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FM On Eton/Grundig Satellit 750 Near Mackinac Straits

Using TV Rabbit Ears with telescoping elements adjusted to 28.5 inches each, in a V shape, Horizontal, on top of a display cabinet, the following were identified more than 100 miles away on the Satellit 750.

94.1 WWDK Jackson, MI 40 kW
95.7 WCMB Oscoda, MI 50 kW
101.1 WIXX Green Bay, WI 100 kW
102.1 WLEW-FM Bad Axe, MI 50 kW
106.9 WOOD-FM Muskegon, MI 50 kW

The Satellit 750 is excellent, though if I were designing it, I would have a Super Narrow Bandwidth position for first adjacents close to strong signals. The area now has many signals. Before about 1972, there were only about a dozen stations in the whole Northern Lower Peninsula region, in a half dozen widely spaced cities. In the 1980s, you could drive trough parts where there were only two or three stations receivable under normal conditions. Even Class As from 100 or more miles away would waft in and out though.
 
Great catches! Especially WWDK. And you're absolutely right, the FM band used to be much quieter up there 30+ years ago. I spent some time at the in-laws cabin in the thumb area near Port Austin this past summer and brought some FM DXing gear along. I logged quite a bit, including multiple stations from deep into north-eastern Ontario. (~300 miles). Used a Sony XDR-F1HD and simple 300-ohm folded dipole tacked onto a wooden support so I could rotate it.
 
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