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Bad Reception?

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Shredder

I'm just curious if it's just me and my car radio. But down the Jersey Shore (Past exit 100 on the GSP)
we can't seem to tune in WPLJ or CBS FM at all now. CBS FM isn't just static, but it seems to
be sharing the same signal as another station as two totally different songs are playing.

Anyone else with the same problems?

PLJ never used to come in at all not more than ten years ago, but they did something and now we get them
in regularly, at least untill now..
 
Last year in some spots here in albany ny in my work van I would somehow be able to pick up CBSFM on 101.1FM in the morning which was great. I would get some interference from 100.9 but overall it was coming in good, I don't know how i used to pick their signal up. Now i tune 101.1 in and its some country channel which stinks.
 
Well, if you go past Exit 100 on the Parkway, with WCBS and WPLJ (less so with PLJ) you get into mountains of interference with the Philadelphia stations on adjacent or the same frequency. WBEB, a soft rock station, is on 101.1 in Philadelphia, and it causes interference all throughout Central New Jersey.

Even on the Driscoll Bridge, where you can see New York City on a clear day, WBEB often causes interference to WCBS. Even the best radios lose WCBS at about exit 90 on the Parkway, around Brick.

WPLJ has the same problem, but it's less because the station in Philadelphia is on 95.7, and PLJ goes farther down the Parkway.
 
I remember 'back in the day' (re:early 90's) when I would try and find the station using a manual dial tuner. Unfortunately, I would either get a religious station, or a Classical music station. It took AGES trying to find the right spot to place the radio dial and the radio itself.... which direction to place the antenna, and even then, if you moved, you got static :). Digital radios have spoiled us since then...

But this Reception problem for both stations never happened recently up until a month or two ago... Hence why I was wondering if it was just my car..

Nice to see that is not the case, it seems.. I wonder if the problem is seasonal as well, as sometimes reception during the winter is either worse, or better than during the summer?
 
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