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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. 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!
The Perseids Peaks August 13th
The Perseid meteor shower is one of the most prolific showers of the year, producing rich, bright streaks. The Perseids are active from mid-July until late August and will peak on the night of Aug. 12, before dawn on Aug. 13, 2024. Viewers...
SDR Console for FM DX – Mastering Meteor Scatter (Ep 6)
In this episode, I'll walk you through incorporating the knowledge from the first 5 videos into conquering one of the most challenging modes of DX - Meteor Scatter. We'll use tools and tricks including the Data File Analyzer, variable filters, RDS...
The WTFDA Summer ’24 GIVEAWAY!
***UPDATE*** Make that 'gaveaway'! Last night (6/28) we picked the winners. They are in Oklahoma and Alabama.***During the month of June, the WTFDA is giving away not one, but two XHDATA D109WB AM/FM/SW/LW/WB/Weather/Shortwave radios to two of our...
E SKIP!
May is the traditional start of Sporadic E in the northern hemisphere. Sometimes it's good; sometimes not so good. This year the 2024 skip season began on May 6th with a fairly decent opening from the northeast down to Florida and Georgia, and even...
Dominican Republic to Turn Off Analogue TV in July
The president of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, fixed the analog blackout for July and the digital switch on in November. After being postponed to a couple of times, A new date for the analog outage and the start of digital television...
The Tale of Two K-LUVs
For a Few Months There Were Two Legal KLUVs on the Air. Back in early 2023, the Educational Media Foundation, known as EMF, acquired Audacity's stations in Buffalo and Memphis, which also included rights to the KLUV callsign of 98.7 in Dallas. In...
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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