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FM DX e-skip 5/31/23

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ZenithCKLW
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FM DX e-skip 5/31/23

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Anyone getting any new catches today? I was tipped off on an e-skip event today, when placed over a map, is shaped like a donut over the eastern portion of the US. My radio is experiencing lots of capture effect, but none of these stations are regularly identifying themselves, so I'm not sure what I'm receiving.

Edit: I just received WPCV 97.5 from Winter Haven, FL from Livonia, MI with a portable Radio Shack DX-375 radio using just the whip antenna.
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Re: FM DX e-skip 5/31/23

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12:00 Noon. I just now took my DX 370 outdoors and found nothing unusual here in south-west Ontario.
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Next received 95.1 WAPE from Jacksonville.

95.1, 96.7, and 97.5 seem to be the hot frequencies for me here. Unfortunately those freqs might not be great to DX on in SW Ontario.
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Re: FM DX e-skip 5/31/23

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I’ve been getting a lot of FL stations up here in Benzie County by Crystal Lake (since 10:30 in the morning or so), and a couple TX stations made their way to my radio as well. Been a hot minute since I’ve caught one of these openings!
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Last time I caught an opening was 2020; I was driving on I-94 from Port Huron to Detroit, and 98.7 WDZH was obliterated without a trace by KLUV from Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX for about 20 minutes. That was also my first experience with e-skip, and understanding what it was.
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Still nothing. I wish I had my Sangean ATS 909 here. It's still in Florida.
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I was scanning the dial earlier and found a weak WNIC competing with a station going in and out from Salt Lake City or somewhere in Utah based on a brief ad snippet I heard. I waited a few more minutes but WNIC had the better signal although not great.
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I lived in Livonia from 1949 to 1963, In about 1961 I got a three tube Granco FM tuner and connected a twinlead dipole that I tacked to my bedroom wall. Heard and sent reception reports to distant stations all over the map.
Got some QSL cards and letters frm ON, W.MI, OH, IN , IL etc.
This was long before local stations went on the air on all available channels possible. Today is a rough time for FMDXing.
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In the 1970s I lived in a part of Ontario that had no local FM. Not even anything that could be characterized as fringe. All FM reception was DX. I had a Yagi antenna and every day I would go outside and rotate it manually to whichever direction was most favourable, mostly from Southern Ontario or from Michigan.

But occasionally I would catch some real long haul reception. I have QSLs from Petoskey MI, Chicago, Indianapolis, Lubbock TX and Miami FL.

When our son reached the age where he had his own FM receiver in his room I made him a folded dipole from twin lead and mounted it vertically on the side of my mast. he got pretty remarkable reception with that too.
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Up until the late 1970's the only regular Canadian FM radio stations on the dial where I live would have been the old 94 CKLW-FM from Windsor and CFPL-FM (now FM 96) from London. The only FM radio station with local signal strength would have been WSAQ Port Huron. All the class B Detroit signals from 92.3 to 107.5 FM were on the air though. One difference back then was that some of them were still on shorter towers than what they use today. 101 WRIF caught on early around here partly due to the weaker signals on the other FM radio stations that were playing any type of Rock music at the time.
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https://youtu.be/_1rwPLb-tOU

It's always good to grab some video of catches lol
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Every year around this time our studio monitors pick up a rock station from New York. I called and sure enough we are in their studio speakers too. lol
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zzand wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 7:33 am Every year around this time our studio monitors pick up a rock station from New York. I called and sure enough we are in their studio speakers too. lol
Thanks. That answers a question I've always wondered about. "Does it work both ways?"
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Re: FM DX e-skip 5/31/23

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I have heard what is now WINS-FM 92.3 in Genesee County. Throughout Eastern Michigan, the stations on adjacent frequencies from the New York City, including Class As, from Long Island used to come in quite frequently before there was so much frequency duplication since the mid to late 1980s. I remember that WLNG-FM 92.1 was one.

Long Island is about the closest you usually hear Sporadic E, and there are no cochannel stations much beyond that in that direction to interfere.
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I racked up about 50 new logs. my user OMID on fmlist is 7604
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