For some unknown reason, I woke up around 4am this morning. Just for kicks, I looked at the current stations being received by the automated receiver on my phone. I noticed lots of stations from Chicago which I’ve never picked up, especially with the indoor antenna pointed to the west-southwest. I then noticed WVTV from Milwaukee, WI (207 miles) and then WTLJ in the Grand Rapids, MI area (232 miles).
Not wanting to get out of bed, I quickly scanned the tuner on my iPhone using the Channels app. I was able to confirm WFLD (127 miles), WQPT (137 miles), KWQC (137 miles) and WQAD (137 miles).
Did anyone else pick up any distant stations this morning?
![WFLD - Chicago, IL](https://www.k9swx.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/IMG_4440-300x169.png)
![WQPT - Lynn Center, IL](https://www.k9swx.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/IMG_4434-300x169.png)
![KWQC - Lynn Center, IL](https://www.k9swx.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/IMG_4431-300x169.png)
![WQAD - Lynn Center, IA](https://www.k9swx.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/IMG_4430-300x169.png)
![VHF propagation (7/17/17)](https://www.k9swx.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/IMG_4436-169x300.png)
TV DX Log from automated tuner (7/17/2017)
*stations in bold are confirmed
WFLD – Chicago, IL – 127 miles
WCIU – Chicago, IL – 127 miles
WPWR – Chicago, IL – 127 miles
WJYS – Chicago, IL – 127 miles
WSNS – Chicago, IL – 127 miles
WXFT – Chicago, IL – 127 miles
WMAQ – Chicago, IL – 127 miles
WGN – Chicago, IL – 127 miles
WGBO – Chicago, IL – 128 miles
WYCC – Chicago, IL – 128 miles
WQPT – Lynn Center, IL – 137 miles
KWQC – Lynn Center, IL – 137 miles
KLJB – Lynn Center, IL – 137 miles
WQAD – Lynn Center, IL – 137 miles
WVTV – Milwaukee, WI – 207 miles
WTLJ – Allendale, MI – 232 miles
KGAN – Walker, IA – 240 miles
KRIN – Walker, IA – 240 miles
KFXA – Van Horne, IA – 240 miles
Very cool. Growing up in Miami, I used to catch Orlando TV stations in the morning fairly regularly. ~250 miles.