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Milestone E-skip tonight with a record broken! 5/17/15

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crainbebo

MUF wasn't 108 mhz, but this was a huge milestone E-skip opening tonight from Yakima. Beat my lowest-powered FM record by 5 watts!! 8 new + two UNIDs for a possible total of 10. Starting from the beginning:

1735 95.1 KFRG San Bernardino, CA; mentioned radio.com app, and "Keep it here on K-Frog." NEW #403, 50KW at 880 miles.
1736 94.1 KMYI San Diego, CA (most likely) with Hot AC music
1736 96.5 KYXY San Diego, CA with ad for Wawanesa Insurance, relog 26.5KW 977 miles.
1737 98.1 unid "Danny's Song" Kenny Loggins - KIFM San Diego?
1740 88.3 unid jazz music, likely KSDS San Diego
1741 88.7 UNID, SS commercial and back to music. Mentioned California. Maybe XHITT Tijuana, but need to confirm from others on here and/or WTFDA forums.
1743 95.3 XHHIT Tecate, BCN with Regional Mex. music, ID "La Caliente" and back into SS music. NEW #404, 12KW at 992 miles.
1745 97.3 KSON San Diego CA w/ ad for Toyota of Escondido
1755 95.1 KNYE Pahrump, NV with ID "KNYE 95.1 FM, The Big Voice of the Valley," into "Back When" by Tim McGraw. NEW #405, 6000W at 758 miles...quite short skip! Art Bell (of Coast to Coast AM fame) used to own the station.
1800 95.3 XHHIT Tecate back with TOH ID, then fade
1811 95.1 KTTI Yuma, AZ w/ ID "95.1 KTTI". Relog, 50KW at 1012 miles.
1813 95.9 unid "95.9 Ace Country" with Trace Adkins "Million Dollar View". After research, thinking KACP Pahrump NV (near Vegas). But will need some confirmation.
1815 98.5 KLUC Las Vegas, NV w/ ad for Dollar Loan Center in Las Vegas. Relog, 100KW at 791 miles.
1817 100.5 KXNT-FM Henderson, NV with Robert Sidell "Success and the Law" talk show; matched program schedule. NEW #406, 100KW at 791 miles.
1818 96.3 KKLZ Las Vegas, NV with "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" Rod Stewart and ID "96.3 KKLZ". NEW #407, 100KW at 791 miles.
1823 96.3 K242BV St. George, UT; ID "96X Rocks." This is the milestone log, beats my lowest powered FM via e-skip by 5 watts!! NEW #408, 195W!!! Distance is 749 miles, and was the shortest log of the day AND lowest powered FM on record!
1823 95.5 unid "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" Tears for Fears
1823 95.1 unid "Margaritaville" Jimmy Buffett, into "Brave" Sara Bareilles with no ID - KOAI?
1829 93.9 KMGN Flagstaff, AZ; "Owner of a Lonely Heart" Yes and ID "The Mountain." NEW #409, 100KW at 932 miles.
1832 95.7 KWKM St. Johns, AZ; ID "Show Low's Best Hit Music, Power 95.7" into "Moves Like Jagger" Maroon 5. NEW #410, 100KW at 1031 miles.
1839 96.1 KWRK Window Rock, AZ; ID "Capital Country 96.1". Relog from 2011, 94KW at 963 miles.
1840 96.5 unid with "Steal My Sunshine" Lem. Prob KRFM, which I still need.
Took a dive at 1840 and never returned.

Absolutely impressive Es tonight! Hoping for more this season!

UNIDs
88.7 - http://www.mediafire.com/listen/ewvklb11x7w0qqq/UNID_88.7_SS_from_Yakima_WA_5_17_15.wma
95.9 - http://www.mediafire.com/listen/zys38j6vzfap5vf/UNID_95.9_Ace_Country_from_Yakima_WA_5_17_15.wma

Other IDs
KMGN - http://www.mediafire.com/listen/y6xai0cahp116gi/KMGN_93.9_Flagstaff_AZ_5_17_15_from_Yakima_WA.wma
XHHIT - http://www.mediafire.com/listen/ri09sd1f65lcy78/XHHIT_95.3_Tecate_BCN_5_17_15_from_Yakima_WA.wma
KWKM - http://www.mediafire.com/listen/qj02n3eqk4asn5n/KWKM_95.7_St_Johns_AZ_5_17_15_from_Yakima_WA.wma
KXNT - http://www.mediafire.com/listen/efm...100.5_Henderson_NV_5_17_15_from_Yakima_WA.wma
KTTI - http://www.mediafire.com/listen/4xsa9tswd0ch86a/KTTI_95.1_Yuma_AZ_5_17_15_from_Yakima_WA.wma
KKLZ - http://www.mediafire.com/listen/4ns2pu6gztwpztl/KKLZ_96.3_Las_Vegas_NV_5_17_15_from_Yakima_WA.wma
KLUC - http://www.mediafire.com/listen/2065vfpjp6fetr2/KLUC_98.5_Las_Vegas_NV_5_17_15_from_Yakima_WA.wma
KNYE - http://www.mediafire.com/listen/59ow7dbzjcbal5t/KNYE_95.1_Pahrump_NV_5_17_15_from_Yakima_WA.wma
KWRK - http://www.mediafire.com/listen/io8b41m07d4qfm0/KWRK_96.1_Window_Rock_AZ_5_17_15_from_Yakima_WA.wma
The record low 195W K242BV - http://www.mediafire.com/listen/lc8...red_record_195W!!)_5_17_15_from_Yakima_WA.wma
KFRG - http://www.mediafire.com/listen/3wd..._San_Bernardino_CA_5_17_15_from_Yakima_WA.wma
KYXY - http://www.mediafire.com/listen/3ubdrsaz6sr30rl/KYXY_96.5_San_Diego_CA_5_17_15_from_Yakima_WA.wma

