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heard something weird today.

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radioguy02038

i was in my town of franklin mass when i pushed seek on my jvc hd radio in my car and heard 102.9 wblm portland maine which is a rock station and it was in hd and loud and clear they play a good rock selection better then whjy,zlx,bcn combined was wondering if anyone else notcied this as well. heard it all the way to rockland and back though few times faded out then completely gone once i returned home..


regards
 
radioguy02038 said:
i was in my town of franklin mass when i pushed seek on my jvc hd radio in my car and heard 102.9 wblm portland maine which is a rock station and it was in hd and loud and clear they play a good rock selection better then whjy,zlx,bcn combined was wondering if anyone else notcied this as well. heard it all the way to rockland and back though few times faded out then completely gone once i returned home..
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There's been some "skip" happening on FM and TV frequencies over the past few days. It happens occasionally from time to time. Though WBLM may be normally be heard spotty around greater Boston (when the "Choice FM" pirate is off the air) and somewhat better along the coast and the North Shore, it sounds like a little "skip" brought them down to the metro-south today.
 
Last night in N. Reading I put my car stereo on 97.9 for the purpose of rebroadcasting my sat. radio
and a station from Portland came in loud and clear (WJBQ "hit music 97.9")
 
Eli Polonsky said:
There's been some "skip" happening on FM and TV frequencies over the past few days. It happens occasionally from time to time. Though WBLM may be normally be heard spotty around greater Boston (when the "Choice FM" pirate is off the air) and somewhat better along the coast and the North Shore, it sounds like a little "skip" brought them down to the metro-south today.
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Actually it was tropospheric ducting, or as I usually call it, "trop." This is not to be confused with E Skip, which usually brings in stations from 600-1500 miles away, for short periods of time, during the summer.
 
i'm in central maine and the other afternoon i got 96.9 FM Talk fairly well, right next to a local CHR on 97.1. On occasion I can recieve 'ZLX as theres no powerful 100.5 to 100.9's around my area
 
radioguy02038 said:
i was in my town of franklin mass when i pushed seek on my jvc hd radio in my car and heard 102.9 wblm portland maine which is a rock station and it was in hd and loud and clear they play a good rock selection better then whjy,zlx,bcn combined was wondering if anyone else notcied this as well. heard it all the way to rockland and back though few times faded out then completely gone once i returned home..
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The phenomenon is called tropospheric ducting (or trops for short). It usually occurs in warmer weather than we have been having recently and is most common in coastal areas. It is probably somewhat more common just below the FM band (TV channels 5 and 6) than within the FM band, but is plenty common enough on FM. It is also bi-directional; that is, when you pick up trops from southern and central Maine around Boston, people in southern and central Maine can pick up Boston-area FM stations. I remember my first experience with it in the late 40s when I was a kid in New York City. I picked up stations in Virginia and eastern and central North Carolina for several hours one sultry early-fall morning. What a blast! I had never heard the term DX but I had thought that long-distance radio reception was confined to AM and short wave.

More recently, I've heard WPLR New Haven completely overwhelm co-channel WPLM-FM on my car radio near where I live in Arlington Heights. Trops can make the distant signal stronger than the closer one and with FM's capture effect, if the stronger signal is more than about 6-dB stronger than the weaker one, you hear only the stronger signal.
 
radioguy02038 said:
i was in my town of franklin mass when i pushed seek on my jvc hd radio in my car and heard 102.9 wblm portland maine which is a rock station and it was in hd and loud and clear they play a good rock selection better then whjy,zlx,bcn combined was wondering if anyone else notcied this as well. heard it all the way to rockland and back though few times faded out then completely gone once i returned home..


regards
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BLM should turn down their signal so more people in mass can hear the sweet sounds of reggae and soca on choice 102.9
 
I love " The Blimp!" I used to listen to it when pixy 103 on cape would power down, or when I would be up Maine way...
 
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