East Coast Tropo

[dx1ng]

This (Thursday) morning here in Poughkeepsie, there was a nice UHF Tropo opening bringing in UHF DTV DX from the Lancaster, Pa and Baltimore, Md areas. I just recently got a DTV converter box and UHF antenna, so this is my first UHF DX season. This morning between about 6:30 and 7:30am, I got the following:
*WGAL-8 (DTV-58) Lancaster
*WBRE-28 (DTV-11) Wilkes-Barre, Pa (with UHF antenna!)
*WYOU-22 (DTV-13) Scranton, Pa (with UHF antenna)
*WJZ-13 (DTV-38) Baltimore
*WPMT-43 (DTV-47) York, Pa
*WMAR-2 (DTV-52) Baltimore
*WLYH-15 (DTV-23) Lancaster
*WBAL-11 (DTV-59) Baltimore
*WUTB-24 (DTV-41) Baltimore

Normally I only get UHF DTV reception to 40-70 miles, so it's quite amazing when stations over 200 miles away come through with a perfect picture!! I'm starting to really like DTV!

Look out for some possible good coastal tropo later tonight and early Friday along the East coast between the New York City area and Eastern North Carolina. That might well happen with the unusually warm weather we're having.

 

[stormy01]

Look out for some possible good coastal tropo later tonight and early Friday along the East coast between the New York City area and Eastern North Carolina. That might well happen with the unusually warm weather we're having.

I'm reading that these propagation forecast maps are quite accurate: http://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo.html, so FM and TV DXers might want to check these out...even if the forecast for your region might be so-so or non existant, I would suggest to scan the 'dials' occasionally. I agree with dx1ng that the unusually warm weather does tend to produce 'tropo' conditions for DX...

 

[nd2023]

In NJ, I got stations from Baltimore, DC, and Norfolk. 95.5 PGC was coming in all day yesterday.

 

[Raider57]

This morning in Northern NJ I was getting WKCI, WPLR from New Haven clearest I have received in a tropo, Some Philly and South Jersey stations and WRCN from Riverhead, NY

 

[evolve991]

This evening in northeast MD right on the Penn/Del lines I heard 96Rock out of Salisbury and 96X out of Hampton Roads,VA. Now this may not seem all that impressive but my truck radio gets lousy reception. WRNR/Grasonville is a challenge. I did not have the chance to search for more rare signals.

 

[ddsparxx]

Early Thursday morning at 4 am I heard FM coastal stations from NJ down to NC in northern VA. Including Class A WKHI 107.7 near Salisbury, MD (instead of 50 kW WWWT 107.7 in Warrenton, VA (40 miles W-SW of DC)), WFPG 96.9, WZXL 100.7, WSJO 104.9 all in the Atlantic City, NJ area, WJBR 99.5 Wilmington, DE (mixing in with DC's Hot 99.5), and WUSH 106.1 class A from the Norfolk, VA area.

 

[nd2023]

Friday morning, I was getting stations from the Delmarva and Norfolk area very strong, as well as Beach 104 and 94.5 WCMS from the Outer Banks. I managed to receive Mix 97.7 out of the Garden City, SC (near Myrtle Beach) all the way in NJ! It was fighting with Eagle 97.7 but I heard a "Mix 97.7" while stopped at a red light as well as a CHR format. That ranks among my longest tropo catches. I'm pretty sure it wasn't the station from Poughkeepsie since I wasn't getting anything else from the Hudson Valley, but I was getting strong reception of North Carolina.

 

[Tincap]

This morning, from my location 60km (40 miles) due south of Ottawa ON, 91.1 CJRT (Toronto) was crowding in on my Classic FM WJNY 90.9 (Watertown NY) signal. Tuning up the band, I found 97.7 CHTZ (St. Catharines ON - 185 miles) walking all over Montreal's CHOM, strong and clean, at 97.75MHz. Near the bottom of the band, Syracuse's 6kW 88.3 WAER could also be heard. It's too bad that MYFM in Napanee ON, now occupies 88.7, as I'm sure 89X from Windsor ON, would have made its presence heard here, as it has done in the past...

BG