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

WAY back when working the early Sunday shift at a radio station with a channel 2 in the same building, the TV op (who was a Ham) came in to tell me skip was tearing them up. He keyed the call letters over the programming every so often for the durration of the opening. Never could get the TV's Ampex quad to lock up on the skip on Channel 4.
 
Thanks for the info. Looks like I've found something new to occupy my time. The last time I really DX'ed was back in the early 70s looking for out-of-town Top 40 stations.
 
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Domestic: KMOR-FM Scottsbluff, NE. Picked up in VA...1596 miles using an outdoor dipole

Foreign:

Best was Z99 from the Cayman Islands to Hilton Head...933 miles! Came in clear as a whistle. Called the request line (it wasn't VT'd like most American weekend shifts!) and had to explain to the announcer what exactly DXing was! He was absolutely surprised his voice was being heard in the States!

And up here in VA its pretty much a yearly summer thing to pick up stations from Atlantic Canada and Quebec. My best one I confirmed was CBVE-FM Quebec City, QC. About 740 miles. I'm sure I've picked up further north from QC...but I don't speak French and have little desire to listen for an ID from a station I can't understand!!

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I was living in Spink County, SD back in 1993. During the fall sunspot activity, I was able to get KMEL 106.1 from San Francisco as well as a station from Austin, TX. I think they went by the name "Sunny 95" or something like that. While working for a gas station in Lodi, CA in 92, I was able to get an Australian radio station on the SW frequency. But the florescent lights made for a really scratchy signal.
 
I've been CE of several stations in the Southeast. Nothing exciting reported. Best was a Class IV in Georgia was heard in Minnesota. Over 1000 miles. WSGA Savannah 1400 in 1977.
 
KBOI heard in Southern Germany and New Zealand*. (* before the change in night pattern.)
Domestically, Northern Florida for the DX test.
KBOI-FM in VA someplace.

Anyone remember the "DXer" in Italy that sent reception reports to every station in North America?
 
When I was a young sprout, I worked at 1580 in Pascagoula, MS. Then WPMP, the station was a 5 kW daytimer with a 2-tower DA bearing NE/SW.

We got several reports from the industrial Northeast at sunset -- I recall PA a time, or two. Also, during a transmitter proof one night, we were heard in Omaha, NE, in the array's soft spot. None of those are particularly interesting, but it's the best we got during my tenure there.

I heard the station one afternoon during that time while I was driving near Chattanooga, TN.

Of course, now as a ham I have books full of QSLs. But that's a bit different.

DE
 
I've heard of DX being common for WPTX (1690 KHz) in Lexington Park, Maryland (my old stompin' grounds), on expanded-band. They seem to get a lot of reports from Europe (look for the You Tube videos)....other than that little bit of Eastern Maryland and Delaware, they've got a nice salt-water path that'a way.
 
When was KBOI FM received in Virginia? Only double-hop I've tentatively gotten was KORQ 95.1 Abilene, TX on 6/22/11, song match, but never IDed as KATC in Colorado Springs came roaring back in as I went back outside.

-crainbebo
 
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