Florida FM in CT

[rcs]

The band was open this morning and I heard FM stations from Florida on 89.1, 90.9, 91.1, 94.1 and 97.1 Mhz in the Hartford area. This was via sporadic e propagation probably related to the large storm cells in the Va area. Even though the signals were very strong at time and in full stereo, I didn't get any of them to show any sign of HD. As I write this around 1pm the band is still unstable and I'm hearing the Fla station on 94.1 weakly fighting it out with Phili and Prov.

 

[radiolives]

What formats are on 94.1 and 97.1 out of Flordia?

 

[WTIC]

actually i received WHPT 102.5 Tampa Florida around 11:15am for about 30 mins so well that it actually locked into HD for a brief moment on my JVC HD car radio! displayed artist info and that HD-2 was available. by the time i kicked it over to HD2 i only heard a few drum beats and it unlocked reverting back to analog. 97.1 Vero Beach was also indistinguishable from a local CT station for a while.

was some of the strongest E-Skip ive experienced in recent memory

i wonder if anybody in FLA picked up CT stations

 

[CTListener]

i wonder if anybody in FLA picked up CT stations

Does E-skip work both ways? Consistently?

Nothing on the Tampa/St. Pete board about unusual reception down that way, and the latest FM-related posting on the DX board is about tropo in Cincinnati.

 

[Adam Rivers]

Here's what I heard yesterday:

1035 WKGR 98.7 Ft. Pierce FL - RDS "Gater"
1035 WAVW 92.7 Stuart FL - RDS "WAVE927"
1036 WSMR 89.1 Sarasota FL - Life 89.1
1039 WFLM 104.7 White City FL - The Hottest R&B 104.7 The Flame
1043 WARO 94.5 Naples FL - ad for swflservicedirectory.com or soemthing like that
1046 WIKX 92.9 Charlotte Harbor FL - female jock break, mention of WIKX.com
1052 WKCP 89.7 Miami FL - 89.7 "classical south florida"
1055 WJHM 101.9 Daytona Beach FL - 102 Jamz
1106 WLTQ 92.1 Venice FL - ads for Venice
1107 WSJT 94.1 Lakeland FL - PI WSJT
1108 WAMR 107.5 Miami FL - RDS AMOR 107; PI WAMR
1111 WHYI 100.7 Ft. Lauderdale FL - Y100; Onerepublic "Stop and stare"
1112 WLYF 101.5 Miami FL - Lite FM

 

[jlehmann]

i wonder if anybody in FLA picked up CT stations

Does E-skip work both ways? Consistently?

Nothing on the Tampa/St. Pete board about unusual reception down that way, and the latest FM-related posting on the DX board is about tropo in Cincinnati.

Yes it does work both ways. Seems like there just aren't many people posting from FL that are interested in DXing.

 

[nd2023]

It's easier for us to pick up the 100000 watt class C's that have only 1 station for over 100 miles on the same frequency. It's harder to identify the 50000 watt class B's in our area that are spaced close together. With e-skip, the most powerful station wins, and height doesn't matter. For example, 95.7 in our region has 3 Class B's within 200 miles, WBEN, WKSS, WZID, all of which would interfere with each other in Florida.

 

[RadioMan203]

I was listening to DRC-FM tonight and it was getting creamed by WOWI in Norfolk. I was really surprised on how long and how solid the signal was!

 

[FlatTop]

WBLM could be heard over DRC-FM in northeastern CT just before midnight tonight, as well...

 

[KML0224]

I picked up WJMN-FM 94.5 of Boston (JAM'N 94.5) last night like it was a local, save for a couple of minutes around 11:30 or so. I was also getting a station from Cape Cod over semi-local WRKI-FM 95.1 of Brookfield/Danbury.

 

[Ozman]

I'll know when it is very strong. 92.3 K-rock with have hickups and skips here in Greenwich CT as well as all NYC stations which is rare
Ive been eve getting WCCC a few times here and there down here. too bad not everyday

PS I wanna find out who the hell is running that 103.1 in stamford... I'd so make my own LP Fm station with the wasted frequency. It is just so irritating that it is going to waste!

wonder who's getiingthe power bill on that? :-\

 

[MarcB]

This past Monday morning (the 7th) I was getting Florida in Southington, CT. Lasted several hours. One of those cheaply run stations down there was running Friday's morning show on Monday. Several times I heard the host mention that he was happy it was finally Friday.

 

[larnov]

I never heard of a FM signal pickup from over 1000 miles away. But I guess it could happen Back sometime about 27 or 28 years ago I picked up 2 Kansas city TV stations in Palm Bay Florida, (Central east coast) in the middle of the daytime. The only reason I did not pick up a 3rd station was because KC other VHF station was on Channel 9 and orlando has a strong Channel 9.

 

[jlehmann]

I never heard of a FM signal pickup from over 1000 miles away. But I guess it could happen Back sometime about 27 or 28 years ago I picked up 2 Kansas city TV stations in Palm Bay Florida, (Central east coast) in the middle of the daytime. The only reason I did not pick up a 3rd station was because KC other VHF station was on Channel 9 and orlando has a strong Channel 9.

It's very common, 1000 or so mile e skip happens usually at least 10 times during the summer.

 

[KML0224]

I could have sworn I heard Jacksonville last night. It sounded like either 96.9 or 97.1 FM, with the vioceover guy you used to get on I-95 (Brookfield/Danbury) for years.

 

[w9wi]

I never heard of a FM signal pickup from over 1000 miles away. But I guess it could happen Back sometime about 27 or 28 years ago I picked up 2 Kansas city TV stations in Palm Bay Florida, (Central east coast) in the middle of the daytime. The only reason I did not pick up a 3rd station was because KC other VHF station was on Channel 9 and orlando has a strong Channel 9.

The two stations you did pick up were WDAF channel 4 and KCTV channel 5? (actually I guess it was still KCMO on channel 5 at the time?)

I think even if the Orlando station on channel 9 had been off the air you wouldn't have seen the Kansas City station on that channel. It is VERY, VERY rare for sporadic-E propagation to affect TV channels higher than 6. (I've been DXing seriously for 20 years and have only seen skip above channel 6 *once*)

But skip on the lower channels is, as Jeff says, an every-summer event. It may be a lot harder to *detect* next summer, with most of the U.S. analog stations off the air. I think what most of us serious DXers are hoping for is either a dialful of foreign stations with no domestic interference, or a much easier time logging the few U.S. digital stations that will operate below channel 7.

Oh, speaking of KCMO channel 5 in Kansas City... their old FM station (no longer co-owned but IIRC still on the same tower) was coming into this location near Nashville all night last night via tropospheric refraction...