Great reminder for me to get my January Es DX clips FINALLY uploaded. Which I will do in the coming days.
Life has been unbelievably crazy lately, and now the icing on the cake: I'm likely moving this summer!
A school district is offering me an elementary teaching job in the small town of Cascade, Idaho (pop. 900), 28 miles south of McCall, and 63 miles north of Boise. That would put me in the DN14 grid. I'm very likely accepting this job and leaving Yakima (and WA) in July.
I now have a TEF-6686 FM radio...probably one of the best things that China has ever made (besides fireworks). This radio is a firecracker. I get KLGW-98.5 Grand Coulee 24/7 on this radio and that has never happened before from my Yakima location. It's possible on the higher hills and in Selah, but not in this valley location. At the Cowiche Uplands a couple of weeks ago (1600 feet), I had KPLW-89.9 Wenatchee (with Air 1 translator phased), KZAL-94.7 Manson, KWRL-102.3 La Grande, and KAAP-99.5 Rock Island through the HD hash of KHHK!! This is a freakin' firecracker. Any more signal gain on this radio and it might spark a fire 🔥🔥
The caveat is the AM isn't as great as it could be. Either my apartment has become unusable for AM DX or it's creating RFI inside the radio. The old Grundig G5 did SO much better.