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KTU's signal

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Where I live I can receive KTU and NNJ together no problems at all. However I went out to Kutztown, PA near Allentown-Reading area and I picked up KTU locally no problem! How is this possible? Granted this was at night but lately I have been getting NYC stations on and off. I even get PLJ and Now FM sometimes!
 
Most likely it's due to elevation. I have been up in northwestern CT which is at a high elevation and there you can pick up NYC stations (over 100 miles away), and Boston stations (over 100 miles away) like they are locals.
 
At the Delaware Water Gap, I went on this trail to the top of the mountain, and I picked up all the Philly/Poughkeepsie stations.
 
I was down near 7A on the Turnpike Sat night and stations like 92.3 & 95.5 were filled with static while 103.5 was coming in like gangbusters even with WPRB 103.3 a few miles away.
 
GSP163, that's not static on 92.3 and 95.5, it's IBOC from the Philly adjacents. There was some slight tropo last night. KTU's frequency is one of the clearest. It can be heard from Philly to Hartford, CT even where all the other NYC stations have faded.

Unfortunately for you Lisa Paige isn't on KTU.
 
Here in New Haven, KTU is one of the clearest NYC signals along with WWPR-FM (Power 105.1). Both come in almost as a local.
 
I picked up 96.3 WQXR several years ago over the Chesapeake Bay. In an airplane.

Empire signals used to carry up in the sky. The antenna design has changed since.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
GSP163 said:
I was down near 7A on the Turnpike Sat night and stations like 92.3 & 95.5 were filled with static while 103.5 was coming in like gangbusters even with WPRB 103.3 a few miles away.
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Last year I was listening to KTU as I drove past the 295/US-1 interchange
with the PRB/KXW tower right there, very little static and PRB was not interfering that much.

I also remember hearing KTU & Z100 very clear while crossing the Manahawkin Bay Bridge a few years ago,
and lost them when we reached LBI.
 
There is always some semblance of the WKTU/103.5 signal on my Stereo-Probe 9 (9 element FM Yagi antenna) at my location in Whitman, MA (20 miles south of Boston), in spite of WODS's IBOC splatter. Admittedly, mine is not your typical FM receive set-up. I'm using a Boston Acoustics Receptor (2005 vintage) with two stages of amplification (about 18db. worth) in line. The antenna is 25' above the ground. In addition to 'KTU, I always hear WFUV/90.7 (NYC), WALK-FM/97.5 Patchogue, LI, NY and many times I get WAXQ/104.3 (NYC). All these stations are over 150 miles away from my QTH. NOW, if the IBOC slop were not there, I would probably get all major NYC FM's including WKCR/89.9 on a regular basis here. I used to get WSKG/89.3 from Binghamton, NY, many times in Stereo, quite a lot...... and I was living less than 5 miles away from the WGBH/89.7 tower on Great Blue Hill in Canton, MA. Of course now, the 89.3 frequency is inundated with pirates and a full powered station from North Dartmouth, MA (WUMD). Even with 10,000 watts, this station is over-powered by the pirates, less than 30 miles away.
 
LA_Guy said:
I have heard KTU where I-84 meets the Massachusetts Turnpike. This is at least 100 miles from NYC.
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Probably over 150 miles actually. That's a good reach given the hilly terrain out there and the fact you're closing in on WODS @ 103.3.
 
kms575 said:
Anyone have any recollection of 103.5's signal when it was atop 1WTC? I suspect it was not as clear to the north.
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Yes, but I remember it was not as good to the south as other New Yorkers. WPRB would give splash to parts of the Jersey Shore.
103.5 was directional.

WBLS was a hurtin' signal as well.

Receiver designs are much improved over the last 30 years, as well.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
WPRB wouldn't splatter on to 103.5 at the closest point on the Jersey shore to the WPRB transmitter even if KTU were off the air, unless you have a terrible receiver.
 
Nick said:
WPRB wouldn't splatter on to 103.5 at the closest point on the Jersey shore to the WPRB transmitter even if KTU were off the air, unless you have a terrible receiver.
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Yes, it did!

I had a first gen digital Pioneer "supertuner". It bled on Route 35 in Mantoloking. That radio was a step back from the previous spin tune. But it was a bad area for 103.5 WAPP.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
Evidently 103.5 was considered a subpar frequency in 1988, when WYNY was moved there, and WQHT took over its former slot on 97.1.
I believe the signal on 103.5 when it was broadcasting from the World Trade Center was subject to interference from stations to the south. I have heard that at the time, WQHT's dj's sounded much more enthusiastic about the switch on the air than did those from WYNY.
 
I remember receiving KTU better in Toms River pre-2001 than after the move to the ESB, 3 miles north.
I used to get it all the way down to Barnegat on the parkway with ease, 103.3 never interfered in most of Ocean County.
 
Barry said:
Evidently 103.5 was considered a subpar frequency in 1988, when WYNY was moved there, and WQHT took over its former slot on 97.1.
I believe the signal on 103.5 when it was broadcasting from the World Trade Center was subject to interference from stations to the south. I have heard that at the time, WQHT's dj's sounded much more enthusiastic about the switch on the air than did those from WYNY.
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I never saw a footprint of the directional 103.5, but the interference was there from 103.3. I didn't notice it in the previous times over the past several years I've been up to "visit", because it does not offer me anything, now. Undoubtedly a non-directional Empire signal would be most desirable. Because we saw what the price tag difference was in 1988.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
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