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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortwave_bands jr |
ahh that makes sense. I haven't checked out shortwave in years, should give it a try
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6 meters was open yesterday, with plenty of sporadic-E east of the Mississippi. I worked a dozen stations on sideband (using a wire antenna), and on FM I worked stations in Canada, Florida, and Maine from here in East TN.
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I've picked up a station in Window Rock, AZ a few times from here in N.E. Arkansas. I also pick up the Chicago and Dallas stations fairly regularly using only the receiver in a cheap Juliette all in one in my workroom.
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Today may be a VERY good day to DX FM in the midwest. I just got to work in Menomenee Falls Wi from Pewaukee Wi, and the whole commute with occasional static drop outs I was getting 87.7 METV FM (LP analog TV Ch.6) coming in clear out of Chicago!
I wish I had a small TV with me...I really want to see if the video carrier is making it here! When I get home if the band is still open I'm going to scour the TV, FM and SW bands. |
Indeed! it looks like there is a bit of moderate tropo enhancement in the great lakes region today... good catch!
http://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo.html jr |
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I was still getting it about an hour ago with diminished strength....Seems the visual carrier ain't making it. Quite a bit on FM presently. I got 2 new DTV carriers too. Next on the scan list is SW and AM.
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I bet the DTV carriers didnt ever come in strong enough to properly see them do they?
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A few years back I picked up WOAI 1200 (clear channel frequency) in San Antonio, up here in Calgary, listened to probably close to a quarter of a Spurs game in and out, 1700 miles away.
Myself picking it up in Calgary, pales in comparison to this person and him receiving it: http://capedx.blogspot.ca/2010/07/wo...0-khz-qsl.html |
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Today ppl dont give a damn where you are when you hear them.... I have tried to email a station on FM I got on a band opening last year..... NO RESPONSE TO MY EMAIL!! People today suck.......... |
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My CM DT7000 set top box has scanned in two VHF channel 7's just weak enough they don't lock in. WBNG in Binghamton and WJLA in Washington DC. The wackiest reception I recall on TV was in the mid 1970s, late summer - like now. I was fooling around in the yard with a smaller VHF log-periodic JFD LPV-6 and a 1963 GE 19" BW in the yard one day, I got channel 2 which I thought nothing of since we were 75 miles from WMAR in Baltimore. Then I noticed it was PBS, WPBT from Miami! Sometimes channel 3, (now WFSB) in Hartford Connecticut would stomp out KYW - a solid local from Philadelphia, no small feat! The antenna was aimed 60 degrees AWAY from it. Once, I saw WGAL 8 Lancaster, via cable about 60 miles upstate, one of the few "local" channels in that area, then WTNH-8 from New Haven Connecticut cut in with the familiar white lines and co-channel beat screeching in the sound. I miss watching our 1971 Zenith console those summer mornings and evenings after a storm rolled through when you could get ALL the NYC channels 2-4-5-7-9-11-13, rotate the mid-sized JFD LPV about 180 - degrees and get 4-5-7-9 from DC along with the usual channels from Philly, Baltimore and Lancaster. After that, having cable when I moved away did not seem very epic. |
Many years ago, perhaps 25 or so, late one winter night, I picked up station XEW from Mexico City on a Philco model 90 Cathedral radio! I was at my house in San Diego. The antenna was simply a piece of wire connected to an aluminum window frame. Even more amazing was that we have a local station at 910, and XEW is located at 900. The fact they are a 250,000 watt station probably helped too.
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Good deal!
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