I really like the touch-ups you did in this video (the "visual-chroma-aural" indicator is a really cool addition). I remember watching these videos back when they first came out back in 2014, and it kind of got me into a bit of AM-DXing. Even though I've been on-and-off with DX-ing over the past 7 years, there is a soft spot for when I catch something in Chicago (or even Bonaire!) from Louisiana during an AM-DXing session. Keep up the great work!
@@friesareyummy Not bad! I did actually manage to catch PJB out of Bonaire a few months ago (their 440kW of power somehow makes this a somewhat common catch at this point), and that's almost 2,000 miles from where I live. Alongside that, I've caught stations from Cuba, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Iowa, among other states. I've never managed to catch anything from Canada, but hopefully that should be happening soon.
WEDU/KMTV/KYTV/KIMT/WCIA/KSNW/KTVO/WSIL: all e-skip from KYW (Philly!) WFOR: e-skip from WNBC WPBT or WTVJ: e-skip of no station WPSD/KEMV: all e-skip of no station
King island we received channels like this in the warmer months 1960s and 70s all cutting across one another from all over Australia as far away as Brisbane Queensland Adelaide Melbourne regional areas Tasmania as king island was in between Tasmania and the main land 😁I had to turn the big antenna to get a stable single.🇦🇺
A verification of reception sent by the station. Standard practice among amateur radio operators, not so standard for TV and radio broadcasters anymore.
So the Chroma info is sent on a separate frequency from the visual info? Interesting! I knew the audio had its own separate freq but didn’t know color did too.
I kinda knew that this existed, based on the fact that visual was for black and white screens and chroma was added due to the addition of color for TV.
Caught my attention. WCIA channel 3 is literally one block from where I am watching this here in Champaign. It's a historical power-watt VHF station that was easily reachable all over Central Illinois.
1:18 You're stating that you had no local on channel 3. Wouldn't KYW 3 Philadelphia be (somewhat) local and be easier to catch than other channel 3 stations scattered across North America?
WFSB was 90 degrees and over 100 km away. Any interference from it would've been negligible. E-skip is a sporadic mode of propagation... the signals fluctuate by the millisecond and run together with other distant signals from states bordering the station, or another part of the country altogether. Miami could fare a little better because there was nothing in the Bahamas or the Atlantic to interfere with it. A local-like signal via e-skip, stable for any period of time, is very very rare.
Absolutely. Though a strong local signal might be perfectly fine, it was common to see other signals 'ghosting' over weaker locals (which WCBS, WNBC, and WNYW were to me). Channel 3 would turn into a madhouse of multiple signals. It felt like I was picking up the whole country at once.
Probably, because WNBC is a local station for Long Islanders. This was also filmed less than one year after the dial position swap between WCIX/WFOR and WTVJ that occurred in September 1995, with WTVJ going to channel 6 and WCIX going to channel 4 and thus changing its call letters to WFOR.
