How To FM DX With Your Radio | Hear Stations 1,000+ Miles Away!

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What would you say if you could tune your FM radio and receive a station that is over 1,300 Miles away?
Normally called FM DXing, or "He/She is a FM DXer" gives a sense of adventure to this aspect of radio listening.
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The search for FM distant stations(DX) has sparked more excitement here at Todderbert Headquarters.
The patrons at Patreon have coined the term Project FM DXeti for this endeavor.
Multiple receivers and recorders will be setup to catch these sporadic e-skip FM Broadcasting stations from all over the US. A small measure of success can be found within this video, along with an education of how these FM signals are able to travel such a great distance.
My Sangean PR-D15 has been running the longest and has had the opportunity to find the most stations so far to date. You can use any small digital receiver with a DSP to help keep you locked into that particular frequency. An inexpensive recorder such as the Q3 makes a great companion on your quest for glory.
Good luck on your FM DX station hunting! Share your finds here in the comment section.
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@jeffking4176 4 года назад

As a teenager I belonged to a “DX” club for about 3 months. Each member had different things they would DX. One guy was into DXing T.V. Signals. And a couple were into DXing FM. Others, AM, SW...... On guy CW..... So I’ve heard of this Phenomenon before, and have known people that do this. And , like you, multiple radios and recorders. But all they had to record on were cassette recorders. The guy who DXed TV had a heck of a setup, including one of those old bulky ( ca: 1977) video recorders that TV stations used for their Mobile Units. You got some real catches. 2 of them in Florida❗️ Cool. 📻🙂

@kevmichael2064 2 года назад

I was too....My First DXing was with TV...in California...2 was Chicago....3 was Great Falls MT...4 was Denver....5 was San Francisco....6 was Mexico.....that was only the few on each channel

@calebs.8778 Год назад

Which DX do you prefer?

@hawkinscsa 9 месяцев назад

Excellent video! Great idea about setting up the recorders! I will have to try that! Back in the 70's I received WCCO-FM in stereo from Minneapolis - St. Paul Minnesota for a good amount of time. This was amazing considering, at the time, I lived in Mebane, North Carolina! 950 miles away. As a young Dx'er back then I was very excited!

@salemblackcat-thehealthcat1 11 месяцев назад

Back in 1980 there was a heat wave going all over the country. I live in PA and at the time Oklahoma and Texas FM stations were coming in on my stereo receiver. I did call a DJ in Dallas and the office staff did not play the show over the phone while on hold. So I told the receptionist why I was calling and I knew the DJ would turn his monitor down before talking to me. After the receptionist told him why I was calling, he took me off hold and asked me what he was playing. Well, I could hear 10cc and "The Things We Do For Love" on my stereo and told him that was what he was playing. He got all excited about that. In the same heatwave we received a TV station from Quebec, Canada.

@thanhviennaodo Год назад

Your opening makes me remember about my FM experience when I was childhood. One day in 2014, with my dad phone using headphones as antenna to receive FM signals, I had found an China station at 90.6 MHz. It's signal only about 2 minutes, then there's no anything. Recently, I'm still use a phone to receive FM signals. Far stations is more stable. At 12 February, I had received a China station at 101.3 MHz, but the signal is not good. At 5 April, I founded two new stations at 96.3 (very good signal) and 101.9 MHz (medium signal). My location is Hanoi, Vietnam.

@todderbert Год назад

It is awesome how these FM signals can skip great distances.

@AllLifethingschannelyt 3 года назад

Sometimes I can hear the over 250 miles away on fm Dx on sangean that black one is great

@EzeeLinux 5 лет назад

I worked in radio for many years... We refereed to FM DX as "ducting" and it wasn't always cool. It sometimes meant that our local FM might be heard a thousands miles away but not in town ... People would call up and complain that they couldn't hear our stations! :)

@Jaidenism0722 2 года назад

Yeah, Tropospheric Ducting?

@hillbilly4christ638 4 года назад

Thanks for getting me interested in radios again. So much fun for so little money.

@b.2221 6 лет назад

Wow that was top notch, and just reeks of hard work to put this video together. I am amazed how you break it all down so as we can all understand, and that is not an easy task. Thank you very much for sharing this great video Sir 👍 Tam.

@todderbert 6 лет назад

Thank you Tam. Glad to convey understanding of a fun radio activity.

@Buglet720 6 лет назад

There's also a shorter E-skip season surrounding the Winter solstice.

@todderbert 6 лет назад

Hopefully will catch something then too!

@CarlosAguila 3 года назад

Alright, dude, this video alone merits a like and a subscription. Well done my friend.

@maikerumine 2 года назад

What a great vid, man!!! This got me all excited to do some FM DX!!! Thank you!

