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DX question

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Lawppy

This morning while I was DX'ing in Southern Michigan, I had my antenna turned to the west. I stopped at a very strong station on 103.7 playing pop music. I was thinking MAYBE it was WXSS from Milwaukee. When this song ended, I heard a liner that said 'Star 104, with Warvel and Curry in the morning'. So I got a 100% positive confirmation on this being WRTS from Erie, PA. I tried other Erie and Cleveland area stations and got nothing at all. Even when I turned my antenna in that direction.

Can any DX pros tell me why this happens? How you can get a very strong signal from one station in a geographical area, with the antenna turned the opposite direction, but nothing else? I know Star 104 isn't the only 50kw station in Erie.

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What kind of antenna do you have? If the signal is really booming, then yeah, there's probably no way to null it out completely.

As for why nothing else was coming in, it could be because the tropo path you were in was particularly narrow, and the other broadcast antennas from Erie didn't fall within that path. Or, it could've been because the other frequencies used in Erie have stations closer to you--in the same general direction--and therefore overpowering them.
 
I have a plain ol' Radio Shack antenna in the loft of my barn. It isn't much of anything.

As for the other Erie stations, I probably never get 99.9 WXKC because of WKKO Toledo, which is about 80 miles away from here. However, the closest 103.7 to the east is WCKY from Tiffin, OH, which is 105 miles away. So it's not as strong as WKKO. Other Cleveland stations that I usually get along with Erie were being blocked by Detroit this morning.<P ID="signature">______________
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712 stations and counting</P>
 
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