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June 2026 – A Great Month with Extraordinary DX!
The month of double hop Es, Weatheradio Loggings and Highband VHF DTV Es DX!
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.
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TV DX and Photos
TV DX began to finally get going in June with two mostly FM E-skip openings to the Northeast, with all VHF-Low channels except 6 lighting up the signal meter on my DTT-901, one did briefly decode. Tropo really heated up on the last day of June,...
Format Flips – John Zondlo
AL Down on the Gulf of America, iHeart flips W258AY Mobile AL from Sports to CHR as “99.5 Kiss FM.” WRKH HD-2 96.1 Mobile feeds the translator, which is actually owned by Radio By Grace but leased by iHeart. CA K266CG 101.1 Bakersfield CA ha...
TV News – Doug Smith
TV News July 2026 - D. Smith St City Call Ch (VC) Notes AL Dothan W14FH 14 Permit granted for new station; 15kw/216m, 31-18-02/85-35-04. AL Florence W26FV 26 Permit granted for new station; 15kw/103m, 34-50-35/87-21-12. AL Huntsville W33FM...
DXing From the Big Island of Hawaii
RADIO ON THE BIG ISLAND D. Smith 2026-07-03 I visited the Big Island of Hawaii in May 2026. Radio was not the point (grin!) but I did do bandscans from both the Kona side and the Hilo side. I thought the results might be of some interest…...
2,300 mile E skip Off the B.C. Coast
Here we have the reception of WSYE 93.3 in Mississippi being heard on a cruse ship off the coast of British Columbia heading for Alaska. It was documentged by Andrew Knafel, a WTFDA member. The reception happened at 11:42am on June 29. Here are...
Weather Radio Canada Shuts Down
Canada’s national Weatheradio service (and the companion Hello Weather phone line) officially shut down very recently, on March 16, 2026. While the decommission began in mid-March, final transmitter shutdowns across the country were completed in...
Get Wyoming Verified!
Get your Wyoming FM DX Verified this summer! Paul Walker is eager to answer reception reports for three (plus a translator) Laramie, WY FM stations over the air during tropo or eskip. KLMI 106.1 (50KW C2), KIMX 104.5 (15KW C2), KRQU 98.7(110 Watt...
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