Thanks for the head's up! Just got KVOO-FM on 98.5 from Tulsa, Oklahoma. A first for me.

Also KIXQ 102.5 Joplin, Missouri. 

That is some amazing skip!

Picked up KRNB from Dallas Fort-Worth on 105.7 very briefly this morning. First for me! Pretty cool!

Yep, definitely a lean towards a certain part of the U.S.

Among the catches here in northern North York:

KXRO 107.7 Oklahoma City
KQOB 96.9 Enid, Oklahoma
KRXO 107,7 Oklahoma City
KOBC 90.7 Joplin, Missouri
KJKE 93.3 Oklahoma City
KJMK 93.9 Joplin, Missouri and

What I thought must surely be The Grand turned out to be far grander - KRQV aka Classic Hits 93 at 92.9.

There was a country station identified as Star 104 at 103.9 but I wasn't able to I.D. it. 

It's been a long time since the skip has been that good for me. Unfortunately, I had to take my dog to the vet for a previously scheduled appt. so my time was limited. He ALWAYS comes first, even during good DX days (Dog days?) But it sure was fun while it lasted!

Do these things tend to be tightly geographically limited? Nothing at the cottage here north of Kingston.

RadioAaron wrote:

Do these things tend to be tightly geographically limited? Nothing at the cottage here north of Kingston.

Wow!
Can be like that. Bermuda remote SDR had top of band to NB QC and eastern ON (Ottawa area) a few days ago for a few hours and I had nothing at all...not a hint of skip. I;m between Peterborough and Orillia.

I owe you a longer explanation. I'm frankly exhausted from working this opening. I have enough recordings to go through that I needn't worry about spare time for awhile. Just because one does not have any skip does not mean you're outside the cloud. If the end point is in the Atlantic or the Gulf of Mexico or the Caribbean or whatever body of water, and there are no stations to be heard in the 'received' zone, you won't of course hear any. That was probably my case with Bermuda. Picture a cloud very high, signals bouncing off it. That clud is roughly the midway point benween the signal and your radio. A path from N-S will be crossed by one that's E-W. Think of it as a circle of reception. The other factor is recepption generally extends from 400-1500 miles, with slight exceptions where it's very short or very long, or where two clouds line up magically almost and you get two hops and a considerable distance. We'd have to calculate locations and paths to know your situation. I would not have expected you to get nothing in Kingston ... not in this situation. That's a bit odd but not unheard of.
I can engage further on this. Though I'm no expert on the science. I'm not ready to do that right now; this put me behind a few other things.
 

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I was getting a country station at 97.3 in Kitchener this afternoon. Sound quality wasn't great, but it was definitely crowding out BOOM.

The one thing these skips almost always have in common is it's there for about an hour or so, maybe two if you're lucky - and then it's gone. I came back from the vet and it was already over. 

This from Glen Hauser of the World of Radio program.

"** CANADA [and non]. Another huge sporadic E FM DX opening July 4! Already in progress when I join at 1507 UT, constantly until I suspend for lunch and R&R at 1818, and just a little more almost a hour later. At least from: NY, ON, MI, ND, MB, SK. Will take another day at least to fully research and report, approx. 92 discrete log entries including repeats of same stations. DXMAP showed MUF spikes around 150 MHz, and multiple paths across central/eastern US almost solid red! A major nexus around Chicago but does not account for my western Canada catches, Teaser: starts with Fox Sports Radio on 87.7+ MHz, which WTFDA FM DB shows has to be WQSE-LD in Syracuse NY, 2.75 kW, -61 m = below average terrain (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)"

Had this skip had occurred in the analog days, I suspect we could have received ch 2's from North Platte, Neb. [KNOP] Great Bend, Ks. [KSNC] and Tulsa, Ok [KJRH], ch 3 Wichita, Ks. [KSNW] and ch 4 Oklahoma City [KFOR]

Fascinating. Now I kow why my car FM radio had some second station break through CBC on Friday early PM.

Saul wrote:

mace wrote:

Had this skip had occurred in the analog days, I suspect we could have received ch 2's from North Platte, Neb. [KNOP] Great Bend, Ks. [KSNC] and Tulsa, Ok [KJRH], ch 3 Wichita, Ks. [KSNW] and ch 4 Oklahoma City [KFOR]

There's a handful of analogs left. Like a handful. One or two in BC on 2 and 3, CITO 3 Timmins, or or two in QC... I haven't DXed TV in years. I know one Niagara area DXer is desperately trying to get BC on double-hop. He had a hint of a carrier there yesterday evening but nothing remotely close to actual audio or video. He had Venezuela twice yesterday on channel 2 analog. (Bill Hepburn, who is responsible for the tropo forecast maps).