-crainbebo
 
My records were made in the early to mid 70's, when the band was not as crowded. From Midland, TX, Central Florida stations would regularly skip over the Gulf of Mexico. Conditions were good enough that during the summer, about one day out of 3, you could almost depend on the same set of stations appearing. Sometimes for several days in a row mid-afternoon. Still amazing to me - I had no idea how rare and amazing that was.

One day in the 1990's, I was driving from Barberville, FL to Ormond Beach, FL, along highway 40 when an absolutely overwhelming skip event occurred. Every single frequency was completely jammed with multiple signals swapping in and out. This lasted for the whole drive, I have never heard anything like it again. I was going to try for logs, but it was so full of stations I only got one ID at the first frequency - 88.1, and it was KTXT Lubbock, TX. This took almost half an hour, I never got any further because the band was trashed. Too much of a good thing! This was without normal Florida weather skip.

During thunderstorm season, the dry line in West Texas will bring in skip from Los Angeles. I am well familiar with LA stations, travelling there regularly. Some times, it is possible to hear them for up to half an hour, and even follow the dry line as it moves from West to East. I did this along highway 114 one afternoon until it curiously dropped off past Crosbyton. You have to be pretty much right under the dry line. Fortunately, there is usually a line of clouds to mark it.

Which leads me to believe there is some combination of weather geometry that sets up between West Texas and Florida to make the skip possible. That day in 1990, I envision the "perfect storm" of a strong dry line, reflective Gulf of Mexico, and heating over Florida.


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Nice catches, Crainbebo! I always like to hear those audio files.

During thunderstorm season, the dry line in West Texas will bring in skip from Los Angeles.
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Is there really a correlation/causation effect between specific thunderstorm activity and E Skip?

I know thunderstorms are indirectly related to E Skip in general because they ionize the upper atmosphere but correlation doesn't always mean causation.
 
gar fla said:
Nice catches, Crainbebo! I always like to hear those audio files.



Is there really a correlation/causation effect between specific thunderstorm activity and E Skip?

I know thunderstorms are indirectly related to E Skip in general because they ionize the upper atmosphere but correlation doesn't always mean causation.
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The dry line skip is very dependable. What I think is going on is that the difference in humidity creates a stable reflective characteristic, acting like a huge dish thousands of feet up. I know when I fly, I am not sure what the event horizon might be, and I do not do illegal DX from airplanes, but I do know that at night I can see the lights of LA at least a thousand miles out over the Pacific. It is plausible that if the dry line reflective layer stretches upward to 35 thousand feet, it could reflect stations from a thousand miles. The only way to be sure would be to log stations during each dry line event. I am going to have to let someone else take up the task, I haven't been to West Texas for 9 years. There is just no need with no more family living there.

I was wondering if you have observed the reverse? Texas FM from Florida. I only did it the one time, but that may have been for lack of effort. I was East Coast of Florida, and primarily after things North or South. I didn't really point my antenna West.
 
I've gotten my share of E Skip here from Texas over the years.

It was most always from the Houston area.

In 1989, there was an evening where the tropo from there was real strong. Very steady signals.

The very next evening, I was getting the same stations but it was definitely E Skip because of the rapid fading from strong to nothing and back again.

My most distant E Skip catch from Texas was Del Rio.
 
I haven't gotten the DX-402 yet. Waiting for a low price on that radio, then I'll purchase it and send it to Bruce for new filters. Those catches were all with the G5.

By the way, I received KTSL-101.9 Medical Lake, WA today via tropo scatter. Air 1 + match to local translator on 89.9. About 165 miles at 28.5KW, and a new log (#412). Not bad. Also received 95.3 96.1 97.7 101.1 103.5 Vancouver, 98.1 96.1 Spokane, 92.1 Victoria, 101.1 101.9 95.5 Portland OR.

-crainbebo
 
Ugh! I got the G8 to catch some E-Skip, and have caught nothing yet. My record, set with my iPod radio is still KDUK Florance OR in Edmonds, though I did receive KMGE Eugene with a strong steady mono signal a couple months ago. I also had KEUG and a couple others in that day. Last week, after hearing some E-Skip from the New York GT receiver, I checked Eugene, and was able to hear KXTG's 102.9 translator which is a local for me, and the local 104.5 Way fm, also a 99 watt translator down there. What was really annoying though was I could hear KLSY from that node, but when I turned on my G8 here in Vancouver, they were nowhere to be found. Absolutely nothing unusual about the band up here that day, with the exception of KLOO 106.3 being stronger than usual.
 
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