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nhradioguy
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I am in Hooksett, NH and just heard 2 stations in IOWA of all places! 93.3 KIOA and 105.9 The Eagle. Anyone else getting crazy far signals??
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furryradio
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I'll have to spin the dial and check things out (here in Beverly, MA). I never have really made a list of various catches I've had over the years, but I do remember getting (during summer weather like this) a public station from Carbondale, IL, here in Beverly...once, when WMWM in Salem was off air, I picked up WPCC, Pensacola
Christian College/Florida...once in Lynn I picked up the 96.5 from Philly (was talk at the time).
A yr or two ago when visiting a friend in Akron, OH, he noticed some good skip on his car stereo..New Orleans,
for example.
Christian College/Florida...once in Lynn I picked up the 96.5 from Philly (was talk at the time).
A yr or two ago when visiting a friend in Akron, OH, he noticed some good skip on his car stereo..New Orleans,
for example.
Driving down route 24 I hit the seek button and landed on WKLK out of MN on 96.5 mixing with WTIC, WMLL and another rock station that I didn't get an ID from. Something was klobering WMKK as well, sounded like Country.. The other day 97.5 WALK from Long Island was booming in while I was on the Cape.
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Nik2.0
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The greatest one ever was when I was a kid working at WBZ as a "producer" the PD of a Chicago station sent us a copy of the arbitron to show us that WBZ had shown up in the Chicago book!.
God bless the clear channel frequency!
God bless the clear channel frequency!
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furryradio
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picked up a little country on 93.3 (may have just been the one from the Manchester NH area)
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nhradioguy
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Furryradio,
Yes, it probably was 93.3 The Wolf is out of Belmont, NH just north and west of Manchester. Where did you hear it may I ask?
Yes, it probably was 93.3 The Wolf is out of Belmont, NH just north and west of Manchester. Where did you hear it may I ask?
I caught 102.9 Lite FM from Minneapolis while I was on the Pike in the Newton area. I thought that it was WBLM since I was also getting a country station on 101.9 (probably WPOR?). But they were playing some soft rock song, and immediately I thought that WBLM must have flipped formats. But then I caught a commercial set with ads for places in Minneapolis.
It was hard trying to find a clear frequency for my iTrip. My trusty 91.7 just wasn't happening!
Jacko
It was hard trying to find a clear frequency for my iTrip. My trusty 91.7 just wasn't happening!
Jacko
Well, I thought I was quoting from a post by Nik about WBZ showing up in the Chicago book years back. Unfortunately, the quote that appeared (and which I deleted) was from a different post. Frustrating!
Alas, WBZ showing up in the Chicago book is now almost certainly a thing of the past. Not that the Boston signal is diminished in the Windy City or in points nearby, such as Milwaukee, but for the last few years, Polish-language talker WNVR Vernon Hills, a Chicago suburb, has been running 120W-N DA-N from an array consisting of four short towers with massive top loads. The night pattern protects WBZ's 0.5 mV/m 50%-skywave contour within US borders but does not have to do so--and does not do so--in Canada. I have not seen the map of WBZ's 50%-skywave coverage as calculated by the new formulas the FCC has been using for probably about the last 10 years, but my guess is that the calculation places the protected contour in western Ohio or eastern Indiana. I assume that, even in summer, WNVR gets beaten up pretty badly by WBZ's huge skywave. It would be interesting to know WNVR's NIF (nighttime interference-free) contour. However, WNVR is a Class D AM, which means it has no protected nighttime service and I don't think the consulting engineer was under any obligation to do the calculation.
Alas, WBZ showing up in the Chicago book is now almost certainly a thing of the past. Not that the Boston signal is diminished in the Windy City or in points nearby, such as Milwaukee, but for the last few years, Polish-language talker WNVR Vernon Hills, a Chicago suburb, has been running 120W-N DA-N from an array consisting of four short towers with massive top loads. The night pattern protects WBZ's 0.5 mV/m 50%-skywave contour within US borders but does not have to do so--and does not do so--in Canada. I have not seen the map of WBZ's 50%-skywave coverage as calculated by the new formulas the FCC has been using for probably about the last 10 years, but my guess is that the calculation places the protected contour in western Ohio or eastern Indiana. I assume that, even in summer, WNVR gets beaten up pretty badly by WBZ's huge skywave. It would be interesting to know WNVR's NIF (nighttime interference-free) contour. However, WNVR is a Class D AM, which means it has no protected nighttime service and I don't think the consulting engineer was under any obligation to do the calculation.
