I'm sure it won't last, but I was pulling in FM stations from Miami (93.9), some classic rock station on 94.5, then there was this AC station at 102.1. Not just for a second or two but for about an hour or so. One of them was mentioning Key Largo and another the Florida Keys. Anyone else picking up Florida today, or other stations that are way out of our listening area? I wonder why this is happening.
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I'm pulling in Southern Florida FMs in my car today
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Tropospheric ducting. Here's a better one. Apparently Friday the engineer at 96.5 in Kalamazoo, MI was picking up the IBOC signal from 96.5 in Birmingham. Kalamazoo isn't running HD, but he's using a Sangean tuner to monitor his RDS in the control room. The jock called him and said the RDS was broken because it was displaying "Magic 96" and the Birmingham station's call letters song title and artist. So it at least was picking up enogh of the data to decode it.
Nashsound said:
Pulling in far away stations is so weird but I love it. I got in the house, and nothing. One time in Michigan I was pulling in Denver and Wyoming crystal clear for about an hour or two. Also, while I was out I was pulling in Wow 92.7 wherever that's from and it was displaying on the digital screen. Mix 92-9 didn't even interfere with it at all (and I'm in the Brentwood area).
Same thing here in Mississippi. I got Y100, Sunny 104.3 and Power 96 out of Miami and WRMF also out of South Florida. I also picked up B103.9 from Ft. Myers. This afternoon, I've been getting FMs from eastern North Carolina.
That is some freaky stuff. Years ago when a similar atmospheric condition occured, I was on the air in Tampa, Florida at (94.9 FM) at a frequency close to my former station in my hometown Peoria, Illinois (94,3 FM), a friend picked me up all the way in Illinois and called me to tell me so. I refused to believe it, but when I got the creepy sounding, static laden, sounding aircheck cassette sent back to me as recorded some 2,000 miles away, it was truly eerie and neat at the same time. I also recall being in Peoria, and on certain Summer days I could pick up FM stations in Dallas and St. Louis early in the morning during weather conditions similar to this. We truly have airborne careers, it's a wonder any of us stay grounded. 
> Tropospheric ducting
Nope. Sporadic-E; refraction off the E-layer of the ionosphere. Tropospheric ducting is often the culprit for Floridians here in the Midsouth, but, rarely would one see that mid-afternoon.
It's Summer, and this happens from time to time. This was a particularly nice opening. Here in Memphis, I was getting South Florida and Cuba on my way home from the station. I have HD Radio in that vehicle, and was getting full HD from Miami, and other FL markets. Cubans? Heck; many of those don't even have stereo.
A Nashville FM enthusiast I know was also getting exotic locales such as the Cayman Islands. Cool.
DE
Nope. Sporadic-E; refraction off the E-layer of the ionosphere. Tropospheric ducting is often the culprit for Floridians here in the Midsouth, but, rarely would one see that mid-afternoon.
It's Summer, and this happens from time to time. This was a particularly nice opening. Here in Memphis, I was getting South Florida and Cuba on my way home from the station. I have HD Radio in that vehicle, and was getting full HD from Miami, and other FL markets. Cubans? Heck; many of those don't even have stereo.
A Nashville FM enthusiast I know was also getting exotic locales such as the Cayman Islands. Cool.
DE
DeadElvis said:
Yep. North Florida is a reasonably frequent tropo reception (but usually only in the early morning) but midday reception - or South Florida - is usually more an E-skip thing.
Ironically I did receive Tallahassee's Gulf 104 (104.1 WGLF) via skip today - WGLF has previously appeared here via tropo ducting.
I think that would be me
89.9: Radio Cayman
99.9: Z-99 FM
101.9:Rooster 101
104.1:Hot 104
107.1 X107
Also heard two Bahamanian stations (or three), a pile of Cubans, a handful of Mexicans (not all that unusual in summer!), a handful of Texans (likewise) - and it's looking like one of my unidentified loggings was probably the Dominican Republic.
TV reception was pretty messed up. I'm in Pleasant View -- have to point my antenna at the Nashville stations (the same direction any sane viewer would aim their TV antenna up here
) to log Florida FM -- and WKRN was getting totally clobbered. Interference to channels 4 and 5 was pretty noticable too. On channel 3, Cubavision was running the animated movie "Cars" completely uninterrupted. Unfortunately Tampa's PBS station kept clobbering the sound...And to think, someone on another board is trying to figure out why people DX? ???
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