Last year you might remember hearing about Bryce Foster, an FM DXer from Cape Cod who logged the Azores, Venezuela, and southwest Iceland on double-hop Es in the summer of 2021.
Those 4th of July fireworks apparently didn't stop last night.
On the Wlogger, WTFDA-only DX logger, at 1239z this morning, July 5th, 2022 (8:39AM ET), he types this out:
"Es 87.8 Unknown FF UNK, France? FYI all, worth looking for TA Es, had about ~3 minutes of FF language on 87.8 FM, faded down 5 minutes ago"
The maps were completely loaded with 6-meter Es to Europe. VO1FOG in Newfoundland had e-skip to the top of the band to the Mid-Atlantic states and New York. Also, Bryce had a couple of Oz-FMs and other Newfoundland FMs.
He then posted this Google Drive file:
and a DXer in Finland as well as one in Ontario successfully IDed this one. At the 3min mark, the French announcer says 'France Culture.'
It also matches this archived audio from the program that aired at 1230z (listen around 28 min. in)
This mindblowing French reception is from the Angouleme transmitter in the southwest corner of the country!! It is over 3,400 miles away, and get this, only TWO KILOWATTS!!!! Bryce has made history as the first lower 48 DXer to ever receive mainland, continental Europe on FM (not Iceland).
What else will this month bring? Congratulations Bryce! š²
Attached is the DXMaps logger from that same time. Look at 12:26!
Those 4th of July fireworks apparently didn't stop last night.
On the Wlogger, WTFDA-only DX logger, at 1239z this morning, July 5th, 2022 (8:39AM ET), he types this out:
"Es 87.8 Unknown FF UNK, France? FYI all, worth looking for TA Es, had about ~3 minutes of FF language on 87.8 FM, faded down 5 minutes ago"
The maps were completely loaded with 6-meter Es to Europe. VO1FOG in Newfoundland had e-skip to the top of the band to the Mid-Atlantic states and New York. Also, Bryce had a couple of Oz-FMs and other Newfoundland FMs.
He then posted this Google Drive file:
and a DXer in Finland as well as one in Ontario successfully IDed this one. At the 3min mark, the French announcer says 'France Culture.'
It also matches this archived audio from the program that aired at 1230z (listen around 28 min. in)
This mindblowing French reception is from the Angouleme transmitter in the southwest corner of the country!! It is over 3,400 miles away, and get this, only TWO KILOWATTS!!!! Bryce has made history as the first lower 48 DXer to ever receive mainland, continental Europe on FM (not Iceland).
What else will this month bring? Congratulations Bryce! š²
Attached is the DXMaps logger from that same time. Look at 12:26!