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Some E skip going on tonight....
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Thats tropo, not eskip
Way to short; usually has to be minimum of about eight-hundred kilometers
Tropo is anywhere between 100-400 miles .. all depends on size of the signal, location, terrain
Eskip is usually 900-1500 miles.. and usually about 900-1100 miles... 1500 miles is the higher end of that
I stand corrected. Tropo for sure (475-ish miles across the gulf). 100,000 watts at 300 meters.
tropo like that is pretty common too.. but lots of fun nonetheless
Oh, there can be some much longer tropos and some shorter E-skips under rare conditions.
In 1973, I picked up KEGL which was then and still is on 97.3 in Dallas-Fort Worth from Gainesville FL, by way of BOTH tropospheric ducting AND E-skip a few months later.
I have received WSB-TV, Atlanta in Miami by E-skip when they were analog channel two in the 1960s, and also SuperStation Seventeen by Tropo in the 1980s.
It was on that last day that I learned that while the SuperStation was running national spot breaks, channel seventeen was advertising local Atlanta merchants.
In 1973, I picked up KEGL which was then and still is on 97.3 in Dallas-Fort Worth from Gainesville FL, by way of BOTH tropospheric ducting AND E-skip a few months later.
I have received WSB-TV, Atlanta in Miami by E-skip when they were analog channel two in the 1960s, and also SuperStation Seventeen by Tropo in the 1980s.
It was on that last day that I learned that while the SuperStation was running national spot breaks, channel seventeen was advertising local Atlanta merchants.
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