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Love This Time Of Year

stewie

stewie

With the high heat in the valley, thermal ducting is bringing in those San Francisco FM's nicely in the valley.

Locked into KOIT's HD for awhile on my way running errands this morning. KLLC is also booming into Sacramento as well.
 
stewie said:
With the high heat in the valley, thermal ducting is bringing in those San Francisco FM's nicely in the valley.

Locked into KOIT's HD for awhile on my way running errands this morning. KLLC is also booming into Sacramento as well.
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It gets really good if there is warm, moist air between transmitter and receiver and it's best in the afternoon around 4 to 7pm. Given the rain at Tahoe I'd think that KOIT and KLLC will likely boom into Salt Lake City.

Back when I had a CB radio in my car (only about 10 years ago, actually), on these afternoons I could pull in CB radios in Georgia and Florida. They weren't running linear amps, either, just conventional transceivers. They couldn't hear me, though, but then I probably had enough SWR on my antenna to fry an egg.
 
MarioMania said:
While I was in West Sacramento a weeks ago

I was getting in at times 997 now, 981 Kiss-FM, Alice 973
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With the recent addition of KLVB (K-LOVE), it's much harder to pull in KMVQ 99.7 anymore.

Most of the FM's on Beacon or Sutro tend to boom in this time of year. In recent years so many reach in's have moved in, it makes it much harder to hear the Bay Area.
 
Some parts at my brothers house, I could null out KLVB ..But I get a little side band from KLVB

I can hear KMVQ if I put it on 99.75
 
jhimbo said:
Does this work in reverse? Are Sac stations heard in SF ? Is anyone excited if that happens?
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I don't believe so however KSFM is heard in San Francisco every once in awhile.

I don't know about anyone getting excited. Not sure I'm that excited other than being a fan of DX'ing and being born and raised in the Bay Area.
 
jhimbo said:
Does this work in reverse? Are Sac stations heard in SF ? Is anyone excited if that happens?
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Nothing exciting, I guess. But 93.1 comes in throughout much of the Bay Area. Gotta love that Mt. Aukum transmitter site.

Dave B.
 
Receiving distant signals on CB was more likely due to the 11-year sunspot cycle. 30MHz is about the lower limit for tropo ducting. CB is on 27MHz.
 
I can usually pull in KSEG (06.9) almost anywhere in the Bay Area except the South bay where the Monterey station kicks in
 
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