Weirdest DX You've Ever Received

[awsherrill]

Someone in an earlier thread about pirate radio mentioned WJDI, a pirate station that occasionally operated around 1620 kHz about 25 years or so ago.

I happened to hear this station one night (living in Raleigh NC at the time). They were playing music and asking for reports via a phone number with a New Jersey area code. I called the number and left a message on an answering machine. Twenty minutes later I heard the message I had recorded playing on the air. Not long after that, the operator of the station called me back and promised to send a QSL card (which he did). I still have it and a tape of the broadcast somewhere in a box.

 

[necrat123]

A couple for me.
WOGL 98.1 out of Philadelphia, over a 50kW local about 30 miles from here.

103.5 Urban WKTU fighting it out with CKHZ from Halifax, NS here in Providence, RI.

96.5 WPOW Miami, FL. coming in, in Springfield, MA., over very strong WTIC-FM.

93.3 WQUE New Orleans, LA causing bleed over of WHYN-FM 93.1 in Springfield, MA.

92.1 WCDX out of Richmond, VA., on a DX398 with the stock antenna!

The strangest FM ESkip catch for me was WSUM 91.7 out of Madison, WI. A 5kW highly directional college station. I got it long enough to ID it.
During the bout of really good eskip this past summer.

AM wise, I once received KOA from Denver at my parent's house in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.

 

[Silkie]

A pirate overrunning a station and signifying on a radio nere do well type just yesterday was pretty funny. More like coming up from behind and parroting...but it was hilarious. Visual of a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder.

 

[Buckeyes2001]

The weirdest DX I've ever received was receiving KATR 98.3/Otis, CO one night around 10:00pm local time here in Vermilion, OH on my car radio. The station came in very clear but in mono...and wasn't behaving like E-skip but was coming in consistently solid and strong enough that local WNCX on 98.5 was causing no interference at all. If it wasn't in fact E-skip that was occurring I would still like to know what other kinds of skip could possibly occur in the FM band from that distance (over 1,000 miles) over land at that time of night.

 

[Lawppy]

The weirdest DX I've ever received was receiving KATR 98.3/Otis, CO one night around 10:00pm local time here in Vermilion, OH on my car radio. The station came in very clear but in mono...and wasn't behaving like E-skip but was coming in consistently solid and strong enough that local WNCX on 98.5 was causing no interference at all. If it wasn't in fact E-skip that was occurring I would still like to know what other kinds of skip could possibly occur in the FM band from that distance (over 1,000 miles) over land at that time of night.

Some Es, especially the Western openings, can go on well after our local sunset. I personally logged Mix 96.1 from Wyoming at 12:45 AM this summer!

Thanks for reviving this thread! I've had a few more strange DX moments since I first posted here in '09.

-Getting WRIF's HD signal over my local 101.1 translator.
-My locals WLKI and WKFR being off the air and missing out on any good DX due to their HD feeds still operating, thus locking in on my radio.

But my best one has to be...
-Hearing WDWG- Rocky Mount, NC via Es. Not only was it short-haul, making this rare enough, but it was also heard on my local 98.5 while they were off the air! This was an uber-rare DX catch that I may never hear again!

 

[Wright County Guy]

On the TV side--

Late 80s--got WCPX (now WKMG) channel 6 from Orlando, FL in Northfield, MN. Normally you could pick up a fair signal from KAAL in Austin, MN.

Time must have been around 11am since I recall Price is Right end credits and a tease for the midday news.

 

[crainbebo]

That would be E-skip propagation. Nice, that's about 1275 miles.

-crainbebo

 

[borderblaster]

So many but if I can digress to the ham bands, I worked into a repeater at 145.19 on top of Mount Mitchell, NC from Ohio using just a vertical (1980s). The tropo was huge and covered most of the southeast and midwest. I worked several stations in NC, SC, GA, AL and even FL.

 

[Radio-X]

So many but if I can digress to the ham bands, I worked into a repeater at 145.19 on top of Mount Mitchell, NC from Ohio using just a vertical (1980s). The tropo was huge and covered most of the southeast and midwest. I worked several stations in NC, SC, GA, AL and even FL.

3 best:

- This year, the day after WPOI/Tampa 101.5 flipped, I picked up their HD signal over WBQB/Fredericksburg...keep in mind, WBQB broadcasts in analog about 5 miles from my house as a class B!
- Radio Enciclopedia from Havana in Hilton Head, SC...on FM, with a local class C on a first-adjacent channel!

- Z99 From the Cayman Islands in Hilton Head, SC...along with Rooster Country from the same area. I was amazed they spoke "American" down there instead of Carribean or British English!

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