TV DX from Patchogue, NY (E-Skip 2000s)

[@earlbedford5951]

The most memorable experience I had with E-Skip was when I received KDLH-TV Channel 3 in Duluth MN in the late 1980s or early 1990s from the Five Towns area of Nassau County ( about 40 Miles West of Patchogue, near the Nassau-Queens (NYC) Border. I was in disbelief what I was seeing, as I wasn't aware that TV E-Skip was possible. The signal didn't last long but the memory exists today. Thanks for your uploads!

[@amerigovespucci4076]

BRILLIANT...... I've NEVER seen such a great, informative and superbly presented compilation of E-skip......

[@r66f80]

I remember that KMOS "ID". The "FCTV" actually stood for "First Class Television", a branding that KMOS used during their PBS Kids programming blocks from 1993-2000.

[@ParamDxer]

Splendid E-Skip catches you had there in the 2000s and very informative at the same time with graphics :) Thanks for sharing and the dedication of uploading the video 73!

[@PeachtreeSirens]

This is some awesome stuff! I noticed one ID you missed ... the other 3 whose audio comes up under WLBT for a few moments at about the 8:18 mark is definitely WRBL (going by their mention of a "Columbus teenager" and their use of the Enforcer news music in 2000).

[@douglasclark8825]

Nice work! I grew up across Long Island Sound in Connecticut and remember well e-skip on the low band of VHF channels. WPBT in Miami and KYTV in Springfield, Mo., I remember catching in the early 1970s in addition to the usual fog day catches from Philadelphia, Providence and New Bedford. We had a good, rooftop antenna with a rotator at the time. When you made these recordings in 2000, my parents lived in a different house in New Haven County and had cable and no rooftop antenna. I really missed that rooftop antenna! Thanks.

[@RadioWhiz]

Analog tv E-skip is better than digital tv E-skip

[@radionoakmont7756]

this brought a tear to my eye i missed dragontales so much especially staticy pbs dragontales ever so much

[@blakewilliams6051]

FCTV (First Class TV) is the branding KMOS uses on their PBS Kids blocks from 1993-2000

[@kaboomgamer333]

These are INSANE!

[@JimCutler]

So many times from Seaford, Long Island I'd TV DX and the signal would be viewable for 15 minutes and right on cue when the show would end and would fade out completely before a readable ID card or a VO tag would come one. LOL. So frustrating. My best TV DX from LI was "Tampa-St. Petersburg". I forget now but it was channel 3 or 6. A PBS.

[@FloridaTVDX]

That would be WEDU on 3.

[@northcarolinaradio]

E-skip even nowadays can be frustrating due to how unstable it could be, but stuff like identifying a station (no matter how well the signal is being received) makes it all worthwhile. How I wish analog TV DXing was still around, barely ever did any myself while it was still a thing 😔

[@waverider227]

I remember WISC ch 3 Connecticut was a frequent and often clear catch here in North Florida before the digital transition.

[@DanielCruz-tx4hg]

during a part of the wpbt clip, I heard some clip from the price is right Which means it probably has interference with WCBS

[@CraigS1996Entertainment]

I've been looking for more video evidence of WTVY during it's Counterpoint- Stephen Arnold Music era. And we have some video evidence of The Six O'Clock report open; it's a real shame that WNBC-TV's Audio kept interfering with WTVY's capture.

[@kb0oxd]

I LOVED to do Broadcast DXing of both Radio & TV when I was a kid DXing AM Radio was easy to do - At night. You could get the world in 20 minutes FM was only good for local DXing but got no further than Colorado Springs Ditto with TV DXing. All I could get was KKTV 11 (Sometimes) KRDO 13 in Colorado Springs (NO KOAA 5) All this was from Denver Although one time, I was watching a soap opera on KRDO 13 as it was being shown in Colorado Springs that my local (KUSA 9 at the time) did not clear While that was going on, I suddenly saw this other station come in. Eventually KRDO 13 faded for a brief moment & then just as suddenly I SAW PBS Member station KTNE 13 from Alliance, NE came in. It was airing a promo for some wildlife show they were going to air & then POOF !! Away it went & KRDO came back in I only wish is I could've had a way to record it at the time

[@blakewilliams6051]

FOX 43 Kids Club was the branding WTNZ-TV uses on their FOX Kids block from 1990 to 2002 when the FOX Kids block shut down and on their FoxBox/4Kids TV block from 2002-2008 when the branding is finally phrased out

[@blastpad599]

UPDATE: i am now going to try to get kvos-dt out of, BELLINGHAM, WA.

[@TheRealHalleyRabbit]

2:20-Schwing! That is the brief look of my future.

[@kb0oxd]

The irony here is WEDU 3 & WPBT 2 would be stations you'd likely get pretty regularly from where you are now Which begs the question - Have you ever caught any of the NYC locals from where you are now??

[@FloridaTVDX]

I logged WCBS 2 once when I was in Fort Myers. In fact, it was one of my first e-skip catches after moving.

[@denelson83]

Wow… Never seen a situation before where the video signal from one station and the audio signal from a second station were picked up on the same channel at the same time. And having gotten the video signal from one station but the chroma subsignal from a second station looks even trippier.

[@TheVHSStash]

I'm always surprised how far my Iowa stations can be seen for the most part.

[@waverider227]

I logged and even captured a photo from KIMT ch 3 Mason city Iowa in North Florida back in 2003

[@joshgalka9414]

Cool!

[@waverider227]

WESH or locally known as “wesh tv 2 was a local favorite channel for the Daytona and Orlando area and even into near Jacksonville areas for many years I miss it on analog and can’t even get it here on digital since the transition and our local cable company dropped it sure do miss it. ☹️

[@waverider227]

And miss Wendi Chioji. May she Rest In Peace.

[@KeganDXer]

My Dad worked at WISC as an engineer at the transmitter in 1977.

[@waverider227]

It was a frequent catch here in North Florida I even got. Color photo captured from a vhs recording in 2003

[@KeganDXer]

Cool. My Dad has a photo of WISC test pattern with station ID and a photo of the transmitter from 1977.

[@waverider227]

@@KeganDXer will soon be posting videos of my tv dx captures as soon as I can go through edit and post them on my KZbin channel stay tuned

[@blastpad599]

Hi guys, im getting a unknown spanish am station on 1210 am, it comes in clear.

[@yourfootballDEALER]

The E-SKIP on analog is the worst because I can't see what's going on

[@waverider227]

Better than digital where you can hardly have any chance of getting low band dx

[@danutbe6541]

8:10 I could hear a little bit of Spanish I presume that it could be Mexico

[@waverider227]

Live in Florida used to get many ( often un identified) Mexican and Central American vhf tv logs even Puerto Rico and Dominican Rep and Occasionally Colombia and Venezuela in the 2000s

[@ernawulandari3969]

CBS Ident 2000 6:37