Unreal DX going on...

[Ozman]

I currently don't have the time to check what stations I am getting but all my locals 30 miles from NYC are getting stepped on by stations in Massachusetts. I have never seen this mid-day. 95.9 WFOX 10 miles away is getting WRAT and classical over it... any Idea what the hell is going on DX? or E-skip?

 

[fybush]

There's nothing "unreal" about it. It's DX (distant reception), but not E-skip. It's tropospheric ducting - there's a temperature-inversion layer in the atmosphere that forms what amounts to a pipeline carrying FM signals along the coast to you. If you had a UHF TV receiver, you'd probably be seeing TV signals from the same areas as well.

It's quite common this time of year; indeed, there are several DXers on the club mailing lists I'm on who get coastal trop like this almost every day in the summer.

 

[GlennO]

Didn't notice much tropo in eastern Connecticut just now, except WCIB/Falmouth, MA 101.9, a frequent catch in the summer. The classical on 95.9 is most likely WCRI/Block Island, practically a local around here.

 

[nd2023]

Yeah, there was good tropo last night. I managed to get i98.3 all the way in New Jersey. Several Hartford stations were coming in HD.

 

[DToTheJ]

Used to enjoy TV DX-ing, until the FCC took care of that... :

 

[CTListener]

Had to find another frequency for my XM receiver's FM modulator (one of the old, full-powered ones, that can be heard a football field away) in the car last night here in Meriden. I usually use 107.3, but WAAF was in here like a local. 107.1 worked better.

 

[Ozman]

Had to find another frequency for my XM receiver's FM modulator (one of the old, full-powered ones, that can be heard a football field away) in the car last night here in Meriden. I usually use 107.3, but WAAF was in here like a local. 107.1 worked better.

with a dx AAF makes it over the foothills with the Westburo tower unlike the ol'e days when it was on Paxton when it was all the time

 

[Raider57]

I was in Plymouth, MA and getting NH stations including WHOM. Not much luck of any Hartford, Long Island, or NYC stations there.I did get WPST from Trenton, NJ in East Hartford, CT the next day.

 

[WPPCProductions]

Had to find another frequency for my XM receiver's FM modulator (one of the old, full-powered ones, that can be heard a football field away) in the car last night here in Meriden. I usually use 107.3, but WAAF was in here like a local. 107.1 worked better.

Yesterday morning Cat Country 107.3 WPUR Atlantic City was booming in like a local.Which always come in clean.At Time WAAF has to fight WPUR out ,but WPUR wins here in Wallingford .which is great.Thanks to salty h2o.About two weeks ago when I was coming home from work I had 107.7 freq tuned in as I was listening as I was driving .It was mix of station coming in at the time which were country from Albany's WGNA,pieces of Jammin 107.7 WWRX here in CT.Plus a Magic formatted station which I did not get a good copy ,but the call letters begin with K, To me it sounded like KNO something. Has anybody catch any dx on this freq lately?

 

[cd637299]

@DtotheJ: I dunno your location, but as for me in south FL, I welcomed the FCC's move! Now I am free to DX other countries more (channel 2 was occupied here until 09)...not to mention that I got my first digital TV catches on E-skip last month, and I am now up to five total. (Seeing the lack of much DX lately, that might be my total until 2011.)

With the right equipment, all is not lost. True, there's only a small amount of DTV stations on channels 2-6, and I hope it stays that way.

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