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Welcome to the new home of the WTFDA! We’re glad to see you here. Feel free to browse the site. You should find somthing here to interest you.
We feature original apps such as the W Logger (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!

Coast to Coast Double Hop FM Skip!
While most DXers in the Eastern half of the country were drowning in single hop Es on May 31st, WTFDA member Randy Zerr in Goldfield, Nevada was raking in the double hop skip from Tennessee and North Carolina, much of it over 2,000 miles from his...

WBRA Still Skips!
Just recently we read that WBRA channel 3 in Roanoke, VA was granted a construction permit to move to channel thirteen and we assumed that the move would be made before the 2023 skip season. We were wrong because WBRA was just received via E skip...
VHF DX Podcast – May 2023 Season Preview Episode
Let the games begin. On the 11th of May, Bryce and Nick reconvened to welcome in the 2023 DX campaign. Sporadic-E reports have already been trickling in across the northern hemisphere, and should only pick up from here. Inside this action...

Using SDR Console with the FM List Logging Tool
Bryce Foster has just uploaded a video on YouTube showing us how to get the most out of SDR Console when used with FM List and 'My FM'. For those using both or either of the two, it's worth the watch. Watch here.
VHF DX Podcast – April 2023 Episode
Bryce Foster and myself returned from a winter break with a new episode of the VHF DX Podcast in April! Our special guest this episode was veteran North American FM and TV DXer Frank Merrill. Frank's first TV DX memories occurred in the 1950s, and...

Posts from the WTFDA wLogger – April 2023
2023-04-29 18:34 Es 104.7 KHSB-FM Kingsland, TX PI code 2451 de indysteve (Milford, IL - EN60ep) 2023-04-29 18:12 Tr 101.5 K268DL Spokane, WA NEW de dxsphere (Pasco/Tri-Cities, WA - DN06jg) 2023-04-29 15:35 Tr 88.7 KAGU Spokane, WA NEW de dxsphere...
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.
Where’s The Es?
A great place to check to see if skip is nearby is the WTFDA logger called the ‘W-Logger’. If one of our posters notices it, word spreads and the first to know are those who watch the logger. You need to be a WTFDA member to use it.
Another place to check is the FM List Visual Logbook where users post their logs and the logs are plotted on a map of the Unied States. Very cool. You need to be registered there to use that feature.
DX maps has been around for years. It plots 50mhz amateur radio contacts on a map of the world. Some say it’s not as reliable as it used to be, but it still can be used as a skip indicator. No registration is needed to watch the maps.
There are other sites similar to DX Maps that will plot 6m contacts on a map. G7IZU and N3TUK are two of them.
If you know of other sites, let us know. Happy hunting!
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