Picked up some Pittsburgh channels this morning

[mc_billy_bob]

I live in Greenville, PA (75-80 miles north of Pittsburgh). And I picked up WLTJ 92.9, KDKA-FM 93.7, WSHH 99.7 and I had WKST Kiss 96.1 from Pittsburgh try to come in over hash from 95.9 kiss from Sharpsville. Might not seem big but I thought it was pretty cool. Hope to catch some really long distance soon.

 

[Tincap]

I would think that these signals would be considered 'fringe', but given you location (and depending on how uncrowded your FM band is), making catches from Akron, Erie, Detroit, Buffalo and numerous Canadian stations, are not out of the question.

Enjoy!

~BG

 

[Lawppy]

80 miles is nothing with FM radio. I won't even write down stations from that distance when logging what i'm hearing (unless if it's an LPFM or translator). But this is peak tropo season here. If you listen, you'll hear some amazing stuff that makes Pittsburgh look like child's play.

 

[FreddyE1977]

My longest FM catch was KJ-97 from San Antonio, TX. Picked them up on a JVC boombox
about fifteen miles east of Flint, Michigan, a distance of around 1500 miles. I called them
and their engineer thought I might have been catching a double-skip off the Great Lakes.
I did notice that when they were calm you could pick up some amazing stuff...a Texas TV
station for example.

 

[Lawppy]

My longest FM catch was KJ-97 from San Antonio, TX. Picked them up on a JVC boombox
about fifteen miles east of Flint, Michigan, a distance of around 1500 miles. I called them
and their engineer thought I might have been catching a double-skip off the Great Lakes.

This was more than likely Es activity, which has nothing to do with the Great Lakes. They're actually still unsure what causes it. Lake influenced Tr is very common though. You can hear strong signals from across the lake almost like locals, even as far inland as Coldwater.

San Antonio, TX to Flint is probably more like 1,200 miles. Still not a bad FM catch at all. That's beginning to get into that serious long ball Es range.

 

[mc_billy_bob]

Lol, I just thought it was something, because I haven't had a whole lot of action this year. Last year, I made my longest catch ever, the station I was able to ID was KBXX 97.9 from Houston, TX I believe or somewhere in Texas. I'm going to keep looking and hoping I can rival or match what I got last year.

 

[Darth_vader]

Have you ever heard WBAI (NYC, xmitter on the Empire State Building) on 99.5? Mr. Cummings reportedly can intercept it on the other end of the state, in Philly, although he says it's a bit staticky.

 

[cla51867]

When I lived in Cleveland, I used to get great tropo via Lake Erie. I believe on one spectacular instance I picked up 94.9 out of Milwaukee, presuming both Lake Michigan and Lake Erie assisted in the propogation.

TV reception came in really well -- Grand Rapids, Landing, and Detroit came in like locals.

Interestingly, I almost NEVER got Pittsburgh or Youngstown stations.

 

[mc_billy_bob]

I had the same experience when I lived in the Cleveland area, I would get Detroit, Toledo, Fort Wayne, etc. Very rarely anything from Youngstown or Pittsburgh, and when it was it would be 102.5 wdve from Pittsburgh, which i noticed, oddly enough, WDVE showed up on the Cleveland ratings. It was only like 0.1 but that was odd.