-
Get involved.
We want your input!
Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.
After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.
After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/
Thanks in advance and have fun!
RadioDiscussions Administrators
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
DX opening in new England today
- Thread starter wpxt
- Start date
I use to receive all those signals there regularly. I lived near the Cumberland Farms and Sanford House of Pizza.
One June morning listening to David O'Leary 10 years or so back; I was picking up WBOS on Route One in Scarborough near Oak Hill. Now that signal was gone by the time I reached the hill descending to the cemetary at Crash Corner.
One June morning listening to David O'Leary 10 years or so back; I was picking up WBOS on Route One in Scarborough near Oak Hill. Now that signal was gone by the time I reached the hill descending to the cemetary at Crash Corner.
wpxt said:Just wanted to alert people in New England that right now is a possible good time for dxing because I received:
WBOS
WJMN
WBZ-FM
WZLX
WKLB
WODS
WBMX
WROR
WMJX
and WXKS here in Sanford, ME.
When I lived in Portland ME, I was able to get most of the stations above from the Western Prom near MMC. I was able to get Jamn 94 and Kiss 108 from my house in North Deering Near WGME TV Studios.wpxt said:Just wanted to alert people in New England that right now is a possible good time for dxing because I received:
WBOS
WJMN
WBZ-FM
WZLX
WKLB
WODS
WBMX
WROR
WMJX
and WXKS here in Sanford, ME.
I live in Tampa now and about a yr ago I was sitting in my yard one night around 11pm and pulled in WBZ AM!
Re: DX opening in New England today
My family has a lakeside cottage 100 miles north of Boston in East Wakefield, NH, near the Maine border, and most of those stations come in most nights and early mornings. I used to be able to hear Howard Stern nearly every morning when he was on 104.1 WBCN (now WBMX). Luckily there are no 103.9 or 104.3 stations nearby so WBCN was fairly reliable. In cases where there was a local signal adjacent to a Boston frequency, those stations only came in sometimes.
And on TV, some nights and early mornings, Boston stations came in regularly at the cottage in analog days. Channel 7 WHDH and Channel 2 WGBH were the most reliable signals before the switch to digital. Nowadays, WHDH DT 42 and WBZ DT 30 come in frequently with WFXT DT 31 also fairly reliable, followed by WGBH DT 19 and WCVB DT 20. WHDH and WBZ come in about 50% of the time at night and early mornings, a little less for the other three stations. Our local stations, WMTW 8, WMUR 9, WENH 11, WGME 38 and WCSH 44 all come in fine around the clock, except when the sun is shining in the middle of the afternoon, these stations except for WENH drop out once in a while.
And since the cottage is lakeside, our elevation isn't very good but we have a large Radio Shack antenna on a rotor on the roof and an antenna booster. And I have an inexpensive Magnovox digital converter. But the Boston FM signals can be picked up on a good boom box with a telescoping antenna.
Gregg
[email protected]
My family has a lakeside cottage 100 miles north of Boston in East Wakefield, NH, near the Maine border, and most of those stations come in most nights and early mornings. I used to be able to hear Howard Stern nearly every morning when he was on 104.1 WBCN (now WBMX). Luckily there are no 103.9 or 104.3 stations nearby so WBCN was fairly reliable. In cases where there was a local signal adjacent to a Boston frequency, those stations only came in sometimes.
And on TV, some nights and early mornings, Boston stations came in regularly at the cottage in analog days. Channel 7 WHDH and Channel 2 WGBH were the most reliable signals before the switch to digital. Nowadays, WHDH DT 42 and WBZ DT 30 come in frequently with WFXT DT 31 also fairly reliable, followed by WGBH DT 19 and WCVB DT 20. WHDH and WBZ come in about 50% of the time at night and early mornings, a little less for the other three stations. Our local stations, WMTW 8, WMUR 9, WENH 11, WGME 38 and WCSH 44 all come in fine around the clock, except when the sun is shining in the middle of the afternoon, these stations except for WENH drop out once in a while.
And since the cottage is lakeside, our elevation isn't very good but we have a large Radio Shack antenna on a rotor on the roof and an antenna booster. And I have an inexpensive Magnovox digital converter. But the Boston FM signals can be picked up on a good boom box with a telescoping antenna.
Gregg
[email protected]
received z 103.5 and cljs from NS canada, and WCLZ, WJAB, and WYNZ tonight on my way into Bar Harbor.
N
necrat123
Guest
DCBurns said:Not much of a DX report. Those signals travel up here on a regular basis. A good antenna and they are almost local.
Any time a station is picked up well outside of it's predicted contour, it's DX.
None of those station's 54dbu contours even cross the Maine border, much less up in Sanford.
Those are good pickups WPXT.
I am about 30 miles west of Sanford. I don't get too excited picking up station within 90 air miles. With a good antenna they all come in pretty well. Also, with a good antenna you can get some really good DX. Some time ago I grabbed a couple of signals from CT and down around Springfield. Been a while since I have done any hard core listening.
When you start getting signals from New Orleans, Houston and Wichita, THAT'S DX'ing! Happened to me one afternoon in Syracuse NY in 1979. A duct formed in Louisiana and migrated slowly through Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas during the day. It was like a radio wormhole.
PTR
PTR
promotherobot said:When you start getting signals from New Orleans, Houston and Wichita, THAT'S DX'ing! Happened to me one afternoon in Syracuse NY in 1979. A duct formed in Louisiana and migrated slowly through Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas during the day. It was like a radio wormhole.
PTR
That's actually E Skip, and is quite common during the summer.
- Status
- This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.