Best FM catch I ever heard was back in college in the 70's. In my car I
picked up an Fm station from Pompano, Beach Florida from Western
Massachusetts. It was coming in like a local...rock solid and perfect. I got
to my friends house and we got it on his stereo system no problem. Even
called the station and the announcer talked about it. This was my
introduction to dx-ing and I've never matched it since. If I remember
correctly we listened for over a half hour...perhaps it was an hour, then it
faded out never to return.

Jay
"GO BEARCATS" wrote in message
...
E skip is usually in quick, out quick, fluctuating, moving from place to
place.
If it was tropo, sigs would be relatively steady.

Good catch.

I remember, catching somewhere overseas on my SCANNER during the summer,
late
Aug. and it went on for a full 40 minutes. Rock solid- then slightly
fade(but
could always hear them) then rock solid- continued that way the entire
time.

It made a local village paper here. I was just monitoring the local law
and a
few other freqs stretched out on the couch and all the sudden I started
hearing
like Middle Eastern type talking.
I looked at the scanner to see the freq. and about flipped. So that would
be
'tropo' -correct? ;-)

*BTW*It never happened again for that long on any local PD freq since. :-I

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"Jay" wrote in message
...
Best FM catch I ever heard was back in college in the 70's. In my car I
picked up an Fm station from Pompano, Beach Florida from Western
Massachusetts. It was coming in like a local...rock solid and perfect. I
got
to my friends house and we got it on his stereo system no problem. Even
called the station and the announcer talked about it. This was my
introduction to dx-ing and I've never matched it since. If I remember
correctly we listened for over a half hour...perhaps it was an hour, then
it
faded out never to return.


Almost every summer I used to get stations from TX , NM and AZ at my
location near Portland, OR. Was never the same stations twice in a row, but
always seemed to be the same part of the country. Would last from an hour to
slightly more, usually, then gone.

"Jay" ) writes:
Best FM catch I ever heard was back in college in the 70's. In my car I
picked up an Fm station from Pompano, Beach Florida from Western
Massachusetts. It was coming in like a local...rock solid and perfect. I got
to my friends house and we got it on his stereo system no problem. Even
called the station and the announcer talked about it. This was my
introduction to dx-ing and I've never matched it since. If I remember
correctly we listened for over a half hour...perhaps it was an hour, then it
faded out never to return.

Jay

I heard Mississippi here in Montreal a few summers back. It was noteworthy
enough that I mentioned it in the local newsgroup.

One of the bad parts about such openings is that they are so short. It
brings the dilemma of whether to listen to that one station, and get further
information (or even ID) or tune about to see what else is coming in.

Michael

"GO BEARCATS" wrote in message
...
E skip is usually in quick, out quick, fluctuating, moving from place to
place.
If it was tropo, sigs would be relatively steady.

Good catch.

I remember, catching somewhere overseas on my SCANNER during the summer,
late
Aug. and it went on for a full 40 minutes. Rock solid- then slightly
fade(but
could always hear them) then rock solid- continued that way the entire
time.

It made a local village paper here. I was just monitoring the local law
and a
few other freqs stretched out on the couch and all the sudden I started
hearing
like Middle Eastern type talking.
I looked at the scanner to see the freq. and about flipped. So that would
be
'tropo' -correct? ;-)

*BTW*It never happened again for that long on any local PD freq since. :-I

~^Monitoring The Spectrum^~
Hammarlund HQ129X /Heathkit Q Multiplier
Hammarlund HQ140X
Multiple GE P-780's(GREAT BCB Radios)
RCA Victor *Strato- World*
RCA Victor RJC77W-K(Walnut Grain)
1942 Zenith Wave Magnet 6G 601M
Cathedral/ Ross#2311/Rhapsody-MultiBand
DX100/394/*SUPER*398/399/402
OMGS Transistor Eight/Realistic 12-1451
Henry Kloss Model One/Bell+HowellSW
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Alpha Delta DX Sloper 57ft.
500ft. 12AWG. (non-terminated)
120ft. 12 AWG Long-Wire
2 Radio Shack Loop Antennas
Radio Shack Amplified Antenna
30X30 DiamondLoop(six section 830pf Cap)
* Diamond Loop mounted to Lazy Susan TurnTable*
*21/2X2ft.FiveSpoked~Penta-Loop~PancakeLoop*
~OptimusCTR-111Cassettte Recorder~
~Radio Shack 2Speed VOX#43-476~
~Ramsey Speech Scrambler~

Guess this posting is just a short, skip, hop in retrospect. Hauling a trailer
to San Diego for a friend back in December 1976, was able to listen to
now-legendary KSAN on their "Jive 95" frequency from Sactown to just near
Tulare, where the local 94.9 mhz station took over. Signal was rock solid
flowing into the San Joaquin Valley corridor over that 400 mile stretch. Picked
up KSAN going home a week later right about the same spot. Receiver was a
simple Realistic am/fm cassette unit.

