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Parking garage radio reception

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charlestondxman

Parking garages are always great places for radio reception, depending on what kind of radio you have. When you enter one of our local parking garages in Charleston (mostly at sea level), you struggle to get some of the local stations, especially AMs. On the 7th and 8th floor (I think the tallest parking garage in our area currently is 8 floors or so) you can get Savannah and Myrtle Beach stations even on a normal day.

Skip especially helps. There was one time we had a tropo outbreak and at the same time I had Raleigh (94.7), Roanoke (99.1), Atlanta (97.1), and Jacksonville. I was getting stations from 5 different states at the same time.

What are your experiences with radio reception in parking garages?
 
Parking garages are a mixed bag in areas somewhat above sea level. In Downtown Seattle, a good chunk of garages are below street level, so it means (now) that two (and only two) stations much closer than the commercial tower farm operators and have the penetration power to get down through 2-3 stories of concrete: KUOW 94.9 and tower mate KEXP 90.3

The few above street level garages I have used are decent for reception in one direction only...most of downtown is built on a steep hill leading to the Puget Sound. So the parking deck I use two blocks from the water allows me regular staticky reception of a translator in Olympia (over 50 miles away), or a radio station in Vancouver, BC (110 miles) but I frequently have a devil of a time picking up local class C FMs on the first two levels...they are all to the east on mountains so poor street level reception on much of the hill headed toward the water.
 
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