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Mandeville, LA
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This will be my second time riding out the west side of a storm named Isaias. Six years, 2 months and 5-6 days later. #isaias #hurricane
DX Central (Loyd Van Horn-W4LVH) retweeted
918 khz, test tones of India's Akashvani from Suratgarh - sign on is 00:20 utc if you want to check. This image is from a week ago.
DX Central Live! returns for Season 7 tonight! Pre-show festivities kick off at 2304 UTC/1805 CT. Live in Stufio A at 2345 UTC/1845 CT!
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A whole new era for our challenges complete with a new custom challenge app, your shoutouts and lots of live DX!
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Studio A is ready for next week’s premiere of DX Central Live!
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1845 CT
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Friday, Sept 11
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Doing a full, on-time rehearsal run through for next week’s DX Central Live! season premiere. Running this as if the premiere was this week, hitting all the timing cues, hitting all the usual markers for TOH, etc, doing live DX……the whole thing.
🌠100 METEORS PER HOUR?🌠
UPDATE: Cloud cover is looking great for much of the state on Wednesday night, so be sure to take advantage of it to see the Perseids Meteor Shower! Under perfect conditions, you could see up to 100 meteors in an hour! Start making your plans now!
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I received KEC83 Baltimore, MD on 162.400 MHz due to tropo conditions during the overnight hours. It was recorded on Wednesday, August 5, 2026. #Radio #WXDX #DXing #Weather
youtu.be/I7JxiM86bCY?is=T2dm…
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Update: This "Super El Niño" will be perhaps the strongest in 500 to 1000 years, and could legitimately be the most extreme global weather or climate event experienced by humanity since the invention of the printing press. Only more extreme situation is a volcanic winter.
New episode of the podcast is up, with our look back at the Sporadic Es data from July for #fmdx. Spoiler alert: it was a decent month of activity. fromthestatic.net/e/dx-centr…
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Working Europe right now on 6m from EM40. Haven’t seen any EU since I left Charleston/FM02! #hamradio #6m #sporadicEs
🚨Can confirm that 870 - WWL is currently off air here in New Orleans.
It is unrelated to our tropical storm, there was planned maintenance scheduled to bring the transmitter offline at 1pm yesterday, the 21st.
Well, it is now 7pm the 22nd and I don't know if they have been off-air this whole time or how long it will last, but might be worth a look this evening if they typically are block DX for you (like for me!)
Here is the article from their website about planned maintenance: audacy.com/wwl/news/local/ww…
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97.9 CKEZ-FM Pictou, Nova Scotia here on July 15th @ 3981 km youtube.com/watch?v=M8dr0cSA… Brief chat about Trenton, NS and into music. PI code flashes up. PS Damn all my locals!
Sporadic Es happening still after 1am Eastern time. Crazy
Today and yesterday have been duds here in Mandeville. But super happy for all the folks getting action!
Maybe tomorrow :)
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DX Central (Loyd Van Horn-W4LVH) retweeted
Here's my DX Log from FMList on July 13, 2026 (UTC). This includes relogs from several states due to tropo conditions. #Radio #FMDX #WXDX #DXing
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If you compare these maps to what we are seeing on Bill Hepburn's tropo forecast, you can absolutely line up the hot spots for conditions this coming week. #fmdx #DXing @w2njl @AllanWeather @DXTVFM
TROPO ALERT
If you are an FM DXer in any of these states/provinces, you absolutely need to keep an eye out starting tomorrow night through next week at Bill Hepburn's tropo forecast. You have a chance for some very atypical Tropo thanks to the coming heat dome:
Canada: southern SK and MB
US: ND, SD, MN, IA, WI, MI, IL, IN, NE, KS, MO, OH
Timing: Each location will see varying conditions between Sat and into Tues/Weds next week. Not all locations will see conditions the entire time, so consult Bill's forecast at the link below.
Bands: Definitely keep an eye on FM broadcast, 2m ham radio and 162 MHz NOAA weather radio/AIS.
Chances: This is a forecast and can very much change but given how strong the signaling is on the Heat Dome in the models, I would say this is pretty likely. Will the tropo extend into FM band? Again, who is to say, but the conditions look to be favorable.
Why Is This Significant: This is an inland tropo event, in locations that typically do not see much Tropo, especially at the strengths forecasted so far. Our big heat dome in the Eastern half of the country produced some really significant inland tropo for folks last week. This could do the same!
dxinfocentre.com/tropo.html
@w2njl @DXTVFM @AllanWeather #fmdx #tropo #FM #radio #DX #DXing
There are always going to be exceptions obviously and those that have missed out on most of the action.
But I do believe 2026 is going to go down as one of the all time great seasons of sporadic Es FM DX in North America.
This reminds me so much of 2003 and those great seasons of years past. #fmdx #fm #sporadicEs #sporadicE #hamradio