SKIP TODAY

[ThatGuyOnTheRadio]

Caught what I believe to be CKMF/Montreal in Gainesville today around 6:20.

Northern New England board noting similar catches up there of GA and FL stations.

 

[trock]

Yeah I was lurking the Boston boards, and somebody picked up 104.7 waaz in Crestview! : I kinda got a kick outta that.

 

[jmtillery]

When I was with WMMZ 93.7 Ocala in 1987, we were picked up on Long Island, New York and again on the island of Guam. Another time I heard a Michigan beautiful music station on 98.5 [I don't remember the call letters] that was overriding WKTK in the station parking lot on Northeast Waldo Road in Gainesville. That was on July 4th, 1989. And, on another occassion, I was sitting in the WKTK control studio one Sunday morning while WFSY 98.5 Panama City was coming in loud and clear over the studio air monitors. One final time I heard a Mexican station on 93.9 coming in clear for a few minutes in Crystal River.

 

[Poledo]

Yeah I was lurking the Boston boards, and somebody picked up 104.7 waaz in Crestview! : I kinda got a kick outta that.

Shucks, it looks like Skip let our secret radio station slip out the door again. I bet the DXers in Boston were jealous! Look for a Boston area station to soon flip to a clone of "The Good Country." Signing off at midnight, carrying Braves baseball, local high school football, and even a little religion on Sunday morning. Ahhh, yes... the good country!

If one would get lucky enough to catch The Rajun' Cajun, KLRZ, from New Orleans around the same time they heard WAAZ, those Yankees would be on the next flight south! Which is cool, as long as they go home after they spend all their money down here. ;D We don't really like Yankees unless they are writing us a check... and it always has been nice of them to visit the area when prices are peaking.

 

[cd637299]

Yeah I was lurking the Boston boards, and somebody picked up 104.7 waaz in Crestview! : I kinda got a kick outta that.

Shucks, it looks like Skip let our secret radio station slip out the door again. I bet the DXers in Boston were jealous! Look for a Boston area station to soon flip to a clone of "The Good Country." Signing off at midnight, carrying Braves baseball, local high school football, and even a little religion on Sunday morning. Ahhh, yes... the good country!

If one would get lucky enough to catch The Rajun' Cajun, KLRZ, from New Orleans around the same time they heard WAAZ, those Yankees would be on the next flight south! Which is cool, as long as they go home after they spend all their money down here. ;D We don't really like Yankees unless they are writing us a check... and it always has been nice of them to visit the area when prices are peaking.

Not really related to the title of this thread, but...:

I did some daytime AM DXn at Cape San Blas, FL (south of Tallahassee along the Gulf) last Monday.....Superadios II & III + Select-a-Tenna at hand....Amazing how lil 500-watt WKWF Key West (high on the dial @ 1600, no less!) makes it in the day there....a lil turn of the radio, and you get KLEB in La. (relaying KLRZ!)

And on the Sunday the day before, I was driving north from Grand Ridge toward the AL border, and was indeed listening to the Braves on WAAZ! Now....why 1050, with the same programming, is still on, well......ya got me....

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[BostonRandy]

Picked up a few from the palatial estate in Myrtle Beach:

93.1 CBJ-3 Dolbeau-Mistassini, Quebec "Premiere Chaine" (Public) 38.2K-B 1097.1mi
94.1 WOTT Calcium, NY "94 Rock" (Rock) 21.5K-C3 723.1mi
95.7 WAQX Manilus, NY "Rock Radio 95X" (Rock) 25K-B1 655.3mi
97.1 CHLC Baie-Comeau, Quebec "Le 97.1 et 100.5" (Hot AC) 4.2K-B 1202.8mi
100.5 CHAS Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario "100.5 EZ Rock" (AC) 13.9K-C 928.5mi
101.1 CBF-FM-10 Sherbrooke, Quebec "Premiere Chaine" (Public) 35K-B 886.7mi
101.9 CKFX North Bay, Ontario "102FM The Fox" (Rock) 100K-C 864.5mi
102.1 CBOF-FM-7 Brockville, ON "Premiere Chaine" (Public) 2.5K-A 770.5mi
103.3 WMXW Binghamton, NY "Mix 103" (AC) 5.2K-A 594.6mi
104.5 CFLG Cornwall, Ontario "Variety 104" (AC) 15K-B 810.1mi
104.7 WBBS Fulton, NY "B-104.7" (Country) 50K-B 665.6mi
104.7 CBVE Quebec City, Quebec "CBC Radio One" 100K-C 981.8mi
106.9 WSYR Solvay, NY "FM News Radio 106.9 & 570AM" (N/T) 9K-B1 653.7mi