@fhqwgads2 6 лет назад

Neat! I've been into MW DXing since I was a kid (mostly flamethrowers - if that even counts) but I've never tried FM broadcast band DXing. Thanks for taking the time to put this video together and sparking interest in a new radio hobby. I think tomorrow I'll check Radio Locator and try monitoring a few open freqs on my PL-310 and see what skips in during the heat wave.

@todderbert 6 лет назад

Good luck, yesterday was a good day.

@barranness 5 лет назад

You would make an awsome high school electronics teacher. The way you explain it in such an easy way. Makes radio sky wave learning fun.

@todderbert 5 лет назад

Thank you barranness.

@BobbytheBongoPlaya 4 года назад

Love, love, LOVE the video man! I'm kinda a geek when it comes to this stuff lol I'll find myself at my cabin on Thanksgiving weekend tuning in to different AM stations at night to see what I can hear lol I know, different subject, easier to do. Just fun to hear what you can. I wanna try this so bad!! 😀

@RGC198 5 лет назад

This is an excellent and informative video. Thanks for sharing. Well done with all those FM DX catches. I use a Tecsun PL-390 and a Digitech AR-1745 for portable FM Dx'ing and a Sony XDR S3HD for home FM DX'ing. I have been into FM Dx'ing since 1974, when FM radio was introduced to Australia. I have also done TV DX'ing, back in the analogue TV days since 1971 until analogue closed here in 2013. I have a RU-vid channel with many of my TV and radio DX catches included. My furthest FM DX catch has been Irian Jaya (Papua) last year from here in Melbourne Australia. I have also received Radio Suara Timor in Kupang Indonesia from Melbourne back in 2009. The best time to receive FM DX is during the summer.

@todderbert 5 лет назад

Awesome. FM DXing is an art form.

@RGC198 5 лет назад

Definitely at art form, without a doubt. I lived through most of the analogue TV DX era and that felt like discovering a brand new galaxy. FM DX can a bit more challenging, with FM using Band 2, as compared to analogue TV using Band 1, along with Bands 3, 4 and 5. Here is a sample of one of my furthest FM DX catches from here in Melbourne Australia. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-E4_1J-rYaLc.html

@Kitsaplorax 5 лет назад

Excellent! I listened to Wolfman Jack on a Mexican AM station when I was a kid in Kansas. I'm putting up an FM setup to detect meteorites this spring, and your video is giving me ideas.

@robertklinger2000 6 лет назад

Great video! I have dabbled in FM DXing over the years. Yes it is neat when you hear a long range station! My best from PA is a CBC station from Winnapeg I heard a couple years ago! I have an MP3 of it.

@todderbert 5 лет назад

Would love to hear that recording some day.

@christopherdunne7848 4 года назад

98.3, I assume? They used to run a massive 360 kW of power, IIRC. Not sure how much they run today.

@Jaidenism0722 2 года назад

@@christopherdunne7848 WLW Would Be Laughing At That Power Back When They Were A Superstation.

@gunner6639 6 лет назад

Who the hell even needs a radio anymore? I just sit in the backyard and crank up Todderbert Radio... oh wait.. Riiiight.. ;)

@todderbert 6 лет назад

Awesome.

@jeffking4176 4 года назад

GUNNER 66 😁

@mojavedesertsonorandesert9531 3 года назад

Gunner you had me going...what? Then I read the end of the sentence!😂....📻🍻

@bioskahabinivous9906 3 года назад

This is what i thought Who the hell even needs a radio anymore? *piggyback neighbors wifi and listen to ad-free webradios*

@shanethedj 4 года назад

One night in 1991, I was staying a few days in Bonavista Bay in Newfoundland and about 9pm in mid august of that year. I was getting stations from Providence, Boston, and down the easter seaboard. I also picked up stations from Europe. Made a recording of it but I lost that tape years ago. I wish I had it now.

@garyblackerby3226 5 лет назад

You know, I remember hearing this phenomenon over the years but I really didn’t appreciate what was happening until now. I would be tuning across the band and getting hits on frequencies that customarily weren’t ones I tuned to. They would soon fade out on me like your recordings indicated and then would be gone. This I so cool!

@yardleybottles6025 5 лет назад

Informative! Thanks.

@ctscantechnologist 6 лет назад

Im impressed that you got some dx which such high frequencies. I thought skip happened on the 6m band and lower (aside from ducting).

@todderbert 6 лет назад

The ionsphere has to be super charged so that E layer is strong during the day. The atmosphere settles to much in evening for those long distance stations to make their "hops". Sporadic is the name of the game for sure. Lots of fading in and out, it is rare that one lasts minutes.

