Great Es opening 2-25!

[Robert Grant]

Hope not many of you missed the Es I was seeing here in MI on 2-25 (started shortly before 1900 EST and finally died at about 2140).

Of course, ANY Es in February is noteworthy (this is only the second February Es I have ever seen), but I had a lot of dumb luck in this opening- if it usually seems that Es fades out at the wrong time, murphy's law was being broken Monday evening. Call letters were suddenly popping up eveywhere. I logged 13 IDed stations, including three Texans on channel 4 that are new to the Temperance log (KWAB, KBTV and KGBT). KARK was briefly seen by Es (yes, this is the station I really wanted to get by Es before transition day, as I had logged it by trop earlier, and this is my first station seen by both Es and Tr from one receive site).

I thought I was having trouble nulling out WJBK because Fox was so strong, only to discover I was accidently trying to null out a local-quality signal from XHRIO all along!.


Hope this is a sign of things to come this summer!

Rob Grant, N8NU (EN81fs)

[Danny]

Several of us had Es on the night of the 25th. It looks like you did well. Es was first noticed here at about 1800 CT, but I didn't have time to work with it until 1900. WJBK-2 and WDIV-4 were strong here at 1900.

[KW4RZ]

Es started up here at the same time Robert reports, and was to the north with TV2 WBAY Green Bay, WI ID'ed and quickly hit FM with 89.3 and 101.7 Thunder Bay, ON and unid's on 93.9 that were likely WTBX Hibbing, MN and KIAI Mason city, IA based on format. Then died back. the whole time strong tropo to the Texas coast was making ID's difficult. Strong Es returned again just before 8pm central and while monitoring 93.9 with KMXR Corpus Christi, TX in on tropo from 689 miles KSWN McCook, NE suddenly came up and the same time a TV6 with CBS and + offset which could have been KREZ Colorado, KBSD Kansas or possibly but unlikely KOTV Oklahoma. The Es continued to move southwest with several Pueblo, Colorado ID's on FM then Texas panhandle and finally ending up in New Mexico. The second session lasted 50 minutes or so but was rather solid as if it were summertime.