This evening, while driving on Route 4 South, I picked up 97.1 The Sports Animal/Tulsa. I heard their "flash," as well as promos for their coverage of Rangers games. Anyone else pick up anything good today?
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My Best RI FM DX (E-Skip) Catch Ever
- Thread starter ScottBurns
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I keep logs of my Es and tropo catches. Friday into Saturday, 97.3 WJFD was off the air and in the middle of the night, I heard the following:
12:25 AM - 97.3 WHDG Rhinelander, Wisconsin
12:27 AM - 97.3 KLRX Lee's Summit, Missouri
12:30 AM - 97.3 KXUS Springfield, Missouri
12:33 AM - 96.9 KZKX Seward, Nebraska
12:36 AM - 92.5 KJJY West Des Moines, Iowa
12:39 AM - 97.3 KHKI Des Moines, Iowa
12:52 AM - 97.3 KMXC Sioux Falls, South Dakota
The SD station was in for 30 seconds and is actually the furthest station (mileage) I think I have ever heard. It was possibly meteor scatter, but that is usually anywhere from milliseconds to about 10 seconds at most.
Using a Sangean HDT-1X with APS-13 antenna about 30 feet from the ground.
12:25 AM - 97.3 WHDG Rhinelander, Wisconsin
12:27 AM - 97.3 KLRX Lee's Summit, Missouri
12:30 AM - 97.3 KXUS Springfield, Missouri
12:33 AM - 96.9 KZKX Seward, Nebraska
12:36 AM - 92.5 KJJY West Des Moines, Iowa
12:39 AM - 97.3 KHKI Des Moines, Iowa
12:52 AM - 97.3 KMXC Sioux Falls, South Dakota
The SD station was in for 30 seconds and is actually the furthest station (mileage) I think I have ever heard. It was possibly meteor scatter, but that is usually anywhere from milliseconds to about 10 seconds at most.
Using a Sangean HDT-1X with APS-13 antenna about 30 feet from the ground.
I wasn't out & about today; but on 7/1, I caught Kiss 104 from Greenville/Atlanta on Rt 44 (Smith Street) between High Service Ave in North Prov to River Ave in Prov for a good 15 minutes on 104.1. At first, I couldn't figure out why Mix 104.1 was playing such an old Usher song; but then I heard the hour ID
As The Chief used to explain...
As The Chief Engineer used to explain -- back when there WAS one -- this is seasonal atmospheric "inversion."
Not just FMs. This used to play hob with the VHF 2-ways when I was at WTOP. We had to call WCAU/Philadelphis, which shared the channel, and negotiate when-in-the-hour our respective traffic guys could feed.
Also on VHF: I'm hearing guys from all over the place on Marine channels, as usual this time of year. Important to switch to low power on transceivers. If I hail the harbor launch here on Block Island @ high power from the top of my mast (52'), it'll sound like I'm in New London to receivers in New London. Easy does it.
Similar deal with FM.
There's a stretch here on Block Island, on Corn Neck Road, north/south between Fred Benson Town Beach and Scotch Beach, where, momentarily, New Jersey 101.5 comes in on-top-of WWBB...but only in the summer. First reported by my client, amigo, and fellow uniformed BlockIsland.TV Fourth of July Parade street team member Eric Johnson. A funster.
Still, as we learned on The History Channel, extraterrestrials in distant galaxies are NOT hearing us light years in the future. Apparently, RF dissipates within our Solar System.
STILL, keep one finger on that Dump button, eh? There are children in the car...
As The Chief Engineer used to explain -- back when there WAS one -- this is seasonal atmospheric "inversion."
Not just FMs. This used to play hob with the VHF 2-ways when I was at WTOP. We had to call WCAU/Philadelphis, which shared the channel, and negotiate when-in-the-hour our respective traffic guys could feed.
Also on VHF: I'm hearing guys from all over the place on Marine channels, as usual this time of year. Important to switch to low power on transceivers. If I hail the harbor launch here on Block Island @ high power from the top of my mast (52'), it'll sound like I'm in New London to receivers in New London. Easy does it.
Similar deal with FM.
There's a stretch here on Block Island, on Corn Neck Road, north/south between Fred Benson Town Beach and Scotch Beach, where, momentarily, New Jersey 101.5 comes in on-top-of WWBB...but only in the summer. First reported by my client, amigo, and fellow uniformed BlockIsland.TV Fourth of July Parade street team member Eric Johnson. A funster.
Still, as we learned on The History Channel, extraterrestrials in distant galaxies are NOT hearing us light years in the future. Apparently, RF dissipates within our Solar System.
STILL, keep one finger on that Dump button, eh? There are children in the car...
In the summers I used to get 100.7 WZXL (not LX) from Wildwood, NJ a lot, especially driving along Route 1 along the shore.
I once picked up 94.9 KCMO/Kansas City from my basement in Exeter, RI several years ago on a Pioneer stereo receiver with a T-shaped antenna. Good stuff.
Last summer, when taking a grad class at 4C's on the Cape, I listened to 92.9 CFLT/Halifax, Nova Scotia on my car radio. That was neat, too.
Jacko
I once picked up 94.9 KCMO/Kansas City from my basement in Exeter, RI several years ago on a Pioneer stereo receiver with a T-shaped antenna. Good stuff.
Last summer, when taking a grad class at 4C's on the Cape, I listened to 92.9 CFLT/Halifax, Nova Scotia on my car radio. That was neat, too.
Jacko
I remember the day last summer when the Nova Scotia stations boomed in. We have had no such events this summer, and the tropo has been lousy as well. At the end of last summer, I picked up WZXL during a tropo event. It used to be an easier catch than it has been in recent years.
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diamondj
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I usually have luck around July 4 weekend. From the East Side in Providence, I had what seemed like a window open to Lake Charles, LA one year in the late 80s and another year to Minnesota (heard a fireworks dealer ad in ND on one station that was on the state line). I also remember getting a country format on 93.7 from Carroll, Iowa and hearing our own JB-105 put a call on the air the same day from someone getting Providence out in Lincoln, NE - the JB jock asked the caller what there was to do in Lincoln and he replied, "we have the capital building."
Best FM skip I ever got was a station from Winnipeg, MN (CITI 92.1) heard on a car radio outside a restaurant on a hilltop near Reading, PA.
Many of those midwest stations have tall (1000'+) antennas and ride the weather fronts all the way to the Seaboard. We don't get that in the Northwest where I now live, however people on the plains routinely get stations from the Intermountain region.
Another interesting thing is to listen on airplanes. I once followed my old station at 102.7 out of Colorado Springs almost to Lubbock Texas. Then there was the old KBZE in Salt Lake City that I picked up soon after leaving Denver (Stapleton) near the Continental Divide and kept it almost to Reno.
Many of those midwest stations have tall (1000'+) antennas and ride the weather fronts all the way to the Seaboard. We don't get that in the Northwest where I now live, however people on the plains routinely get stations from the Intermountain region.
Another interesting thing is to listen on airplanes. I once followed my old station at 102.7 out of Colorado Springs almost to Lubbock Texas. Then there was the old KBZE in Salt Lake City that I picked up soon after leaving Denver (Stapleton) near the Continental Divide and kept it almost to Reno.
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