Mine is to step off the tropo and get on the e-skip side of things.
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What Is Your New Year's DX Resolution?
- Thread starter eskipper411
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I don't really have much of a DX'ing resolution. I guess if I had to choose one it would be to get back into trying to ID meteor scatter catches. Park my rotor in a favorable position with an open frequency, run some errands, come back a couple hours later and see what I got.
E-skip is very exciting. It used to be you knew Es was coming when your local VHF stations were getting chewed up by something. It's even more difficult to see it coming now that the US TV analog dial is vacant.
I don't know the URL to this website, but I would HIGHLY recommend 'DX Sherlock'. There's a feature on there that predicts MUF's over certain grid squares. It has been the single best DX tool i've ever used since discovering the website in Summer '08. The only catch is that it doesn't predict the length of the Es. For example, if there's a MUF well into the FM band over, say, Kansas City. There's no telling if the E-cloud is strong enough to bring me stations from West Texas here in Michigan. DX'ers JUST to my west may be hearing them. Best thing I can do is turn my radio on and hope something makes it in. One new Es catch is better than nothing.
E-skip is very exciting. It used to be you knew Es was coming when your local VHF stations were getting chewed up by something. It's even more difficult to see it coming now that the US TV analog dial is vacant.
I don't know the URL to this website, but I would HIGHLY recommend 'DX Sherlock'. There's a feature on there that predicts MUF's over certain grid squares. It has been the single best DX tool i've ever used since discovering the website in Summer '08. The only catch is that it doesn't predict the length of the Es. For example, if there's a MUF well into the FM band over, say, Kansas City. There's no telling if the E-cloud is strong enough to bring me stations from West Texas here in Michigan. DX'ers JUST to my west may be hearing them. Best thing I can do is turn my radio on and hope something makes it in. One new Es catch is better than nothing.
Mine is to somehow bring part 15 compliance to the world of consumer electronics, which are responsible for destroying dx.
Lamp dimmers, LED lights, traffic signals, power supplies are all WAY out of compliance.
It's time for a petitition to the FCC to enforce in a meaningful way the laws currently on the books.
Lamp dimmers, LED lights, traffic signals, power supplies are all WAY out of compliance.
It's time for a petitition to the FCC to enforce in a meaningful way the laws currently on the books.
crainbebo said:
What about KYW 1060 from Philadelphia?
According to their pattern map, they only have a null in the direction of New York City and a smaller null that seems to be in the direction of New Orleans.
Those here west of the station in the upper midwest seem to report mostly strong reception of KYW.
I guess the only problem could be the station in Calgary and I don't know how strong that comes in where you are but maybe KYW could be heard in the background?
It's too bad you've got KTWO out west because when I was in Seattle in 1963 WBZ came in very well.
Yes I know that's a very different era, but WBZ does send alot of signal in your direction.
Yes I know that's a very different era, but WBZ does send alot of signal in your direction.
radioman148 said:
Recently, I've heard WBZ as far west as eastern South Dakota; could not ID it from western SD though. So, I don't know how much of a chance you'd have in Seattle with the high noise level that now proliferates the dial. Heck, I'm having trouble getting it sometimes from Chicago thanks to IBOC hash pollution.
I actually caught WBZ once with a positive ID (in 1987) under KTWO from Park City, UT on a Walkman.
I can't even get WBZ here most all the time because of the loud Cuban station on 1030. 
(I think it's Cuban anyway.)
I only heard WBZ a couple of times right around sunset.
The good news is, I finally got WWKB Buffalo with an official ID!
That was the first station I ever DXed back when I was 10 years old when they were WKBW and I was in New Jersey. Their strong reception at night is what sparked my interest in AM DXing.
Going by how they send their signal out, I thought it was impossible to get them down here in Florida.
(I think it's Cuban anyway.)I only heard WBZ a couple of times right around sunset.
The good news is, I finally got WWKB Buffalo with an official ID!
That was the first station I ever DXed back when I was 10 years old when they were WKBW and I was in New Jersey. Their strong reception at night is what sparked my interest in AM DXing.
Going by how they send their signal out, I thought it was impossible to get them down here in Florida.
What is a buzzer machine?cyberdad said:
Oh Yeah! IBOC! IBOC is a terrorist attack to DXers.trusty said:
eskipper411 said:
Right now, Stalin is looking up from Hell and wishing that he had IBOC technology available to him when trying to prevent signals from the Free World from penetrating the Eastern Bloc. It's far more effective in knocking strong signals out than anything he could muster. And it must be stopped because it pollutes the band with unwanted, undesirable interference. With zero benefit for anyone.
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