@AMFMDX1980 4 года назад

As a 40 year broadcast radio vet, send an email to the Program Director of these stations. Some (like me!) would be thrilled to know you had picked the station up from so far away; other guys won't care. But, for radio guys like me, I'd LOVE to know if someone picked up the station 1000 miles away. Awesome! Nicely done. Of course, my user name online most everywhere is 'AMFMDX' for a reason. ;-)

@todderbert 4 года назад

Cool, last evening was hopping with eskips, I was able to ID CJOC The Juice, Alberta CA, 1275 miles away from my QTH. KZRR was another out of New Mexico, 1,100 miles away. Oh wait you would know that since I posted this on the Radio Waves Discord server ;) For those who want to join, link is in the video description.

@marcosmza1962 6 лет назад

Nice radial rally Pete. Congrats and thanks for sharing!

@todderbert 6 лет назад

Still rollin' :) thanks Macros

@tomjones239 4 года назад

In the Spring I usually notice FM skip when my local station starts fading and another station bleeds through. My Eton Elite Traveler has RDS so it will be interesting the next time it happens.

@dannyshortwave 6 лет назад

That was a great video on your FM Dxing radio setup and catches. I like the use of Tecsun Q3 radios to record from your Eton and Sangean radios. Thank you.

@todderbert 6 лет назад

Your Welcome Danny, They are great recorders for the cost.

@bobbell4320 4 года назад

todderbert FABULOUS....But how do I download the map that you showed in your great video???? Thanks

@SizeSuper 3 года назад

I was listening to WDET 101.9 from Detroit one time, a frequent listener about 80 km in Chatham Ontario. Suddenly the feed was from a country station in north Michigan maybe 600 km away and it was clear. The phenomenon lasted less than an hour. It was early morning about 8 or 9 am the country station broadcast at the same frequency but there was no way it should have been able to push the Detroit station out of the way, yet it did

@Demokritos31 6 лет назад

Excellent carches and their perfect presentation Todderbert 👍 And yeah, get the red one! 😜 , 73

@todderbert 6 лет назад

USA, All The Way! :)

@oliverleonard7730 Год назад

A few weeks ago I got the Flemish Station VRT Radio 2 on 98.6fm in South East England completely clear and stable signal for a good hour.

@Eccadairius 4 года назад

I heard KTFW 92.1 "Hank FM" which plays Classic Country and the station is 78 miles from location and uses 25,000 watts of power! Pretty good signal.

@anthonycosta1776 11 месяцев назад

78 miles is troposphere ducting not E

@carljohnson834 10 месяцев назад

@@anthonycosta1776 how many miles does it have to be to be considered e skip?

@NWGADX 6 лет назад

Must have right radio and right audio recorder and I logged 8 eskips 4 from Midwest USA and 4 from North East USA.

@chloecastleton6113 4 года назад

For use out here on the west coast, I have never experienced what most would call ë-skip" on the east coast, but I have heard distant radio stations come in from bouncing off airplanes flying over the area. I have been into FM DXing since I was a teen in the 80s. I was so involved with DXing, that I Dxed TV on a regular basis. Back then, most radios ( especially boom boxes ) sucked at tuning in stations unless they were local. When commercial air planes flew over our area, I knew I was going to get something far away, for a brief period.

@RobertRadio757 5 лет назад

I have FM DX since 1993 I was only 8 Ever since then I’ve been a full fledge far away station fanatic I love radio for ever since that year I am in Austin Texas

@humbertosanchezb Год назад

Hello! I discovered the DX recepcion of FM stations and TV channels in the 80’s when I was young. I have some TV recordings in Beta tapes. Also, almost like 100 audio cassettes with audio from FM stations. I’m in Mérida, México, in Yucatan Peninsula. Last time that I listened DX FM stations was last year, in my car, when I was in the middle of the jungle. Suddenly starts to listening some station. I have some video on my cell phone, driving my car and listening this stations. As you said, all depends about the atmospheric conditions. As I wrote before, I’m in Yucatan Peninsula, and the FM stations that I can listen when this phenomenon occurs, are from the Gulf Coast in the South of USA. From all states, Texas to Florida. I enjoy a lot the DX listening. I’m returning to listening the Shortwave. I have bougth recently a Radioshack SW radio. A cheap model to start. Thank you!

@kevmichael2064 4 месяца назад

I dxed Australia on 87.7mhz .via E Skip with Classical Radio doing the summer....i am waiting for E Skip.... from Japan in the 76-90mhz....in California i got 102.5 Sunny Country from Santa Maria from San Pedro..300 miles away.. ...in the 1990s.....i got Love 100.3 Las Vegas Nevada in Daggett California when going to Big Bear......350 Miles.... In that area...it is a DX hotspot for TV and FM ... same with Elsnore California... Dessert environment..in the summer it was fantastic 😊

@CARLiCON Год назад

Great vid! Hearing some confusion in the questions...there's no magic radio or antenna, he's using the PR-D15 w/ stock telescopic. The keys are, 1) find a frequency in your area that has nothing on it (the hardest part). He's using 92 MHz, so the DX stations he's catching are 92 MHz. 2) He's using a digitally tuned radio (PR-D15) so he can lock on a frequency as opposed to an analog/slide rule tuning which could be between frequencies or drift off frequency. The Q3 is just for recording, so he doesn't have to listen (PR-D15) 24-7, as some of these skips are very short in duration (seconds). These are great tips & also work for AM & SW.

