Baltimore Area FM DX'ing

[ScottBurns]

I have found the Baltimore area - particularly north and south of the city on I-95 - to be particularly good for DX'ing in the summer. For example, I have picked up Florida FMs on many occasions. Yesterday, around 6 PM, I had one interesting catch - B-101.5/Fredericksburg and New Jersey 101.5 battling it out, both completely fading in and out. The former came in so well that I was able to hear the 6 PM top-of-the-hour ID. Anyone else in the Baltimore area yesterday catch anything good?

 

[ddsparxx]

A couple of times when I drove toward Baltimore on southbound I-95 I heard WYFI 99.7 from Norfolk, VA with a clear signal. The Chesapeake Bay may have allowed the signal to travel right above it.

 

[Silkie]

With a really basic kind of antenna in most of Baltimore City and Baltimore County we used to be able to get WARX and WARK in Western Maryland at all hours of the day and night, as well as parts of the Eastern Shore and Delaware.

 

[Tom Wells]

I spent a good deal of time in Baltimore in the 80s. The area slopes upward away from the harbor and downtown.
The whole 95 beltway around is pretty well "up" above the city, and particularly to the north, signals from the south have a clear shot and I think they even get reflected from the terrain below.
In Towson and Lutherville I remember some amazing dx, but a few miles north, like in Cockeysville, it was back to normal results.

A similar conditon exists in western Tennesee, (Dyersburg) where there's no discernable elevation visible, but you're a couple hundred feet above the Mississippi River, and have clean shot for 200 miles particularly to the north and west.

Going east out of Dyersburg on the connector to I-55, you encounter a big slope down to the river, but otherwise you'd think you're in flatlands.

 

[nd2023]

The Florida FMs are e-skip, you can pick them up anywhere between 600-1400 miles away.