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What was your longest non e-skip // tripo catch?

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jras20

So far mines gota be KYKZ-FM 96.1 from Lake Charles, Louisiana it is a 224 mile "as a crow flies" skip, I have a place just south of Hallitsville, I got a FM antenna about 20' up in the air, originally was only to just get Houston, but now I have been listening to other markets also, I can also pick up Beaumont nearly all the time that is 184 miles.
 
From this location (Dayton, OH area) it's a tossup between Nashville's WSIX on 97.9 or getting 94.3 out of Southwestern VA full quieting during last year's heatwave.
 
my farthest tropo would probably be KTDY from Lafayette LA, during a big opening last year where I was getting things from FL, MS, AR, TN, KY, GA, SC, AL,MO, and NC.
I was listening to WSMS from Artesia / Columbus MS, which was overpowering a somewhat local station in Eva AL, when KTDY overpowered it for a few minutes. Distance of 448mi
 
My furthest tropo catch was WHTK/99.7 Port Royal, SC while living in Stoughton, MA in 1993. Total distance 854 miles! I have also picked up this same station via e-skip and meteor scatter as well.

73,

Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
 
From Coldwater, MI

93.7 KBRK Brookings, SD- 634 miles- During the HUGE Midwest tropo event of two weeks ago.

I use a 6-bay Radio Shack antenna mounted about 15' above the ground. Nothing spectacular, but it pulls through when I need it!
 
Lawppy said:
From Coldwater, MI

93.7 KBRK Brookings, SD- 634 miles- During the HUGE Midwest tropo event of two weeks ago.

I use a 6-bay Radio Shack antenna mounted about 15' above the ground. Nothing spectacular, but it pulls through when I need it!
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is that the $25 antenna?
I have one of those 25ft up on a rotator. Works very well to be so cheap
 
Yes sir. That's the $25 antenna. I'm really happy with it's performance, but I would still like to upgrade someday.
 
Lawppy said:
Yes sir. That's the $25 antenna. I'm really happy with it's performance, but I would still like to upgrade someday.
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Thats what I use in both places I got them both up around 20'!
 
Was up in Northern NY (1000 Islands region) and was picking up Tampa/St. Pete FM. This seems to happen every summer up there. Also pick up PBS 3 in Tampa Florida on the television up there as well.
 
My farthest tropo catches, from Monee IL (33 miles south of downtown Chicago)...

382 miles: WCTE 22 Cookeville, TN, a PBS station, in the late 1980s

400 miles: KBMA 41 Kansas City, KS, also in the late 1980s

455 miles: CITY 79 Toronto, ON, way back in the late 1970s before the CRTC moved CityTV to 57.
 
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