@mickeybrumfield764 6 лет назад

I didn't know that FM signals could behave in such a creepy way. This might be a topic for you to be a featured guest on the "Coast to Coast " radio show.

@timothyparryjropen 5 лет назад

When Art Bell was alive, and the host(and on his other shows, he talked about stuff like this) George Noory just doesn't seem into it. If anyone might now, it might be Ian Punnett, when he guest hosts. After all, Art's call here in the states was W6OBB and 41FAB in the Philippines.

@totallyfrozen 4 года назад

Timothy Parry Jr Tragic. I used to listen to C2C when Art hosted it. When he stepped down and Noory took the reins, I stopped listening. It was because of Art Bell that I learned about Sangean and C. Crane radios.

@ArndroidInc 6 лет назад

Very interesting.

@chloecastleton6113 4 года назад

That is so cool Todd, I do wish the west coast had these Tropo / e-skips, but unfortunately, we do not.

@ChrissyFreitas 6 лет назад

Very interesting experiment, Todderbert! Didn't think you could DX FM stations from that far away, but you have some amazing catches. I may have to give it a try during a weekend!

@todderbert 6 лет назад

Solar activity has to be very high. The months of June and July tend to be the best. I was told you may only have 3-4 good days of FM DXing opportunity per season. Yesterday was active. Got some of the same stations out of Texas and New Mexico.

@ChrissyFreitas 6 лет назад

Are there specific frequencies that are optimal for FM DXing or just anywhere in the dial? I heard you mentioned that you tuned to 92.9 MHz. That one here in Memphis is occupied by ESPN Radio so that one is ruled out haha!

@todderbert 6 лет назад

try to find a clear channel usually under 100.0 MHz. You can have eskips on the higher frequencies too. Just more likely on the lower bands.

@ChrissyFreitas 6 лет назад

Sounds like a plan! Memphis airwaves are congested but are some clear spots where it could be possible on the lower frequencies.

@ronb6182 2 года назад

Yeah and the low end is the best. I picked up NYC and Denver Colorado from Orlando Florida when I was in college. I was at a friend's parents home and had a radio shack best FM antenna which was rated at 175 miles and it lived up to it's rating. I picked up on a regular basis FM stations about 150 miles away but when I was trying to find a classical music station I picked up WQXR from NYC. Then I tuned the radio to another classical radio station from Denver Colorado. This was done in the summer of 1982.

@godovermoney1124 Год назад

I once picked up an FM station in Texas from New Castle Pennsylvania while sitting in my fathers Volkswagen rabbit. Honest. "stereo" light was illuminated 😊

@godovermoney1124 Год назад

KVIL I believe it just came back to me. I wrote to them and they sent me some bumper stickers and stuff. Lol

@phs125 4 года назад

I remember around 10-12 years ago, I was on the roof with my dad's nokia 2626, scanning through fm stations. (I was in highschool) I got a station from 250km (road distance) away. Now I know how. It never happened afterwards tho...

@romegeorgiamanshannongeorg7413 2 года назад

When Certain Wx Conditions or, Stations knocked off the air.. Temporarily.. Sometimes Distant fm signals Come in on those open slots.. Texas Stations heard Here in Atlanta. During Severe storms like Hurr.katrina.. AM and some FM were definitely jumping. I have 60 ft Trimmed Antenna and 24 Foot HAAT that work best.. Dipole style. Vertical And Horizontal for reception..but I need a Better reciever.. Like the ones you displayed.. Thanks.. You are Very helpful..

@LacyCrusty 5 лет назад

My farthest FM station I’ve heard was WGBH from 74.8 miles away in Chicopee, MA, no DXing. I haven’t DXed yet.

@kerzman Год назад

Loved this video. I wonder if this may be worth revisiting since we're in an 11 year solar cycle this year? No response needed. Thx Todderbert.

@todderbert Год назад

Possibly. May have to ask my Wife. Still her home office area atm.

@F9FCJ429 10 месяцев назад

Pretty cool, you’re pulling in some sticks near my own back yard, Dallas TX 🤠

@bennolanswaggerdiaperautistic Год назад

So cool. Can you make some more videos like this?

@Buzzygirl63 3 года назад

I just ran across this video and I'm intrigued! I'm a long time AM DXer and also have an amateur radio license but I've never done FM Dxing. I live in a large metro area and can't put up an outdoor antenna so I'm curious if you are using the Sangean PR-D15 on just the whip antenna to record these DX stations? I have a Tecsun PL-310ET but have not tried to use it on FM yet. I do know I have a TON of RF interference where I live so I'm not sure if trying to capture FM DX would just lead to frustration. Thanks for the interesting video!

