So, Where's the skip? And where's all the tropo?

Click on DX Sherlock to find out if there's E skip in North America, and where it is. Click on the APRS map to see a real-time map of tropo in North America. Then click on Bill Hepburn's tropo map to look at the tropo forecast for the next few days and plan accordingly.

Bill H's tropo Forecasts

DX Sherlock Es Indicator

APRS Real-Time Tropo Maps

Video of Trans-Gulf 1000 mile DTV tropo

Reception of KENS-DT, channel 39 by WTFDA Member Chris Dunne in Florida.


602 mile UHF Tropo

When he's not dodging thunderstorms or replacing damaged antennas or blown-out preamps, WTFDA member Ed Phelps sees TV DX like this. This is Ed's reception of WJXT (RF 42) in Jacksonville, FL at 602 miles on the morning of April 28, 2012.

            

 

And some really neat DX from the other side of the pond. We have two photos for you. One photo is of Mura, Portugal (E2) taken locally in Portugal and the other is the same ID slide taken by TV DXer Ian Roberts in South Africa. Mura is scheduled to shut down soon (if not already), and this was Ian's chance to log it via TEP (Trans-Equatorial Propagation). As you will see, both local and DX photos are identical. The distance is about the same as the distance from New York to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Here's the off-air photo

And here's the same slide seen in South Africa.

Thanks to Hugh in Portugal for the ID slide.