Tropo Ducting due to Nova Scotia Wildfires - News Article

[speer360]

What happened to your radio station? The signal could be affected by smoke from Nova Scotia wildfires

Smoke from the Nova Scotia wildfires could be affecting the signal of your favorite radio station. This is why.

bronx.news12.com

Thought this was interesting. Seems the meteorologist maybe a Radio nerd as well. Radio he is using in the video in the link is a UK Model Sony XDR-S41D.

"Nosoff caught the occurrence this morning outside the News 12 Long Island studios in Bethpage, New York, where Long Island's radio station WBLI was replaced by Rumba 106.1 Philadelphia"

"Toward the East End, Philadelphia's 105.3 WDAS made listening to Party 105.3 difficult."

"This morning, car radios picked up several radio stations(WURV) over 300 miles away from Richmond, Virginia."

 

[djl]

Yesterday and today it was difficult to get Q104.3 and WBAB. Definitely could not lock in HD

 

[luperm]

North of NYC I was picking up WKHK 95.3 Richmond, VA as well as a bunch of Philly stations.

 

[gr8oldies]

North of NYC I was picking up WKHK 95.3 Richmond, VA as well as a bunch of Philly stations.

Very interesting. I don't get how smoke figures in.

 

[raccoonradio]

Time of year for it--happens now and again but usually this time of yr it's pretty noticeable

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

Umm that's interesting I never heard of this about wildfires affecting radio signals before. I never heard about Wildfires from California affecting any local radio signals unless the transmitter had to shutdown due to wildfire emergency reasons.

https://www.radiodiscussions.com/threads/alpha-medias-kuic-fm-transmitter-shut-down-due-to-lnu-fire-in-solano-county-ca.728483/

 

[kevtronics]

Here in central NJ I was getting 102.7 "Jack FM" from Baltimore (WQSR) instead of WNEW-FM. Although I wouldn't mind it if WNEW-FM actually played Kim Wilde's "You Keep Me Hangin' On"!

 

[MarkW]

There are reports of central FL radio stations being received midday yesterday here in southern Michigan.

 

[davideduardo]

Umm that's interesting I never heard of this about wildfires affecting radio signals before. I never heard about Wildfires from California affecting any local radio signals unless the transmitter had to shutdown due to wildfire emergency reasons.

If the fire is so big it causes huge inversion layers to form, it can be the cause.

Had there been FM stations when Krakatoa erupted, we might have had world-wide inversion layers!

 

[Mediafrog+]

There are reports of central FL radio stations being received midday yesterday here in southern Michigan.

Readers of this thread should be aware that we are in E-skip season and there has been plenty of reported activity in the past few days.

I’ve never heard of fires creating tropo ducting. I would think the tremendous updraft of heat would actually disrupt any inversion layers, which are relatively close to the ground.

 

[MarkW]

Yup, the stuff in my neck of the woods was definitely e-skip. Often hear FM from Florida up this way when that occurs.

 

[MVB13]

Let's hope people animals and the ecosystem are safe! This is frightening!

 

[alok]

If your interested check out Worldwide TV FM DX Association at wtfda.org
As mentioned it is TV and FM DXing time of the year.
Al