@todderbert 3 года назад

I use the standard whip. Move the radio to an outdoor facing wall or window. Try to reduce RFI on the "clear" FM frequency if possible. When a strong E-Skip occurs you may receive the signal like it is a strong local station. You may even receive it in stereo ;)

@timdailey2690 3 года назад

Like panning for radio gold!

@adamfrench8735 Год назад

I have a steel building garage and I am looking forward to trying some of these.

@hamandcheese25 4 года назад

We were just discussing this in an online ham group. My best ever was WMIA 93.9 which is just over 1014 mi from my location in western PA

@christopherdunne7848 4 года назад

WMIA is a local of mine, unfortunately. Are you in SW PA? I'd sure like to hear WQZS 93.3 Meyersdale/Somerset. I have a cassette tape of it, recorded from someone who visited. (Meyersdale was my dad's birthplace.) We have IBOC (HD) on 93.1 here, so it will never be easy.

@hamandcheese25 4 года назад

CHRISTOPHER DUNNE I’m in Indiana county, originally from Somerset. Small world

@christopherdunne7848 4 года назад

Is the city of Indiana PA in that county? I heard U-92 92.5 two weeks ago or so.

@hamandcheese25 4 года назад

CHRISTOPHER DUNNE yes it is, that’s a station geared toward the university students from IUP.

@kevindavis4709 Год назад

Back again. It’s fun too checkout when you’re in the dar. Some reason DXING stations love Car radios seems like factory radios do best.If I had a Walkman that wasn’t so easy for a radio station above the frequency not bleed in on a empty frequency that’ll be cool

@darwinfox6734 3 года назад

Good evening, I understand that the Tecsun Q3 has the capability of automatically saving a recorded file in one hour segments. Do you know of other recorders that also have that feature? I own the Sangean DAR-101 and the PR-D8, both can save one hour files. Is there anything in Tecsun, Kaito, Degen, Retekess or others that can do this? I like to record one to three hour talk shows that I would like to save in one hour files. If the recorder had an AM and or FM radio, that would be even better. Line in is a must have. Thanks! Darwin :)

@WOHP1390 6 лет назад

Very good video!!

@todderbert 6 лет назад

Thank you, I appreciate the comment. Took a bit to put together.

@MrScrappydue 3 года назад

There’s an FM radio station a mile away. I can’t seem to tune in during the day but at night it comes in crystal clear. Any idea why?

@gabevee3 Год назад

San Angelo TX is KDCD, not KCDC. And it's transmitter is 100,000 watts. No wonder you got it from there. I didn't know FM stations transmitted that much power. But this is cool. I may try it. Thanks for the time you took to make this video, as with your others.

@christopherdunne7848 4 года назад

I own that Eton/Grundig in the thumbnail. It's the only battery-operated FM radio I know that has RDS & ALSO an EXT ANT terminal. I take it on trips.

@cookric555 3 года назад

You can also get tropo propagation which is awesome aswell I can easily pick up france here in the uk on tropo fm propagation

@kevmichael2064 2 года назад

I have the Bearcat X15.. For Low Band and FM DX...Goes all the Way down to 25mhz... Very Cool

@sergiomarincontreras5647 Год назад

I am living in Cd del Carmen Campeche in the Southwest of Gulf of Mexico. Here every afternoon or night is possible hear many fm radio stations of USA , Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana Alabama even North carolina. I had an external and high fm antena with 6 elements like a fish and a rotator and a fm amplifier of Radio Shack. I keep many tapes of this but right now internet changed all.

@KeganDXer 4 года назад

I got an Eton Grundig Edition Field BT in January 2019. My first FM DX E-Skip with the radio with RDS on June 3, here in NW Arkansas. Afternoon: 88.9 XHM Mexico City, Mexico - RDS: "88.9 Noticias" 89.1 WSMR Sarasota, Florida - RDS: "WSMR FM" 89.5 WAYJ Naples, Florida - RDS: "WAY-FM" 88.5 XHIL Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico 89.9 WUCF Orlando, Florida - RDS: "WUCF" 89.7 WUSF Tampa, Florida - RDS: "On WUSF" Evening: 88.9 WQCS Fort Pierce, Florida - RDS: "WQCS" 88.9 WKTO Edgewater, Florida I received WAYJ and WSMR again in the evening. The second time I received WSMR, I recorded it with my iPhone. I have since recorded more E-Skip and Tropo catches every chance I have. My farthest reception with a station's callsign on RDS is 91.7 CBK-FM-3 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan on June 15. RDS: "CBK-FM-3". I received 92.9 KKBQ Pasadena, Texas (over KBEZ Tulsa, Oklahoma) and 88.7 KUHF Houston, Texas (over KWTU Tulsa, Oklahoma) on October 18 in the evening. The latest I received WSMR was on December 4 in the afternoon.

