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I picked up stations in New York and Maine in Chatham Mass.

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John MacCormack

Today when I went to Chatham Beach I picked up some stations from New York and Maine. I got 93.1 WMGX from Portland, 94.5 WKSQ from Bangor, 97.1 WQHT from New York, 98.5 WBON from New York, 100.9 WYNZ from Portland, 103.5 WKTU from New York, and 107.9 WEBE from Bridgeport CT. With all the interference on the other stations it was hard to figure out what they were, but the one's that I listed were the ones that I picked up that were not getting bad interference, except for WKSQ 94.5. It's a good night to do DXing on Cape Cod.
 
Yep, some definite tropo going on this weekend. Driving from West Roxbury to Duxbury, MA today, heard 92 Moose in Augusta, ME overpowering the MUCH closer 92 Pro FM in Providence, on 92.3. On 105.3 I heard "The Shark" coming in like a local. Also 97.9 and 99.5 from ME overpowering those frequencies..
 
I've noticed that here in Natick. I can often get the Cape stations on nights like this, and some of the ones from Hartford, but I was able to get some stuff that was pretty unusual. For a brief period of time this morning, I was able to get both WPLM and WPLR clearly, depending on which way I pointed the antenna. And I was just able to get 99.5 WJBR from Wilmington, which I don't think I've ever gotten in before. I haven't gotten anything from Maine, except WHOM, which I used to get pretty regularly until that dumb repeater of WTAG signed on. I've always loved these weekends.

P.S. I was even able to get WFSB-TV. This is the first time I've ever received a DTV signal via tropo. Though I remember back in the days of analog, it used to happen with VHF more often than UHF, though there weren't that many VHF channels in Connecticut, and I was able to get some of the UHFs. Do you know if the virtual channel number is VHF or UHF for WFSB?
 
Last Night at about midnight, I heard three stations come in at different times on 92.1. IN Worcester I heard this really cool station play Some early Talking heads, then WLNG came in from Riverhead NY with it's rare oldies format, then WDER's relay came in from Peterborough, NH
I thought that the cool station may have been WOMR from Provincetown, but the playlist and show description didn't match for the time I heard it.
It's the Tropos time of year




ssetta said:
I've noticed that here in Natick. I can often get the Cape stations on nights like this, and some of the ones from Hartford, but I was able to get some stuff that was pretty unusual. For a brief period of time this morning, I was able to get both WPLM and WPLR clearly, depending on which way I pointed the antenna. And I was just able to get 99.5 WJBR from Wilmington, which I don't think I've ever gotten in before. I haven't gotten anything from Maine, except WHOM, which I used to get pretty regularly until that dumb repeater of WTAG signed on. I've always loved these weekends.

P.S. I was even able to get WFSB-TV. This is the first time I've ever received a DTV signal via tropo. Though I remember back in the days of analog, it used to happen with VHF more often than UHF, though there weren't that many VHF channels in Connecticut, and I was able to get some of the UHFs. Do you know if the virtual channel number is VHF or UHF for WFSB?
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I was able to get even more this morning. Throughout the night, KC101 from New Haven has been coming in like a local, and WALK 97.5 is coming in pretty good as well. I was also able to get Fresh 102.7, Power 105.1 interfering with Lite Rock 105 from Providence, a few Spanish language stations, I think on 96.3 and 97.9, and a public radio station on 99.5, all from NYC. I also heard something else even more interesting: I was tuning to 94.9, and I was able to hear both the repeater of WTAG and WHOM at once, and there was someone CALLING INTO WTAG reporting they were having trouble getting the signal because of WHOM, and they said they thought it was WHYN, as that is their sister station, but from a completely different location. Nobody at the station knew what was going on:

On the TV side, I was able to receive a few more stations this morning: WTNH from New Haven, Fox 5, WNJU 47, and WFTY 67, all from NYC. I have 2 different TVs in my house hooked up to antennas. This one I have doesn't do a very good job with VHF. Do you know if any of these stations are on VHF?
 
It's def. the time of year. Same exact week as this, I got WQXR 96.3 from NYC in Essex MA. I have picked up NPR stations from Carbondale IL and from down in NC on a late Sat morning (running Whad Ya Know). Coming back from Marshfield I was getting quite a bit of Maine stations incl. country on 99.9...yes "across the water", true, but that works more for AM the rest of the year (Maine stations on Cape Cod or SE Mass. etc.) But here, definitely FM.

