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How does this happen?

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BrettV

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Last night a little before midnight I was trying to get some DXing on my standard run of the mill Radio/CD boombox. I picked up a very strong signal on 97.9, and the song that had just started was Dare You To Move by Switchfoot. I was thinking...WOW....great DXing from WNCI out of Columbus. I listened to the song...waiting for an NCI jock or NCI imaging to come on...when suddenly I hear a 95.5 The Fish sweeper. Huh?? Sure enough....The Fish was coming in almost crystal clear on 97.9

After some more failed attempts at DXing, I then came across a CHR mix show on what should have been Mix 98.9 out of Youngstown. Sure enough, 96.5 was coming in quite well on 98.9

Why and how did this happen? I have never had this happen to me before. All of the stations I am usually able to pick up were coming in with no problem.
 
Overload on your boombox, creating images of the stronger stations. I don't know what make and model you have, or how close you are to towers, but most consumer boomboxes are prome to have those problems.



> Last night a little before midnight I was trying to get some
> DXing on my standard run of the mill Radio/CD boombox. I
> picked up a very strong signal on 97.9, and the song that
> had just started was Dare You To Move by Switchfoot. I was
> thinking...WOW....great DXing from WNCI out of Columbus. I
> listened to the song...waiting for an NCI jock or NCI
> imaging to come on...when suddenly I hear a 95.5 The Fish
> sweeper. Huh?? Sure enough....The Fish was coming in almost
> crystal clear on 97.9
>
> After some more failed attempts at DXing, I then came across
> a CHR mix show on what should have been Mix 98.9 out of
> Youngstown. Sure enough, 96.5 was coming in quite well on
> 98.9
>
> Why and how did this happen? I have never had this happen to
> me before. All of the stations I am usually able to pick up
> were coming in with no problem.
>
<P ID="signature">______________
"There ain't no reason to fight over a woman. There's two more down the street!".."Senisble Don", 700 WLW</P>
 
It could be a couple of things. First off, if your tuner has a needle that points to the frequency, I would suggest it no longer points correctly. The two stations you heard are 1 MHz apart, and the dial positions you tuned to are 1 MHz apart. That tells me that the tuner is receiving stations correctly, but your display is showing you the wrong frequency.

Also depending on your location relative to the transimitters you could be getting signal overload (as gr8oldies suggests below) . I live close to an AM transmitter and an FM transmitter. I have problems with cheap radios receiving these stations all over the band.


> Last night a little before midnight I was trying to get some
> DXing on my standard run of the mill Radio/CD boombox. I
> picked up a very strong signal on 97.9, and the song that
> had just started was Dare You To Move by Switchfoot. I was
> thinking...WOW....great DXing from WNCI out of Columbus. I
> listened to the song...waiting for an NCI jock or NCI
> imaging to come on...when suddenly I hear a 95.5 The Fish
> sweeper. Huh?? Sure enough....The Fish was coming in almost
> crystal clear on 97.9
>
> After some more failed attempts at DXing, I then came across
> a CHR mix show on what should have been Mix 98.9 out of
> Youngstown. Sure enough, 96.5 was coming in quite well on
> 98.9
>
> Why and how did this happen? I have never had this happen to
> me before. All of the stations I am usually able to pick up
> were coming in with no problem.
>
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by dguisinger on 06/18/05 07:41 PM.</FONT></P>
 
It's a digital tuner on an Optimus CD-3339

It's not happening this afternoon.
 
> Also depending on your location relative to the
> transimitters you could be getting signal overload (as
> gr8oldies suggests below) . I live close to an AM
> transmitter and an FM transmitter. I have problems with
> cheap radios receiving these stations all over the band.

I have the same problem with WCLV/104.9, whose transmitter is in the NE corner of Avon. It's easy to pick up echoes of WCLV at many different spots on the FM dial. Sometimes WNWV/107.3 (transmitter in Grafton) creates the same effect. If I'm lucky, echoes from BOTH WCLV and WNWV appear at the same dial spot at the same time !D

BTW, I've never been able to successfully DX WNCI. Of course, there's always the rooftop TV antenna to try out... ;)

- nate81<P ID="signature">______________
Nathan Obral
University Partership Representative
Student Senate
Lorain County Community College, Elyria, Ohio

http://www.lorainccc.edu</P>
 
> It's a digital tuner on an Optimus CD-3339
>
> It's not happening this afternoon.

How close are you to the towers in question?

-OA
 
> BTW, I've never been able to successfully DX WNCI. Of
> course, there's always the rooftop TV antenna to try out...
> ;)


Here in Stark County, WNCI is a regular. And I am even pretty close to WKDD's stick. And I don't use a rooftop antenna either.

Last Sunday was the last I heard it. Of course, Ryan Seacrest was on, so I could have cared less.

I actually got them OVERTOP WKDD one day last summer (and I can't be more than 10 miles from WKDD's tower)
 
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