E-skip catches

[Jeff Lehmann]

We've actually had both E Skip and Tropo conditions tonight. The ES lasted
from around 5 PM through about 7, then good trop to Connecticut and New York
took over after that.

During the ES, I heard many stations from Florida, Georgia, and Alabama.

Jeff Lehmann
Hanson, MA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org
> [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf
> Of Dale H. Cook
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:06 PM
> To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: E-skip catches
> 
> At 09:48 PM 7/10/2007, Sean Smyth wrote:
> 
> >Any other get any good catches lately? If this was something
> >pretty distant, this was my first-ever "neat" e-skip catch.
> 
> It was probably tropospheric ducting, rather than sporadic E. There
> was an occluded front across southern New England today, and tropo
> most often occurs across such a front. Here in Virginia we had some
> complaints of on-channel interference today, which were probably
> tropo originating from your side of the front.