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Furthest Philadelphia signals you have recieved

MikefromDelaware said:
I've listened to Radio Times on WHYY-FM and Marty Moss-Cohan (sp) gets quite a few callers from the mid west, and the west coast, New England, etc. Obviously they're listening online
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FYI...Radio Times is carried on several NPR stations as well as NPR Now on SiriusXM. Given its definite Philadelphia orientation, it must have a great enough appeal for NPR to be distributing it outside of Philly. It is probably the BEST talk show produced in Philly IMHO.
 
I didn't realize other NPR stations carry Radio Times or that it is heard on Sirius/XM. I'd agree, Radio Times is a high quality show, and I'd agree that it is the best locally produced talk show in Philly or anywhere else in the Delaware Valley. It has a "national" sound or feel to it, vs a "local yokel" sound or feel in spite it being a local show. Marty could go national any time she chooses, but she and WHYY-FM serve the Philly and Delaware Valley area by keeping part of her show local in its focus. Radio Times is one of WHYY-FM's crown jewels.
 
I've tuned in a few Phillies west coast games late at night here in Central Florida on WPHT 1210, just south of Disney World with a little radio Walkman. I have to position the radio just so, but it was reasonably reliable on the nights the Phillies were in San Diego and Arizona. The signal fades in and out, but intelligible about 70% of the time, with a Spanish music signal trying to beat it out. On the few occasions I've been in the car after dark, WPHT comes in about as well there too.
 
On the FM side, 94.5 WPST/Trenton carries amazingly well, even in non-tropo conditions. I have picked it up several times along the Westchester/Connecticut border on I-95.
 
ScottBurns said:
On the FM side, 94.5 WPST/Trenton carries amazingly well, even in non-tropo conditions. I have picked it up several times along the Westchester/Connecticut border on I-95.
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And I cannot get it here in Chester County, PA because of that station in Lancaster.
 
John Holcomb II said:
Just think, if WFME (94.7 in Newark, NJ) was off, WPST would probably carry further.
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Obviously a matter of preference. When I hear today's CHR, I sometimes wish that the world had already ended. :D
 
I wasn't talkin about the format per say, just in the interest of pickin up a signal.
For instance, I heard that during the black out in NYC, people could get Philly FM's.
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I wasn't talkin about the format per say, just in the interest of pickin up a signal.
For instance, I heard that during the black out in NYC, people could get Philly FM's
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Correct....the day of the blackout, I was able to pickup some of the Philly stations quite clearly about 15 miles outside of NYC.....I remember listening to Y-100 and being shocked......I also was able to pickup stations like WBSX 97.9 in Hazleton clearly since WSKQ was off.

Before HD radio, many Philly channels made it clearly as far north as Morristown before they became unlistenable......There were even spots up in the hills of Oakland where you can receive stations like WYSP & WMMR everyday.....However, that is no longer the case with HD on WPAT-FM & WNYC-FM.

Just think, if WFME (94.7 in Newark, NJ) was off, WPST would probably carry further
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A few years ago there was a power outage in West Orange which took WFME off the air.....I was in the area at the time and was able to pick up WPST like a local right under the WFME transmitter......Since WFME does not broadcast in HD, you can receive it with lots of static throughout Northeast Jersey however, pirates have taken over 94.5 and you can no longer hear WPST at all.
 
During the 1977 blackout in NYC and the suburbs, I listened to WSTW crystal clear in Briarcliff Manor (131 miles). They were then an easy listening outlet with a deep-pipes syndicated voice.
 
I havce an antenna on my roophtop in Bensalem, and am no longer able to get New York unless trop comes.
when WPRB is off the air, WKTU can be picked up without splatter.
I have to put my tuner on a setting with narower filters, to get WKTU with some splater .
John
 
One night while vacationing in Savannah, GA last June, I took in a Savannah Sand Gnats MiLB game. Driving back to the hotel afterward, I listened the the Phils and Yanks on 1210 (occasionally flipflopping to 880).

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I get WPHT steady during the day in Poughkeepsie and Kingston, NY. WIP comes through occasionally during the day but is usually blacked by WSNG in Connecticut. Before we had a local on 93.3 and 93.7, I could often get WMMR and WSTW, especially in summer and early fall, or "Power 99".
 
I don't know what everyone's fascination on this post is about. It's been mentioned and discussed many times before. There's 2 signals that get out in the US at night. WPHT and KYW. KYW is strong north to south. It can be reached down roughly to Miami area and was stronger if or when other regional or local stations were granted night time or extended power over the years. Otherwise it would've reached the Bahamas and possibly Cuba. I've picked it up noth into Canada (Montreal and further.
WPHT is more omni directional....traveling out far west as Bartlesville, Okla. towards 40 miles toward Tulsa and into Quebec going North and , and down south into S. Florida. I've driven and monitored these signals even though it was a long time. WPEN, WIP, WFIL, and the rest are directional in most cases to Jersey , so if you pick up chatter as far as Harrisburgh, your doing good. WNWR before dusk and sunset will travel up toward the Pocono Mountains toward Bangor...(that's PA.) before sign off. AM 640 ???? I wasn't flexible went it signed on, or I wasn't around, so I don't know, but assuming no farther then FIL , WIP or anywhere else...due to a station in Akron, OH. So to bring this to a close as we explored the furthest AM signal in Philly...if you want the signals to go farther.....INTERNET.
 
In my car radio, I can get WIP, WFIL, and KYW just fine when I was in Hershey last (day and night). WPEN was very weak in the day, but at night, it was dead air at night. WPHT is dead air in the day there but barely perceptable at night.
 
John Holcomb II said:
I havce an antenna on my roophtop in Bensalem, and am no longer able to get New York unless trop comes.
when WPRB is off the air, WKTU can be picked up without splatter.
I have to put my tuner on a setting with narower filters, to get WKTU with some splater .
John
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I'm surprised at that, my car radio can get the NYC stations in Bensalem anytime.
 
When I was living in SW Virginia several years ago, KYW used to blast into my region. WPHT - not so much. I was never able to pull in other Philly stations down there.

Growing up in the 60s, in my home area of SE New York (Orange Country), during the day WPHT (then WCAU) was a regular as was WFIL and, on occasion, WIBG. KYW (then WRCV) was nowhere to be found because of their tight null in that direction that protected 1050 in NYC. WIP was sometimes heard, but was VERY weak. In retrospect, that was a great place to live for a budding DXer. I was just far enough away from New York City that adjacent channels to NYC stations were not difficult to pull in. The only local channel was 1340 WALL, so it was easy to grab stations from pretty much every direction.

On FM, the only Philly station I would pull regularly was WMMR. When there was troping, however, 99.5 in Wilmington would regularly block 99.5 in New York City.

With my father being a TV engineer, for TV we had a huge log periodic antenna with a preamp and rotator, so I could get all of the Philly VHF stations (3, 6, 10, and 12). I vividly remember Ch 12 signing on about 5PM and giving their transmitter location as Glassboro, NJ.
 
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