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New Hot 97 Overnight Show

I'm not one for that music, DTTJ, but Hot 97 is the onliest NYC FM signal I can pull in here. Will give it a listen on your say-so. Maybe I'll call in with a request and have the distinction of being simultaneously their farthest, whitest and oldest listener, hi.

Downstate WLAN-FM, right next door on 96.9, is a raucous spot that this hip and groovy old guy finds interesting at times (usually for sound-levels on equipment :- ) So I guess it's time to spray the rust off the rotating FM aerial.
 
If you can pull in 97.1 in your neck of the woods any time of the day, let along overnights, go for it! :D
 
Hmmm Steve can I ask whereabouts you're at? 97.1 Has always been one of the strongest NYC FM signals as far as distance due to no co-channel interference (100.3. 101.1) to the South, and no adjacent channel interference to the NE in CT (no station on 96.9 or 97.3).. I've gotten them pretty far up I-95 past New Haven even!
 
@ WBIMDJ: In one of those great 'Road' movies, Hope looked around where they were and said to Crosby, 'This must be the nowhere that everyone's always five hundred miles from'.
Same thing here. We're west of Allentown, south of Hazleton.
Our 'market' is unrated. I believe that Northeast Schuylkill County does get some diaries for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton book. Perhaps the fine burgh of Tamaqua gets some diaries for the Allentown book.

The rotating $90 Radio Shack-Job TV antenna (manually rotated) was put up so we could see the three network TV stations from WB/Scranton.
Luperm is very right about terrain blockage this way from that area. Those three TV stations were always fuzzy.
But when the TV aerial is hooked up to the FM radio, ALL sorts of swell stuff can come in, too. And the reception process does not require extraordinary conditions, either. Instead of having a two-foot whip on the radios, it's like having a snarling eight-foot whip with tentacles -- thirty feet higher.
Does WQHT stream with that Medina overnight show?

Driving home from NYC years back, I once took WQHT (in their CHR days) all the way to Easton on an average car radio. Their signal was tops out of all the NYC stations. WPLJ was second.
 
Hot 97 had a really strong Adjacent in Atlantic City 96.9 WFPG So strong It would come in crystal Clear in the mountains in West Orange Well over 100 miles away and sometimes even interfere with Hot97. I don't know today if WFPG still exists or is still that strong. And No I don't think it was an e-skip it was like that all the time
 
I pulled in Hot 97 in Albany once. Not sure if there was troppo as I'm not often in Albany to check but thought it was impressive nonetheless. I can also clearly get it out the east end of Long Island....even in Montauk.
 
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