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WENJ-FM 97.3 heard in Northern Ireland

Nick said:
Wow! That must have been F2 skip. How come no one here heard any European stations?
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No, it was multiple-hop sporadic-E. Still, awfully impressive!

There's no good reason nobody heard Europe. I think we just aren't paying attention!
 
Its great to see Paul's QSL got to you there Tom. In addition to WENJ, he also had 95.1 WAYV, 94.1 WYSP, and 90.7 WFUV up in NYC. Outside the region stations from Mass down to the Eastern Shore of MD were also heard. These were all 3x hops... there was however one 4x which was to 90.7 WAVS in Montgomery, AL at an amazing 4,011 miles! Stations were also heard from Newfoundland.

Here in South Jersey outside Atlantic City, (which leads me into Doug comment) I was looking northeast at the exact same time these stations were being received. The problem here however was the E-Skip was open to multiple directions making picking any potential TA signals like picking a needle out of a haystack. The band was open to not only Newfoundland (Paul's 2X hop), but also the Gulf Coast area (Pauls 4x hop), and a 3rd area to the MN/WI area. It was a classic textbook case of multi-hop E-Skip. I had found one possible log on 91.5 that sounded like it could have been Ireland, but it turned out to be CKPR in Thunder Bay. When you have Newfoundland and New Orleans battling it out, it isn't very conducive to picking out TA signals. I still have some audio I’d like to go over, so it’s possible I may still find something… I did have some random brief unid fades with BBC talk, however theres no way to ID it. So it wasn't a case of where nobody on this side was looking, but instead the band was just too clogged here for this particular opening. Paul on the other hand, had an open pathway to the SW directly into North America (he also had the Azores in, which I believe is 1x for him). Not to deminish his log in any way though, I'm just saying it was much "easier" to hear anything on his end. Either way, it was one for the record books.
 
It's so hard to even hear AM stations from Europe. The most you can hear is a heterodyne. I guess water is the best surface for radio waves to bounce off during e-skip. I remember last month, I got e-skip to the Gulf Coast and to Newfoundland and northern Minnesota at the same time and the MUF was above 107.9 on all 3 clouds. It's hard enough just to get one hop, let alone 2 or 3 or 4. No one's heard e-skip from California to the east coast.
 
I heard Spain in south carolina in like 2003.. 99.1 loca fm
 
For those unfamiliar with European FM, many stations are on "even" frequencies, e.g. 95.8 and the like. If you are using a "digital" tuner/receiver set up for North American FM (that only scans like 95.1, 95.3, 95.5 etc.) the European catches will be tough and unidentifiable, since you will not be on frequency. However, if you are using analogue or one of the FM radios set up to tune all frequencies, you have a shot. The multi-hop F2 reception described here sounds pretty incredible. As for mediumwave (AM) TA, they, too, are on different frequencies -- every 9 khz. instead of every 10. That's why DXers trying to pull 'em out hear heterodynes. However, if your receiver is sufficiently selective, you have a shot under ideal conditions; plus, the closer you live to the coast, the more the water path will help your reception. Gud DX!
 
I have several radios that tune the European and Japanese AM & FM frequencies.

Here in Ocean County, I've heard plenty of AMs from Europe, Central America and Cuba. While I've heard several Canadian FMs, I've never had anything from Europe on FM.

This is a great catch!
 
Besides a couple of Canadian stations, the only other FM from out of the country I've received here in Toms River is ZBM-FM, 89.1 from Hamilton, Bermuda ...
 
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