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Is this possible?

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quadraphonic

The situation:
I'm in central NC.
This morning, until about 20 minutes ago, we were getting something on channel 35.
The only thing we ever got there before was some bleedover from WRAZ Fox50 in our market, apparently there's something in the electronics of the tv that makes it do that sometimes, show channels 15 channels apart on each other. (I could ID it as Fox50 and not WRLH Fox35 Richmond, because Fox50 does news in the morning and you could read the logos and the commercials were the same.)

Anyway, today it was all really fuzzy infomercials on channel 35 until 9:30, then Zola Levitt came on, the only "show" I could identify.
Looked at the Zola Levitt website and the only channel 35 showing it then is in Miami. It's an ion station, they also would have shown infomercials all morning too.

There is WRPX a rimshot channel 47 ion station in our market, but they seemed to be showing different infomercials until the Zola Levitt came on (it and the WPXM channel 35 in Miami show it at the same time). There is also an ion station on 38 in Greenville, apparently, but I've never seen it on 38, much less 35.

So...
Is there something in the electronics that would/could make 47 show up on 35 too, like 50 did?
Or was I seeing a station from Miami, which I have never seen before here?
 
It's very possible it could have been Miami. When I lived in Southeast Iowa, I could frequently get Chicago UHF stations during the summer months, mostly at night and early morning. If there were other channels coming in that you don't normally see, then you were most likely getting Miami.
 
Yes it's possible. TVs & Radios suffer from overload which can produce "phantom" signals on other parts of the band.

IMD (inter Modulation Products) - caused either at the TX site or a nearby 'radiator' such as another tower or metallic object. Even a rusty bolt/join on a tower can do this.

Harmonics - generated internally in the TV or Radio receiver.

Another possibility - If you live in an apartment complex like I do, You may be picking up someone else's TV/DVD player which is radiating signal back through the antenna system. I can see someone's DVD player in snowy colour on around Ch60 & can watch whatever they're watching!

dxer2_2000
 
I have thought about it some more, and I am going to say it was the Miami station.
Even though I have never picked up any stations past Charleston SC (once) in the last five years here.
And all I have is a Terk amplified indoor antenna hooked up to it.
There weren't any other stations on never-seen channels this morning, but then there wasn't any when I saw channel 24 from Charleston clear as a local for an hour or two a year or two back.

It probably wasn't Miami but that's what I'm going to say.
If the infomercials all morning were the same as 47's, I might think it was the electronics.
But I'm going to go with the most impossible. ;)
 
I think you may have been watching ION affiliate WPXU, channel 35 from Jacksonville, NC. They are basically a satellite for Greenville's channel 38. I have DXed UHFs from FLorida along the NC's Crystal Coast, but, as you have experienced, nothing further south than CHarleston inland.
 
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