 

[Bill790]

For part of my drive home from work in northern New Jersey on July 1 I heard Coast 93.3 (WNCV). I heard several local spots that helped me ID the station. (I also heard J-93 from Georgia for a while.)

 

[Diamondtwo]

I was sitting in the WKTK control studio one Sunday morning while WFSY 98.5 Panama City was coming in loud and clear over the studio air monitors.

Mark, WKTK used to come in like a local at WFSY/Panama City whenever we were off the air. Since we were notorious for going off the air in afternoon thunderstorms back then -- especially during my afternoon show -- and since 'KTK had a similar format to Sunny's, it would be easy to not realize we were off until a station ID came on for 'KTK.

TDO

 

[901Rocks]

Today near Live Oak, a little after Noon I heard a signal on 95.1 in mono, with a French speaking announcer, completely and cleanly overriding WAPE out of Jacksonville!

 

[ThatGuyOnTheRadio]

Today near Live Oak, a little after Noon I heard a signal on 95.1 in mono, with a French speaking announcer, completely and cleanly overriding WAPE out of Jacksonville!

This highly unlikely, but perhaps CHME? Though it's only 1 watt.

http://radio-locator.com/info/CHME-FM

 

[cd637299]

Today near Live Oak, a little after Noon I heard a signal on 95.1 in mono, with a French speaking announcer, completely and cleanly overriding WAPE out of Jacksonville!

This highly unlikely, but perhaps CHME? Though it's only 1 watt.

http://radio-locator.com/info/CHME-FM

I doubt it....per w9wi's site, I *would* say that it was the one in Montreal....but if the signal was mono, hmmm---I think the Montreal 95.1 is stereo. Maybe the stereo was temporarily out.

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[901Rocks]

I wish I knew some French... then maybe I could have figured out what station it was, although it was only clear for a few minutes and then I heard WAPE coming back in.

 

[cceng1]

there was some wild eskip today on the 6m ham band....which is 50 mhz.....the MUF could have been up to the FM band....you MIGHT have snagged a station in France.....many hams were working EU stations and even Morocco today on 6m....they were working deep into EU (Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Rep and Slovakia) so hearing France on FM is certainly not out of the question. In 2001 WPAP in Panama City was heard in Italy (we have a cassette of the audio that the dxer sent us)

cceng

 

[Poledo]

In 2001 WPAP in Panama City was heard in Italy (we have a cassette of the audio that the dxer sent us)

Did y'all send that Italian dxer a bumper sticker?

 

[w9wi]

I wish I knew some French... then maybe I could have figured out what station it was, although it was only clear for a few minutes and then I heard WAPE coming back in.

The Montreal station is indeed mono. (as are most if not all of Radio-Canada's first-network stations, and the English-language CBC Radio 1 outlets) It's 100,000 watts.

There are five other possibilities in Canada:
CIMB-FM Betsiamites (1 watt)
CJSG-FM Campement Sarcelle (1,505 watts)
CILE-FM Havre-St-Pierre (1,496 watts)
VF2217 Mont-Wright (10 watts)
CBON-FM-17 North Bay, Ontario (100,000 watts)

I think it's a toss-up whether you had Montreal or North Bay. CJSG and CILE are powerful enough to make the trip but a good deal further north and/or east.

 

[901Rocks]

I wish I knew some French... then maybe I could have figured out what station it was, although it was only clear for a few minutes and then I heard WAPE coming back in.

