Was listening to WDOK Friday morning around 9AM and when I came to a stop while driving in Lorain, I suddenly heard another station on 102.1 coming in overtop of WDOK and it was playing Toto's "Africa". Anyone else notice unusual FM conditions yesterday or interference on local stations? I'll post about this on the DX/Reception board as well.
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Co-channel interference on 102.1 Friday
- Thread starter Buckeyes2001
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Friday was a typical spring/summer "tropic ducting" day on the FM band...and weird things were heard all over the FM band.
Stations from 75-150 miles away skipped into co-channel and the main frequencies of local stations (WCOL was as "loud" on 92.3 in central Medina County than 923TheFan).
It's a technical thing...if you're interested google "tropic ducting".
Fortunately it doesn't happen that often...and rarely in the late fall through early summer.
Stations from 75-150 miles away skipped into co-channel and the main frequencies of local stations (WCOL was as "loud" on 92.3 in central Medina County than 923TheFan).
It's a technical thing...if you're interested google "tropic ducting".
Fortunately it doesn't happen that often...and rarely in the late fall through early summer.
I'm going with WLEW on my reception from Friday. I couldn't find an online stream of that station to see if their format is AC or gold-based AC but that looks to be it.
Radio-locator.com lists their format as AC. WLEW would be my first guess.
Here are the VHF (FM) ducting forecast maps. Select our part of the country in the pulldown.
The forecasts are pretty accurate. Reception of all kinds of stations when colors heat up. Nothing when empty.
http://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo.html
The forecasts are pretty accurate. Reception of all kinds of stations when colors heat up. Nothing when empty.
http://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo.html
Another possibility, especially if it just occurred at that one spot, is someone using one of the many FM car transmitters to listen to their iPod/mp3 player. Why they would choose to transmit on 102.1 is beyond me, unless they wanted to mess with people's reception knowing many do listen to WDOK, or they just don't know better. Some stronger car transmitters may cover up another station for a few feet around the vehicle. Someone reported a station covering up WMMS some time back when they were listening at some downtown building (on a Walkman at the Galleria?) and was determined prolly one of these type "personal" transmitters someone was using nearby to listen to their mp3's over the radio not being careful to select an inactive frequency.
Danny, that may have been me reporting the covering up of WMMS. I was in the big restaurant on the second floor of the Galleria. I was dialing around on a small radio shack brand radio. When I came to where WMMS should have been, I heard pop music by the likes of Stevie Wonder. Knowing that WGAR was the station next to WMMS, I dialed it in, and Country music came blaring out of my radio, so I just knew I was listening to 100.7. At first I thought..." Oh my gosh, did someone finally bring down "The Buzzard"? I only found out the truth when I left the restaurant. The second I was outside of their space, WMMS came back in. Why in the world they would choose an active frequency like that is beyond me.
dannykewl said:Another possibility, especially if it just occurred at that one spot, is someone using one of the many FM car transmitters to listen to their iPod/mp3 player. Why they would choose to transmit on 102.1 is beyond me, unless they wanted to mess with people's reception knowing many do listen to WDOK, or they just don't know better. Some stronger car transmitters may cover up another station for a few feet around the vehicle. Someone reported a station covering up WMMS some time back when they were listening at some downtown building (on a Walkman at the Galleria?) and was determined prolly one of these type "personal" transmitters someone was using nearby to listen to their mp3's over the radio not being careful to select an inactive frequency.
I thought about that too but I did notice that pretty much all day there was some interference on 102.1 that came and went. Also when I heard the other signal I was on a residential side street with no other moving cars near me. I think I just happened to stop in a null of WDOK or enough of one to allow me to hear the other 102.1 coming in. I've had it happen on 106.5 before too and the stations that are on the same frequency as Detroit FMs (92.3, 93.1, 95.5, 99.5) its easy for them to interfere with some cross-lake tropo in Lorain. Someone near Columbus reported hearing another 102.5 coming in when WWCD was off air so they were getting some tropo action there too it sounds like recently.
As far as WLEW-FM's format, I'd call it Adult Hits more than anything else. The playlist is about 80% classic rock or classic rock-ish music, the rest is a scattering of AC and Hot AC hits from the 90s to the present. Their RDS program type is Classic Rock. They do get out, when conditions are right they can be heard into the Upper Peninsula of Michigan due to Lake Huron carrying the signal.
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