More Tropo last night... Chicago and other cities heard

[Mid West Clubber]

I got some more tropo from Martinsville Indiana the other night, and im near Indianapolis. here is what I heard.


92.9-CHR...Unknown location

96.1-CHR.....Q96 Champaingn

98.7 Chritstian and ac music duking it out....

99.5 Country----Not WKDQ,, this was coming from the North heard faintly under WZPL

96.5 WAZY....CHR Lafayette

99.7 NOT WDJX... this was Indiana's Light Rock???? Shine 99 Frankfort Perhaps...???

99.9 Dance Music Ripping apart WTHI Terre Haute,, heard them mention 92.7 and 92.5 and 99.9,, no calls heard...LOCATION????

100.3-- Chicago

100.5 KI-Country from Kokomo Indiana

101.1 Q-101 ROCK FROM CHICAGO

102.1-D--102 Danville Illinois Hot AC

102.9 CHR????? Location

104.1 WLBC Muncie.. Not unusual, but the signal was rock solid

107.5 WGCI --Chicago Urban

97.9 WLUP Chicago ROCK... Mixing with moody bible from Anderson

98.9 The Bear ROCK--Fort Wayne.

106.9 -Classic Hits the DOUBLE X.. Location?????

 

[Apollo7979]

92.9-CHR...Unknown location

>>Probably WNDV "U93" in South Bend

98.7 Chritstian and ac music duking it out....

>>More than likely, you heard WASK-FM Lafayette (licensed to Battle Ground), which is classic hits, and Christian AC WQME in Anderson

99.5 Country----Not WKDQ,, this was coming from the North heard faintly under WZPL

>>Not sure. I'll have to look into this one.


99.7 NOT WDJX... this was Indiana's Light Rock? Shine 99 Frankfort Perhaps...

>>Correct.

99.9 Dance Music Ripping apart WTHI Terre Haute,, heard them mention 92.7 and 92.5 and 99.9,, no calls heard...LOCATION?

>>WCPQ Park Forest, IL (far southern Chicago suburb). This used to be the old WBUS in Kankakee. This station is now a quadrocast to cover the entire Chicago metro with WCPT-AM 820 Willow Springs, IL, WCPT-FM 92.7 in Arlington Heights, IL, and 92.5 WCPY in DeKalb, IL as progressive talk by day and "Dance Factory Radio" at night.

100.3-- Chicago

>>WILV Chicago...Chicago's 100.3...Rhythmic AC

102.9 CHR?? Location

>>WXXB B 102.9 in Lafayette, IN (licensed to Delphi)...modern AC

104.1 WLBC Muncie.. Not unusual, but the signal was rock solid

107.5 WGCI --Chicago Urban

97.9 WLUP Chicago ROCK... Mixing with moody bible from Anderson

98.9 The Bear ROCK--Fort Wayne.

106.9 -Classic Hits the DOUBLE X.. Location??

>>WXXC in Marion, IN...classic hits Double XC

 

[kd8hho]

the 99.5 country is prob 99.5 chicago WUSN

really suprised you didnt catch the chicago 103.5 powerhouse

 

[Apollo7979]

the 99.5 country is prob 99.5 chicago WUSN

really suprised you didnt catch the chicago 103.5 powerhouse

You beat me to it, kd8hho. US 99.5 just came to me.

 

[ChiefEngineer]

Danvilloe used to be listenable any time the band opened slightly. Not so much since 101.9 has been on air.

 

[ThatVoice22]

What you're describing is not truly tropospheric ducting, it's more like the occasional horizon-broadening effect caused by weather fronts and other conditions. True tropospheric ducting brings in stuff from 500 to 1000 miles away.

While living in Fort Wayne, I could usually get two stations on FM 100.9, one in Bryan, OH (WBNO, Cleveland Indians games) and one in Portland, IN (WPGW); you had to null out one station to get the other, sometimes weather dependent.

Here's what tropospheric ducting is - - one mid-June in 1999, I tuned in FM 100.9 to hear a very clear broadcast of a KC Royals pregame when Tony Pena was the Manager. The signal was from KRRY in Canton, Missouri which blew out both of the locally available signals. Later the same day, FM 100.9 was dominated by concert commercials out of KXGL in Amarillo, TX. That's real tropospheric ducting!

 

[BobOnTheJob]

What you're describing is not truly tropospheric ducting, it's more like the occasional horizon-broadening effect caused by weather fronts and other conditions. True tropospheric ducting brings in stuff from 500 to 1000 miles away.

While living in Fort Wayne, I could usually get two stations on FM 100.9, one in Bryan, OH (WBNO, Cleveland Indians games) and one in Portland, IN (WPGW); you had to null out one station to get the other, sometimes weather dependent.

Here's what tropospheric ducting is - - one mid-June in 1999, I tuned in FM 100.9 to hear a very clear broadcast of a KC Royals pregame when Tony Pena was the Manager. The signal was from KRRY in Canton, Missouri which blew out both of the locally available signals. Later the same day, FM 100.9 was dominated by concert commercials out of KXGL in Amarillo, TX. That's real tropospheric ducting!

Thank you for clearing that up so eloquently. The word tropo is tossed around with reckless abandon...sometimes at as little as 80 miles.

 

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