TV DX-ing: Watching TV near you

[Charlie]

Wow! The atmosphere was really pulling in TV last night... so much that it was killing all of our local channels! Currently, I am up at my cabin in the woods... roughly 45 miles north of where i live. On average, I only get the Beaumont NBC-4 and CBS-6. ABC-12 never comes in unless I go out and turn the antenna... and even then it's not that great. Got a pretty decent size antenna at least 20 feet in the air. Because of having so many tall pines around here, I need at least that or more. The set is a 10 year old Maggie 25".

Well, last night, every channel had something on it. Channels 2, 11, 8, 13, 20, 26, 39, and 55 from Houston were coming in like they were next door. Channel 6 KRIS from Corpus Christi (300 miles away) was bleeding into our 6 making it unwatchable. Channel 3 KIII from Corpus coming in a little snowy, but not bad. On Channel 10, I was getting video from KLFY Lafayette, LA and audio from KZTV Corpus Christi. That was weird. There were other channels I was never able to identify. Pulled in a channel 5 pretty good... only 5 I know of offhand comes from Dallas/Ft Worth.

Not sure what was going on in the cosmos last night, but, it doesn't seem to be happening tonight. Back to our 4 and 6, but pullin in Houston 2 a little.

Had a really good night like this a couple years back watchin on my '59 Motorola and '63 CM. In fact, if I remember right, that lasted for several nights back then.

Anyone else get any dx-ing last night? Or am i the only one using an antenna?