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Great signals in Kentucky

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adam502002

I'm a radio guy in East Kentucky...not a "pro dx-er" if you will, but I'm always trying to see what all I can get. I've picked up an FM station from Nebraska one evening a few years back in my vehicle with RDS and all...couldn't believe it.

Something has been going on the last few nights though here in KY. I've had great signal from stations to the west...normally out of range. Lexington stations (about 100 miles away) have been coming in clearly. Tonight, though, I've picked up several stations that I hadn't heard of...I wrote those down and looked them up on Radio-locator.com, and they have all came from the west, also. As far as Bardstown and the Louisville area, which radio-locator shows that this is about 175 miles away...and these stations are just smalltown 6,000 watt stations that I've picked up across the state (through the mountains that surround me...I might add).

Is this skip?
I love this type of phenomenon, and it has been occurring for the last several evenings. How often does this occur? Is it rare?
 
What you're experiencing isn't skip but tropospheric enhancement and tropospheric ducting which is caused by weather conditions.

Here's a forecast map for such a thing....

http://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo.html#hour6


Another more rare event that could cause that kind of reception from those distances is aurora activity.


E Skip typically happens at distances of 800 to 1200 miles but can be as little as 400 but that is more rare.

One way to also distinguish E Skip from tropo is that signals received by skip are not steady in strength and can fade from nothing to local-like in seconds, whereas tropo signals are of consistent strength for long periods of time.

Hope this helps.
 
That does help! Thanks.

Looking at that map, almost all of the stations I heard come from a specific area across the state, all concentrated in or near that teal colored bubble on the map. I'm well to the east...almost to the WVA border. On the map, I know it doesn't look far, but these stations are well out of our area, and area not normally there.

They are coming in loud and clear as my local stations. I love it.
 
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