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Strange..

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mattthepm

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Doesn't it seem odd that WANT in Lebanon is coming in loud and clear in downtown Nashville, particularly around the west side of town? This didn't seem the case several months ago, and now they come in rather strongly as if they were a city-grade signal. Has anyone noticed this?

-m
 
Two words: Summer. Humidity.


> Doesn't it seem odd that WANT in Lebanon is coming in loud
> and clear in downtown Nashville, particularly around the
> west side of town? This didn't seem the case several months
> ago, and now they come in rather strongly as if they were a
> city-grade signal. Has anyone noticed this?
>
> -m
> <P ID="signature">______________
Bob
Moderator, Nashville board
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> Two words: Summer. Humidity.
>
>
> > Doesn't it seem odd that WANT in Lebanon is coming in loud
>
> > and clear in downtown Nashville, particularly around the
> > west side of town? This didn't seem the case several
> months
> > ago, and now they come in rather strongly as if they were
> a
> > city-grade signal. Has anyone noticed this?
> >
> > -m
> >
>
True. Storms do the same thing. I was on the air at an FM station in Fort Wayne, Indiana once, and got a request line call from Brownsville Texas. Not only was he listening loud and clear, the signal even lit the FM Stereo pilot light on his stereo. FM, AM....get the temps and atmosphere just right and radio will travel for miles and miles.
 
> True. Storms do the same thing. I was on the air at an FM
> station in Fort Wayne, Indiana once, and got a request line
> call from Brownsville Texas. Not only was he listening loud
> and clear, the signal even lit the FM Stereo pilot light on
> his stereo. FM, AM....get the temps and atmosphere just
> right and radio will travel for miles and miles.

There are two major kinds of FM DX.

- Weather effects cause "tropospheric" propagation. "Tropo" on typical consumer equipment is good for 50-200 miles.

(I have heard 700-mile tropo - Houston - on a car radio - but those were *exceptional* conditions. The current tropo distance record is roughly 3,300 miles. (?!) But that involved a part of the world (between Hawaii and Mexico) where unusual weather formations happen. You won't see a Nashville<=>London path.)

- Science doesn't know what causes "sporadic-E" (or "Es") propagation. Except that it takes place in a much higher layer of the atmosphere.

Es has a typical maximum distance of about 1,500 miles. 1,000-mile Es is quite common. (I had a dialful of Colorado one noon last week)

(Es also has a *minimum* distance! DX less than about 500 miles away almost certainly isn't Es.)

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To be honest it kinda sounds to me like WANT has gotten stronger than it used to be too. But that could just be because I'm paying more attention to the frequency, trying (generally unsuccessfully) to listen to WRFN. Sure wish the FCC would get off their duffs about 3rd adjacent LPFMs & (hopefully) let WRFN move to 103.9 where someone might be able to hear them...
 
> To be honest it kinda sounds to me like WANT has gotten
> stronger than it used to be too. But that could just be
> because I'm paying more attention to the frequency, trying
> (generally unsuccessfully) to listen to WRFN. Sure wish the
> FCC would get off their duffs about 3rd adjacent LPFMs &
> (hopefully) let WRFN move to 103.9 where someone might be
> able to hear them...
>

That's kind of the point I was trying to make. It seems like after WRFN went on the air in April, WANT all of a sudden comes in stronger in downtown Nashville than it ever has before.

-m
 
> That's kind of the point I was trying to make. It seems
> like after WRFN went on the air in April, WANT all of a
> sudden comes in stronger in downtown Nashville than it ever
> has before.

I noticed that too! I was able to pick up WRFN in spots as far away at I-24 & Harding Road (and in the Metrocenter area) when it first went on the air. I could pick it up quite nicely throughout most of downtown Nashville.

Now the signal is crap almost everywhere. I even had a problem picking it up in front of Eddie's which is just a mile on the other side of the I-40 exit 192 that heads into Pasquo.

I seem to recall hearing somewhere that the powers-that-be at WANT made life miserable for WRFN when they were trying to get on the air. It's totally my own opinion, but I wouldn't be surprised if WANT has been doing some monkeying around with their signal. I used to live in the heart of Nashville and was never able to get a good signal from WANT. I know, because I had a friend in Phoenix who was a syndicated DJ for Real Country, and I struggled to pick up his show whenever he was on. Now, WANT seems to blast everywhere.
 
> It's totally my own opinion, but I
> wouldn't be surprised if WANT has been doing some monkeying
> around with their signal. I used to live in the heart of
> Nashville and was never able to get a good signal from WANT.

I was thinking along the same those same lines. A search of the FCC database doesn't show any apps for a power increase. Current listings show WANT licensed for 5,000 watts. Short of that or an antenna modification, I don't know what else would cause that. I highly doubt it's 'skip' conditions. But, as you said, "it's totally my own opinion". :)


-m
 
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