I can think of three -- two back near JFK and one up here
1. Near the Airport one afternoon, with a 6-tube Zenith barbershop radio and a 4-foot NRC loop, I managed a downright evil null of local WPAT 930 and heard (in order of loudness): 920 stations WJAR Providencs, upstate WGHQ Kingston, and the long-sought WTTM Trenton NJ. WTTM was obliged to send nothing northeast because of those three aforementioned stations. It was the only time I ever heard WTTM there.
2. With the same loop, tilted, and the same Zenith -- and with a few folks holding hands and their breath in some bizarre Twister-game ritual so as not to disturb the anti-matter effect -- goodbye to semi-local WVOX 1460. Hello WJJZ Mt. Holly NJ (an ad for the Burlington County Times was the clue). WJJZ 1460 was another station that tried mightily to avoid DXer ears to the northeast. Harrumph.
3. NE PA for this last one. I was actually trying to hear the clear-channel French CJBC out of Toronto one night. But there was this grumble, in English, way under them. This was too good to pass. It took the loop lying on the floor sideways, and the GE SR II lying on the coils, with some tilting and some sacroliliac grunts to obliterate CJBC completely and get an ID from a weak but steady WAMO 860 out of Pittsburgh.
Any similar episodes here? Would love to hear 'em!
1. Near the Airport one afternoon, with a 6-tube Zenith barbershop radio and a 4-foot NRC loop, I managed a downright evil null of local WPAT 930 and heard (in order of loudness): 920 stations WJAR Providencs, upstate WGHQ Kingston, and the long-sought WTTM Trenton NJ. WTTM was obliged to send nothing northeast because of those three aforementioned stations. It was the only time I ever heard WTTM there.
2. With the same loop, tilted, and the same Zenith -- and with a few folks holding hands and their breath in some bizarre Twister-game ritual so as not to disturb the anti-matter effect -- goodbye to semi-local WVOX 1460. Hello WJJZ Mt. Holly NJ (an ad for the Burlington County Times was the clue). WJJZ 1460 was another station that tried mightily to avoid DXer ears to the northeast. Harrumph.
3. NE PA for this last one. I was actually trying to hear the clear-channel French CJBC out of Toronto one night. But there was this grumble, in English, way under them. This was too good to pass. It took the loop lying on the floor sideways, and the GE SR II lying on the coils, with some tilting and some sacroliliac grunts to obliterate CJBC completely and get an ID from a weak but steady WAMO 860 out of Pittsburgh.
Any similar episodes here? Would love to hear 'em!
