NC FM visits Hudson Valley 9/11

[PoughkeepsieDXer]

Some good tropo Sunday evening 9/11 brought one new logging to the Hudson Valley.

WQDR-94.7 Raleigh, NC “94.7 Q-D-R” with CMT Country Countdown, faded up nicely over WFME-WMTT-WRDX-WIYN at 11:29pm, surprisingly with antenna aimed West, and Raleigh is SSW from here. This is NC # 6, and the most-distant at 490 miles. Only 6 trop logs are more distant, all from Grand Rapids and Halifax.

Also noted previously heard Oldies 107.9 WNCT Greenville around 12:20am.

Another new logging Monday morning (9/12) in WNTI-91.9 Hackettstown, NJ, at 8:33am, at 82 miles, Johnny Horton record followed by Earth & Sky feature. Heavy WRNQ-92.1 slop.

I didn’t see any posting about tropo on Sept 8th, but I was on Cape Cod in motel parking lot near Hyannis and noted some Long Island, NY FM signals coming in well (150 miles or so). Then I tuned to 100.5, and instead of usual fringe & fadey WRCH-CT, I had a solid and loud heavy rock station around 6:30pm, ID’ing as “MAX-FM 100.5”. I didn‘t know who this was until I got back home: WXMM-100.5 Norfolk, VA at 460 miles on car radio at practically zero elevation. It’s amazing how good coastal tropo gets!!<P ID="signature">______________
Chris from Poughkeepsie
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[TheDingo]

> Some good tropo Sunday evening 9/11 brought one new logging
> to the Hudson Valley.
>
> WQDR-94.7 Raleigh, NC “94.7 Q-D-R” with CMT Country
> Countdown, faded up nicely over WFME-WMTT-WRDX-WIYN at
> 11:29pm, surprisingly with antenna aimed West, and Raleigh
> is SSW from here. This is NC # 6, and the most-distant at
> 490 miles. Only 6 trop logs are more distant, all from
> Grand Rapids and Halifax.
>
> Also noted previously heard Oldies 107.9 WNCT Greenville
> around 12:20am.
>
> Another new logging Monday morning (9/12) in WNTI-91.9
> Hackettstown, NJ, at 8:33am, at 82 miles, Johnny Horton
> record followed by Earth & Sky feature. Heavy WRNQ-92.1
> slop.
>
> I didn’t see any posting about tropo on Sept 8th, but I was
> on Cape Cod in motel parking lot near Hyannis and noted some
> Long Island, NY FM signals coming in well (150 miles or so).
> Then I tuned to 100.5, and instead of usual fringe & fadey
> WRCH-CT, I had a solid and loud heavy rock station around
> 6:30pm, ID’ing as “MAX-FM 100.5”. I didn‘t know who this
> was until I got back home: WXMM-100.5 Norfolk, VA at 460
> miles on car radio at practically zero elevation. It’s
> amazing how good coastal tropo gets!!
>
yea, costal tropo is amazing, back in 1998 while i was down on the gulf in Gulf Shores AL, recording the local 100kw 100.7 there (Arrow 100.7 at the time , now Q100) from our 11th floor condo, out of nowhere something just started interfering and i thought it was the radio slightly off tune picking up 101.5, but the Arrow just kept fading and fading until the other signal was in full force, turns out, that other signal was 100.7 KISS-FM from Tampa Bay, about a 350 mile shot across the gulf, got it all on tape too, maybe one of these days i will get a working tape player and record it to MP3 and get it online<P ID="signature">______________


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