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Folly Beach FM bandscan

charlestondxman said:
This is an FM band scan that I did about a month ago from Folly Beach, SC, just south of the Charleston area. I picked the perfect night to take a walk on the pier, there was great DX. I heard 3 FMs from Roanoke, VA (89.1, 94.9, and 99.1) plus several other treats. Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sha42XN4eUA
Click to expand...

Thanks for the time and trouble to post the You-Tube.... now for some dumb questions from someone who is pretty ignorant about Folly Beach.

Is the pier over the intercoastal waterway or over the Atlantic? Also how far out were you on the pier and about what time of the night was this?

At any rate, getting stations from Roanoke Virginia was quite a catch, even I know that's a good distance from the Charleston area! :)

I'm assuming you've done some AM dx'ing there in the past and probably Jacksonville's 600 and 690 came in well, how about the Savannah and Brunswick AM stations.? Just wondering at night with lower powers and directional patterns in place, the night time reception of the Savannah, Brunswick and Jax station would be very different
than the day.

I would imagine most of the NYC stations would come in well, unless the Cuban interference is too bad there.

drt,
full of ---- questions!
 
Pier is over the Atlantic. I was on the parking lot of the pier, a couple feet above the ground. The pier is very long (over a thousand feet). Roanoke was just a one time catch. I've heard 99.1 several times, but the other two (plus 92.3 WXLK that I heard earlier in the day) I had never gotten.

Daytime reception is really good of all those Savannah and Jax stations, but you can forget about it at night. None of the signals come in, except maybe WTKS 1290 with 5kw. WBMQ 630 also can come in, but they cut their night power a few years back from 1 or 5kw to 47 watts. Night reception is really a hodgepodge depending on the weather and the time of year.

Tonight, the Chicago signals were blasting in (even 670), other nights you can hear all the New York clears, and other nights the band is sort of closed up.
 
Thanks, I sent you a PM with a few more questions, but if your email is anything like mine; anything from this board goes directly to SPAM or the junk mail folder.

The 670 out of Chicago coming in w/o the Cuban interference was a surprise; I can't ever recall being able to receive 670 out of Chicago here; 670 is a battle between Miami and Cuba during the day and then at night; strictly Cuba, since the 670 in Miami goes from 50,000 watts down to 1,000 watts!
 
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