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And Lots of Dx! The Official Publication of the Worldwide TV-FM DX Association SEPTEMBER 2007 The Magazine for TV and FM DXers PACK UP THE CAR WITH ANTENNAS AND RADIOS, KISS THE WIFE AND KIDS GOOD-BYE, LOAD UP THE CAR WITH YOUR BUDDIES AND DRIVE 900 MILES TO A CABIN IN A PLACE SO REMOTE IT’S A 100 MI ROUND TRIP TO THE DAIRY QUEEN AND BACK. PEACE, QUIET AND DX!! Keosauqua, Iowa, July 2007 17 CONVENTION 2007 IS HISTORY! MONTHS MAJOR TROPO HITS THE MIDWEST REMAINING UNTIL ANALOG TV SHUTOFF AM AND FM IBOC GET THE OFFICIAL TH START ON SEPTEMBER 14 . AND LOTS OF DX! TV and FM DXing was never so much fun! THE WORLDWIDE TV-FM DX ASSOCIATION Serving the UHF-VHF Enthusiast THE VHF-UHF DIGEST IS THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE WORLDWIDE TV-FM DX ASSOCIATION DEDICATED TO THE OBSERVATION AND STUDY OF THE PROPAGATION OF LONG DISTANCE TELEVISION AND FM BROADCASTING SIGNALS AT VHF AND UHF. WTFDA IS GOVERNED BY A BOARD OF DIRECTORS: DOUG SMITH, GREG CONIGLIO, BRUCE HALL, KEITH McGINNIS AND MIKE BUGAJ. Editor and publisher: Mike Bugaj Treasurer: Keith McGinnis wtfda.org Webmaster: Tim McVey wtfda.info Site Administrator: Chris Cervantez Editorial Staff: Dave Williams, Jeff Kruszka, Keith McGinnis, Fred Nordquist, Nick Langan, Doug Smith, Chris Kadlec, Peter Baskind and John Zondlo, Our website: www.wtfda.org; Our forums: www.wtfda.info SEPTEMBER 2007 _______________________________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS Page Two 2 Mailbox 3 TV News…Doug Smith 4 Finally! For those of you online with an email FM News 12 address, we now offer a quick, convenient and Northern FM DX…Keith McGinnis 20 secure way to join or renew your membership Southern FM DX…John Zondlo 42 in the WTFDA from our page at: Western TV DX…Dave Williams 46 http://fmdx.usclargo.com/join.html Eastern TV DX…Nick Langan 51 Photo News…Jeff Kruszka 55 Dues are $25 if paid to our Paypal account. But 6 meters…Peter Baskind 56 of course you can always renew by check or The Holley NY DX Get-Together 59 money order for the usual price of just $24. Either way, it’s still a bargain! There’s lots and lots of DX reported in this issue, so sit eVUD members please send $10 for back and enjoy yourself reading this month’s VUD. The membership or renewal to [email protected]. renewal form will return next month, DX willing. FIND US FAST! WTFDA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mike Bugaj, use the WTFDA Mailing address listed below [email protected] Doug Smith, 1385 Old Clarksville Pike, Pleasant View, TN 37146-8098 [email protected] Greg Coniglio, 11825 Genesee St., Alden, NY 14004 [email protected] Bruce Hall, 5 Stirton Ave., Brantford, ON N3T 1E2 [email protected] Keith McGinnis, 6 Ritter Road, Hingham, MA 02043 [email protected] ******************************************************************************************************* THE MAILBOX and all general club correspondence: Mike Bugaj at WTFDA, PO Box 501, Somersville, CT 06072 [email protected] TV NEWS Doug Smith, 1389 Old Clarksville Pike, Pleasant View, TN 37146-8098 [email protected] FM NEWS Watch This Space PHOTO NEWS Jeff Kruszka, 12516 Short Springs Dr., Pearland, TX 77584 [email protected] EASTERN TV DX Nick Langan, 1040 Riverview Dr., Florence, NJ 08516 [email protected] WESTERN TV DX Dave Williams, 3525 SW Timber Ave., Redmond, OR 97756 [email protected] SOUTHERN FM John Zondlo, 4009 Driftwood Cir., Yukon, OK 73099 [email protected] NORTHERN FM Keith McGinnis, 6 Ritter Rd., Hingham, MA 02043 [email protected] TV and FM STATISTICS Fred Nordquist, 147 Travis Hill Road, Moncks Corner, SC [email protected] 6 METER/2 METER Peter Baskind, 3225 Forest Hill-Irene Rd, Germantown, TN 38138 [email protected] WEBSITE Tim McVey Webmaster http://www.wtfda.org [email protected] 2 P.O. Box 501, Somersville, CT USA 06072 MIKE BUGAJ [email protected] TROPO SEASON! since 100000watts.com became a pay site, you can get an up-to-date listing of US and I think it’s time to pull the plug on the 2007 Canadian FM stations at the same site. It’s not E-skip season. There were a few openings in as complete as 100000watts.com, but it’s early August. Here in New England we had Doug’s site and it’s free to use. skip to Minnesota, the Dakotas and Iowa on the morning of the 12th and that seemed to be the end of it here. Tropo seems to have taken over especially in the upper Midwest, where a super tropo event took place from the 13th through the 15th and DXers like Mike Glass, Greg Barker, Steve Rich, Jacob Norlund, Bob Timmerman, Jim Renfrew and Rob Ross added new stations to their logs. It was during this tropo event that Greg BERMUDA AND DX logged DTV station #301, which is quite an achievement and makes him Top Dog in the Rick Shafan and his lovely wife spent DTV Dxing world with Jeff Kadet now in some time in Bermuda this summer and of second place. course Rick brought a radio. He checks in with this: MEMBERS AND MORE “Latest scan, from Paget, 2 miles to Hamilton. 