My FM DX - today....

[jimcutler]

Driving on the Long Island Expressway on Saturday, hearing lots of FM's competing....we heard a clear ID for Spirit 106.3 including the website from Fort Smith. Arkansas. Nice surprise. I'm an AM DXer, never tried broadcast band FM DX.

Jim Cutler

 

[Laurence Glavin]

I was in the habit of listening to the second and then the first hour of NPR's "Weekend Edition/Saturday" on WBUR. Then WBUR put on "Wait,Wait Don't Tell Me" at 10:00 am in reaction to WGBH-FM's change to news/talk. So I listen to the first hour replay at 10 o'clock on Amhert's WFCR-FM 88.5, which comes in adequately where I live EXCEPT when FM signals down where the non-comms live start flying in from everywhere. It was just warm and dry with no fronts on Beckerpalooza day the 28th so there was no interference to WFCR; I wonder if Hurricane Earl and the front bringing us the most recent heat wave will have some effect this coming weekend.

 

[Uncle Kaimbridge]

I wonder if Hurricane Earl and the front bringing us the most recent heat wave will have some effect this coming weekend.

It certainly could——hurricane dx can be quite spectacular!

 

[ScottBurns]

Amazing catch, Jim. I recently drove through Fort Smith while driving between Tulsa and Little Rock. As an avid FM DXer, there are some powerhouse stations out there. My best catch of the year was KTJJ/98.5 The Boot/Farmington, MO - which I caught while in Hampton Beach, NH.

 

[robotique]

WLIU 88.3 at 21:45 in Winchester, MA

 

[Wbzfm2010]

walk fm 97.5 11pm franklin mass

 

[robotique]

not really a DX per se but WUMD 89.3 coming in crystal clear on a shite walkman indoors in Cambridge is pretty irregular to say the least.

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

Friday morning September 3, 2010 From Fields Corner to Ashmont Train Station area in Dorchester going towards Mattapan on Dorchester Ave on my MPIO MP3 FM Radio I got these far away stations 92.2 Pro FM, 93.3 WSNE, 94.1 HJY, 96.3 WEEI, 97.7 WKAF (starts coming in when entering Fields Corner) as well as 98.5, and 99.1, 99.5 starts coming in and out around Ashmont Train Station area, 101.7 starts coming in as I enter Fields Corner, as well as (today) WEEI 103.7 that was so strong today and also walking down Dorchester Ave 103.7 and 96.3 signal were so strong. I couldn't pick up 104.5 XLO as well as Lite 105.1, 106.1 WCOD, and WAAF 107.3

 

[CAPECRUSADER]

From SE Mass. on a portable Grundig G8 radio
7a-8a 9/3/10


WASH 97.1 WASHINTON
HOT 97.1 WQHT NEW YORK
97.5 THE FANATIC Philly
COOL 101 @ 100.9 WQXC Kalamazoo MI !!
97.5 WALK Long Island

 

[ssetta]

From Natick:

WALK 97.5 Long Island
KC101 New Haven
Kiss 95.7 Hartford
Star 99.9 Bridgeport
106.1 BLI Long Island

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

From Natick:

WALK 97.5 Long Island
KC101 New Haven
Kiss 95.7 Hartford
Star 99.9 Bridgeport
106.1 BLI Long Island

I'm liking these ones, makes me want to go to Natick

 

[pqgeorge]

It was nice to hear the New York City FM's last evening here at my location (Whitman, MA, 15 miles south of Boston), courtesy of the temperature inversion preceding Hurricane Earl. Good old 'CBS-FM/101.1 was in "like a local" as were WAXQ/104.3, WKTU/103.5, WRKS/98.7 and so on. But one BIG surprise this morning was on the TV side of things. I did a automatic rescan of my DTV converter this morning and found, of all things... New York's WNYE-TV (Virtual 25.1 and 25.2) . The typical E/I fare was on the main channel. But on WNYE-2 (25.2), I saw automatically switched live-camera shoots from all of the 5 Boroughs changing a regular intervals with plenty of City information provided on the audio track. It was very fun to watch some live NYC cameras directly on the air from almost 200 miles away. The Times Square shot was especially cool to watch. It's amazing how some things show up when you least expect it. Oh, BTW, WMGK-FM 102.9 from Philadelphia was showing up, strong enough to decode their HD-2 as well. All in all, a fun DX session.

