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During the severe weather last night...

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sox fan matt

I asked this on the "dx and receptiion board" and no response so i'll try here. Completely unrelated but with all the severe weather tonight..my NOAA weather radio is going off and I'm getting a station off of that KWN33 1000 Watts 162.450 MHz out of Stephenville, Tx.. (80 miles southwest of Ft Worth)

Is this a good thing in terms of reception (severe weather was present at the time) And how good is a catch like this, is it pretty impressive or a so so catch?
 
sox fan matt said:
I asked this on the "dx and receptiion board" and no response so i'll try here. Completely unrelated but with all the severe weather tonight..my NOAA weather radio is going off and I'm getting a station off of that KWN33 1000 Watts 162.450 MHz out of Stephenville, Tx.. (80 miles southwest of Ft Worth)

Is this a good thing in terms of reception (severe weather was present at the time) And how good is a catch like this, is it pretty impressive or a so so catch?
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So so... It's basically like catching an FM from Stephenville when there are no other stations to interfere with it.

The link shows Longley/Rice coverage for the signal, the top map shows both City Grade and Grade B coverage. As you can see, there are patches of Grade B in Tarrant County, so it's not a huge stretch to get reception in the Fort Worth area.

http://www.weather.gov/nwr/Maps/PHP/site.php?State=TX&Site=KWN33
 
I live in Plano and frequently can get the station out of the Sherman area. I think there's one in Greenville I get a lot too, but I don't believe it's a full 1,000 watts.
 
I live in Decatur and can receive half of KEC55 in Crowley and half WXK86 in Lawton, OK. And when tropo comes in from that way, Lawton obliterates KEC55.
 
Here in NETX, it is not uncommon during tropo conditions to receive NOAA WX stations from Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama. I have also received stations from south and SE Texas - Houston, Galveston, Austin, SA, etc.
 
Scanning the 7 weather frequencies is always a good indicator where tropo is coming from, if you want to make any 2 meter ham contacts.
 
sox fan matt said:
Eskip,

I'm in Keller so I should try for both the ones that you mentioned. What frequency is the signal in Crowley?
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162.550 MHz
 
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