The Montreal station is indeed mono. (as are most if not all of Radio-Canada's first-network stations, and the English-language CBC Radio 1 outlets) It's 100,000 watts.

There are five other possibilities in Canada:
CIMB-FM Betsiamites (1 watt)
CJSG-FM Campement Sarcelle (1,505 watts)
CILE-FM Havre-St-Pierre (1,496 watts)
VF2217 Mont-Wright (10 watts)
CBON-FM-17 North Bay, Ontario (100,000 watts)

I think it's a toss-up whether you had Montreal or North Bay. CJSG and CILE are powerful enough to make the trip but a good deal further north and/or east.

That's pretty cool. I hear Spanish skip around here quite often....some of those are as close as Orlando 3 hours from me, but when I heard a French announcer I knew something very rare was happening. ;D

 

[cd637299]

^ Where are you located, Rocks?

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[Poledo]

In Pensacola I catch French and Spanish skip about equally. Every time I've picked up French I've also picked up English from Canada. Every time I pick up Spanish I also get stations from west Texas. I've never been able to ID any of the French or Spanish stations... but I probably could have it I put more effort into it. One time I was picking up about 4-5 English stations (some from Toronto) and a couple French stations from Canada for a whole week. Most of them were just CBC simulcasts along with that big Top 40 station in Toronto.
I've never picked up skip from a station playing "good" music.

I though trans-Atlantic FM (88.1-107.9) skip was so rare that a dedicated daily DXer might pick up Europe once in a lifetime. Is it really more common on the Eastern coast?
What about trans-Pacific skip? Do folks out in California ever pick up Japan or Australia.... ?
I think I read some DX literature a long time ago that said no Alaskan FM had ever been reported in the lower 48.

 

[cd637299]

In Pensacola I catch French and Spanish skip about equally. Every time I've picked up French I've also picked up English from Canada. Every time I pick up Spanish I also get stations from west Texas. I've never been able to ID any of the French or Spanish stations... but I probably could have it I put more effort into it. One time I was picking up about 4-5 English stations (some from Toronto) and a couple French stations from Canada for a whole week. Most of them were just CBC simulcasts along with that big Top 40 station in Toronto.
I've never picked up skip from a station playing "good" music.

I though trans-Atlantic FM (88.1-107.9) skip was so rare that a dedicated daily DXer might pick up Europe once in a lifetime. Is it really more common on the Eastern coast?
What about trans-Pacific skip? Do folks out in California ever pick up Japan or Australia.... ?
I think I read some DX literature a long time ago that said no Alaskan FM had ever been reported in the lower 48.

Somebody in Arizona a year or two ago caught KAYO 100.9 in Wasilla, Alaska, I read. I don';t know if the clip is available.

This won't count in your question, but a DXer in Hawaii, now deceased (I knew him through e-mail & letters) caught a Japan FM (Osaka, I think around 82 MHz) I think it was in the late 1990s.

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[w9wi]

I though trans-Atlantic FM (88.1-107.9) skip was so rare that a dedicated daily DXer might pick up Europe once in a lifetime. Is it really more common on the Eastern coast?
What about trans-Pacific skip? Do folks out in California ever pick up Japan or Australia.... ?
I think I read some DX literature a long time ago that said no Alaskan FM had ever been reported in the lower 48.

I'm not aware of anyone hearing European FM DX in the States. It *is* possible, as it *has* happened in the opposite direction -- I've heard recordings of Canadian stations -- and WHCF in Maine -- made in Northern Ireland and the U.K..

I'm also not aware of any trans-Pacific FM DX being logged from the States. Hawaiian DXers have logged the mainland. (via tropo, not skip!) (and TV DXers as far east as Shreveport have logged Hawaiian *TV* via skip, although that was on channel 2, well below the FM band)

Hawaii-to-California FM DX should be possible. The problem is that the duct is usually elevated fairly far above sea level -- and on the Hawaiian end, there are few stations that high. (also, there are a LOT more local stations on the California end clogging up channels!)