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Major Sporadic E Opening From Michigan To Nova Scotia, Maine, Possibly Long Island

Looks like the 95.5 is most likely WLVO Providence. WPLJ seems too close at less than 500 mi.
 
crainbebo said:
Looks like the 95.5 is most likely WLVO Providence. WPLJ seems too close at less than 500 mi.
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The CBC stations all seemed to be running some kind of Alternative music format. The stations were coming and going quickly. Back in the 1970s, there were few enough stations that a Class B or Class C would stay in for 30 minutes or more. The Class A situation was like what I heard today back in the 1970s, but now with the higher classes. When the new C2s and even C1s first appeared on former Class A channels, they started dominating the channels for longer periods. Now there's so many on all channels, its a jumble.

The situation along the "Atlantic Rim" was like you say, the longer distances were favored like 600 miles (WLNG 92.1 Sag Harbor has frequently come in over the years, though I heard WKTU when it was on 92.3. The distances beyond the coast have no stations, so there's a fairly narrow corridor, and like you say, and below 500 miles, it's just the Late Summer and early Fall tropo. It's definitely harder to isolate stations for longer periods of time and ID them than it used to be in the 1970s.

I heard "More Today Than Yesterday" by The Spiral Starecase and "You're No Good" by Linda Ronstadt on the 92.1. There are not many stations left besides WLNG who play songs that old.
 
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Schroedingers Cat said:
The CBC stations all seemed to be running some kind of Alternative music format. The stations were coming and going quickly. Back in the 1970s, there were few enough stations that a Class B or Class C would stay in for 30 minutes or more. The Class A situation was like what I heard today back in the 1970s, but now with the higher classes. When the new C2s and even C1s first appeared on former Class A channels, they started dominating the channels for longer periods. Now there's so many on all channels, its a jumble.

The situation along the "Atlantic Rim" was like you say, the longer distances were favored like 600 miles (WLNG 92.1 Sag Harbor has frequently come in over the years, though I heard WKTU when it was on 92.3. The distances beyond the coast have no stations, so there's a fairly narrow corridor, and like you say, and below 500 miles, it's just the Late Summer and early Fall tropo. It's definitely harder to isolate stations for longer periods of time and ID them than it used to be in the 1970s.

I heard "More Today Than Yesterday" by The Spiral Starecase and "You're No Good" by Linda Ronstadt on the 92.1. There are not many stations left besides WLNG who play songs that old.
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Sounds like it could've been the CBC Music Network
 
Missed this one, but I had a decent opening to Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho last night.

Interestingly, in my car this morning, I noticed that 100.3 WKIT had tried to lock in HD last night (my car radio is very sensitive to RDS and will keep an HD lock attempt until a non-HD station comes in strong enough)
 
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