DX Conditions As They Happen OVER 1,600 FM STATIONS LOGGED! - Saturday, May 10, 2008 - Last Update 06:40 AM EDT EDT = UTC - 4 hours
LIVE TV DX CAM Channel 2 TV Antenna Azimuth: 270°
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Equipment: Dell W1700 TV, Panasonic DMR-E60 DVD Recorder, Delhi / Jerrold VIP 307SR VHF antenna, CM 4228 UHF antenna. The Live TV DX Web CAM produces a dark image when no signals are present.
LIVE AUDIO STREAM! Currently: Channel 2 TV Audio Antenna Azimuth270°
Equipment TV: Icom R7000, Delhi/Jerrold VIP 307SR Antenna FM: Denon TU 1500RD Tuner, 2 APS-13 Antennas, Andy Bolin Phase Box
Note: this stream is provided for experimental and scientific purposes as an aid to the FM and TV DXing community! It is not intended for public performance or entertainment purposes. This website receives no income for its audio streaming.
REGIONAL DX CONDITIONS and NEWS - Saturday, May 10, 2008 -
Auroral and Sporadic E Monitor (experimental)
Real-Time Solar / Geomagnetic Activity
Current Solar Image
Solar (last 24 hours):
Geomagnetic (last 24 hours):
Real-Time Solar Wind Data
Northern Hemisphere Auroral Activity
Data courtesy: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / Space Environment Center and N3KL.ORG
Estimated Planetary K Index
Today's Sunspots
Current Solar Report and Forecast
Solar activity was very low. No flares were detected. The visible disk remained spotless. Solar activity is expected to be very low. The geomagnetic field was quiet. The geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet throughout the period (10 - 12 May).
Source: NOAA, Space Environment Center, the U.S. Air Force, RWC Belgium, spaceweather.com.
May Meteor Activity
Click HERE for The American Meteor Society's Weekly Meteor Activity Outlook.
The best time to hear meteor bursts is usually in the hours surrounding your local dawn. However, good meteor bursts can often be heard at other times throughout the day and night.
New FM/TV DX (stations heard and logged here for the first time)
All FM stations are logged using two Denon TU-1500RD tuners with RDS. The FM antenna system is an APS-13 FM Yagi at 50 feet. A second APS-13 antenna at 35 feet is used with Andy Bolin's Phaser to null out undesired stations. Analog TV receptions are made with a Dell W1700 TV. DTV logs are made with a Hauppauge WinTV-D card and/or Radio Shack Accurian DTV tuner. TV antennas are the Delhi VIP307SR (VHF) and Channel Master 4228 (UHF). All screen captures are from the Hauppauge WinTV-D card.
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FM / TV / DTV / AM SPREADSHEETS NOW AVAILABLE
NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD... I offer a variety of Excel spreadsheets, created using data extracted from the FCC's Consolidated Data Base System (CDBS) and the Canadian Broadcast Data Base System (BDBS). Plug in your latitude and longitude, and these spreadsheets will calculate the azimuth and distance to every listed facility. The U.S. and Canadian spreadsheets are typically updated each week. Mexican FM & TV spreadsheets are updated only when new data is discovered. These are very useful tools for the serious FM, TV and AM DXer. These spreadsheets may be freely used and distributed.
For additional information about these spreadsheets, including release notes, click HERE.
ROUND TWO DTV CHANNEL ELECTIONS AND DESIGNATIONS
Where will your your favorite TV station's DTV operations end up? Note: Stations with unresolved conflicts, stations that received a low VHF (ch 2-6) channel designation (and don't want it), and stations that have difficulties with international coordination may take part in the third and final round of the DTV channel election process. . Here's the latest channel designations from the FCC in spreadsheet form.
DTV CHANNEL ELECTIONS
US and Canadian Spreadsheets Last Updated 05/10/08 Click to download
NOTE: On 12/16/07 I added four-character Maidenhead grid square coordinates to each facility listed in the US and Canadian FM / TV / DTV spreadsheets, including translator and low power spreadsheets.
US AM RADIO SPREADSHEET US FULL SERVICE FM RADIO SPREADSHEET US FM TRANSLATOR & LOW POWER SPREADSHEET US ANALOG TV SPREADSHEET US ANALOG TRANSLATOR & LOW POWER TV SPREADSHEET US DTV TV SPREADSHEET
CANADIAN AM RADIO SPREADSHEET CANADIAN FM RADIO SPREADSHEET CANADIAN TV SPREADSHEET
MEXICAN AM RADIO STATION SPREADSHEET WESTERN HEMISPHERE AM RADIO (10 kHz Spacing)
These files are compressed using WinZip. Click HERE if you need to download WinZip to uncompress these files. When you run this EXE file it will install WinZip on your Windows- based system.
Spreadsheet compatibility issues? Click HERE for a possible solution.
Questions or comments? Click HERE to e-mail me.
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DXing DTV! 05/26/04 @ Approximately 08:40 PM EDT KOTA-DT (Channel 2), Rapid City, SD Via Es - 1,062 Miles
See DTV Images for the growing collection of DTV pictures from around the region.
Click HERE to see my log of DTV receptions.
Click HERE to see who is on the air with DTV.
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