Is there anything more fun than listening to E Skip? Or staying up all night logging long haul tropo, or going to bed at 4am and getting up for work at 8?
Best Catch of 2011
This is video taken of XEWO C2,
Guadalajara, Mexico on July 12, 2011 at 10am, EDT. I used an outdoor
VHF antenna fed into an analog TV card in my computer. There's a
program you can use to eliminate some of the noise and fading. I
also did that. Mileage comes in at 2,315 miles, just shy of the
2,400 miles when I saw XHBC in Mexicali, BCN in 2010. Sure is fun! May 5,
2012 E Skip to Cuba It began around 3pm
and lasted until around 5pm EDT with best signals around 3:30pm. The
stations are channels 2 and 4 from Havana. Here are some pictures. And here are two more.
Looks like Fidel in one of them. The test pattern was
on ch2 around 4:30pm, so whatever was on before went off the air in
the meantime. The lady and the Canal Educativo slide were on channel
4. Both are Havana. It's amazing what you can see on TV with the
entire lowband empty. Now since the old
Conrad RDS Managers are hard to find, FM Dxers need something to
decode RDS PS and PI codes, either in stand-alone method or by
connecting to their computer by USB cable. This will do the trick.
READ MORE It's a little board you need to
purchase and wire into your Sony XDR-F1HD. Takes a while and is not
for one with a shaky hand, but if you're okay with soldering three
leads, give it a try.
Like it? So there you have it.
Like the new look? This is my 4th or 5th makeover since starting
this site in 1999. I like this one so much I may get one for myself
:-) It turned out much better than I thought. Thank you Tim McVey. Check back often
because I will be updating often. Email me with your comments -Mike
The Ray Dees RDS Decoder
Get PI codes
from Your XDR-F1HD