@RETROTV1394 6 месяцев назад

The Tecson Q3 Recorder is no longer available on Amazon. Does anyone know of another recorder which has a line in input. I would be interested ??? I want to record off my C.Crain 2 and Sangean 15 . Both have input/output but are not capable of recording... i haven't yet started Dxing on FM . But last night i was able To Dx some distant frequencies. Picked up WOR in New York City ,WCBM Baltimore Maryland, WRJR in Charlottesville Virginia, and really 2 long distance beauties .....CFZM in Toronto and WSCR In Chicago Illinois. The last 2 ... 874 miles from Huntsville to Toronto and Chicago is over 500 miles from my home in Huntsville Alabama.

@Steven-re7xt Год назад

I live on 50 east from Centerville tn and in the am i get Nash ville , and Memphis and ft Campbell in my travels it's constant may -hem hi hi. Then about noon the crazy settles. otherwise I set at home on my days off. With a hacked up tv antenna. W/a rf amp and tune up. Some times as much 8 channels fm . Then in the fall I get tv as said under developed country's haven't bit the bullet so I get to watch I love Lucy in french/ Spanish for bits at a time. When we have magnetic storms just a matter of listing to wwv ft Collins at 72 it's something to do giver a try tks fer good show 73

@Antenna101 3 года назад

Hey todderbert,How did you know where the station was? 12:30

@julianhernandez6743 3 года назад

La KeBuena is here in Mexico. Also you are in a good location without mountains in the middle. I think you can get more signals if you use a external fm yagi antenna like those ones that were used for analog tv.

@fecheverria Год назад

La K Buena tiene filiales en Estados Unidos. Saludos

@gklinger 6 лет назад

Wichita Falls, TX FTW! Are those little Tecsuns not capable of recording radio directly to the SD card? Do any of the radios with a record function allow for recording straight off the radio? Back in the 80’s I connected my stereo to my VCR and I would record 8 hours of music onto a T-160 VHS tape in EP mode overnight and then dub the songs I liked over to cassette to make mix tapes I could play in my Walkman. The crazy things we do.

@todderbert 6 лет назад

In the video I mention the use of the micro SD cards. The SD cards are taken out and then put it into a computer at the end of the day. Audacity is used to open the files, then I search for the tell tale spikes in the audio stream. Usually I have about seventeen hours of audio per recorder. Recording directly from the headphone output to the line-in jack. You could use the onboard microphone, but that would defeat the "running in silence mode". The Q3 is an incredible pocket recorder for the price.

@gklinger 6 лет назад

todderbert I got all that. What I meant is can’t those radios record directly from the radio to the SD card with the volume down to zero? My old Sangean ATS-818ACS can record from any frequency directly to the cassette tape and you can still turn the volume down so you’re running silent. I use to record Art Bell overnight that way. I figured there must be a radio with an SD card recorder function that can do the same.

@todderbert 6 лет назад

Yes this radio can record from it's own FM receiver, but the reception on the Q3 is not great, because the antenna is that little wrist strap. Just tested, the recorder will record it's own FM station at zero volume level and is playable, changing the volume has no effect on the recording. The captured audio is ok, a bit heavy on the bass with not much on the highs. When using the Line-In, the bass/treble becomes dependent on the attached radio.

@lacrossewieas2411 5 лет назад

I got KOOO from my location around la crosse WI and 101.9 the KEG was it also I got it on a sangean CL-100 AM/FM- noaa weather radio! You should review it! I also bought a SPARC HD radio and it got KQKX and it was good! Also should I get my PL-310et now? I have 70 amazon dollars

@todderbert 5 лет назад

hmm. If you want SW go for the 310, but if you want awesome FM and AM reception, check out the Sangean PR-D19...no kidding, that radio is awesome. Another great radio that is on sale is the Sangean PR-D5 has the 200mm ferrite antenna in there...so it plays with the big boys. Check it > amzn.to/2TQF0gl

@bereadyeveryday6764 Год назад

What would your recommendations be for best "budget" radios to use for FM DXing? I'm talking Tecsun, XHData, Retekess, Prunus, etc.

@todderbert Год назад

Sangean SR-35.

@daltonscott5420 3 года назад

FM E-Skip stations pick up 3000 to 5500 miles away from other countries like UK, Ireland even France that could happen with thunderstorms every year

@anthonycosta1776 11 месяцев назад

E skip is great. You dont need much of an antenna and the lower the better so the locals won't step on the e skip..logged 100s of fm dx from here in va beach va

@dustindalessandro6242 5 лет назад

I was able to get 98.5 (traverse city mi ) and I was able to get it in port Austin Michigan weak but constant

@LTHanlon 2 года назад

What a nifty idea! Thanks for describing your technique. I just acquired a Retekess TR629 that records directly - I wonder if that would work?

