View my 2025 FM DX Log HERE.
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So here we go with my logs for 2025.
The link below contains a table with both my Es and tropo logs. On thing to notice is that there are quite a few more skip logs compared to 2024 and 2023, which were disasters for skip. You'll notice a lot of Florida logs, which is usual, most years, for Southern New England. There were no traces of the Azores this season. There was no double hop. There was, more or less, just the usual stuff. But even so, I'll take it and I won't complain.
There weren't very many new loggings this year. That's partly due to the fact that when skip arrives from Florida, I've already logged just about anything that I have a chance to hear from down there. It's not easy to hear anything new. The new logs are in bold type. There may be more since I haven't looked too deeply yet. Check back in the winter.
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The Blahs of February. Cold, snow, ice. Who needs it?
For part of October 2024 and all of November up to this point (11/14) WHCN's HD has been off for some reason. It will probably come back again at some point (I'm a realist). The screengrab above was taken using SDRConnect. You can plainly see WBLI Patchogue, NY there on 106.1 instead of the digital […]
A while back I put my website address on my TEF Webserver page. More people are coming here to take a look. This post is for you.
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The first skip of the season noticed on May 7th, 2022 MAY 7, 2022 Es 1530 WJXM 95.1 Marion, MS PI:6ECE 1538 WAFN 92.7 Arab, AL PI:5537, Adult Hits, PS:FUN92-7, Radiotext: The Greatest Hits on Fun Radio 1542 WKUL-FM 92.1 Cullman, AL PI:0000, PS: WKUL-FM, Pty: Undefined 1546 WMPR 90.1 Jackson, MS PI: […]
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This is what I use for an FM antenna. It's a ten element yagi, and probably one of its kind. It started out as an APS-13, made by Antenna Performance Specialists somewhere in the 80s. It had thirteen elements and it was a monster. It stayed on my roof for years until, one winter, an ice storm bent […]