TV Skips season is here!!!

[N5XZS]

Yep, it's that's time of year that's will last May till Early Steptember on VHF low band ch. 2 to 6.

Last night, there were bunch of Canadian TV stations skipping in Albuquerque, NM, USA!!

Just think it like a shortwave video.

I found a border TV station, just south of Texas, USA ID's as XHRIO-TV FOX 2 on ch.2 analog tonight.

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[Mr Tony]

moved to OTA area

Its not the same with digital now But its nice to get some distant stations

 

[Bill_KY]

I HEARD XHRIO "Channel 2 Cable 6" on the analog audio channel today through
www.DXFM.com FM and TV DX

Girard Westerberg in Lexington KY runs the dxfm.com site. He has a analog channel 2 audio feed and a digital channel 2 audio feed. The digital audio feed can even detect meteor scatter, because if there is a distant channel 2 station it will pick it up as a tone. The analog feed will be just normal audio...if there is a station present.

"The DX robot" earlier said there was high MUF and a San Antonio TX area DXER was getting FM broadcast stations from the Carolina's around lunch time.


BTW, Thanks for the WTFDA forum link... I am reading about the transatlantic FM DX from last year, WYSP 94.1 Philly heard in Ireland...amazing...


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[N5XZS]

More TV skips today, all Canadian stations MUF went high as ch.4 and so far no U.S. digital signals lock on my STB. It's just matter of times, I will get my first digital signals lock.:

 

[Mr Tony]

the other morning when I turned on the DTVPal DVR it said I had 3 new channels logged

Wisconsin Public TV from Menominee, WI which according to maps is about 35 miles way from the "fringe"....Folks in the far east metro of the Twin Cities can get it but I'm on the Far West side and cant lock it on a normal day

Showed 0 signal when I tried to lock it in the morning

 

[riffjim4069]

Yep, all the trusty ole timers are being skipped...but I noticed the summertime mindless favorites, such as America's Got Talent and Wipeout, have been added back to the queue.

 

[yaz96]

Yep, all the trusty ole timers are being skipped...but I noticed the summertime mindless favorites, such as America's Got Talent and Wipeout, have been added back to the queue.

Huh? What's that have to do with airwave signals skipping through the atmosphere?

 

[Mr Tony]

I'm wondering the same thing

 

[TRG]

the other morning when I turned on the DTVPal DVR it said I had 3 new channels logged

Wisconsin Public TV from Menominee, WI which according to maps is about 35 miles way from the "fringe"....Folks in the far east metro of the Twin Cities can get it but I'm on the Far West side and cant lock it on a normal day

Showed 0 signal when I tried to lock it in the morning

How do you like your DTVPal? I see that Channel master recently released the CM-7000PAL which is supposed to be the same thing.

Channel Master CM-7000PAL Antenna HD DVR Digital Video Recorder Off-Air Broadcast CM7000PAL with Dual Tuner 250 GB Hard Drive HDMI Output HD/SD Video Record Digital Television Set Top Signal Receiver, Software Upgradeable, Part # CM7000-PAL: Oak Ente

 

[riffjim4069]

Huh? What's that have to do with airwave signals skipping through the atmosphere?

OMG...I need a vacation....too funny! I had several threads opened and must have crossed a wire or two along the way. Just call me Mr. Inappropriate.

 

[Mr Tony]

How do you like your DTVPal?

LOVE it

I can record 2 shows at once
works with any HDTV or SDTV
very easy to use
has at least a 3 day guide for most channels....some go out to 7 days

 

[QCK]

LOVE it

I can record 2 shows at once
works with any HDTV or SDTV
very easy to use
has at least a 3 day guide for most channels....some go out to 7 days

+1, I've had mine since it first came out and record few hours on it just about every day. Super picture and it is nice to be able to record two HD shows and watch another show that was recorded all at the same time. :up

 

[Bill_KY]

According to the site : www.DXFM.com FM and TV DX Today May 31 2010...a FM Dxer in Northern Ireland received a FM station... WRTU (89.7) in Puerto Rico and that DX conditions in Europe Today are "insane". The only thing I noticed was some TV analog skip from Mexico and 6 meter skip to Austin Texas.

 

[Bill_KY]

The DX robot is reporting the skip as high as 144 Mhz, nothing here (yet) in Kentucky.

hxxp://www.xs4all.nl/~amunters/eskipNA.htm

>DXrobot issued 144 MHz NA Es alert at 02 Jun 19:40 UTC

 

[Bill_KY]

This was a historic day for Dxing in North America.... and that is a understatement..

 

[boba]

Today it is killing some of my local channels. The skip is strong enough to reduce signals to the teens to mid twenties and most aren;t strong enough to produce a solid picture keeps breaking up.

 

[Mr Tony]

picked up Eau Claire, WI sometime between last night and today as the DTVPal DVR said it added 3 channels...about 120 miles away as the crow flies

WQOW ABC/CW/This

 

[Larobpra]

Tonight I've got more than ever! WGRZ's, WKBW, WXXI's, TCT from Buffalo and Rochester, WNYO, WIVB, WROC, WHEC's, WHAM's, and even WKTV. It's a 5 hour drive to Buffalo from here.

 

[Bill_KY]

DX out to Grand Rapids MI Sat - July 3

DX out to Grand Rapids Michigan

This reception was caused by tropo ducting/enhancement where warm air over riding a cool air mass creates causes 'ducts' where the signals propagate much further than normal. This is not skip...it is tropospheric ducting or 'tropo'.


Here are some pix of some tropo stations that came in Saturday morning between 10:00 am to 10:30 am.

Note that the PSID says Fox 17DT but no call letters. However they were running "Weekend Marketplace" which matches up to their online schedule. WXMI is in Grand Rapids MI as well as WXSP . Also WISE 33 Fort Wayne was in.

WXMIDT (WXMI-DT)

Sat, Jul. 03

10:00 AM Weekend Marketplace
10:30 AM Weekend Marketplace

Mileage to Grand Rapids MI - 270 miles
Mileage to Ft. Wayne IN - 140 Miles

The equipment is very modest, a Radio Shack UHF corner reflector with a 30 db amp pointed toward Dayton Ohio and Sanyo Digital TV. The string going to the mast supports part of the 160 meter antenna.


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[Mr Tony]

very cool