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List of DX stations you can no longer get

J

JH_Radio

So yes. I am curious what stations can you no longer get in Philly due to HD o or translators?
For me that list is very long lol.
Here in Bensalem,
95.5 WPLJ
98.3 WMGQ
98.5 WBBO
98.7 WEPN
102.7 WNEW-FM
103.5 WKTU (but that had splatter from WPRB)
105.7 WCHR-FM
106.5 WKMK
106.7 WLTW
When WPRB went off the air at night, I could get WKTU and WARM-FM.
When the former 107.9 translator went off for a while there I could get WKRF and in dx tropo conditions I could get WEBE "Webe 108!"
Before the translator came on 92.9 I could get WMGS out of Wilks-bar, PA but it had lots of static.
DX conditions let me get WVPE "94.9 The Point" out of Verginya Beach, VA!)
Used to get 107.3 WRQX as tropo along with 104.1 WWZZ, which I think now is a translator out of Milvill doing Spanish, so can't get that anymore.
Used to get 106.7 WCPC "106.7 Cool Pop." Yes I know its different calls now.
This was before HD on WKVP
Are these translators really serving a purpoise?
They are so weak.
Is it really only supposed to be a few miles to cover a very specific area?
John
 
Kw Melbourne FL
Channels recently covered by local translators 105,5, 107.9
Stations would be WOLL - Hobe Sound 105.5, WEAT-FM West Palm Beach 107.9 (80-110 miles distant so not regulars....)
 
@jh
A lot depends on what radio you use. Fixed? Home ? Car ?
And what sort of antenna(e).
My Folks lived near Bensalem (Fairless Hills) up to the mid-Nineties. Early on in the house's occupancy, Dad had a TV rotor antenna installed on their one-story roof so he could get channels 11 and 9 * on the TV there from NYC for baseball games.
A DXing buddy from back in grammar school days on Long Island had one installed for his FM stereo system that also worked very well. He got distinctly-targeted and crystal signals from 5 states coming in on 'normal' days (those free of trope). His rotor system was from the early 90's.
Being a cheapskate all my life, I had a manually operated TV antenna mounted (one of those 90-mile Radio Shack-jobs) that I'd go outside and swivel and aim to hear and see FM and TV better. It could separate things like WOGL 98.1 from local Hazelton 97.9, and 99.9 Allentown from local 99.7 Mt. Carmel.
As I mused: much hinges on your budget and your contemporary mood, lol. But knowledge of electronics shouldn't be an issue ; I have to read the directions to see which end of a hot soldering iron to hold.

* When the Folks moved to Florida and got cable, Dad could never understand how a TV set could get two channel 9's -- WGN Chicago and WWOR NYC -- at the same time. So Dad and his rotor TV aerial were the result of less electronics knowledge than even his son had.
 
RadioShack roter Windguard antenna, on a 30 foot mast, one story home.
Tuners used:
Sony XDR-F1HD, Rotel RT-1084 both modified by Mike Williams of Radio X Tuners.
Sony had increased headroom, a forced analog switch, a mono switch, fan, and feet installed.
Tuner used for a while before the Sony was a Yamaha T-85 modified by Steve Solomon.
The Yamaha had 1 280kHZ filter in super wide mode, a 150kHZ filter in wide mode, and 3 110KhZ filterrs for the narrow and super narrow mode.
Stereo muting was defeated on the Yamaha.
 
You cant get 105.7 The Hawk in Bensalem?? Man that station use to boom in like a semi local 24/7 all over the Levittown area. I havent frequented my home town in years tho.
 
RStacey1990 said:
You cant get 105.7 The Hawk in Bensalem?? Man that station use to boom in like a semi local 24/7 all over the Levittown area. I havent frequented my home town in years tho.
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I used to get it like a local but not anymore.
Now its La Megga
Sometimes I can get it during the day but its not consistent.
 
JH_Radio said:
Maybe it should be moved to the DX board?
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Reception of stations in their normal fringe coverage area is not "DX". DX is ham shorthand for "Distance" and refers to stations heard well outside their normal reception areas.
 
Oh! so would stations gotten by tropo be DX then?
Stations like in this area WIBG-FM, WZXL, WWFG, WVPE (can't get WWFG or WVPE anymore... but used to be able too...)
 
JH_Radio said:
WTHK Reminded me of a slightly softer version of WFYV/Jacksonville "Rock105: Classic Rock that Really Rocks."
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Ironically enough, WMGK is my go to classic rocker. Only time i can catch WCHR up this far is on tropo. I remember WYSP had that type of format for awhile too. It didnt last long.

Also that list i sent you, theres no limit. You want it, ill send it.
 
JH_Radio said:
So yes. I am curious what stations can you no longer get in Philly due to HD o or translators?
For me that list is very long lol.
Here in Bensalem,
95.5 WPLJ
98.3 WMGQ
98.5 WBBO
98.7 WEPN
102.7 WNEW-FM
103.5 WKTU (but that had splatter from WPRB)
105.7 WCHR-FM
106.5 WKMK
106.7 WLTW
When WPRB went off the air at night, I could get WKTU and WARM-FM.
When the former 107.9 translator went off for a while there I could get WKRF and in dx tropo conditions I could get WEBE "Webe 108!"
Before the translator came on 92.9 I could get WMGS out of Wilks-bar, PA but it had lots of static.
DX conditions let me get WVPE "94.9 The Point" out of Verginya Beach, VA!)
Used to get 107.3 WRQX as tropo along with 104.1 WWZZ, which I think now is a translator out of Milvill doing Spanish, so can't get that anymore.
Used to get 106.7 WCPC "106.7 Cool Pop." Yes I know its different calls now.
This was before HD on WKVP
Are these translators really serving a purpoise?
They are so weak.
Is it really only supposed to be a few miles to cover a very specific area?
John
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I think that 104.1 you mention is listed as Millville but the transmitter is up by Swedesboro, maybe on channel 61;
it's a WJBR-HD2. Supposedly a CP to move it to 92.9; two weeks ago when I was in the area 92-9 Tom FM had plenty of signal there.
 
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