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What if FM e-skip like 7/24 occured every day?

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Sure, all of us would be busy tuning around the dial every day. But all of the local stations were unlistenable or gone. A class A 3 miles away was unlistenable. Class Bs 30 miles away were gone. Heck, a class B 10 miles away was buried. A 100 watt station was unlistenable even in sight of its tower. The afternoon skip hit during PM drive in each time zone, and so most stations lost a majority of their listeners. The entire FM band sounded like the AM graveyard frequencies for hours.

The original FM band was 49 mHz, and that got moved up to 88-108 because of the constant e-skip.
 
Be real cool to see the PPM ratings if that happened.

'WDBO-FM holds steady #1 6-plus, but KUBE knocks WHOM out of second .... T-102 Pottsville falls to twelfth in Schuylkill ratings but is now #1 in Wichita ....'

What with all the weird weather we seem to get more frequently every passing year, reception conditions like those of 7-24 just might accelerate as well. Truthfully now : Prior to that huge heat wave, when was the last time you heard anyone use the word 'derecho' in an English sentence ?

(On word usage : That article from the Batavia paper mentioned that Eskip is created when signals get reflected off the ionosphere. Shouldn't that read 'exosphere' ? Or maybe I'm the one in error.
Either way, normally I'm not an avid FM DXer, but conditions such as those should be considered legitimate reasons for calling in sick.
'Yeah, Steve's out with that E-skip bug again. There's a lot of that going around. Our dispatcher was out three days in a row.')
 
From DXers like ourselves; we'd have one hell of a time. I know I wouldn't know what to do with myself. As for the average listener, I believe the majority of people would give up on radio. The local FM here is a Class A That I couldn't receive 11 miles out. Listeners would vanish!
 
I was given that day off from work already, but that was to drive down to the FL Keys----for Tropo DXn!

That being said, my car radio was E-skippin' up to 107.7 (WWWT Manassas VA), and the lower end was too much of a mess. If I stayed home, I surely would have checked the weather band, as some DXers had Es there.

However, the skip ended kinda abruptly around 1 pm-ish.

I set my DTV at home for RF ch 2, hoping for the LD in NYC or even Bangor ME (there was a signal bar)---but when I got home, nada. If I knew that, I woulda set it to ch 5! (I did decode WACP 4 a second time, and the "pest" WBRA 3.)

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