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Great FM catches

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Radiodx65

Last month while driving around Ft Collins, CO I picked up WRKN Nash FM 92.3 in New Orleans and WUUU U92.3 in Salt Lake.
 
Welcome to the board! Definitely a couple of nice catches there. Were both of these on the same day? Same time (or close)? New Orleans would definitely be e skip. Salt Lake could be tropo, although I think that could be a little too far for that.
 
It was an early Saturday afternoon. The stations were fighting it out. One minute Nash FM would come in clear then U92 would come in clear. The best eskip for me was in Rome, GA on a late summer afternoon. I was getting stations for Denver. 97.3 KBCO, 93.3 KTCL, 106.7 KAZY, and many others from Denver. Stations from Atlanta (65 miles away) were not even coming in.......
 
Unless he meant 92.3 WYNU Jackson, TX "U92" with classic hits.

-crainbebo
 
That's what I meant...KUUU....I was getting so many other catches that day but I was driving my wife crazy so I stopped dxing.....
 
Great tropo from Atlanta......Sometimes you can get FM stations from Panama city area if you are on a hill in Atlanta that faces south early in the morning.... that's around 285 miles
 
Probably the one FM catch I still remember goes back to the early 1960's when I was just beginning to DX on FM using a table model FM-only Silvertone (sold by Sears) radio and experimenting with various things to use for an antenna. I wound up using a length of copper wire and running it to the attic of my house. Back then, of course, there were fewer FM stations on the band and not many with any great power. On several occasions, I picked up WKEE, 100.5-FM, from Huntington, West Virginia which was simulcasting its AM sister station which was at 800 k.c. It had a top 40 format and all of its I.D.'s referred to that 800 frequency. In using an AM radio, I never picked up the AM station, but that FM outlet came in loudly here several times.
 
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