Would get TV tropo on occasion like NYC UHFs, a PBS station from Vermont, etc. One time
I got a Fla. NBC affiliate (Orlando?), one time Indianapolis etc
 
raccoonradio said:
It's def. the time of year. Same exact week as this, I got WQXR 96.3 from NYC in Essex MA. I have picked up NPR stations from Carbondale IL and from down in NC on a late Sat morning (running Whad Ya Know). Coming back from Marshfield I was getting quite a bit of Maine stations incl. country on 99.9...yes "across the water", true, but that works more for AM the rest of the year (Maine stations on Cape Cod or SE Mass. etc.) But here, definitely FM.
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Last summer i picked up stations from Atlantic City, NJ, while i was in Mashpee, MA.
I picked up WPUR 107.3 real clearly on my radio and as well as WZXL 100.7. It seems like I get more New Jersey and New York stations when i am in Bourne, Falmouth, and Mashpee, but when i am in Sandwich, West Barnstable, or the Chatham area I get more Maine and New Hampshire stations. I was surprised yesterday that I got New York stations in Chatham, but it is the best time to pick up those stations. :)
 
We used to have a cottage at Hampton Beach NH, and this time of year every summer, we would get WESH from Daytona Beach FL in color and very stable on Channel 2 for most of the morning (WGBH-TV did not sign on until noon in the summer in those days). I also once got a UHF station in Peoria IL during the same atmospherics.
 
raccoonradio said:
I have picked up NPR stations from Carbondale IL and from down in NC on a late Sat morning (running Whad Ya Know).
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Carbondale——and probably NC, too, though I have gotten a couple via tropo——are from a whole different animal: E-skip.
As for me, at South Station (Boston) around sunrise, noted Cape Cod regulars in like local.
When I got to the Beverly Depot/PO around 9:10am, WKVT-92.7 and WRSY-101.5 VT (and possibly WDEV-96.1?) noted, as well as Hartford/Springfield regulars and KC-101 all booming in. As I pulled into my garage around 10:00am, noted NYC’s WQHT-97.1 and WEPN-98.7.
 
Same here on the midcoast of Maine -- Cape Cod stations coming in like locals. We often get WCOD here -- but this time, the two strongest stations were two of the smallest signals -- WOMR (battling it out with the CBC) and 102.3 The Dunes.
 
Today I picked up a station from Canada on 91.5. They were speaking Canadian French. I dont know what the station's call sign was, but I'm thinking it might be the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
 
The most common catch on 91.5 from the Canadian Maritimes is CBAX in Halifax, NS.

Don't trust radio-info for canadian information, it's horribly out of date. Wikipedia is better.
 
On Cape Cod (especially on the south-facing shoreline of the Cape from Falmouth to Chatham), as well as Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket (along with parts of south coastal Massachusetts and Rhode Island), quite a few New York area AM stations have very strong signals during the day.

When vacationing in Hyannis with my parents around 1969, we walked on one of the beaches, and noted that several transistor radios were tuned into New York's WABC-770 (then at the peak of it's legendary Top-40 era), and it sounded as if the transmitter was right on the Cape!

I also noticed a handful of transistor radios were also tuned into WNBC-660 (now WFAN), WCBS-880, and even one each to WINS-1010 and WNEW-1130 (now WBBR).

With much of the paths of the signals of these stations between their transmitters and Cape Cod over salt water, those AM signals really could travel quite a distance and sound "local" on the Cape.

I would think that on the extreme lower Cape (Truro, Provincetown), AM stations in Maine and New Hampshire with transmitters near the coastline likewise would have strong signals.
 
When I tried Radio Locator the site said that CBAF-3 was 6,700 watts and when I went on REC Broadcast Query it said the station was 2,400 watts Horizontal. Heres the link to REC.

CBAF-3 91.5 FM
http://cdbs.recnet.net:8080/fmq.php?facid=&call=CBAF-FM-3&ccode=2&latd=&lond=&city=&state=&country=CA&zip=&party=&party_type=CANADA&jaws=0


Here's CBAX-FM 91.5 signal
http://cdbs.recnet.net:8080/fmq.php?canfm=CBAX-FM


CBAX might be it because the station I picked up played some Jazz and French music. 91.5 CBAF-3 is a French News/Talk station.

It is a great to look up Canadian and US stations. I think they update it every month.
http://cdbs.recnet.net:8080/fmq.php
 
John MacCormack said:
When I tried Radio Locator the site said that CBAF-3 was 6,700 watts and when I went on REC Broadcast Query it said the station was 2,400 watts Horizontal. Heres the link to REC.

CBAF-3 91.5 FM
http://cdbs.recnet.net:8080/fmq.php?facid=&call=CBAF-FM-3&ccode=2&latd=&lond=&city=&state=&country=CA&zip=&party=&party_type=CANADA&jaws=0


Here's CBAX-FM 91.5 signal
http://cdbs.recnet.net:8080/fmq.php?canfm=CBAX-FM


CBAX might be it because the station I picked up played some Jazz and French music. 91.5 CBAF-3 is a French News/Talk station.

It is a great to look up Canadian and US stations. I think they update it every month.
http://cdbs.recnet.net:8080/fmq.php

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Thanks for the link to recnet..EXCELLENT site.
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>>Don't trust radio-info for canadian information

Yes--you meant radio-locator.com though. This is radio-info or actually radiodiscussions.com by now. There are other sites or used to be for looking up stations and one is 100000watts.com but that's expensive. But again you can't expect accuracy
just a good idea.

http://radiostationworld.com/default.asp
 
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