"Jay" wrote in message
...
| Best FM catch I ever heard was back in college in the 70's. In my car I
| picked up an Fm station from Pompano, Beach Florida from Western
| Massachusetts. It was coming in like a local...rock solid and perfect. I
got
| to my friends house and we got it on his stereo system no problem. Even
| called the station and the announcer talked about it. This was my
| introduction to dx-ing and I've never matched it since. If I remember
| correctly we listened for over a half hour...perhaps it was an hour, then
it
| faded out never to return.

That definitely qualifies as one hell of a catch, Jay.

I'm really looking forward to being a homeowner,
and am salivating at the thought of good outdoor
antennas. Of course, my wife will probably have
an unending "honeydew" list, which I will be all
too glad to take care of (Funny thing - if she makes
a list or asks me to help, I help. Barring that, I
could definitely be a little more useful around the
house, though she always complements me on my
willingness to help out. But, as usual, I digress...)

I want to put up a rotatable 70 to 100 - foot tower,
and, barring that, at least a 70 - foot fixed tower big
enough to handle a couple of log periodics, and some
heavy wires draped, as well. I'm thinking a couple
of BIG yagis for FM on a tripod over a garage, perhaps.

73,

Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

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Cars and FM DX seem to go quite well together. I was south of Buffalo one summer
several years back and managed to nail down stations from Florida, Louisiana and
Texas.

I never get that kind of reception in Edmonton.

Regards

John Barnard

Jay wrote:

Best FM catch I ever heard was back in college in the 70's. In my car I
picked up an Fm station from Pompano, Beach Florida from Western
Massachusetts. It was coming in like a local...rock solid and perfect. I got
to my friends house and we got it on his stereo system no problem. Even
called the station and the announcer talked about it. This was my
introduction to dx-ing and I've never matched it since. If I remember
correctly we listened for over a half hour...perhaps it was an hour, then it
faded out never to return.

Jay
"GO BEARCATS" wrote in message
...
E skip is usually in quick, out quick, fluctuating, moving from place to
place.
If it was tropo, sigs would be relatively steady.

Good catch.

I remember, catching somewhere overseas on my SCANNER during the summer,
late
Aug. and it went on for a full 40 minutes. Rock solid- then slightly
fade(but
could always hear them) then rock solid- continued that way the entire
time.

It made a local village paper here. I was just monitoring the local law
and a
few other freqs stretched out on the couch and all the sudden I started
hearing
like Middle Eastern type talking.
I looked at the scanner to see the freq. and about flipped. So that would
be
'tropo' -correct? ;-)

*BTW*It never happened again for that long on any local PD freq since. :-I

~^Monitoring The Spectrum^~
Hammarlund HQ129X /Heathkit Q Multiplier
Hammarlund HQ140X
Multiple GE P-780's(GREAT BCB Radios)
RCA Victor *Strato- World*
RCA Victor RJC77W-K(Walnut Grain)
1942 Zenith Wave Magnet 6G 601M
Cathedral/ Ross#2311/Rhapsody-MultiBand
DX100/394/*SUPER*398/399/402
OMGS Transistor Eight/Realistic 12-1451
Henry Kloss Model One/Bell+HowellSW
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Alpha Delta DX Sloper 57ft.
500ft. 12AWG. (non-terminated)
120ft. 12 AWG Long-Wire
2 Radio Shack Loop Antennas
Radio Shack Amplified Antenna
30X30 DiamondLoop(six section 830pf Cap)
* Diamond Loop mounted to Lazy Susan TurnTable*
*21/2X2ft.FiveSpoked~Penta-Loop~PancakeLoop*
~OptimusCTR-111Cassettte Recorder~
~Radio Shack 2Speed VOX#43-476~
~Ramsey Speech Scrambler~