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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ features guest columnist Mike Schaffer, KA3JAW, of September 7 Surfin’ fame.

Upon posting my rare, out-of-season Costa Rican analog television Sporadic-E 1240-mile distance video on YouTube, I was curious about the broadcast towers’ location and appearance.

In my pursuit of this quest, I visited Wikipedia to obtain some information; how…

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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ literally takes a look at Sporadic E propagation on YouTube.

Last week’s “Got Tropo” got me an e-mail from Mike Schaffer, KA3JAW, located in Tampa, who directed my attention to his recent YouTube video that illustrated the following:

On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at 0045-0116 (UTC), Mexican XHTAU, Azteca-7 relayer analog channel 2 from…

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