The Official Publication of the Worldwide TV-FM DX SEPTEMBER 2003 The Magazine For TV and FM Dxers GREG BARKER’S INDIANA ANTENNA SYSTEM! E-SKIP WINDS DOWN TROPO PICKS UP! COMPLETE COVERAGE OF FALL TROPO FALL E-SKIP MS,AU DTV AND IBOC AND EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD OF TV AND FM DXING TV AND FM DXING WAS NEVER SO MUCH FUN1 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: TOM BRYANT, GREG CONIGLIO, BRUCE HALL, DAVE JANOWIAK AND MIKE BUGAJ. Editor and publisher: Mike Bugaj Treasurer: Dave Janowiak Webmaster: Tim McVey Editorial Staff: Steven Wiseblood, Victor Frank, George W. Jensen, Jeff Kruszka, Keith McGinnis, Fred Nordquist, Matt Sittel, Doug Smith, Thomas J. Yingling, Jr. and John Zondlo, Our website: www.anarc.org/wtfda ANARC Rep: Jim Thomas, Back Issues: Dave Nieman ELECTRONIC EDITION for SEPTEMBER 2003 _______________________________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS Page Two 2 Mailbox 3 Finally! For those of you online with an email TV News…Doug Smith 4 address, we now offer a quick, convenient Photo News…Jeff Kruszka 10 and secure way to join or renew your Eastern TV DX…Matt Sittel 12 membership in the WTFDA from our page at: Southern FM DX…John Zondlo 17 http://fmdx.usclargo.com/join.html Western TV DX…Victor Frank 23 Northern FM DX…Keith McGinnis 37 Dues are $25 if paid from our Paypal account. FM News…Steven Wiseblood 57 But of course you can always renew by check Satellite News…George Jensen 59 or money order for the usual price of just $24. TV Statistics…Fred Nordquist 60 Either way, it’s still a bargain! ***** The WTFDA TV Trop’s Up STATION GUIDE It’s the most Last time we told you about TA DXing. comprehensive listing of This time we are loaded for bear with page North American after page of DX loggings. Scan these pages; Television stations in you might be able to ID an unid of yours. print! Just $23 US will Due to unexpected computer problems get you one. Mail your last month (hard drive failure), the August check or money order eVUD never got published and all those who today. Make it payable asked for paper VUDs should have them by to Dave Janowiak and mail it to John Ebeling, now. One great thing about paper…it won’t 9209 Vincent Avenue S., Bloomington, MN disappear from your computer’s C drive. And 55431-2157. Get your WTFDA TV Station you can read it in the WC whenever you want. Guide now before it goes out of print! ONLY A FEW LEFT! FM ATLAS #19 . Bruce Elving’s newest listing of FM Stations is just $23.00. Send your check or money order to FM Atlas, PO Box 336, Esko, MN 55733-9413 and keep it next to your car radio or in the glove box of your car! Sportsradio! Jim Thomas tells you who’s on what station and when…basketball, football, baseball, hockey, racing…just about everything! Send your check for $12.00 to WTFDA, PO Box 501, Somersville, CT 06072 (checks payable to Dave Janowiak). 2 P.O. Box 501, Somersville, CT USA 06072 MIKE BUGAJ [email protected] SEPTEMBER 2003 Lehmann(MA), Uli Onken(Germany), Glen Boche(MN) and Michael Lazaro(NY). Well, the memories linger on. The That’s the list; thank you all and thank summer 2003 skip season was good for everyone who used Paypal. almost everybody. A few of the DXers in the One quick note about Paypal. Yes, you British FM TV DX Circle did spectacularly can buy a Station Guide with Paypal. You well with TA skip this season while can join or renew at the $15 student rate WTFDAers out west and the southwest did with Paypal. You can order a copy of Sports great this year compared to the last few Radio with Paypal. BUT…you can’t use the seasons. Some of us here in the northeast webpage for doing that. Email me first and were lucky to log Bermuda in July and a few I’ll show you the way. It’s extremely easy. of us logged some very unexpected double A short email from Garret Wollman hop Es to boot. There was also a report on pointing out that he is not in the radio biz the WTFDA list of an FM DXer in Maryland and he is not an engineer. Well, that’s two who logged CO, UT and ID during a severe strikes on me; one more strike and I’m out thunderstorm. I would never recommend for good. Sorry Garrett. I should