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Local news article on the big 7/24 E Skip event

I knew it! With Es this intense, you know some type of media outlet will get on it. I remember that one of the posters [Nick in NJ I think] said that the 7/6/04 opening made the 11:00 TV news that night.

-crainbebo
 
New Jersey 101.5 got a caller from Arkansas wondering why he was hearing that station over there, and other calls from listeners in NJ who couldn't hear the station.
 
Really nice! Wish I could see a monster like that here, making local news ["...and FM listeners in Seattle are wondering-why am I getting mentions of Denver over KUBE 93?...]

-crainbebo
 
Nick said:
New Jersey 101.5 got a caller from Arkansas wondering why he was hearing that station over there, and other calls from listeners in NJ who couldn't hear the station.
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So interesting you mention this because, being that I'm from Jersey, I often listen to their online stream during the day (Dennis and Judi) while I'm working at home and when I discovered we were having this big E skip opening, I decided to take the day off and concentrate on taking in this rare event and not miss a minute, not to mention also trying to get as many videos with station IDs as I could.

As soon as I first heard WPST which is also from Trenton, I did try to null out our local WPOI 101.5 by moving the antenna and the radio around to see if I could hear NJ 101.5 but I couldn't get them.

Now I wish I could have also listened to their audio stream to hear what you mentioned.
 
It's always interesting to read or hear on the news, stories like this.

It was Tropo in the following instance, not e-skip, but I thought I would relate....

In 1976, the news on WCIX TV 6 in Miami, read by Prescott Robinson, had a horrible picture with heavy bars across the screen. Robinson said something like, "If you are having problems seeing our signal tonight, it is not your TV. Channel 6 in Havana is coming in very strong tonight." At that time, WCIX was only on until maybe 1 am. I was blessed to actually see the Havana station for about 5 to 10 minutes, then *it* signed off---my first look at Cuban TV. (IIRC, this was on a rod antenna!)

Then in 1990, the same Havana 6 made our news again, but for a different reason, if I recall. TV Marti was almost ready to start broadcasting, and it so happened that WCIX was accidentally off the air for about 2 minutes. A beautiful picture of the Cuban 6 showed. (I saw it on the news....I was away during this moment.) I believe that many thought that possibly the Cuba 6 added some "juice" in possible retaliation for the Marti debut.

In Cuba a few years ago, just prior to the analog shut-off, reception of US stations one evening was very strong, and their gubmint had to tell their people that it was not some yanqui imperialista maneuver!

cd
 
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