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I enjoyed your list! I might have to plot a few new DXpeditions.
The Crane Lake situation is true in most of the Superior National Forest. The dial opens up to a nice tropo soup on a good summer day — and Lake Superior helps bring in signals from Wisconsin and Michigan — but I’ve never been fortunate enough to be there during an E-Skip event.
I posted a couple of DX logs from that region this year:
Another nominee could be Yellowstone National Park.
I’ve been there three times now and the central part of the park has always been a true dead zone. There are several translators in the northwestern part of the park, but they cover only a sliver of the massive park. There’s no cell data in most of the park and even satellite radio cuts out due to cliffs and trees near the road!
I’m headed to Big Bend in January! Not expecting much of anything on FM this time of year — maybe I’m wrong — but Mexican AM skywave will be new to me since I live so far north.
— Jon Ellis, Duluth, Minn.
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