@todderbert 2 года назад

It may, you will need to test it out. Running on AC, you don't have to worry about battery life. The main thing is what happens at the one hour mark. Does it divide up the files automatically like the Tecsun Q3? or are we stuck with one big file?

@LTHanlon 2 года назад

@@todderbert One big file, it looks like. However, it's pretty easy to check the waveform in an editing app. I have a Tecsun Q3 handy if necessary; was just looking for a quick and easy way. :-)

@mattcatlover333 6 лет назад

Would it work on my Sangean DT200x

@AlexanderShadwick 3 года назад

Even though it's on the NOAA weather radio band, technically FM (162.400-162.550 MHz,) in mid January 2020, I managed to log KEC55 Fort Worth, TX from central Missouri, about 530 miles away. Not sure if it was a skip or tropo because skips on high frequencies (like 2m, NOAA weather, VHF 7-13) are rare and tend to cover shorter distances and high frequencies (including 70cm and UHF television) are more prone to tropo. 6m and VHF 2-6 are more prone to skips. The farthest 88-108 MHz FM stations received at the time were from around Ames, IA. That makes me wonder if the MUF was actually above 163 MHz somewhere in between Texas to Missouri or if maybe the KEC55 signal encountered a skip somewhere and then reached my location with tropo.

@todderbert 3 года назад

2m can skip if conditions are right.

@AlexanderShadwick 3 года назад

@@todderbert so can NOAA weather radio. The Texas weather signal received in Missouri was likely a mix of a skip and tropo.

@fatbikearcticnomad2122 2 года назад

One of my favorite videos man! Great to see how many stations you can pick up bro…Incidentally, have you ever watched the movie The Arrival 1996 w/ Charlie Sheen? Great movie 👍👍

@fatbikearcticnomad2122 2 года назад

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@todderbert 2 года назад

Yes, that one was awesome!

@fatbikearcticnomad2122 2 года назад

@@todderbert Contact 1997 w/ Jodie Foster is another great one 📡 🛸👽

@madmax2069 10 месяцев назад

This is something that i can't do where i live as there's this one local FM station that either overloads a radio and scatters images of itself across the band, or desensitizes the radio to where it it isn't as sensitive. When i get out of town and away from the station i can DX on FM.

@kevmichael2064 2 года назад

I did FM DX...and TV also....I got Mexico from California..and Arizona too...in Hawaii 87.7mhz is N Z and Australia....doing summer....tropo Doing Winter....start at the bottom of the band...76 to 80mhz is Japan.....100.3 is Las Vegas... Received from Big Bear California

@AllLifethingschannelyt 3 года назад

For mine in the summer July to August 3am to 11am

@JamesGMunn 6 лет назад

You need to try some SDR receiver like the SDR Play rsp1a. You can see all of the band at the same time. Around $120 or maybe SDR Play RSP2 that has a long wire input. Good luck on getting your license! Check out David Casler's RU-vid channel for learning!

@gklinger 6 лет назад

James Munn Better yet, with an RSPduo he could record two frequencies at once or record one while listening to another. Regardless, SDRs are amazing. I’ve almost given up using my traditional radios. It might be time for a fire sale.

@AdamEbelgccengineering 3 года назад

Only through Sporadic E and Meteor scatter 1300+ miles is possible on FM (VHF).

@crabbyeric900 4 года назад

Not sure if this is relevant to anything in this video, but I listen to a station that comes in well but is still somewhat far (I'm in northwest nj and the station is in Philly) and it's happened twice now where I drive past a car going to opposite direction and all of a sudden I can clearly hear what's playing in the other car until they pass. Any idea what that's about?

@todderbert 4 года назад

They may have a FM Transmitter.

@MarioMario-fc1gw 2 месяца назад

20:06 good song it’s When It Rains It Pours by Luke Combs

@carljohnson834 10 месяцев назад

Please respond: When i try recording the radio it causes interference and i dont know how to fix it, My recorder is a Retekess V115 and my radio is a sangean hdr-16

@todderbert 10 месяцев назад

Could be the V115, they are noisy. Try a longer patch cable to get the V115, and its power source as far away from the Sangean as possible. Use the headphone out on the Sangean to see how that goes. I run a similar V115 recorder, but run it off a battery, no USB. The best recordings I have made from my Sangean was with the Tecsun Q3.

@s.guttmann6625 2 года назад

Any of you guys have heard pilots talking for a few seconds on the FM band? Any explanation for that?

@anthonycosta2312 5 лет назад

Are you referring to Chuck ripple in Virginia? Great guy and big time dx er

@todderbert 5 лет назад

Different Chuck. A Patron on Patreon. Great supporter from Missouri.

