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What an opening!!!!

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MAT

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From St.Marys ohio...WCOW loud and clear at 8:26am EDT.....
Amazing!
Also got WDRV "the Drive" Chicago
99.5 WUSN
AND 100.3 and 95.5 from chicago......getting stations from all over! Columbus, Detroit, Indy, Cincy all on a S350.
Later,
MAT
 
Not much in the way of long haul stuff for me in Dayton...did hear a 93.5 with country, calls sounding like "WWES"..nothing close to those except WJPS Evansville unless Hartford City has changed format. If WJPS carries CNN, it might have been them.<P ID="signature">______________
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> Not much in the way of long haul stuff for me in
> Dayton...did hear a 93.5 with country, calls sounding like
> "WWES"..nothing close to those except WJPS Evansville unless
> Hartford City has changed format. If WJPS carries CNN, it
> might have been them.
>
Not to mention I called the station and then heard myself over the air from Wisconson....The dj, rob west i believe, is sending me a hat!
Too Cool!
MAT
 
What station?<P ID="signature">______________
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> From St.Marys ohio...WCOW loud and clear at 8:26am EDT.....
> Amazing!
> Also got WDRV "the Drive" Chicago
> 99.5 WUSN
> AND 100.3 and 95.5 from chicago......getting stations from
> all over! Columbus, Detroit, Indy, Cincy all on a S350.
> Later,
> MAT
>
I managed to get KKEZ Fort Dodge, IA under local WKTI (94.5) Wasn't too strong but my radio's antenna was busted off so that didn't help.<P ID="signature">______________
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I had a hunch it would be a good DX day. On my way to work this morning, the FM dial was a mess 30 miles south of Chicago, with multiple stations on normally open frequencies, and co-channel flutter on the locals.

There were a couple distant stations that were rock-solid. I had no problem getting scrolling artist/song titles via RDS from "99WMYX" Milwaukee, as was also the case with WBCT Grand Rapids.
 
> > Not much in the way of long haul stuff for me in
> > Dayton...did hear a 93.5 with country, calls sounding like
>
> > "WWES"..nothing close to those except WJPS Evansville
> unless
> > Hartford City has changed format. If WJPS carries CNN, it
> > might have been them.
> >
> Not to mention I called the station and then heard myself
> over the air from Wisconson....The dj, rob west i believe,
> is sending me a hat!
> Too Cool!
> MAT
>
I called Beach 104 (WCXL 104.1 Kill Devil Hills, NC) last month when I heard them on tropo here in NJ. The DJ was impressed that I could hear it all the way here, and I DXed my own voice from 300 miles away.<P ID="signature">______________
17-year-old radio geek
Location: Princeton Junction, NJ
AIM: KewlDude471</P>
 
> What station?
>
WCOW-FM Sparta wisconson. Class C1 100kw
MAT
 
I'm listening to www.dxfm.com's audio, there's Eskip happening on Channel 5 in Lexington, KY..IDed KMID in texas, several others heard including NBC Nightly News on an hour delay.<P ID="signature">______________
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Here's what I got from Coldwater, MI

88.7- WERN- Madison, WI- (WI Public Radio) Public Radio NEW #680
97.3- WQBW- Milwaukee, WI- (97.3 The Brew) Classic Rock
100.1- WPJP- Port Washington, WI- (Relevant Radio) Religious NEW #681
102.3- WYCA- Crete, IL- (Rejoice 102-3) Religious NEW #682
106.7- WPPN- Des Plaines, IL- Spanish
107.9- WLEY- Aurora, IL (La Ley) Spanish
98.1- WMGN- Madison, WI (Magic 98) AC
93.3- WIZN- Lacrosse, WI (Z 93) Top 40 NEW #683
98.9- WVCX- Tomah, WI Religious
99.5- WUSN- Chicago, IL (US 99.5) Country
89.7- WUWM- Milwaukee, WI Public Radio
97.5- KNXR- Rochester, MN Easy Listening NEW #684
101.5- WIBA- Madison, WI Classic Rock
106.9- KROC- Rochester, MN Top 40 NEW #685
95.5- WIFC- Wausau, WI (95-5 WIFC) Top 40
94.9- WOLX- Baraboo, WI Oldies
95.1- WIIL- Kenosha, WI (95 Will Rock) Rock
103.7- WXSS- Waukesha, WI (103.7 Kiss FM) Top 40
104.5- WAXX- Eau Claire, WI (Waxx 104.5) Country NEW #686

1 new state (Minnesota)
New tropo distance record (399 miles set by KNXR-Rochester)
Previous record was set just last weekend by KFTK-Florissant, MO @ 373 mi.)

GOOD DX!
<P ID="signature">______________
Lawppy.. Southern Michigan FM DX Freak
686 stations and counting...</P>
 
I got the audio of WITI Milwaukee in NW Indiana, and it hammered the pirate that operates on 87.9 in East Chicago Indiana. I wonder if the 87.9 pirate interfered with the audio of WITI for the Milwaukee viewers. When i get home, I'll compile my list, and most Chicago stations got hammered by the distant stations.
 
This morning I had WGAR 99.5 Cleveland, WYRO 98.7 MaCarthur, OH and the Crestline K-Love affiliate, WXIL 95.1 Parkersburg and a Christian "95.1 The River". With heat and humidity on the way, may be a good couple of days, but it would have a ways to go to repeat getting S9 signals out of Southern Kentucky and SW Virginia.<P ID="signature">______________
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>>but it would have a ways to go to repeat getting S9 signals out of Southern Kentucky

I've been DX'ing for three years now, and I discovered probably this year that heat and humidity are monumental in helping long-haul DX catches. But i'm still learning! What is an S9 signal? And what kind of weather conditions would be needed to get say LPFM's and translators from far distances?

My translator/LPFM distance record is only 59 miles, but i've heard about people getting translators from hundreds of miles away. I want to be able to do that.<P ID="signature">______________
Lawppy.. Southern Michigan FM DX Freak
686 stations and counting...</P>
 
> >>but it would have a ways to go to repeat getting S9
> signals out of Southern Kentucky
>
> I've been DX'ing for three years now, and I discovered
> probably this year that heat and humidity are monumental in
> helping long-haul DX catches. But i'm still learning! What
> is an S9 signal? And what kind of weather conditions would
> be needed to get say LPFM's and translators from far
> distances?
>
> My translator/LPFM distance record is only 59 miles, but
> i've heard about people getting translators from hundreds of
> miles away. I want to be able to do that.
>

It all depends on where the opening is pointing to. I've gotten a translator (AFR's W267AE-101.3 in Oxford, MS) from 197 miles away during a combination of killer tropo and a power outage to reduce noise. But if there aren't any such tiny stations where you're trying to receive, you can't get them.

Same goes for E-skip. I often wonder on days when there is none if there is an opening that's pointed straight at the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Bad for me, but someone could be passing through that area on a boat and logging Alabama/Georgia stations like crazy.
 
S9 would be the reading off an "S" meter on a communications reciever, lets just say it means "like a local". Translators, LPFMs, etc. can carry long distances, but the stronger signals, both local and distant, can bury them. It was definately easier before Docket 80/90 (which put a lot more stations on the air, filling in all the holes on the Class B and C frequencies, small stations on Class B and C frequencies not being at full power, and lots of stations signing off at 10pm or midnight.<P ID="signature">______________
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