89.1 ZBM-FM (pronounced Zed-B-M) FM 89 We’d like to welcome two more DXers into EZL/AC the WTFDA this month. First we say hello to 94.9 ZFB-FM Power 95 UC Russell Lay. Russell signs up for the eVUD. 98.1 "KJAZ" Smooth Jazz. Actual calls We also welcome Brandon Jordan into the unknown club. Brandon lives in Memphis and has a nice 100.1 Open Carrier. Could be a baby monitor website devoted to AM and SW DXing. but the signal is very strong here. Will see if it Welcome to both of you! Hope you enjoy it shows up elsewhere. here! Since both of you have internet access, 102.7 "Magic 102.7" new station on air March take advantage of all we have to offer there. 2007. RDS MAGIC. Actual calls unknown. Renewals were received from the period of 105.1 "Bermuda Spirit" //ZFB-AM 1230. Not 7/16 through 8/12 from Curtis Sadowski (IL), listed anywhere on any sites. William McGuire (MD), Fred MacCormack Religious programming. Actual calls unknown. (MN), Steve French (MN), Robert Williams 106.1 VSB-FM "Mix 106" (ID), Guy Falsetti (NY), James Paige (MI), 107.5 "WHT" Hott-FM R&B RDS HOTT 107.5. John Zondlo (OK), Roy Barstow (MA), Rick Actual calls unknown. Lucas (NY), Dennis Smith (CA), Rich A lot of images at this location. If there is Wertman (NY), Steve Naetzker (AZ), Mike ever to be an FM DXpedition here, it should be Hawkins (CA), Lee Freshwater (FL), James at one end of the island or the other.” Snow (GA), John Callarman (TX), John Tudenham (MO), Bob Timmerman (IA), Jeff THE COVER Kruszka (TX), Howard Fountain (GA), John Hourigan (OH), Bob Smolarek (NJ), Glen This month’s cover is from Bill Nollman. Boche (MN) and Calvin Glover (MD). And Bill, Steve Solomon and a friend decided to once again, thanks for your support of WTFDA! get away from the IBOC and the transmitters in One last word on the WTFDA TV Station the backyard and do some serious DXing. Guide. The guide is no longer available and They drove to Iowa and for five days had fun because of the tepid response to that latest listening to lots of 350mi troposcatter. There guide, we probably won’t offer another one. If were no real tropo openings but there was we decide to publish another one, it will be some E skip back to the east coast. I think they after transition. I don’t think we broke even on heard around 350 stations during those five the last one. Your best bet for looking up days, which isn’t bad, plus they had almost station info right now is at Doug Smith’s site, constant IBOC from up to 200 miles away! –m otherwise known as http://www.w9wi.com. And 3 Douglas E. Smith TV 1389 Old Clarksville Pike Pleasant View, TN 37146-8098 News [email protected] http://www.w9wi.com September 2007 Abbreviations: AF Applied For (a new station) NW New station on the air Aux Auxiliary (backup) transmitter PA Proposed Amendment CC Callsign change PC Power (and/or tower height) change on the air CL City-of-license change PG Power change granted DC Converted to DTV PR Power change requested DCC Digital Companion Channel RA Returns to the air NS DCC Granted flash-cut to DTV QC Channel (frequency) change on the air DE License/permit deleted QG Channel change granted DR Requests flash-cut to DTV QR Channel change requested FC Programming (format) change RE Reinstated (previously-dismissed app.) FTP Failure to Prosecute ROA Request of Applicant GA Granted amendment (to table of channel SI Off the air (silent) allotments) LC License to Cover STA Special Temporary Authority MX Mutually Exclusive XC Transmitter site changed NDA Non-directional antenna XG Transmitter site change granted NS Permit granted for new station XR Transmitter site change requested News: (full-power analog stations in bold face; LPTV and translators in 87-15-56; CL from regular type; full-power digital stations in bold italics; low-power Tuscumbia dismissed digital stations in regular italics) Ozark 33 WDFX-DT NW 15kw/ 151m Ozark 34 WDFX-TV PC 1120kw/ 151m Priceville 51 WYAM-LP PC<19.6kw Canada: Alberta: Alaska: Calgary 44 CHCA-TV-1 QG; station's Anchorage 6 KOAN-LP CC from KZND-LP originally-requested Girdwood 13 KIMO-1 NS 55w, channel was 60-57-12/ assigned to 149-06-28 someone else.
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