Spanish on Ch. 2 in GA

[DJK_31904]

Atmospheric conditions were jumping there for a little while!

I was watching my local channel 3 (WRBL) on cable (around 2015 EST) and noticed minor interference from another station, so I knew something was happening! I yanked out my VU-90 and propped it up in my upstairs radio/computer room, and low and behold I'm receiving a very weak but constant ch. 2 from the SW with Spanish programming. It had a logo on the top right corner of the screen, but the signal was too weak to make out the letters. The audio was clear, but the picture was poor at best.

I only wish I had my VU-210 up still! It's leaning on the side of the house right now, waiting to placed on the 60-ft tower I'm buying from a co-worker.

Wow, that sure got my heart pumping! I've heard many FM Mexican stations during summertime tropo and short-haul E-skip, but nothing before on TV. In February of all months! Gotta love this record warm weather and its effects on signal propogation.

 

[clichemoth]

> Atmospheric conditions were jumping there for a little
> while!
>
> I was watching my local channel 3 (WRBL) on cable (around
> 2015 EST) and noticed minor interference from another
> station, so I knew something was happening! I yanked out my
> VU-90 and propped it up in my upstairs radio/computer room,
> and low and behold I'm receiving a very weak but constant
> ch. 2 from the SW with Spanish programming. It had a logo on
> the top right corner of the screen, but the signal was too
> weak to make out the letters. The audio was clear, but the
> picture was poor at best.
>
> I only wish I had my VU-210 up still! It's leaning on the
> side of the house right now, waiting to placed on the 60-ft
> tower I'm buying from a co-worker.
>
> Wow, that sure got my heart pumping! I've heard many FM
> Mexican stations during summertime tropo and short-haul
> E-skip, but nothing before on TV. In February of all months!
> Gotta love this record warm weather and its effects on
> signal propogation.
>

It's most likely Mexico, but you can't count Cuba or PR out either. There's also a Spanish class A station (Univision, I think) in Naples, FL.

 

[DXER1]

> > Atmospheric conditions were jumping there for a little
> > while!
> >
> > I was watching my local channel 3 (WRBL) on cable (around
> > 2015 EST) and noticed minor interference from another
> > station, so I knew something was happening! I yanked out
> my
> > VU-90 and propped it up in my upstairs radio/computer
> room,
> > and low and behold I'm receiving a very weak but constant
> > ch. 2 from the SW with Spanish programming. It had a logo
> on
> > the top right corner of the screen, but the signal was too
>
> > weak to make out the letters. The audio was clear, but the
>
> > picture was poor at best.
> >
> > I only wish I had my VU-210 up still! It's leaning on the
> > side of the house right now, waiting to placed on the
> 60-ft
> > tower I'm buying from a co-worker.
> >
> > Wow, that sure got my heart pumping! I've heard many FM
> > Mexican stations during summertime tropo and short-haul
> > E-skip, but nothing before on TV. In February of all
> months!
> > Gotta love this record warm weather and its effects on
> > signal propogation.
> >
>
> It's most likely Mexico, but you can't count Cuba or PR out
> either. There's also a Spanish class A station (Univision,
> I think) in Naples, FL.
>
The Same thing happened in Dallas today, I was up at the Bike trail in Carrollton by the senior center and was picking up some spanish station on channell 3 on my sony walkman and though it was leaking from the little transmitters at the seinor center and found out later it was a station out of Mexico. A bunch of the San Antonio stations were coming in over local Dallas stations no luck with KSAT 12 though. As soon as I got home I erected my VU75 XR antenna and was amazed at what I had picked up.<P ID="signature">______________
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[DJK_31904]

> It's most likely Mexico, but you can't count Cuba or PR out
> either. There's also a Spanish class A station (Univision,
> I think) in Naples, FL.
>

At first I thought it was from the Caribbean (or FL) because the antenna was facing SE initially. As I moved it to the SW, the signal became stronger, which leads me to believe it was from Mexico.

If only, though, if I had the antenna outdoors! ARGH!!! I could've ID'd that son of a gun!

 

[DeadElvis]

> It's most likely Mexico, but you can't count Cuba or PR out
> either. There's also a Spanish class A station (Univision,
> I think) in Naples, FL.

I would have been Mexican, almost surely.

The paths were running East/West last night, not North/South. But, there are a plethora of Mexicans that would be possible.

DE