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Your Best FM Catch

I was listening to my walkman while walking home ..I was just scanning for music

I heard like Kelly Clarkson or something, and it said after the somg Rev 89, I looked it up on the Net..I got REV 89.5 KTSC FM Pueblo, Colorado..Then it faded out
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That was in July 14 2010, My first E-Skip, Didn't last to long

It was in Vallejo on my Sony Walkman, I don't know the Model Number

I don't have it anymore
 
MarioMania said:
That was in July 14 2010, My first E-Skip, Didn't last to long

It was in Vallejo on my Sony Walkman, I don't know the Model Number

I don't have it anymore
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Reminds me of this article of people being accidental DXers in 2016

radioinfo.com.au

Sporadic E causing strange phenomena for Aussie radio stations - RadioInfo Australia

Stations all around Australia have been reporting interference from signals far far away over the past 24 hours (see our previous report). It’s not...
radioinfo.com.au radioinfo.com.au
 
Flying Dutchman said:
My best FM catch was CBUF 97.7 from Vancouver Canada. My location was Springfield Ohio. Forty five years ago.
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Double-hop E skip no less! Do you remember picking up anything from ND, SD, or MN that was on the first hop? Because that's how double-hop usually happens. The two clouds have to align just right.
 
I recall KOTA TV Channel 3 TV from Rapid City, South Dakota was overloading the TV that evening. Then, CBWFT from Winnipeg took over. ON FM I was hearing French where WOXR, Oxford, Ohio usually was. It was blasting in. Washington State FM's were coming in as well. I never heard the Pacific North West on FM after that.
 
Do you remember which other WA or PacNW FMs were coming in? Andy Bolin in Illinois had KCLK-94.1 Clarkston WA on 6/6/1977, and that was a 2Es catch, so perhaps that was when you had skip. It could have also been from that 12+ hour nonstop opening on July 17th, 1980 (see the WTFDA archive VUDs). Some people logged 10 watt college FMs via Es that day/night, and the MUF went to channel 8 or higher.
 
Usually on 94.1 I received a station from Watseka, Illinois when I pointed the antenna West . But on this night it was a country station from Seattle. KMPS. One frequency would suddenly be taken over by another station from the North West. The signals were
strong.

I first noticed skip that day with Denver TV stations overtaking the Dayton Channel 2. just 25 miles away. And, reception on FM and TV went further west as the evening progressed.

Many local stations could not be seen or heard. That KOTA TV 3 from South Dakota was so strong I had to disconnect the antenna to get a good picture
 
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Here in the Heartland, I've had FM from the North East and Atlantic Canada twice. Arizona and New Mexico once.

Skip from Texas. Florida, Colorado, and Kansas. is more common in Indiana and Ohio.
 
Central Kansas:
Have received KOMP/Las Vegas overriding the much closer, local KKGQ/Newton in…’16? I believe.

North Iowa:
I’ve received E-skip from Texas, the Carolinas and even Quebec on different occasions. Most impressive was CKYK/Alma, QC coming in clear over a much closer KQWC-FM/Webster City.
 
All three of these from Western Pennsylvania
AM: WXEW-840 with 1 kW from Puerto Rico over WHAS one night in 1987 on a Grundig portable. Honorable mention: YVLL Venezuela on that same portable.

FM: KILI-90.1 during a summer thunder storm for a solid 45 minutes when they were almost brand new on the air. Heard on my dad's rack mount Pioneer stereo. Heard KWBI Denver on the same day, but needless to say the Sioux programming was much more fascinating to hear than brokered religion.

TV: KENW-3 Portales, NM, crystal clear with ID between locals on 2 and 4 on a GE portable with just rabbit ears. Seen on a brutally hot and humid day in 1995
 
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