back in the 2007 range, I came home and was able to hear Minnesota, Iowa and
Kansas public radio in stereo and this lasted for at least 2 hours.. Then
Central Florida came poundin. This was just before the first major cold
front came through which cooled things down. g especially the top 40 and
ghetto blasters down there.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: It's Sporadic E time, Folks!
> One day back in the early '70s, I was tuning around on the FM broadcast
> band
> and noticed that some of the local stations weren't coming in very well.
> I
> had a 9-element beam up on the roof of a 4-story apartment complex, and I
> was pointing the beam northeast to try to get a station in Worcester, MA,
> which was about 70 miles away. The station wouldn't come in no matter how
> much I tweaked the antenna, but I heard a station in Columbus, Georgia in
> full quieting stereo even though the beam was pointing in the wrong
> direction. The Georgia station disappeared after a few minutes, and was
> replaced by something else which I couldn't identify.
>
> In 2004, just after we came back from the ACB convention in Birmingham, we
> were listening to a Red Sox game on one of the local FM stations when it
> faded out and was replaced by another station carrying another game, but
> not
> one with a major team. We never got a call sign, but we heard an ad which
> mentioned a zip code that turned out to be somewhere in Idaho. Of course,
> the station didn't stay around very long. Incidentally, I got that catch
> with nothing more than the whip antenna on the radio.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "PATRICK GORMLEY" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 19:56
> Subject: Re: It's Sporadic E time, Folks!
>
>
>> Back in 1974, I was tuning around the fm band and heard Tulsa Oklahoma
>> Galveston Texas and port arthur texas. When I got my ham ticket, perhaps
>> the wildest sporadic e I heard was when weather for St. Louis, Kansas
>> City
>> and Galveston Texas came in and I was able to work stations on 52 simplex
>> from the d.c. are with an omni at 70 feet in Little Rock, St. Louis,
>> Kansas
>> CIty, Galveston and Port Arthur Texas and juarez mexico. Back in 1979 we
>> had band openings associated with Huricanes Frederick and David allowing
>> me
>> to work a fellow running a 1-watt handitalkie going into Metropolitan
>> Airport in Detroit via the altoona repeater all from Deale Maryland about
>> 20
>> miles south of Annapolis.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 6:51 PM
>> Subject: Re: It's Sporadic E time, Folks!
>>
>>
>>> Yeah, I enjoy that also. Back in 1978 I think it was, the sporadic E
>>> was
>>> so
>>> good that there were Florida stations on our Central Michigan repeater.
>>> I
>>> listened to a couple Florida stations on FM broadcast band, and the
>>> weird
>>> thing was, when the ionization level started to disintegrate, it did so
>>> at
>>> a pretty rapid pace, but it was still slow enough that I caught some
>>> Virginia FM stations as the skip completely disappeared.
>>>
>>> Steve, K8SP
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Gary Ketler" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 5:53 PM
>>> Subject: Re: It's Sporadic E time, Folks!
>>>
>>>
>>>>I liked to do FM broadcast dx. I haven't had any sporadic E openings in
>>>>a
>>>> few years now.
>>>
>>
>
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