POLL: The biggest skip pest of all time

[GotNEDX]

What's your biggest Es pest of all time?

[w9wi]

XEFB-2 Monterrey, NL.

Though KENW does have to be a close second.

[Electrode]

KBEJ 2 San Antonio, TX

At least 70% of the time I see TV Es, it's them.

[CharlyQC]

WJXT-4 Jacksonville FL!

[chris]

I guess mine would be KENW. I don't really do TV that much so I don't get them enough to be a "pest".

:p

[Jeff-MA]

Since channel 3 is the only channel 2-6 without a local, WEDU is easily the biggest pest to me.

[KC0LTV]

Without a doubt, KPRC from Houston.

[Danny]

WMAR-2 Baltimore. KNAZ-2 Flagstaff would be number 2.

Danny
Shreveport, LA

[Dave-OR]

Here in Redmond OR this year it's been KSNC-2 and KLBY-4, though KACV-2 gets an honorable mention for its semi-regular noontime appearance.

Last year the big pest was CKND2-2, though northern openings have been few and far between this Summer! (Over 75% of my TV openings last year were to SD/ND/SK/MB).

Dave

[Fritze_Prentice_Jr]

my worst pest is KETS DT 5 (yes, its a low-band DTV). Channel 5 used to be interesting but its useless now since AETN was heck-bent on 1) changing a perfectly good UHF DTV assingment--ch 47 and 2) See #1 above.

Also KETS -2 is a pest but its a local to me (grade b in fact).

Honorable mentions are KARK-4, KEMV-6, and WABG-6

[pbaskind]

WPBT/Miami. I hear FL on 6m ALL THE TIME during the Summer, and when it happens, I can count on seeing PBS rolling up on channel 2.

I also get 2 from Monterrey a goodly amount, too.

Now, in the old days in Pascagoula, it was doubtless KNOP-2 and KWGN-2. I could darn-near plan TV viewing from Denver.

Peter, Memphis

[cckadlec]

Here in West Michigan, probably about half of my Es in the summer comes from Florida... WESH is almost always the "unknown" NBC affiliate that flirts with me for hours at a time, while WBRZ 2 Baton Rouge is my other big one that will often hang on for hours at a time as Es to the point I can often watch the 10 o'clock news on the channel. It keeps almost a tropo pattern... yet somehow manages to be Es still. Channel 3 is local but almost 100% of the time my Es is Pensacola's ghost image :shocked: over top of it with their sync bar.

-Chris Kadlec
Fremont MI

[Frank Merrill]

Nowadays the biggest pest is XEPM-2, but that's with the USA analogs gone.

Useta' be WPBT-2

[Danny]

Frank, the most common station here via Es in 2011 is XEWO-2 Guadalajara, with XHP-3 Puebla second. Notice I didn't call them pests; they will be missed when the Mexico analogs go off.

[cd637299]

WPBT wouldn't have been a "DX pest," due to it being a local of mine! Pre-transition, I'd say maybe WSIL-3 or WFSB-3. Now it's the 2 Global Bancroft & XHRIO!

cd

[spunker88]

I haven't really gotten into any TV dxing, but I wonder how digital VHF-L would be here since I still get a lot of analog Canadians with tropo.

2 is CIII (Global) translator in Bancroft
3 is CBOT (CBC) translator in Pembroke
4 is CBOT (CBC) Ottawa
5 is CHRO (A) Pembroke
6 is CJOH (CTV) translator in Deseronto / CIII (Global) translator in Ottawa

After August many of these will be going digital though.