• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Tropo?

RandomUser said:
KC 100 on 100.3 , now that’s a station from NEBRASKA! 101.9 WVAQ was staticy for another 101.9. 101.3 WCAL too.
Click to expand...

What you are describing sounds more like skip to me than tropo. Let me describe tropospheric effects as I understand them and then we'll see how wrong I am. Basically, tropospheric conditions occur near coasts and what you hear from them is seasonal but always the same stations. For example, when I lived in California (before 1972 and then again between 1981 and 1985 when I attended undergraduate college), starting in the spring and ending late in the fall, I could receive stations from San Diego. Sometimes they were strong; sometimes they were weak; sometimes, for a few days, they were not there. Yet they would always return, and in many cases, I could listen to them for hours as their signals waxed and waned.

Let's compare that with skip. Skip is also seasonal, usually during the summer months. But you never know when it's going to come, what stations you can hear, and, most of the time I've heard it, stations come in and out so fast that it's often difficult to get even a top-of-the-hour ID on them. The best skip I've ever heard came in 1982 (I wrote about this in another thread) on a family trip we took to Big Lake in northeastern Arizona where we stayed for a whole week. The day we arrived, the stations were coming fast and furious, mostly from the plains states from Texas to Tennessee as far as I could tell. Later that week, there was an opening from the Pacific Northwest where (and this was much slower than I usually hear it), the skip lasted for an hour or so and I was hearing things from Bellingham, WA and Vancouver, BC. Then it all dried up.
 


Back
Top Bottom