Crazy E-Skip This Afternoon

Donald F. Niles · Post by **Donald F. Niles** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:55 pm

There was an E-Skip Opening this afternoon in the Clarksburg Area..Most of it from Dallas...At one point 97.9 The Beat from Dallas Totally Wiping Out WKKW.

Uncle Shishkabob · Post by **Uncle Shishkabob** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:57 pm

It was crazy over in Wheeling(dare I mention the city) My XM is set at 88.3, when I turned it off some Mexican station came screaming through just like a local. I also clicked over to 106.3 the River and it was getting knocked out of the box also. Since I was on the way to a sales call I did not have time to dial around.

Dave Allen · Post by **Dave Allen** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:17 am

As far as the WKKW thing, are we sure this wasn't Big John, drunk,returning to his beatbox, breakdancing days?

Tom Taggart · Post by **Tom Taggart** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 7:37 am

KUT Austin and WRR 101.1 Dallas

Waveguide · Post by **Waveguide** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:12 pm

For us Ham-ies, It was a nice 6 meter opening last nite

Jay Nunley · Post by **Jay Nunley** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:26 pm

Waveguide wrote: It was a nice 6 meter opening last nite

I would be intimidated by that.

Zak Tyler · Post by **Zak Tyler** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 2:13 pm

aw, come on jay, we'll strap an extention ladder to your ass before you go in....

Waveguide · Post by **Waveguide** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:39 pm

Jay Nunley said:
I would be intimidated by that

Remember, Jay, a 747 looks small when flying into the Grand Canyon

Zak Tyler · Post by **Zak Tyler** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 6:06 pm

like throwing a hot dog down a hallway....

like feeding a whale a tick tac....

ok, i'm done.... for now

SPIKE NESMITH! · Post by **SPIKE NESMITH!** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:51 am

waving a stick around in a warm room?

mfreier · Post by **mfreier** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 3:27 pm

Similar activity on Friday afternoon in NCWV. KLXK 93.5 Breckenridge, TX (west of Fort Worth) came in completely over WBTQ.

Zak Tyler · Post by **Zak Tyler** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:42 am

SPIKE NESMITH! wrote:waving a stick around in a warm room?

cgarison · Post by **cgarison** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:25 pm

Could Loudin's group be behind this????

[/tin foil beanie]

Dave Loudin · Post by **Dave Loudin** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:27 pm

The Big Ear · Post by **The Big Ear** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:48 am

Hey - this is probably NOT the same thing... but maybe close... I was rolling through Huntington the other day... actually a sunny day recently, I want to say last Saturday (the day Marshall lost to New Hampshire... ugh) ...

Anyhow, I picked up a K-Love station in the 94's... I want to say it was 94.1... I didn't get the call letters. Anyone have any idea what the heck that was about?

It caught me off guard a bit. Strong signal. I listened for a full song, and it sounded fine. Then flipped... wondering if a new station all of a sudden opened... or I had some bounced signal coming in?

Cameron · Post by **Cameron** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 7:18 am

The Big Ear wrote:Hey - this is probably NOT the same thing... but maybe close... I was rolling through Huntington the other day... actually a sunny day recently, I want to say last Saturday (the day Marshall lost to New Hampshire... ugh) ...

Anyhow, I picked up a K-Love station in the 94's... I want to say it was 94.1... I didn't get the call letters. Anyone have any idea what the heck that was about?

It caught me off guard a bit. Strong signal. I listened for a full song, and it sounded fine. Then flipped... wondering if a new station all of a sudden opened... or I had some bounced signal coming in?

W284BL - Huntington - *AHEM* 10 Watts.
(It's funny that they refer to their own satellator in a recent amendment as W284 BS. Calling Doctor Freud.)

lastone · Post by **lastone** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:02 am

A couple of long, long ago stories.....

In the spring of 1979 my 50 KW Coal Country suddenly went away (as reported by the listeners) and was replaced by WPKE, Pikeville. I thought I went off oir. Checking with a radio, I found PKE covered the entire FM band with only a few nulls. Thinking I had the problem, I shut down XCC. The situation stayed the same. I called the engineer at PKE who then flipped his radio dial while I was listening and heard the normal stations. We were both baffeled.

I had just turned XCC back on when a severe thunderstorm warning came in. The storm was 30 miles west of Pikeville and moving east. PKE covered the band in Williamson for nearly 20 minutes. As soon as the storm started the band cleared and all was normal. Never heard of such a thing again.

One more.

In 1964 after watching "Chiller" on 13, I switched over to CH 3. There was a movie on interesting enough for this then 14 year old to watch. The first thing I noticed was commercials for stores I never heard of. Then in about a half hour the station ID said Houston , Texas. Even then I knew this was skip so I watched to see how long it would last. I watched the entire movie and their sign off (about another 60 minutes) all the way to the xmtr dump! The signal only got bad three times and then only for a few seconds. Again I have not heard of this long of a video skip since!

SPIKE NESMITH! · Post by **SPIKE NESMITH!** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:54 am

Picture it: Glasgow, Scotland, Christmas eve 2006. I was picking up all sorts of Irish radio stations in the car at around 10 o'clock at night. It was bitterly cold, but clear. They were coming in strong enough to trip the RDS. And this was in the middle of downtown Glasgow inside blocks of tall buildings where even the locals sometimes have reception issues!

Like a good little geek, I took pictures.

Chris Lawrence · Post by **Chris Lawrence** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:22 am

So this one day, I was listening to my Merle Haggard tapes on the 8-track and swilling moonshine when voices started popping into my head that told me I had the capacity to figure out the Theory of Relativity....

uh--never mind.

Zak Tyler · Post by **Zak Tyler** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:32 am

Chris Lawrence wrote:So this one day, I was listening to my Merle Haggard tapes on the 8-track and swilling moonshine when voices started popping into my head that told me I had the capacity to figure out the Theory of Relativity....

uh--never mind.

so you went and woke your sister up didn't ya?