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One WTC FM Signals(Observation Deck) question

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CurtisNEPA

If you are on the highest floor of the World Trade Center in the observation deck and if you take your little FM radio along(I'm recommending the Insignia HD), assuming that there is no severe interference by stronger signals, how far will you pick up stations?

I will assume you might also pick up some Long Island big guns like WALK or WBLI, perhaps locking in HD signal if possible. Also possible I might pick up some CT as well.

Is this possible?
 
If there are any TV or FM transmitters at all running from the site, the front end 'de-sens' will kill reception completely.
 
K6JHU said:
If there are any TV or FM transmitters at all running from the site, the front end 'de-sens' will kill reception completely.
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You are correct, sir.

Curtis, do the experiment now, while it's RF free up there! You might even get some of the eastern LI stations.

Actually, from my perch on the upper floors at Empire even with all the RF, I can pull in a few Connecticut stations, as well as a few LI signals on a tabletop HD Radio (mostly analog, though.)
 
K6JHU said:
If there are any TV or FM transmitters at all running from the site, the front end 'de-sens' will kill reception completely.
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NO RF is on the new WTC tower....a STA has been filed for a VHF test but that is limited and only at certain times, direction, and lowpower (to test signal reception in quadrants and to keep co channel interference down plus having to coordinate with a existing low power station on the channel that agreed to allow the testing)

Also any TV transmission would likely be UHF in the beginning. Hardly a killer for an FM radio..

Besides, you would be in the bottom null of the antenna...so there would not much RF to bother any receiver directly below (otherwise, no human would be allowed on the deck due to FCC RFR rules!)
 
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