A few years back I picked up WOAI 1200 (clear channel frequency) in San Antonio, up here in Calgary, listened to probably close to a quarter of a Spurs game in and out, 1700 miles away.

Myself picking it up in Calgary, pales in comparison to this person and him receiving it:

http://capedx.blogspot.ca/2010/07/wo...0-khz-qsl.html

He is lucky he got a response!!

Today ppl dont give a damn where you are when you hear them.... I have tried to email a station on FM I got on a band opening last year..... NO RESPONSE TO MY EMAIL!!


People today suck..........

Sometimes yes, but not like the old days. Several times a year, I get solid lock on WMBC DT-18 in Montclair, NJ. that's 140 miles away but its also 1000 kW ERP.

My CM DT7000 set top box has scanned in two VHF channel 7's just weak enough they don't lock in. WBNG in Binghamton and WJLA in Washington DC.

The wackiest reception I recall on TV was in the mid 1970s, late summer - like now. I was fooling around in the yard with a smaller VHF log-periodic JFD LPV-6 and a 1963 GE 19" BW in the yard one day, I got channel 2 which I thought nothing of since we were 75 miles from WMAR in Baltimore. Then I noticed it was PBS, WPBT from Miami!

Sometimes channel 3, (now WFSB) in Hartford Connecticut would stomp out KYW - a solid local from Philadelphia, no small feat! The antenna was aimed 60 degrees AWAY from it.

Once, I saw WGAL 8 Lancaster, via cable about 60 miles upstate, one of the few "local" channels in that area, then WTNH-8 from New Haven Connecticut cut in with the familiar white lines and co-channel beat screeching in the sound.

I miss watching our 1971 Zenith console those summer mornings and evenings after a storm rolled through when you could get ALL the NYC channels 2-4-5-7-9-11-13, rotate the mid-sized JFD LPV about 180 - degrees and get 4-5-7-9 from DC along with the usual channels from Philly, Baltimore and Lancaster. After that, having cable when I moved away did not seem very epic.

Many years ago, perhaps 25 or so, late one winter night, I picked up station XEW from Mexico City on a Philco model 90 Cathedral radio! I was at my house in San Diego. The antenna was simply a piece of wire connected to an aluminum window frame. Even more amazing was that we have a local station at 910, and XEW is located at 900. The fact they are a 250,000 watt station probably helped too.

Good deal!

I'll post pictures, when i get a chance, this has happened a few times in the last couple of years, as recently as two weeks ago.

WGBH Boston to Toms river NJ.

Chequeing my old logbooks, my longest DX was Saskatoon to NYC (Queens county) July 11th, 2007. Pioneer TX-9500 tuner on FM, 300 ohm dipole 24ft above street level, freq=95.1Meg "wfmc" ...

Never was lucky enough to capture stereo fm via DX, and my TV DXing has always been too transient in nature to get a callsign.

All into Mass in the olden days....

TV was a low powered translator from some little valley
in N.S. IIRC it was on ch3. Also logged a pile on 2-6
from most of the east US.

AM best was a Nev station above 1600. There is also
one in the USVI that came in easily listenable almost
every nite. 2nd AM was a graveyard (250 w ) from SC
during an aurora.

Ham was not really DX but..... On 10M Mobile-mobile both 25W
from E. Mass to Albany NY. Apparently thunder storms between
us caused this imposable QSO that lasted 5 mn

73 Zeno:smoke:
LFOD !

Back in the late 60's when England still used VHF for TV I was trying to watch BBC1 on channel 4 (low band) from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter about 40 miles away, the picture was obliterated by co-channel interference from European stations via sporadic E. I tried other channels & on ch 3 (I think) a strange snowy picture appeared with no sound, it was 2 elongated pictures side by side with a black line down the middle. This was a 405 lines TV set & the only station in the world that used that system on low band was BBC1. I carried on watching & an ident came on, it was ORTF from France. France used 819 lines on low band & 819 is just over double 405, that would explain the black line down the middle. When the 625 lines low band Euro stations came in the 405 lines TV's couldn't resolve a picture & the screen was just a pulsating mess.

I very often get European FM radio stations coming in, even in perfect stereo. When I was in Hastings on the south coast last year there was as many French as English stations on the FM band..

In the old TV DXer times some over hear had multi mode sets.
Europe was often seen. IIRC it takes 2 long sporadic E hops
to make it. Also on AM at the coast Euro, Africa &
the Mid-East stations are common at sundown. You do need a
tunable radio to get the 9 K splits used in Europe.

73 Zeno:smoke:
LFOD !

Those multisystemsets were great into the eighties. Had a JVC with pal/secam/ntsc with a Toshiba jug from '84..Nice, bright pix.. shame I didn't attempt DX'n on it at the time.

I often switch on my old sets with an aerial. Only to " check " on possible xmissions. It is interesting to note the apparent celltower signals in the form of banded-lines, in the now occupied band of Ch. 69 + up..

My father remembers picking up WJBK on occasion at a relative's house in Cheboygan, Michigan. This would have been the late 50s, early 60s. 240 miles LOS distance. Not too shabby.