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Stations: What's your farthest-away Reception Report?

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Just for fun...and, to see how many broadcasters we have on this forum:

What's the farthest away listener or viewer location you have ever received a Reception Report/QSL Request from?
(Let's have the stations' engineers and managers answer this one, from their own experiences)
 
Well, I received an email report (from a reliable source) of reception of our now-defunct analog TV signal in Vancouver. (we were on channel 4 in Nashville)
 
I was sitting here in TV Engineering one weekend (I think it was a Holiday weekend), and the newsroom forwarded an e-mail from a guy named Hiro, in Japan, who was listening to KSL-AM. He wanted to know what the preferred method was for sending his report...mail, recording, e-mail, etc.
He included a short audio file and some photos of his setup, as well as links to the design of his loop antenna and preamp, which he and his MW DX buddies in Japan were all using.

KUTR-AM (820), which was sold by Bonneville a few years ago, used to get lots of Reception Reports from Scandinavia.
The pattern favors the Northeast direction.
One report was from a blind DX'er whose group rents a house way up in Finland (IIRC). They are all gourmet cooks, as well as DX'ers, and they publish a blog, complete with their daily menus...usually including salmon, reindeer, and a fine wine. They spend weeks preparing the site and hauling food and supplies in each fall.
 
We routinely get reception reports from Scandinavia here at WXXI 1370 in Rochester, which is to be expected; our night pattern aims 5 kW straight north and there's not much else on 1370 between us and the North Pole. The DXers there are always a pleasure to hear from - they often send audio clips and brief notes about themselves, and we're always happy to QSL.
 
I have received a fair number of reports from the Finns, at AM stations at a couple different places in the country. A Midwest AM where I worked once got a report from someone in Italy, but it was a vague report with little or no detail, and I don't think I confirmed it. Some years later I heard that there was an Italian father-son "alleged QSL" scam, which may have been the source of the report in question.

I suppose the most memorable QSL request I ever saw was received at WKIX 850 Raleigh, which was where I happened to be doing an overnight airshift in the mid-80s on the night a gentleman heard us in South Africa. I still have a copy of that letter somewhere.
 
Kinda the other way around... back in the mid 80s, in my Ford pickup truck in Bowling Green, KY I picked up an FM radio station from Tampa, FL in the middle of the day.
 
PirateJohnny said:
Kinda the other way around... back in the mid 80s, in my Ford pickup truck in Bowling Green, KY I picked up an FM radio station from Tampa, FL in the middle of the day.
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That was probably E-skip propagation. Happens a lot during the summer where you can get stations 800-1400 miles away on the FM.

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
PirateJohnny said:
Kinda the other way around... back in the mid 80s, in my Ford pickup truck in Bowling Green, KY I picked up an FM radio station from Tampa, FL in the middle of the day.
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That was probably E-skip propagation. Happens a lot during the summer where you can get stations 800-1400 miles away on the FM.

-crainbebo
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Yup....My most memorable example of this was picking up a few north Florida FMs in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.That's on the north shore of Lake Superior. Mid-day summer 1994.
 
Scott Fybush said:
We routinely get reception reports from Scandinavia here at WXXI 1370 in Rochester, which is to be expected; our night pattern aims 5 kW straight north and there's not much else on 1370 between us and the North Pole. The DXers there are always a pleasure to hear from - they often send audio clips and brief notes about themselves, and we're always happy to QSL.
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That's impressive, Scott. Even I'm happy when I snag your station and I'm only 145 miles from your transmitter! Actually, for me here, 1370 can be a pretty messy frequency.

I've sent (via e-mail) reports to various stations, letting them know that I've picked them up, from such-and-such a distance, but to no avail...(not that I collect QSLs or anything, just thought they'd like to know... ???).

~BG
 
cyberdad said:
crainbebo said:
PirateJohnny said:
Kinda the other way around... back in the mid 80s, in my Ford pickup truck in Bowling Green, KY I picked up an FM radio station from Tampa, FL in the middle of the day.
Click to expand...

That was probably E-skip propagation. Happens a lot during the summer where you can get stations 800-1400 miles away on the FM.

-crainbebo
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Yup....My most memorable example of this was picking up a few north Florida FMs in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.That's on the north shore of Lake Superior. Mid-day summer 1994.
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Here in WA during late spring and early/mid summer I am always, three+ times a day, looking at the TVFM Skip Log to make sure I am not missing anything. Did ALMOST miss a Dakota opening on 7/15/11, but thankfully got a Y94 ID from WDAY Fargo, ND [not new], and later ha KLQT 95.1 in ABQ [new at the time]. Skip went up to 105.5 but it was "blink and you'll miss it".

-crainbebo
 
CITI-FM Winnipeg, MB in Lynnwood, WA, August 1989
 
Tincap said:
Scott Fybush said:
We routinely get reception reports from Scandinavia here at WXXI 1370 in Rochester, which is to be expected; our night pattern aims 5 kW straight north and there's not much else on 1370 between us and the North Pole. The DXers there are always a pleasure to hear from - they often send audio clips and brief notes about themselves, and we're always happy to QSL.
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That's impressive, Scott. Even I'm happy when I snag your station and I'm only 145 miles from your transmitter! Actually, for me here, 1370 can be a pretty messy frequency.

I've sent (via e-mail) reports to various stations, letting them know that I've picked them up, from such-and-such a distance, but to no avail...(not that I collect QSLs or anything, just thought they'd like to know... ???).

~BG
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Ever sent one to us? We do QSL, gladly, via e-mail or even snail mail. I even issued a "QSL" on Facebook not long ago to a DXer friend who was hearing us.
 
I know it's reversed from the actual topic, BUT.. HIGM 88.1 Santiago, DR heared in Coldwater, MI, approximately 1,760 miles.

As far as North American DX, that belongs to KOFX 92.3 from El Paso, TX. Approx 1,375 miles.
 
I was doing a show on my college station, 90.3 WVPH in NJ. There was an e-skip opening and I decided to ID the station every minute or two and give out the phone number asking for DXers to call. I also posted on DX World asking for people to tune to 90.3 and hopefully hear me. Our 100 watt signal was being clobbered by the e-skip locally. Someone heard WVPH in Houma, LA!
 
Some of you are mentioning E-skip and logs like there is some way to check this phenomena and find out it's happening, like radar shows clouds. This is news to me. Where do I find this info?
 
Here in Bremerton, WA, WBTV-3 from Charlotte, NC. 2,876 miles, back in August 2000. Had some other east coast stations as well but never got to ID them since they faded in and out so quick. I checked the FM band at that time and it was just a mess (even clobbering some semi-local stations from Olympia), and wasn't able to catch any IDs, but i'm sure some of those stations were coming from the southeast as well. I knew it was a big long-distance opening, considering I was seeing prime-time network programming on a couple of the stations when it was only 5:30pm here. I wish I had recorded it like I did with the big opening that happened the next summer.
 
More like 2300, not 2876. That's probably the driving distance.

Looks like you got on the "July 6, 2004" of the Northwest! Never even heard of Es before 2007. Only possible double-hop I've gotten was a tentative KORQ 95.1 Abilene, TX on 6/22/11. The song that I heard matched the stream, but when I got back KATC in Colorado Springs had taken it over.

-crainbebo
 
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