First and foremost the 390 was able to provide a station either side of the 88.7 and 106.9 that broadcast from an adjacent ridge. The bulk of the signals received were from Asheville/Greenville/Spartanburg/Anderson area. Long distance included respectable signal strengths from Knoxville, Charlotte, Winston-Salem/High Point/Greensboro, and Columbia, S.C; there was little from the north. Co-channel issues while moving the antenna had deeper choices including 97.5 shared by Knoxville and Columbia and 104.7 shared by Charlotte and Columbia. The far away award goes to WQDR Raleigh that produced a 01 on the db meter.
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DXing with the Tecsun PL-390 atop Mt Mitchell, NC.
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radiorob2.0 said:
How many miles to Raleigh from where you were?
radioman148 said:
Roughly 200 miles.
radiorob2.0 said:
Wow--that's a good distance.
I understand that monster WMIT 106.9 is up there on Mount Mitchell (it's part of the call letters 
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I once heard they had something like 325,000 watts and you could hear them rock solid clear to Atlanta.. Even though they're now about a 10th of that output now, they still have a signal to be reckoned with.....
)I once heard they had something like 325,000 watts and you could hear them rock solid clear to Atlanta.. Even though they're now about a 10th of that output now, they still have a signal to be reckoned with.....
This is a pleasant surprise...I live under a 5KW FM and when it's off, the Tecsun is hot as a firecracker. When the FM is on, the sensitivity is greatly reduced. I would have figured the Tecsun to be deaf with WMIT nearby. The selectivity doesn't surprise me at all. Awesome little radio as long as the nearest FM transmitter is a few miles away.
Bongwater said:I understand that monster WMIT 106.9 is up there on Mount Mitchell (it's part of the call letters
I once heard they had something like 325,000 watts and you could hear them rock solid clear to Atlanta.. Even though they're now about a 10th of that output now, they still have a signal to be reckoned with.....
WMIT is North Carolina's oldest FM radio station, having signed on in 1941 as W41MM, licensed to Winston-Salem (105 miles east of the Clingman's Dome transmitter and fed by phone lines) at 44.1 FM, at which time it broadcast with 50,000 watts. The station later moved to the new FM dial at 97.3 and finally the current 106.9 dial position.
After a brief period off-air from 1950-51, WMIT signed on again with an ERP of 325,000 watts. I remember reading some literature on the station's early days claiming that it could be heard in at least seven states on a regular basis.
The station's present-day coverage is still phenomenal, covering several radio markets.
BobOnTheJob said:
There was some distance between my listening post and their transmitter locations. At the same time it was a surprise to have adjacent channel choices around those two frequency as close as I was and practically line of site.
My other listening location was Waterock Knob, North Carolina near Waynesville, about sixty miles southeast of Mt Mitchell. That point was about 400 feet lower that Mt. Mitchell. My reception there was focused northwest to almost southeast. Beyond Knoxville, Tri-Cities, Asheville I had strong signals from most of the Atlanta FM's. The furthest signal from the south came from Augusta. The furthest catch from the west was WGSQ Cookeville, Tennessee.
On the way back I was reminded of the Cumberland Plateau and its potential. There was still a car radio preset for 99.9 and it was Kiss-FM Asheville, a little over 130 miles away. Despite lower power and slightly further distance 88.7 WNCW had an occasional signal. There may have been tropo involved but I seem to remember that stretch of I-40 was good line of site in all directions.
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