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So I was on the parkway west traveling to Moon at 7:30pm on Thursday and I noticed that B94 was being taken over by another signal. Getting mad, I started using the seek feature on my radio and it stopped on 96.7. I liked a song that was being played (hip hop/r&b) so I decided to listen. I thought Pittsburgh got a new radio station because I was receiving it clear and in stereo. So I listened to their imaging and they said WLYX repeatedly. I went home and searched for the station thinking that maybe it was close by and I realized that it was coming from Valdosta, Georgia. I mapquested it and the station was 900 miles from Pittsburgh! Did anyone else receive any good DX'ing around that time?
 
We were at the Highlands in Wheeling last night and I put WPBG on to catch the Pirate game and it was getting knocked around but I didn't catch the station. My wife wanted to listen to Delihla for a while (ugh) so we clicked on WSHH, same thing...couldn't make out the station.
 
Perhaps someone with more technical knowledge can explain how that happens, but I can recall in the 80s picking up a TV station from Alabama in Pennsylvania for several minutes on a portable TV with rabbit ears.

I once was able to get WIXS- now 1360- clear as day in Tennessee one Saturday morning. I remember wondering why I could hear an announcer giving a Yough football score.
 
It's weather related and I think it has something to do with temperature inversion (cold air above warm) or something along those lines.

I spent 13 years in Florida and you hear all kinds of weird DX phenomena down there with the weather and all that water, plus all the 100kW FMs on 1300 foot sticks.
 
When I lived in Apollo, depending on the weather, and on 102.1, I could hear either Q102 in DuBois, or WDOK in Cleveland. Always wondered about that.
 
I live in the Apollo area and randomly for a while could get 103.7 Star 104 out of Erie crystal clear! 96.1 KISS, whose tower is only 25 miles away was quite distorted...yet some days KISS comes in crystal clear!

STAR 104 usually can't be picked up til past Mercer on 79.
 
That is so odd someone else posted about this. I was also in the Moon area around 7:30 on Thursday night and had the same thing occurring to me. Unfortunately, the signal rarely stay sclear long enough to catch a top of the hour ID or station ID. I was only able to clearly identify a station of Meridian, Miss. and one out of Brunswick, GA. This is a fairly common phenomenon. Its called DX/tropo. It occurs so often that there is even a bored here on R-I devoted to it. The Wikipedia entry about DXing has a nice short summary about it.
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I have not experienced it as much in Allegheny County as I did when I lived in the 'sticks in Eighty Four in Washington County. Usually in the late summer dry months, it happened there quite frequently.

99.3 from Crawford County (former KISS FM) and Star 104 from Erie are common catches around here on the tall hilltops. For any smooth jazz fans in town, the smooth jazz station from Cleveland at 107.3 comes in almost crystal clear in the parking lot of the Kmart there in Moon. ;D
 
Not being an enginer I only know bits and pieces about this but the term is called "Tropical ducting" I know this stuff happens on warm humid days. Maybe some one else can shed more light on this. It is cool when it happens but as an earlier posters noted as fast as the distant signals come in they fade away just as fast.
 
The wildest case of ducting I ever had was once when I was driving West toward St. Louis. I turned on the radio thinking I was getting close and should be able to listen to some of the St. Louis FM's. Instead I was picking up FM's from Dallas. That sure woke me up!
 
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Last summer one night it was really hot and humid up and down the east coast, perfect skip or (Tropospheric propagation) weather. and I was scanning the FM for a station in Cambridge Ohio and once I got it locked in I noticed the HD display. I knew this was not the case thinking it was a receiver issue but as I drove the analog was scratchy but the HD locked with different audio and the Digital Display said Bob-FM...(not mine) I knew I was listening to HD "skip" which was funny because it didn't phase out the analog. but it went away after 20 seconds and since I was driving I didn't get the call letters of the HD signal I haven't heard any other "digital skip" since
 
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