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Weirdest DX You've Ever Received

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cparkes92

I have a question for everyone. What is the weirdest DX you have ever experienced?

I have experienced some weird DX, mostly involving tropo.

1. Picking up WMXG (106.3; class C2) from Escanaba all over local WKLA (also on 106.3; class A 15 miles away).

2. Picking up WJNR (101.5; class C1) from Iron Mountain on 101.7 (I have a class A station, WMTE, ~5 miles away on 101.5).

3. Picking up WDUZ (107.5; class C3) from Green Bay all over semi-local WCCW (also on 107.5; class C2 50 miles away).

4. Picking up WRVM (102.7; class C1) from Suring all over semi-local WMOM (also on 102.7; class A 30 miles away).

5. Picking up WLKN (98.1; class A) from Manitowoc all over local WGFN (also on 98.1; class C2 40 miles away).
 
cparkes92 said:
I have a question for everyone. What is the weirdest DX you have ever experienced?

I have experienced some weird DX, mostly involving tropo.

1. Picking up WMXG (106.3; class C2) from Escanaba all over local WKLA (also on 106.3; class A 15 miles away).

2. Picking up WJNR (101.5; class C1) from Iron Mountain on 101.7 (I have a class A station, WMTE, ~5 miles away on 101.5).

3. Picking up WDUZ (107.5; class C3) from Green Bay all over semi-local WCCW (also on 107.5; class C2 50 miles away).

4. Picking up WRVM (102.7; class C1) from Suring all over semi-local WMOM (also on 102.7; class A 30 miles away).

5. Picking up WLKN (98.1; class A) from Manitowoc all over local WGFN (also on 98.1; class C2 40 miles away).
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The weirdest for me was WMJX 96.3 in Miami, Fl via e-skip in Chicago. The e-skip was rare enough, but if it wasn't for local WBBM-FM being off the air due to technical difficulties I never would have even had the chance. This was in 1977.
 
In the context of 'weird', then I guess it was the time in the midday in 1997 when I was working on my fix-up house and had my GE SRII set for jazz on 99.1, the local Pottsville PA translator of WRTI Philadelphia. Broad daylight. Nice day. Nice signal. And there was jazz, allright, and a female DJ, just like WRTI had back then. And she came out of a song with 'Jazz 99.1....'

..... and I said, 'Wha? She's not allowed to say that! WRTI is 90.1!'

Then she gave the request line numbers for Broward and Dade counties .......

I have to wonder if E-skip listeners in Miami were getting the signal from 99.1 in Pottsville....

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Maybe second-weirdest was the time the radio on Long Island was set to 900 AM at sunset. The announcer in the huge cacophany of a puddle of signals intoned, 'And now the weather, for Bath, Brunswick and vicinity'. So I looked on the maps and logbooks and found a WCME in Bath Maine. On the map, a few miles away, was Brunsick Maine. I sent then a reception report -- and got back a QSL for four seconds worth of listening. Back then, station CE's traditionally desired 15 minutes of logging, not :04 seconds.
 
In November of 2006, while on Clearwater Beach, I picked up Q93/New Orleans over 93.3 WFLZ/Tampa. The latter has an absolute blowtorch of a signal. Depending on the direction I sat, I picked up either Q93 or WFLZ...
 
Last year, just west of Fredericksburg, VA, while driving, I heard Dallas's Classical 101.1 WRR over Wash. DC's rocker WWDC 101.1 (DC101) via e-skip.
 
I've gotten KAZY Cheyenne, WY on 93.7 over CJJR Vancouver, BC.

-crainbebo
 
I'd have to say Grazazlsnatch Radio from the Xhrcohn Galaxy on 94.9236.1 MHZ, playing ethnic music including some throat warbling choirs from the planet Wagnutz, and I even got to hear the top rated 15 hour program "What to Do in The Xhrcohn Galaxy on a Tuesday Night". The station boomed in for 24 hours back when Comet Hale-Bopp passed by. I guess the signal got the bounce effect off Hale-Bopp. Never heard it again, but I did just get a QSL card showing Grazazlsnatch's transmitter and studios, and an autographed picture of Xrcohn's top rated Disc Jockey, Glick Beyondthee.

Nice.

And now, back to the thread.
 
WIOT Toledo on 104.7 in Springfield OH underneath local WTUE..could only tell by hearing Bob and Tom's show a few seconds apart.
 
It was about 30 years ago, when I dabbled a little bit in SWL. Shortly after midnight one night, I caught a morning show with a decided British accent. I knew it wasn't from the "Isles", because it was chocked full of commercials, including cigarette adverts. It was strange hearing a Marlboro ad almost ten years after they were banned in this country.

Before they faded completely, they identified themselves as "Springbok Radio", so I got out the trusty-dusty WRTVH and dashed off a reception report. They responded, and I've still got that card somewhere in my stored stuff at my parents' house.

I understand they're no longer on the air, but it sounded like a fun station.

Later . . . .
 
I listened to the Reds on WLW on a July afternoon in 1978, sitting by the pool in central Georgia, about 550 miles from the "Nation's Station". I was able to hear the signal clearly for all but the last few minutes of the game.
 
I once heard my local translator at 101.1 rebroadcasting WTUE 104.7 Dayton, OH instead of it's parent station WFRN Elkhart, IN (also on 104.7). What did I hear on 104.7 on my home receiver? WFRN loud and clear and no trace of WTUE.

I've also driven entire short-haul tropo ducts to find my locals already being chewed up within 20 miles of their respective transmitters only to hear them coming in with near-local quality from 100+ miles out.

I was in Michigan City, IN during what turned out to be the most intense lake enhancement of the '08 tropo season. I never lost reception of Chicago stations from Coldwater (135 miles distant) to MC (45 miles). Milwaukee stations were in like locals, rendering MC's area translators useless. 99.1 WMYX was in well over class A WSMK within 10 miles and 100.7 WKKV was toying with class B WBYT within 15 miles. The Milwaukee stations weren't quite strong enough to carry to my hometown, but they sure made car radio reception interesting while it lasted.
 
Here's my weirdest reception - mostly on MW. I've never seen these stations listen anywhere. location of some are unknown. - phantom stations!

All received here in Australia.

1300 "KCO" gave Local time (timezone would be either Hawaii or Alaska) - Christian hits.
1480 R.Cosim w/ a sign/off in progress - somewhere in Central America
1670 R.Corizon - somewhere in either Peru or Chile

89.1 "Coal-FM" via Es from QLD. I'd say an unlicenced operation.
88.9 translator from QLD (relay of 100.3 Hot-FM Mackay) except it was relaying Nova 100.3 from Melbourne via Es in the other direction!

dxer2_2000
 
I don't see anything listed in Alaska or Hawaii on 1300. There is a KYNO in Fresno, Ca.
Do you ever hear anything from the midwest or east coast of North America in Australia?
 
Here in the NYC suburbs, this summer I have noted stations from Columbia, MO and the Upper Pennisula of Michigan during some E-skip and stormy conditions.
 
I received a 1395 on a AM and it said quote "Broadcasting throughout Sri Lanka and surrounding areas..." don't know.
 
radioman148 said:
eskipper411 said:
I received a 1395 on a AM and it said quote "Broadcasting throughout Sri Lanka and surrounding areas..." don't know.
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Where are you?
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Decatur, TX a small town 50-60 miles north of Dallas/Fort Worth.
 
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