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Historic Nor'easter makes for some interesting listening

T

Tincap

Out my way, we've gotten off relatively easy, with about a foot (30 cm) of snow (this is Canada after all :)), but when these monster storms hit the large urban centres along the US east coast, it makes for some interesting listening. Currently, its Boston's turn to get a pummelling and 1030 WBZ is providing local coverage, though they do drop their signal from time to time.

EDIT: And then there's the technology... Fox 25 Boston News Stream ~> http://www.myfoxboston.com/category/235888/fox-25-live-video-stream

~BG
 
Are you getting some interesting "snow" DX? Anything far away on the dial, and any daytimers on?

-crainbebo
 
I didn't know weather could affect AM as it does FM.

Here in Tampa, I'm getting KYW 1060 tonight with a listenable signal fighting with the Cuban, which is not the usual condition, but Philadelphia isn't in the brunt of the storm.
 
For me in the Chicago area the stations in the storm areas are down. WCBS & WBZ both much weaker than usual.
Out of the storm area KYW, WHAM, WRVA seem about normal. Just my observation.
 
WRVA was stronger than all of the Grand Rapids stations in Allendale last night. Also, I heard a classic country station on 870 over WWL (maybe someone running on day power?)
 
Making for an oblique reminder -- to buy batteries for such times -- was when the new Grundig S450 here shut off by itself because the batteries were weak! Interesting feature.

The batteries worked well in the GE Superadio, though, where they'd been for about 2 years.

Fortunately we only got 4-6" here, and that was from the west system, not Nemo. And the power has been on throughout. But the wall current on these radios makes for an unacceptable swarm of noise. A hobbyist really needs batteries nowadays.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
The batteries worked well in the GE Superadio, though, where they'd been for about 2 years.
Click to expand...

Hate to admit this, but I've effectively been using my Superadio II as an external speaker. This summer, I had it on for a stretch of about three weeks for 8-10 hours daily when it suddenly conked out. Turns out it had been running on battery power instead of AC as I had thought! And this was after a week and a half of daily use at a remote location where I knew it wasn't plugged in. What a great unit...and 31 years old, no less!

BTW, Steve, I responded to your PM a couple of weeks ago. I've been having trouble with those, so I hope you got it.

(Apologies for the veer).
 
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