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Impressive Midwest Tropo

Even living here the tropo is great. Not as good as in Florida, and only between April and October, but there's lots of quantity. Orlando's big FMs are in much of the time here in Charleston area, often loud enough to listen. 105.9 and 107.7 come in strongest.

With my portable I can swing in stations from New Bern to Miami some of the time. I don't do well with land tropo, rarely getting Atlanta and the Upstate, but over water is great.

My goal this summer is to get some Virginia stations. One time I picked up Q-99, but that was it.
 
The portable FM scanner on my MP3 Player was able to pick up a strong signal of WDUV in Downtown Gainesville. (105 miles from transmitter)
On a trip to Jacksonville while going through Keystone Heights I could pick up both WFUS (US 1035) and WPOI (The Point). Some 136 Miles from transmitter. It was a $40 GoGear Raga I got from Target.
 
gar fla said:
I didn't expect tropo this morning but I checked anyway and the Miami stations were coming in like I've never heard them here in Tampa!

Here's Power 96. A strong 200 mile catch with only my portable radio.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcDkM02oHcM
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Another great catch and video from Gar Fla; Sunday morning I was about 50 miles due west of Orlando, and on 96.5 I was picking up the 96.5 WHTQ out of Orlando but something was trying to come in under it, it must have been Power 96; now people complain about WSMR 89.1 not coming in well in the Tampa/St Pete area (after all it is a Nokomis stations licensed to Sarasota). BUT on Sunday morning it was over-riding WUFT out of Gainesville; also on 105.5 I was not able to i.d. it, but I was getting a country music station along with WDUV depending on which way I turned the antenna. Also received WEAT 104.3 West Palm Beach and also 95.7 the Hog out of Daytona Beach, which is a semi-regular visitor 50 miles east of Orlando.

I almost forgot, just like once before I was receiving the Classical 24 station out of Miami on 89.7

.All of this was between 0645 and 730 Sunday.

btw- Gar-Fla looks as though your Sangean needs new batteries or a recharge! :)

drt,
usually in St. Petersburg
 
Thanks for the kind words. :)

What made me decide to scan the FM band in the first place was when I was going to the store Sunday morning and I was listening to Q105's Top Twenty Countdown, which is a weekend ritual for me, and I noticed the same thing you mentioned. That another station seemed to be attempting to come in on that frequency.

And Q 105 (104.7) is a powerful station too.

As soon as I got back home, I had to do a FM band scan.

Now that I think of it, I should have tried to see if I could hear the other station competing with Q105 on 104.7 (most likely the station from Naples) but I was too excited about hearing all the Miami stations cover the dial.
 
From 50 miles due west of Orlando on Sunday morning; I forgot two more catches; 106.1 out of Okeechobee; according to radio-locator, it's 12.500 watts and on a short stick, but I was getting in like a local; also forgot to mention that I was also receiving the Coast 97.3 out of Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, which was over-riding semi local WSKY 97.3-Gainesville.

Also Gar Fla, the 104.7 you were receiving could have been either Naples or the Ft. Pierce station 104.7, the Flame.

drt,
st. pete
 
BRNout said:
KIKN from Sioux Falls was the farthest (421 miles!) and I also picked up KOWZ (Cows) 100.9 from a place called Owatonna, MN (290 miles).
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Ha ha... loved KOWZ in the two years I lived in Minnesota. It used to be a cutesy locally-based classic hits station, but I think they changed to a satellite-fed after I left. Listening to Minnesotans say Owatonna (OH-wa-TA-na) is equally amusing. I had a good setup with a top floor apartment, and nothing in between WLOL-FM (100.3) and KDWB (101.3) on the dial.
 
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