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DX Season

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It seems to be DX season! Here in Dayton, I've been picking up 95XIL (Parkersburg, WV), 96.7 WKOV (Jackson, OH), Q955 (Eastern KY), and quite a few Columbus stations. Where are you at and what have you been amazingly grabbing?
 
Surprisingly nothing yet considering the pleasant temperatures and clear sky....but it is interesting when I'm on the road if I have AM 1450 on....depending where I'm at. I have picked up WLYV Ft. Wayne west of Minster, on a Friday afternoon...then WBNS-AM Columbus heading towards Bellefontaine and WMOH Hamilton in Piqua....will keep my ears on.
 
This morning living here in Columbus I was pulling in WXCC 96.5 from Williamson West Virginia, WTFN 98.5 form Kingsport/ Johnson city Tennessee, 95XIL and 102.1 the River from Parkersburg, WVA, WXBW from Gallipolis, WQBE, V100 and Electric 102.7 from Charleston West Virginia.
 
Those nearby market signals being extended by "the ether" is interesting, but a couple of years ago, as I drove northward toward Cols. thru Eastern Kentucky, I enjoyed hearing several stations from Quebec booming in on FM - listening to French pop music and commercials in the middle of hardscrabble coal country was a real treat. Those signals (I recall one was on 93.5, which is usually for lower powered local FMs in the US) stayed with me for at least an hour in the mid-afternoon.

Years ago (early 1970s), on probably two occasions, I recall the Geenie Antenna Rotor picking up TV signals from Florida at my home in Toledo, near Lake Erie. Too bad I was the only one in the family who found that more entertaining than what was actually on the local stations. Also, in the summer, the very powerful signal of channel 24 (we could easily see its tall mast from Point Place) often got a lot of lines in it, as the signal of channel 24 in Erie, Penna came in under it. That was my first lesson in how FCC frequency assignments don't seem to account for issues like ducting of signals across Lake Erie in the summer months. I wonder if the switch to digital TV signals has remedied that, or if they also experience interference from seasonal signal issues on the lake?
 
Yes, we were using the "High School Football Power Increase" waiver... ;D

(See next topic in "Ohio")

I use to hear my station up near Findlay before 93.9 in Columbus Grove came on.
 
Goldilocks94941 said:
That was my first lesson in how FCC frequency assignments don't seem to account for issues like ducting of signals across Lake Erie in the summer months. I wonder if the switch to digital TV signals has remedied that, or if they also experience interference from seasonal signal issues on the lake?
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A couple of weeks ago in Niles, OH just outside of Youngstown I was getting something on every channel from 7-51 with an inside amplified Terk antenna and on some channels depending on how the antenna was pointing I would get two channels. For example, on UHF channel 48 I was getting WSYX from Columbus, OH and when I turned the antenna I was getting WPXI from Pittsburgh.

On FM for a few minutes the Brew at 105.7 in Columbus was coming over semi-local WMJI from Cleveland.
 
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