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Get ready for the winter mini E Skip season

gar hi

gar hi

I've always heard about the little E Skip season from about mid December into early January though I've never gotten any catches myself.

Last year, I was paying close attention to the DX Sherlock map whenever I could and the MUFs sometimes hit bottom of the FM band but I didn't see it any higher. But I also couldn't be checking the map every moment of the day either.

So just a reminder to keep aware.

http://www.vhfdx.info/spots/map.php?Lan=E&Frec=MUF&ML=M&Map=NA&DXC=N&HF=N&GL=N

I hope maybe this year is different and I can catch something.

Has anyone ever experienced FM E Skip this time of the year?
 
gar fla said:
I've always heard about the little E Skip season from about mid December into early January though I've never gotten any catches myself.

Last year, I was paying close attention to the DX Sherlock map whenever I could and the MUFs sometimes hit bottom of the FM band but I didn't see it any higher. But I also couldn't be checking the map every moment of the day either.

So just a reminder to keep aware.

http://www.vhfdx.info/spots/map.php?Lan=E&Frec=MUF&ML=M&Map=NA&DXC=N&HF=N&GL=N

I hope maybe this year is different and I can catch something.

Has anyone ever experienced FM E Skip this time of the year?
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I've experience it a couple of times in January.
 
MarioMania said:
So getting a TV Station in Mexico is possible for the next 2 months on the VHF lo band??
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Yes, much more so than on FM. The time of possible openings are now through early January.

Check the map in the link I posted and look for the MUF numbers to be 55 mhz or higher in spots about 400 to 500 miles between your location and Mexico.

Just checking the map earlier, there was an Es cloud at 58 mhz in the eastern midwest part of the country.

That means, had we still been using analog stations instead of digital. People in the northeast, parts of the south, and the central parts of the country would have gotten E Skip on channel 2!

Back in the days of analog TV, I never paid attention to winter E Skip because I didn't think there was much to it like the late spring/early summer season but I've since learned there is.
 
I got a nice opening on Dec 1 to Central America---Canal 4 in Nicaragua was steady for about 30 minutes. Even heard "If You leave Me Now" by Chicago on FM 89.1 but it petered out quickly.

In 1998 was a nice "Feliz Navidad" onscreen for Canal 3 Guatemala.

Yes indeedy----man those analog TV's! You never know.

cd
 
It's 10 pm and right now, there's an Es cloud of 83 mhz over eastern Tennesee!

That's almost the FM band and it's this late at night?

Maybe this will be a good couple of weeks ahead.
 
The best e-skip I ever heard was in late January many years ago when I heard 96.3 in Miami in Chicago one very cold January afternoon in the late 70s.
The best part about it was it lasted for several hours. I first heard it in my car & then when I got home it was coming in on my home stereo too.
 
gar fla said:
It's 10 pm and right now, there's an Es cloud of 83 mhz over eastern Tennesee!

That's almost the FM band and it's this late at night?

Maybe this will be a good couple of weeks ahead.
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Gar (or anyone else) could you provide the link for the site with the tropo prediction maps? You know which site I mean? I used to have it, before my HDD crash. :( Thanks in advance!

~BG
 
Tincap said:
gar fla said:
It's 10 pm and right now, there's an Es cloud of 83 mhz over eastern Tennesee!

That's almost the FM band and it's this late at night?

Maybe this will be a good couple of weeks ahead.
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Gar (or anyone else) could you provide the link for the site with the tropo prediction maps? You know which site I mean? I used to have it, before my HDD crash. :( Thanks in advance!

~BG
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Here ya go, but this is strictly for Tropo:

http://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo.html .....Select your region.

cd
 
cd637299 said:
Tincap said:
gar fla said:
It's 10 pm and right now, there's an Es cloud of 83 mhz over eastern Tennesee!

That's almost the FM band and it's this late at night?

Maybe this will be a good couple of weeks ahead.
Click to expand...

Gar (or anyone else) could you provide the link for the site with the tropo prediction maps? You know which site I mean? I used to have it, before my HDD crash. :( Thanks in advance!

~BG
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Here ya go, but this is strictly for Tropo:

http://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo.html .....Select your region.

cd
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That's the one! Thank you, cd!

~BG
 
Yes but you're not looking for those numbers to be over your area, you're looking for them to be about 400 to 500 miles away which is half the skip distance, where the signals skip off the E layer exactly in the middle from your location and where the signal originates from.
 
My first winter E-skip experience was only on 12/22/07. I remember being surprised by an RDS from Tampa's WFLZ from here in Southeast WI.
 
I heard some weak winter e-skip a couple days ago. I got 92.9 WBLX from Mobile, AL in NJ and a few other unIDs. It only lasted 15 minutes.
 
Haven't gotten any Es in the winter, yet. Earliest I've heard Es was early May (the 5/4/2010 opening to AZ/NM, mostly 88-92, MUF 97)

-crainbebo
 
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