Back in the early 80s I got a TV station from south america here in Dallas. (memory fails me right now on exactly where it was.. I'll have to look it up) Also got stations from Canada and Mexico.
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Your best e-skip opening ever
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MarioMania said:
Ah, don't worry about it....I'm 53 and have been aware of TV DX since maybe about age 6---however, I only started learning the proper tricks in snagging signals at about age 30.
Add to that....TV DXing today is so much easier (as far as resources) than when I was growing up. Imagine no Google, no logo bug in the corners on the screen, and having to go to the library to get whatever info you could----when now it's at the touch of a keyboard!
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My best ever e-skip opening was my first, and being a neophyte and very young to boot, I had no idea what was going on. I was fascinated by what in retrospect must have been a fabulous opening that was heard in much of the U.S., and in some places I was not able to ID. The radio I used was a table model with sketchy analog readout (consumer brand that I don't remember) and back then I couldn't think of any of my friends who had an FM radio. In fact few of them had access to anything with an FM band except for those huge piece of furniture combos that their parents owned and used mainly to play records. I don't recall the exact date, but I'm going to guess it was around June of 1964.
My first realization that something was up occurred early in the afternoon when I tuned across KGAF-FM 94.5 in Gainesville TX, near the Oklahoma border north of my location in suburban Dallas. I was stunned to hear an ID for WRVA-FM Richmond VA and soon it completely wiped out KGAF! I started checking things out around that frequency and I began to hear stations from around the Toronto, Buffalo and Niagara Falls area (WEBR 94.5 began to mix it up with WRVA-FM, then I caught WGR-FM on 96.9). I don't remember much else from that area so far as call letters but I did hear mentions of all three cities.
Later the focus shifted southward, curiously falling west of New York City. One that stood out was WEEX-FM 99.9 Easton PA; several from the Philadelphia area showed up as well, and Richmond's WRVA-FM reappeared, with the skip seemingly bypassing Washington and Baltimore. Moving down the Eastern Seaboard later on, stations came in from North Carolina, then South Carolina; WTMA 95.1 from Charleston was especially strong.
Beginning around 6:00PM the e-skip appeared to be almost exclusively from Florida, with a number of stations from Jacksonville, Orlando and Tampa Bay coming in. The southernmost U.S. station I heard was probably WKAT-FM 93.1 from Miami Beach. When sunset came the band was still active and there were a number of stations in Spanish (Puerto Rico, maybe?).
It was a fabulous day of DX-ing but unfortunately I misplaced my notes several years later (which weren't in logbook format, but they worked for me at the time). And being so young, guess what I forgot to do during all that? I didn't turn on the TV!
My first realization that something was up occurred early in the afternoon when I tuned across KGAF-FM 94.5 in Gainesville TX, near the Oklahoma border north of my location in suburban Dallas. I was stunned to hear an ID for WRVA-FM Richmond VA and soon it completely wiped out KGAF! I started checking things out around that frequency and I began to hear stations from around the Toronto, Buffalo and Niagara Falls area (WEBR 94.5 began to mix it up with WRVA-FM, then I caught WGR-FM on 96.9). I don't remember much else from that area so far as call letters but I did hear mentions of all three cities.
Later the focus shifted southward, curiously falling west of New York City. One that stood out was WEEX-FM 99.9 Easton PA; several from the Philadelphia area showed up as well, and Richmond's WRVA-FM reappeared, with the skip seemingly bypassing Washington and Baltimore. Moving down the Eastern Seaboard later on, stations came in from North Carolina, then South Carolina; WTMA 95.1 from Charleston was especially strong.
Beginning around 6:00PM the e-skip appeared to be almost exclusively from Florida, with a number of stations from Jacksonville, Orlando and Tampa Bay coming in. The southernmost U.S. station I heard was probably WKAT-FM 93.1 from Miami Beach. When sunset came the band was still active and there were a number of stations in Spanish (Puerto Rico, maybe?).
It was a fabulous day of DX-ing but unfortunately I misplaced my notes several years later (which weren't in logbook format, but they worked for me at the time). And being so young, guess what I forgot to do during all that? I didn't turn on the TV!
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I only remember getting Es once in my life, and I was probably about 10 years old, sometime in the mid 80's in my backyard on the swingset listening to a walkman on a Saturday morning. The entire dial was filled with stations from Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. After a while it started acting like tropo and I spent several hours listening to 106.5 out of Kansas City.
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Before I began writing this stuff down, back in the late 70's I remember a couple days of TV DX'ing when I lived in the VA suburbs of Washington D.C. On a small black and white Admiral TV, it was like every spot on the dial was filled. Baltimore stations, which normally were snowy and hit or miss with the built-in rabbit ears were crystal clear, and WBOC-16 from Salisbury MD (a couple hundred miles at least) was coming in like I was next door to the tower. Also remember seeing a few other stations I didn't ID then. It was there for about two afternoons/evenings, then gone, and I don't recall having an opening like that again. Or at least I didn't catch it anyway.
There have been a number of FM openings I've enjoyed, but again, it wasn't until recently that I began to actually log them, so my dates and times from days past are all off of my ever weakening memory.
There have been a number of FM openings I've enjoyed, but again, it wasn't until recently that I began to actually log them, so my dates and times from days past are all off of my ever weakening memory.
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