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Hi All. as I was starting to drive off to aid my father and my sister tonight.I had my car radio pretuned to 107.3 FM the freq for my mp3 player transmitter.I almost jumped out of my car seat as I heard WPUR's call was announced.WPUR Cat country,
Atlantic City.A good signal with quieting.when i stop driving. As I made two trips earlier this summer to Alantic City,To see a couple of shows and some fun.and WPUR was one of the stations I've tuned in when I was in AC.I've got alot of airchecks when I was there.
 
Yeah, there's good tropo tonight. In fact, Connecticut is booming in central NJ. The powerful Atlantic City FMs go hundreds of miles on tropo.
 
And, New York FM's were booming in to the area west of Philly this morning. In fact, coming in like locals. That is very unusual here; normally the Philly locals blot most of them out. Great tropo, which is apt to continue for another day or two.
 
New York FMs were booming in to central Virginia last night. It's the strongest reception I've seen in 2 years (which is "ever", in my logging activities). I've had several instances recently where stations a hundred miles or more would come in on local station frequenices (using a directional antenna, of course). It's been amazing.
 
Monday night brought some good reception of signals from Delmarva, Virginia Beach area, and Eastern North Carolina here in the Hudson Valley, about 70 miles North of New York City. New logs included WKHI-107.5 from Fruitland, MD and WSFL-106.5 from New Bern, NC (501 miles). Back in the 70's I used to be amazed at the WSFL signal at times on the Connecticut coast, but "SFL" had evaded me here in Poughkeepsie. I finally logged them Monday night at 11:23pm, my most-distant NC logging.

Tuesday morning, tropo continued, with WNCT-107.9 Greenville, NC in pretty good (heard here a couple times a year). New log, WAFX-106.9 "The Fox" from Suffolk, VA at 8:10am. I was tuned in for over half an hour and actually enjoyed their morning show; they faded in and out over Family Radio WKDN in New Jersey. Usually, when there's any tropo, WKDN totally dominates 106.9.

A few minutes later in the car, on 94.9, usually a pretty empty frequency here, I had "The Point" from Virginia Beach (366 miles south) fighting it out with French Language CIMF Gatineau-Hull, Quebec (Ottawa - 276 miles to the north) as I drove into downtown Poughkeepsie. So good conditions were quite widespread. By the way, The Canadian came out on top.

I'm hoping for some more great tropo DX later tonight.

Chris from Poughkeepsie
 
Tonight was another good night for the AC station, so I had my MD recorder handy this time around. I've let it run for a couple of hours to get an unscoped aircheck for now. I will listen at work tomorrow, to see what i've got.I've havn"t had time to do a full band check yet,but I will do it quickly.dx1ng, it sounds like you had a good night tonight.ok now we see what tomorrow brings.
 
I can't get the good catches you guys get, because I live 12 miles West of NYC. On monday night, I did get almost all of the Long Island FMs as locals , including WXXP and a translator relaying public radio on 105.7 (W289AD). I got most of the south jersey FM stations as well, but no philadelphia FMs except for 93.7 and 94.1. I was also able to get WJUX 99.7 as a local.
 
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