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Best FM signal

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danikayser84

Talking about NYC FM signals made me think... Which of the Albany FMs gets out the furthest? How far away have you gotten an Albany FM signal before?

As for me, I remember getting WBZZ (now WQSH) in Newburgh back when I lived there in 2007 (remember that WDBY is a class A and WQXR doesn't reach Newburgh very well, and I lived on a higher floor)

WFLY and WYJB don't reach that far south due to WXRK and WPLJ in NYC... usually lose those stations somewhere in Ulster County last I remember. How far does WPYX or WGNA reach? Both are on first-adjacents to NYC stations WLTW and WBLS so maybe they might go a little bit farther than WFLY and WYJB which are on co-channels with WXRK and WPLJ.

As for the class As, I'd say that WKLI or WGY-FM is definitely the best of the As, with the ones from the Clifton Park tower (WKKF, WPTR-FM and WTMM-FM) at a close third. WQBK is still pretty good except to the north (there's a 103.9 in Ticonderoga, owned by WAMC)

And of course, the winner in the noncommercial band is WAMC with its grandfathered signal at the top of Mt. Greylock :)
 
The only Albany station I have ever picked up was 106.5 WPYX on top of a hill in Haverstraw, NY and that's about 100 miles south in Northern Rockland County....Besides that I have never have picked up an Albany station in the NYC metro area (not even DX).
 
I can easily catch 106.5 and 107.7 coming down the big hill on Westbound I-84 in southern Dutchess county heading toward the Taconic. Nice straight shot to the north there. By the time you hit the Taconic, the stations disappear.
 
I sometimes can pick up 95.5 from Albany mixing in with PLJ in NYC on route 9 just south of the Dutchess Mall/Home Depot. Also the station starts fading in and out in just north of the thurway near the Orange/Ulster border.
 
99.5 WRVE has it to the north. Had it all the way to exit 28, and then then picked it up again 31!
95.5 had it to exit 25-26...then triple x and B were fighting each other. Exit 29+ it was triple x
107.7 WGNA...exit 26-27 is when I lost them...bleeding in with a french station
92.3 WFLY...lost it around exit 26..picked it up again at exit 28..
106.5 WPYX- Just unlistenable all around
 
WAMC is #1
WQBJ is #2
WMHT-FM is #3

WAMC is grandfathered.

WQBJ is easily #2. It is normal reception from not far out of Syracuse almost to Westfield, MA. It is a normal catch in the Boston/Rhode Island area during the summer.

WMHT-FM is now #3, from their perch up on the new Albany DTV tower, their signal gets out much further than the others which are terrain shielded to the south. WMHT-FM's signal is crystal clear into Dutchess County where you get picket fencing with the others. I think one could argue WGNA-FM is a close #2 to WMHT-FM now. I know that WGNA-FM is another "rather common" tropo catch here in Rhode Island, and is listenable from the Springfield area (prior to that LPFM signing on) all the way into Albany.

In the actual city downtown Albany , the strongest FMs measured were WHRL #1, WQBK #2 and WFLY #3. WRPI was #4 which suprised me quite a bit when I measured it. (This is down near the Times Union center)

As far as the class A signals in the market, I have to go with 102.3 and 104.5 up in Mechanicsville. That signal just screams for a class A. It is very clear south into the Berkshires and in areas of Southwest New Hampshire. (In fact I know that 102.3 is a semi regular catch in Keene, as I've listened to it a number of times there).

A "nod" also has to be given to WBZZ 105.7. The person who cleverly decided the antenna should be mounted low on the tower, to keep the ERP level high, because it is all ready on a good sized hill, did a smart move. That signal rocks for just a B1.
 
Here on the south side of Poughkeepsie, I regularly get these from Albany:

#1 - WAMC - occasionally mixing with a Family Radio translator from Newburgh
#2 - WMHT - steady but weak
#3 - WRVE - mixing with WBAI in NYC
#4 - WYJB - mixing with WPLJ, but usually WYJB dominates
#5 - WPYX - used to be an easy catch until the Newburgh WDST translator went on the air, now rare

WGNA comes in weakly in good tropo openings, but usually the Newburgh 107.7 translator of WAMC is blocking it. WQSH is rare also with a WVOS translator in the way.
 
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