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furryradio
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nhradioguy: it was on Rt 62 in Middleton, near Essex Aggie and the Essex County house of correction. It was "battling" back and forth with Coast 93.3, the station I usually get. They were doing some kind of syndicated feature where they had gossip about current country stars.
During hot weather there's some kind of ducting thing that goes on where here on the North Shore, I get stations from the Cape, Prov., NH, and Maine on FM --either the ones I normally hear come in clearer, or
I get some I wouldn't normally get (got KC 101 --WKCI, 101.3--from Hamden/New Haven at one point,too, years ago
During hot weather there's some kind of ducting thing that goes on where here on the North Shore, I get stations from the Cape, Prov., NH, and Maine on FM --either the ones I normally hear come in clearer, or
I get some I wouldn't normally get (got KC 101 --WKCI, 101.3--from Hamden/New Haven at one point,too, years ago
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nhradioguy
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Bizarre DX'ing continues this weekend. I also work p/t in a dispatch center in Southern NH and across our DPW frequency, I heard the Cumberland, VA Fire Dept. toned for an alarm activation. We've been hearing them in bits and pieces all weekend, today is the first time we got an entire dispatch across and we're finally able to tell where it was coming from after giving us there calls after dispatch. I've NEVER seen anything quite like this before! I am anxious to see what I can dig up on the broadcast band! Anyone else have any good finds this weekend?
Picked up clear stereo catches of WXRV, WROR, WMKK and Kiss 108 in downtown Portland over the weekend. Usually tough grabs up here.
thought I heard a religious station at 105.9, around Danvers MA, 5 pm today. Radio-locator gives
several possibilities (like an _LPFM_ from NY state). Who knows, could just be someone with one of
those FM re-transmitters
several possibilities (like an _LPFM_ from NY state). Who knows, could just be someone with one of
those FM re-transmitters
raccoonradio said:thought I heard a religious station at 105.9, around Danvers MA, 5 pm today. Radio-locator gives
several possibilities (like an _LPFM_ from NY state). Who knows, could just be someone with one of
those FM re-transmitters
Could be WIGY, licensed to Bath, Maine. They put out a pretty good signal that often gets ducted during weather like this.
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PaulBWalkerJr
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When I was in COnnecticut, my best catch was 96.5 and 97.3 from SIoux Falls, SD
In North MS, my best catch was San Francisco's 680 KNBR!
In North MS, my best catch was San Francisco's 680 KNBR!
>>Could be WIGY, licensed to Bath, Maine. They put out a pretty good signal that often gets ducted during weather like this.
Ooh, you're probably right! Looked them up--actually using calls WBCI-FM now but definitely Christian programming, from info on their site. Years ago (we're talking back in the 80s maybe) I believe you had WIGY as the sister station of WJTO 730 ("Where Jets Take Off") and I think WJTO was a daytimer (maybe still is). I was picking them up on the North Shore of Boston, and they were saying they had to shut down but you could still
hear music on their sister station, and they ran a jingle for "Y-106"...
Ooh, you're probably right! Looked them up--actually using calls WBCI-FM now but definitely Christian programming, from info on their site. Years ago (we're talking back in the 80s maybe) I believe you had WIGY as the sister station of WJTO 730 ("Where Jets Take Off") and I think WJTO was a daytimer (maybe still is). I was picking them up on the North Shore of Boston, and they were saying they had to shut down but you could still
hear music on their sister station, and they ran a jingle for "Y-106"...
BRNout said:raccoonradio said:thought I heard a religious station at 105.9, around Danvers MA, 5 pm today. Radio-locator gives
several possibilities (like an _LPFM_ from NY state). Who knows, could just be someone with one of
those FM re-transmitters
Could be WIGY, licensed to Bath, Maine. They put out a pretty good signal that often gets ducted during weather like this.
Not to nitpick, but since they dropped the classic rock in the mid-1990s, they've been WBCI. I've picked them up once before in Framingham during optimum DX conditions. Even during normal conditions, the signal does a nice job of blanketing the Portland metro despite being a rimshot.
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PaulBWalkerJr
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WJTO is 1KW Day, has night power and a slightly increased amount of Pre Sunrise Auithority.. lemme summons JIBGUY, he'll tell ya\
raccoonradio said:
I think I've heard that WJTO is currently running "flea power" at night, like less than ten watts, though I haven't been up there to hear it, and their night power is not listed in Radio-Locator.
I've noticed that many other former AM daytimers in other areas that now definitely run "flea power" at night are still listed as daytime only in Radio-Locator, though some others (such as WJIB here) do have their low night power listed.
WJTO can come in well in coastal areas of the North Shore, South Shore, and Cape, beaming right across the sea. (As can WGAN, WZAN, etc.)
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