73,
Pete (K1XRB)

 

[rib00]

Was listening to WEAN (Providence's WPRO on fm) on 99.7 this morning here in Southern RI and some signal was "walking" on 99.7. Turned the dial down to 99.5 and there was WJBR from Delaware as loud and clear as WEAN on a normal day.

 

[pqgeorge]

From Natick:

WALK 97.5 Long Island
KC101 New Haven
Kiss 95.7 Hartford
Star 99.9 Bridgeport
106.1 BLI Long Island

I'm liking these ones, makes me want to go to Natick

Got it here too. "KC101" (101.3, WKCI, Hamden/New Haven) was in like a local last night while I was driving from Bridgewater, MA. All the Hartford FM's were very strong (WDRC-FM, WTIC-FM, WKSS et.al.). Good old WAQY ("Rock 102") from Springfield was totally usable in Stereo while driving around the area as well. Anytime there is a hurricane on the way, the night before it hits, chances are you'll get a great Tropo opening. Some of the best FM catches for me over the years have happened during to the time leading up to the storm. Not too shabby.

 

[jlehmann]

From SE Mass. on a portable Grundig G8 radio
7a-8a 9/3/10


WASH 97.1 WASHINTON
HOT 97.1 WQHT NEW YORK
97.5 THE FANATIC Philly
COOL 101 @ 100.9 WQXC Kalamazoo MI !!
97.5 WALK Long Island

Your Cool 101 was most likely just Kool 101, WKNL New London, CT.

 

[Wbzfm2010]

like i said before i got kc101,cbsfm101.1,99.9 star from ct all the cts came in well and decoded but not quite hd but came in well enough to be heard. 104.3 came in slightly i think i was getting these towards the end of the opening since a few hours later they vanished and haven't been heard since

 

[nd2023]

I got many Boston stations on tropo yesterday morning in New Jersey. It was so strong I could hear many of the stations in HD and also got Hot 87.7!

 

[chrisradioanimal]

Here's a DX video of some of the stations I got: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfKAr7a6qk8

 

[RedWingCJS278]

Hello, this is my first post on these boards. Doubt I'll be posting very often and I'm not in the business, but I do love radio and have been reading the Radio Info boards for several years now. Anyway, on Friday morning I managed to pick up a considerable number of stations that I had never received before or had only received during past tropo events. (I'm in Stoneham, MA, just a few miles north of Boston along I-93.) Among the highlights, in the order I wrote them down:


96.5 WTIC Hartford (very rare)
97.9 something in Spanish (thinking it was a pirate)
98.1 Some A/C (I presume) station that I wasn't able to ID was overtaking the usual Cat Country 98.5 (they were playing "Take On Me" by A-Ha; thinking it may have been WCXV from Van Buren in far Northern Maine, but really have no idea)
98.9 Power 99 from Philadelphia (Philly is a first; for the record, I have yet to pick up an FM from NYC, but I got Philly)
99.1 WPLR from New Haven overtaking WPLM from Plymouth
99.9 Star 99.9 from Bridgeport (frequently shows up during these events)
101.3 KC 101 from New Haven (another that often shows up during tropo)
102.3 Dunes FM from Truro on the tip of Cape Cod (have never picked up this station before, probably never will again)
102.9 WDRC Hartford (not the first time, but very difficult to pick up, esp. considering there are 102.9's in Maine and on Cape Cod)
105.3 WDAS Philadelphia (2nd Philly pick-up)
107.5 WFCC Cape Cod classical in almost like a local (very rare that it ever comes in)
88.5 WFCR Amherst (extremely difficult to pick up anything from Western Mass. out here)
89.3 Positive 89.3 from Freeport, ME
90.5 WNPR Meriden, CT
91.7 WJWT Gardner, MA (very low power station that I've never heard here before)
92.1 WOMR Provincetown, MA (like Dunes 102.3, I've never heard this one)
97.9 WJBQ Portland, ME (very rare)

 

[necrat123]

97.9 something in Spanish (thinking it was a pirate)

WSKQ New York City.