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FM DX in NJ tonight: "Dixie Country 106.7"

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satech

Today around 7:30 PM, my FM reception here in central NJ started to get really bad, with the local NYC stations fading out into static and distant stations starting to come in. On 93.9 I heard WNYC-FM getting drowned out by a Classic Rock station, and then just before 8 PM I heard country music blasting in loud and clear, static free and in stereo on 106.7, completely drowning out WLTW. This turned out to be "Dixie Country 106.7", WOKA-FM from Douglas, Georgia, a 100,000-watt Class C Southern powerhouse. Then just after the Fox News intro at 8:00, they faded out into oblivion and WLTW returned.

I bet a few stations around here got calls from listeners wondering why they had suddenly disappeared and been replaced by a different format with Southern accents!
 
Yeah, the dial is a mess tonight ...
Was picking up stations mostly from Georgia and Florida, except for one from Alabama and one from Arkansas ...
 
I live in Essex County and right now (11pm) I'm getting Cat Country 107.3 from Atlantic City, and Thunder 98.5 from Ocean County both in stereo. Too bad we don't normally get these stations.
 
In North Jersey, I was getting a lot of Florida stations from the Tampa and Jacksonville area. I'm very glad I purchased the portable Insignia HD radio last year to get adjacent stations from the NYC locals.
 
There was a good e-skip and tropo opening last night. The e-skip was stations several hundred miles away. The tropo was stations up to a few hundred miles away.

Sometimes the tropo might help the e-skip reception.
 
There is actually another station that calls itself something similar: "Dixie 105.7" in Elizabeth City, NC. I've actually pulled that station in a few times, mostly while flying over (shhhh)...
 
satech said:
Today around 7:30 PM, my FM reception here in central NJ started to get really bad, with the local NYC stations fading out into static and distant stations starting to come in.
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Thanks to the e-skip, I was getting 105.5/Cape May Court House in Ocean City!

(local radio joke)
 
ccuphl said:
satech said:
Today around 7:30 PM, my FM reception here in central NJ started to get really bad, with the local NYC stations fading out into static and distant stations starting to come in.
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Thanks to the e-skip, I was getting 105.5/Cape May Court House in Ocean City!

(local radio joke)
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That was TROPO, not e-skip. 105.5 regularly makes it to Atlantic City, so I don't think that getting it in Ocean City is considered tropo.
 
More DX today, around 5:00 PM: At first I was listening to 93.9 WNYC-FM when I started hearing some adjacent channel bleed-over on my car radio, so I tuned one channel down and heard "Y-93.7", another 100,000-watt Country station, this time from Salina, Kansas.
 
Yup, there was e-skip this afternoon around that time. It was strong enough to interfere with the locals just 30 miles from NYC.

Tonight there's a strong tropo opening to the south. I was able to hear Hot 100.5 from Virginia Beach clear as a local in NJ.
 
When I heard hip hop on 96.7, I thought Wired was bleeding through, until I hears sweepers for 96.7 The Block all the way from North Carolina.
 
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