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DX- KBIG 104.3 in Austin, Texas.

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wild949austin

Hello LA. I just thought Id let you know here in Austin, I was experiencing heavy tropo conditions here, and I was picking up stations from as far as Baton Rough, Louisiana and Little Rock, Arkansas on my car radio.

At about 2:10AM this morning, I was driving in Bee Cave, a suburb of Austin, and was picking up Adult Contemporary music on 104.3, which is also a Spanish station, 104.3 KLQB, here in Austin. I listen to station identification, and it's 104.3 My FM, KBIG.

I had it in my car for about 10 minutes, until KLQB came back in.

I never thought I'd hear a signal this far away....
 
I remember a few years back....I picked up a station here in the LA area from Sweetwater, Texas...I think it was 95.9 FM.
 
I don't get it? What is tropo interference and/or tropo conditions? How in the heck is a station in Austin able to pick up a station in L.A.?!
 
Well, things like this always happen. If you ever heard of ham or amateur radio well we get it all the time on 145Mhz. I think one year we had a check in from Alaska on our local repeater which is located in Wrightwood,Ca.
 
musicfan101 said:
SuperRadioFan said:
musicfan101 said:
I don't get it? What is tropo interference and/or tropo conditions? How in the heck is a station in Austin able to pick up a station in L.A.?!
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Gotta love those geniuses who created Google.....

http://www.dxinfocentre.com/propagation/tr-modes.htm
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Gotta love people who have lives and don't take time going crazy and/or worrying about picking up stations from the middle of nowhere... ;)
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Gotta love those techno-geeks that sat up at nights and gave us Google. I used to love DXing the AM band and as a kid I was treated to TV DX when in Springfield Ohio we were picking up Channel 2 from Havana Cuba before WLW-D came on the air. Yes there was a time when TV stations signed off and didn't have all of those info-mercials. Though I would love them to bring back those all night movies with the zany hosts like the late Bob Shreve and his rubber chicken.

To each his own as the old lady said as she kissed the cow. ;D
 
You can understand AM dx-ing in terms of atmospheric bounce, but FM and TV dx seems just plain weird. Although I did get a TV station live over the air from Mexico City in San Diego once. I dx'ed as a kid, it was fun. Still, on long drives in the country at night, as long as you are paying good attention to the road, its fun to see what you can bring in.
 
Not so much any more on the drives at night. Since AM is not the dominant radio medium, there is almost nothing but sports and syndication at night. Not a whole lot of variety. There are a few interesting things to hear at night (KTNN comes to mind) but they ar e few and far between.
 
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