Wow! That is impressive. And I thought getting stations from the Mountain time zone was good. Back in the 80's I logged KTVS ch 3 in Sterling Col and KDUH ch 4 in Scottsbluff, Neb.

There was a day in June 1977 that was similar to the one we had this week. It was simply incredible and lasted at least two hours or more. Here's just a few confirmations of what I received using a TV antenna and rotor back in those analogue days. 

To me, the most amazing "get" was probably CKCK in Regina, which happened on a different day the year before. Stations from the States almost always came in on skip - but out of province TV stations? That was (and remains) a first for me.

June 14, 1977. What an afternoon that was!

It's so rare when the news media picks up a story about DXing that I thought this was interesting - a tale of what some folks in Finland heard on their radios Wednesday. 

Heatwave causes Russian radio broadcasts to leak into Finland

haydenmatthews14 wrote:

So today I decided to sit in my car. I am located north of London in Perth County I am getting a lot of Detroit, 2 Windsor stations and a lot of Michigan and some from South Bend Indianna stations too. They are:
CIMX 88.7 Windsor ON
WCMU 89.5 Mount Pleasent MI
89.7 It was Christain programming I could not ID it.
90.1 Could not ID too, likely Christian programming
91.1 It was playing Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat but it faded out on me Could not ID it.
91.7 Michigan Public Radio Flint MI
92.9 U-93 Michiana/South Bend Indianna
93.1 WDRQ Family Life Radio Detroit
93.3 Country station from Fort Wayne Indianna
93.7 B93 Grand Rapids MI
93.9 CIDR-FM Virgin Radio Windsor
94.7 WCSX Detroit
95.5 WKQI Channel 955 Detroit
96.1 Bay City/Saginaw MI
96.3 WDVD Detroit
96.5 from Layfette Indianna could not ID it because signal faded out.
97.3 WMEE Fort Wayne Indianna
97.7 from Sandusky OH
97.9 WJLB Detroit MI
Max98.3 Could not ID it where its from although it was playing a Hot chocolate You Sexy Thing.
WDZH 98.7 Detroit MI
99.5 WYCD Detroit MI
100.3 WNIC Detroit MI
100.7 B100 WBYT South Bend Indianna
101.1 WIRF Detroit MI
101.9 WDET Detroit
102.9 WWWW W4 Ann Arbor MI
103.3 KFR Kalamazzo MI
104.3 WOMC Detroit MI
105.7 Star Grand Rapids MI
106.5 Jack FM Kalamazoo MI
106.7 WLLZ-FM Detroit MI
Today’s E-Skip was amazing and the best. If anyone can do a look of some I could not ID that would be nice.

That doesn't appear to be E Skip. More like Tropo
 

Hayden Matthews:

Here’s your go-to online FM station directory for all your FM IDing needs:  https://db.wtfda.org
It’s maintained by the WTFDA DX club.

Note: This was tropo, aka tropospheric ducting. It’s directly weather related and generally much shorter distances than atmospheric-induced e-layer skip.

Tropo forecast maps produced by DXer Bill Hepburn, who is also a meteorologist:
https://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo.html

Bill explains Tropo better than I ever could:
https://www.dxinfocentre.com/propagation/tr-modes.htm

Your unidentified and semi-IDed DX:

89.7 It was Christian programming I could not ID it.
Could be multiple

90.1 Could not ID too, likely Christian programming
Could be multiple

91.1 It was playing Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat but it faded out on me Could not ID it.
Maybe WGCS Goshen IN. Just a guess based on what someone else heard. It’s near Ft Wayne area.

91.7 Michigan Public Radio Flint MI
Likely WOUM Ann Arbor MI

92.9 U-93 Michiana/South Bend Indiana
WNDV South Bend

93.3 Country station from Fort Wayne Indiana
WBTU Kendallville likely

93.7 B93 Grand Rapids MI
WBCT

96.1 Bay City/Saginaw MI
WHNN

96.5 from Layfette Indiana could not ID it because signal faded out.
WAZY

97.7 from Sandusky OH
Maybe WTGV in Sandusky MICHIGAN?

Max 98.3 Could not ID it where its from although it was playing a Hot chocolate You Sexy Thing.
WYVR Culver Indiana

105.7 Star Grand Rapids MI
WSRW

106.5 Jack FM Kalamazoo MI
WVFM

Saul