- most common seem to be a pair of Univision affiliates in Florida and an Alabama station that relays a Tuscaloosa full-power DTV. Digital TV skip is also being widely reported - with one DXer able to watch KNOP-DT North Platte, Nebraska for over an hour straight. An enormous amount of double-hop skip is being reported, with South Texas, northern Mexico, and even northern South America being reported frequently in the Northeast.

FM skip has also been quite good.
 
Ann Tenna said:
Ted Cramer said:
We were doing our yearly live thing at the Fayette County Fair on Wednesday when we were taken over by 94.3 KILO, Colorado Springs....Nice and clear in Connersville. Going get interesting between now and the end of the Sun Spot cycle.
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This is tropospheric ducting, it has little to nothing to do with sunspots and we are near the low point of the current sunspot cycle, sunspot activity should increase over the next 4 to 5 years to the cyclical peak.
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Colorado Springs<=>Connersville is not tropospheric ducting. (well, I suppose it's remotely possible - tropo paths like that have been reported - but very unlikely. And no path like that has been reported recently.) This was sporadic-E.

However, the rest of your post is accurate: we are indeed near the bottom of the sunspot cycle, and sunspots have little or nothing to do with either tropospheric or sporadic-E propagation.

(sunspots do greatly affect F-layer propagation. But the highest frequency ever reported propagated through the F-layer is 70MHz, so the only domestic broadcast frequencies affected are AM and TV channels 2-4.)
 
It was an interesting late July day when I was truckin' from Oakland City down I-164 to E'ville... Quebec, Vermont and New York stations were coming in... A Christian CHR from Ontario held on most of the way... At 4:pm our time, I heard the 5:pm request drive home.... Strange things are a-foot at the Circle-K, Eh?????
 
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