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Does being in a place surrounded by big cities reduce chances of fmdxing troppo?

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dxtrfn

I am in Danville VA and in the time I have logged I got only
2 states Virginia and North Carolina. Furthest has been Manteno NC WUND.Got Wilmington and Charlotte but can't get into South Carolina. Haven't logged one Richmond FM so far. Danville is in range of Roanoke, Lynchburg, Winston Salem, Greensboro and Raleigh. Almost every FM spot is covered by one.
 
dxtrfn said:
I am in Danville VA and in the time I have logged I got only
2 states Virginia and North Carolina. Furthest has been Manteno NC WUND.Got Wilmington and Charlotte but can't get into South Carolina. Haven't logged one Richmond FM so far. Danville is in range of Roanoke, Lynchburg, Winston Salem, Greensboro and Raleigh. Almost every FM spot is covered by one.
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I mean eskipping.
 
Does it reduce the chances of *finding* DX - probably. Both tropo and E-skip. Simply because, if you live among large cities, you have more nearby stations, using more channels.

Does it reduce the chances of DX *existing* - no. During a major opening, there's just as much DX reaching Manhattan as there is reaching Tupper Lake up in the Adirondacks. But in New York, pretty much every channel is occupied by a local station, IBOC sidebands, or one or more pirates. The DX can't get through. In Tupper Lake, many channels are open & you're going to get plenty of DX.
 
Nice summary, w9wi.

The DX certainly does exist, as you state. And sometimes even the less severe trope doesn't care HOW close you are to co-channels.

I once lived within line-of-sight of the Empire State Building, and awoke to some trope one foggy sunrise. And this was on a mere $20 Radio-Shack AM-FM portable. People with that seventh-sense (DX) know when something is up out of the ordinary.

Among other oddities, Beautiful Music WRFM 105.1, usually ranked # 1 in the Long Island ratings, blinking their class-B signal from the top of the ESB, was nowhere to be found. Instead, pop-music JB 105 from Providence Rhode Island was smothering them.
 
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