Welcome Home!
Welcome to the new home of the WTFDA! We’re glad to see you here. Feel free to browse the site. We hope you will find something here to interest you. We feature original apps such as the WLogger (Prop logger), FM Database and the Radioland app developed by WTFDA members for the DX community. This site is dedicated to TV and FM DXers everywhere!
E Skip Is Around the Corner
**What Is Sporadic-E Propagation in the Radio and TV world?** Sporadic-E propagation (or Es) is when radio signals are reflected off clouds of ionized gas in the E layer of the ionosphere, allowing radio amateurs to make contacts over distances of...
Line of Sight DX
Back in September 2024, the club phased out the VHF-UHF Digest, a publication that goes way back to the early 1970s. Times have changed. DXing has changed; DX reporting has changed over the years to the point where a publication that has relied...
A Little Talk with Noobish
Unless you've had your head in the sand for a year or two, the name "Noobish" will mean nothing to you, but if you're into using TEF6686 radios for DXing, especially if you use one of those radios as a webserver, you know the name. Marek is the man...
The Quadrantids – Peak is January 4th
November Meteor Showers
The WTFDA Fall ’24 GIVEAWAY!
During the month of September the WTFDA is giving away another great prize. This time it's a brand new FM antenna. We're giving away, to one lucky WTFDA member, a Stereo Probe 9 9-element FM fringe yagi from Sky Blue Antennas. This is the...
Greetings!
If you look closely you’ll find that we’ve now put a links tab on the main menu above. Take a look at the DX links there. Let us know if you have any favorite links that we should add. Thanks!
The Openradio Community
Everything about the TEF6686 radios from flashing your radio to setting up a Webserver. It’s all here including a portal to their Discord server.
It’s Back!
The Channel Master Stereo Probe 9 is back! The beloved Probe is now called the SBFM9 and manufactured by Sky Blue Antennas of Burnsville, Minnesota and sold by dealers across the upper midwest, northern New England, Houston and elsewhere. The SBFM9 is a nine element fringe yagi for the FM band. Buyers of this antenna are giving it a big ‘thumbs up’ for performance and build quality. Finally, DXers in North America have an FM fringe yagi built here in North America that doesn’t need to be shipped from across the Atlantic.
Brian Beezley’s specs on the Probe 9.
Thank You!
We’d like to thank Joel Rosenberg of Toronto for being so kind to send us paper copies of the 1971 and 1972 VUDs, plus a few other issues to make our collection as complete as it can possibly get (unless somebody has some 1968 issues stashed away somewhere). So, if you are a VUD collector, go get them in the VUD Archives.
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