have gone anybody doing this. The person was one right to the source and asked YOU! lucky dude. He could have been killed. BRUCE ELVING AND RADIO WORLD MEMBERS AND MORE Here’s a short note from Bruce: “I have an This month we welcome another West article in the current issue of "Radio World" Coast Canadian to our lovable group of DX newspaper, in which I mention the WTFDA and misfits. His name is Steve McDonald and he having attended their convention in Oklahoma lives in Mayne Island, BC. Welcome, Steve! City. The article is about meeting George Marti, It also appears that Steve is just a short Cleburne TX. We went to Cleburne last year swim away from long-time member Mike after the WTFDA ended and stayed with Cherry on Saltspring Island. Small word, friends a few days. I interviewed Marti, 83, who isn’t it? is well known in radio engineering circles. They Talk about small worlds. Our next new printed a picture Carol took of Marti and me. WTFDA member is Bob Rush. Bob lives in Most radio stations get "Radio World," and the Holyoke, MA and over the years I’ve talked piece is on p. 45 of the Aug. 13 issue. Strange, to Bob on the phone a few times but I’ve but it took them over a year to print the article. never met him. I hope we can fix that. Bob does FM DXing in his Honda Accord. Hi LAST BUT NOT LEAST Bob! Also this month we welcome some new We read an item that appeared on the members via Paypal. The first is Ken Skywaves reflector that reported the Alexander in Aurora, ON and the next is reception of audio from WCBD (2) in Curtis Sadowski in Paxton, IL. Curtis has Charleston, SC in Portugal on August 11th been very active on the WTFDA list and by an amateur radio operator in that we’re happy to have you and Ken along with country. Time of the reception was about us for the ride. noon GMT. At least four audio files of this Now we’ll find out who renewed for reception were posted on the internet. The another year. The winners are: John quality of these clips was good. The clips Lentz(WI), F.J. Issard(ON), Glenn Hauser included an ID, real estate spot, a Rob (OK), John Tudenham(MO), Randy Fowler Stormview 2 promo and a Ford spot. Miltier(OR), Ryan St. Arnold(MN), Howard Amazing!! Fountain(GA), John Hourigan(OH), Al That’s it for this month. CU in 30. Tobia(CA), Ken Bedley(ON), Jeff 3 Doug Smith W9WI TV 1385 Old Clarksville Pike Pleasant View, TN 37146- NEWS 8098 [email protected] September 2003 Abbreviations: * License to cover (for changes or new DE Station deleted station) FC Programming (“formatâ€) change AF Applied For (a new station) GA Granted Amendment (to table of aux Auxiliary (backup) transmitter channel allotments) CC Call Change NO Not on the air CL City-of-license change QG Channel change granted NS New station granted permit QR Channel change requested NW New station on the air RA Returned to the air PA Proposed Amendment (to table of ROA Request of applicant channel allotments) SI Off the air (“silent”) PC Power (and/or tower height) change on STA Special Temporary Authorization the air XC Transmitter site change on the air PG Power change granted XG Transmitter site change granted PR Power change requested XR Transmitter site change requested QC Channel (“frequencyâ€) change on the air News: Chico 19 K53FT QR from ch. 53, 20.5kw Delano 11 K11VA QG from K14IK, 3kw, 35-26-17/118-44-22 Eureka 17 KVIQ-DT NW* 30kw/550m, 40-43-39/123-58-17 Alabama: Fresno 47 KGPE PR<2500kw Cullman 52 WCQT-LP CC from W52BJ Monterey 27 K53DT QR from ch. 53, 22.1kw Cullman 65 W52BJ QR from ch. 52 Monterey 43 KMCE-LP QC* from ch. 52,55.1kw, dismissed ROA 36-45-22/121-30-06 Demopolis 41 WIIQ PR<324m, Palm Springs 17 KODG-LP CC from K17EO 32-21-45/87-52-04 Red Bluff 27 KUCO-LP CC from K27HC Louisville 44 WGIQ-DT PG>262m Redding 40 K40HE QG from K54ED,31.6kw Tuskegee 24 WBMM-DT AF 100kw/325m, DA Redding 68 new-lp AF dismissed ROA Sacramento 6 KVIE PC*<550m, Alaska: 38-16-18/121-30-22 Anchorage 6 KYES-DT QR from ch. 22 Sacramento 15 KMUM-LP XR 38-42-26/121-28-37 Anchorage 33 KDMD PR>66kw/300m, S. Bernardino 30 KPXN PR 2630kw/894m, 61-20-11/149-30-48, DA 34-12-46/118-03-42 Anchorage 54 K54IT NS 15kw, San Diego 20 KBNT-LP QR from ch.