Great DX Opening This Evening

[ScottBurns]

For all of you DXers out there, we are experiencing good atmospheric conditions for DX'ing. This evening, I caught US 103.5/Tampa (it was battling heavily with 103.5 WKTU/New York). I also picked up WLOQ/Orlando, and a station on 96.7 out of Mississippi that I have yet to have time to identify.

 

[reelyreal]

The E-Skip propogation has been insane this year! Toward the end of june I was getting in WJCL-FM Savannah on 96.5 in northeast CT instead of WTIC-FM, and I've also been picking up country on 93.3 instead of WSNE.

 

[Skynet74]

Can someone please explain to me why this happens in the first place? What ingrediants need to be in place for these conditions to happen? Is it all weather related?

 

[jlehmann]

Can someone please explain to me why this happens in the first place? What ingrediants need to be in place for these conditions to happen? Is it all weather related?

Here's the wikipedia entry for e skip, which may answer some of your questions, but it's just that, sporadic... so hard to predict, but it seems to happen mostly in June and July.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporadic_E_propagation

This has been a very good year for it, I've probably added close to 100 new stations to my log this year, which is not too common. It has been a somewhat disappointing year for tropo, but hopefully it's just saving itself for later in the season...

 

[wknd92]

I've always been of the opinion that the humidity and/or haze of the early summer tends to lend itself prime for the action we are seeing (and have seen in the past). I harken back to a day where Butts was on Pro-FM and was crushing K-Rock on Long Island and in various parts of Manhattan proper that Howard kept calling the request line at Pro trying to speak to the engineer to have him turn the transmitter off until his show was over....(kept calling when the show switched over to Gio as Gio was talking with then Howard intern/producer Diamond Dave)

 

[jlehmann]

I've always been of the opinion that the humidity and/or haze of the early summer tends to lend itself prime for the action we are seeing (and have seen in the past). I harken back to a day where Butts was on Pro-FM and was crushing K-Rock on Long Island and in various parts of Manhattan proper that Howard kept calling the request line at Pro trying to speak to the engineer to have him turn the transmitter off until his show was over....(kept calling when the show switched over to Gio as Gio was talking with then Howard intern/producer Diamond Dave)

I would agree with those type of conditions being somewhat related to tropo (the type which would cause that kind of a situation with NYC on 92.3), but not e skip.

 

[Rick]

Thanks for sharing the Butts/Stern story! I wish I could go back in time to hear it

 

[Skynet74]

I've always been of the opinion that the humidity and/or haze of the early summer tends to lend itself prime for the action we are seeing (and have seen in the past). I harken back to a day where Butts was on Pro-FM and was crushing K-Rock on Long Island and in various parts of Manhattan proper that Howard kept calling the request line at Pro trying to speak to the engineer to have him turn the transmitter off until his show was over....(kept calling when the show switched over to Gio as Gio was talking with then Howard intern/producer Diamond Dave)

LOL... that's a funny story. Never heard that one before. I think you mean Dead Air Dave though. He was in charge of hitting the delay button whenever Howard would step over the line. So Howard gave him the nickname "Dead Air Dave". However there was a Diamond Dave that worked at K-Rock after Howard left. But CBS is hoping everybody forgets about that horrible mistake. lol

 

[wknd92]

LOL... that's a funny story. Never heard that one before. I think you mean Dead Air Dave though. He was in charge of hitting the delay button whenever Howard would step over the line. So Howard gave him the nickname "Dead Air Dave". However there was a Diamond Dave that worked at K-Rock after Howard left. But CBS is hoping everybody forgets about that horrible mistake. lol

No, was Diamond Dave....a monkey, back office, intern guy who was calling. Butts had a coniption, Gio loved the whole situation...

 

[MEB83]

I used to live in Providence, and while living there listened a lot to 94.1 WHJY. I tried to tune in a station where I live now, 94.1 WSBS, while driving around the back roads of Berkshire County one Saturday morning this June. While tuning into 94.1, I picked up WHJY crystal clear just long enough to hear the last 30 seconds of a song, a station liner and about a minute of the next song, for a moment I forgot where I was! I know it can happen, but I have never experienced it before. It was a cool experience!

 

[ScottBurns]

Another great opening today. I picked up 97X/Tampa while driving on the Mount Hope Bridge late this afternoon.

 

[Skynet74]

Another great opening today. I picked up 97X/Tampa while driving on the Mount Hope Bridge late this afternoon.

That's wild. But for some reason DX'ing kind of lost it's appeal for me ever since radio stations started streaming on the net. However I can't wait till ideal conditions appear for me to start picking up distant signals like that on my HDTV. That's what I'm excited about.