@tegrqbruh4158 4 года назад

i dont think ive ever experienced e skip over the years of tuning on the bands.

@AllLifethingschannelyt 3 года назад

The no fm is blocked by the appellations mountains

@totallyfrozen 4 года назад

Wait. What? I’ve had that happen on my Sangean WR11 a few times in the morning. It only happens in the lower end of the band around 88.5 to 91.3 or so. I had no idea what was happening. I thought my radio had good sensitivity but mediocre selectivity. Maybe it was this phenomenon instead.

@todderbert 4 года назад

Usually it starts out on the low end of the band. Rarely do I find skips past 100MHz, though it happens. These events happen most during June and July.

@bioskahabinivous9906 3 года назад

How do you make a DXing antenna? What is the length? The station's blip is 10 - 21 km away.

@todderbert 3 года назад

I used the radio's whip antenna only. E-skips can be picked up with most receivers.

@bioskahabinivous9906 3 года назад

@@todderbert i thought you would need to build a high-end yagi antenna! FM and shortwave DXing are very different. Is it possible to produce an e-skip using a 7W transmitter with 1.7 km range? Im thinking of doing that. I need to get more audiences or need to DXing into my own station.

@todderbert 3 года назад

@@bioskahabinivous9906 eskips, depending on atmospheric conditions tend to be rather short, count them in seconds sometimes. A weak signal will bounce, but to where is the big question.

@bioskahabinivous9906 3 года назад

@@todderbert how far the transmitting range do I need to produce Sporadic E? 90km?

@eusufzai 5 лет назад

What type of antenna do you use ?

@todderbert 5 лет назад

The radio's stock antenna.

@broadchivechannel8982 5 лет назад

Are you doing any FM dxing this weekend with the Hurricane in the south?

@todderbert 5 лет назад

The wife made me take it down for the season. Hopefully more next year.

@broadchivechannel8982 5 лет назад

todderbert is it possible if I did it? And even know it won’t be as often can you possibly get some catches anytime of the year?

@todderbert 5 лет назад

Possibly, but super rare. The best months for North America is June and July. Also near Winter Solstice. You could still go for tropospheric ducting created by temperature inversions in the atmosphere which can carry a VHF radio wave up to 300 miles.

@stewartmckay9830 4 года назад

Playing with your Ariel and coaxial off your tv aerial can increase your range 20 of 30 miles so I would imagine that went catch atmospheric bounce more often

@todderbert 4 года назад

Good Idea, thank you!

@stewartmckay9830 4 года назад

@@todderbert if you have an old radio even break off the Ariel your coaxial straight to it taking the signal all the way from the roof

@stewartmckay9830 4 года назад

@@todderbert p.s. you don't use the outer cable just the internal

@migi5374 Год назад

I've know about SW DXing but 1st of FM DXing.

@AllLifethingschannelyt 3 года назад

Your higher up in that state and open land so the conditions get right bam

@TonyLing 2 года назад

0:43 DX is just short for distance. It is not confined to FM signals.

@ctscantechnologist 6 лет назад

Good luck to you on your tech exam. De KD5TRI

@todderbert 6 лет назад

Thank you John, read the entire manual and all the questions. Now I'm going over the ones I missed.

@todderbert 5 лет назад

I passed! going to study for the general and hope to pass that this fall, with my extra class exam in the spring.

@rmccombs66 3 года назад

Have you tried an outside antenna?

@todderbert 3 года назад

I will in the future, it would probably help on Tropo reception.

@kevmichael2064 4 месяца назад

I got Texas and New Mexico on Channel 3 tv from California..... Channel 6 CMQ Havana Cuba and Bermuda ZBM TV...CBC Vancouver BC Canada..... Mexican on 3 and 5.....In the 1980s and 1990s....on FM in Got KFOG on 104.5 San Francisco from Santa Barbara California..... Mexican FM was heard all the way to Goletta California on 104.7...(Radio Latina).. Tijuana BC..in .Morro Bay....San Francisco FM starts to roll in.....I try to get stations on FM with a good Car Radio...FM DX always good on the Central coast of California doing summer...😊

@KeifusMathews3 3 года назад

i was hoping to learn how to FM DXing???

@bobsoldrecords1503 9 месяцев назад

FM signals can bounce off the troposphere, but not the ionosphere 🙂

@todderbert 9 месяцев назад

"The Heaviside layer, sometimes called the Kennelly-Heaviside layer, named after Arthur E. Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside, is a layer of ionised gas occurring roughly between 90km and 150 km (56 and 93 mi) above the ground - one of several layers in the Earth's ionosphere. It is also known as the E region." Known as an E-Skip when it is charged by Solar Activity. FM, and VHF signals can bounce off this layer back to earth giving great distances for normally short bursts.