Anyone receiving any DX from the wildfire smoke? I was getting WPWX Power 92 from the Chicago Area near Pellston about an hour ago. Closer stations around 100 miles away booming in. All being heard on a Eton Grundig Mini Pocket Radio.
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VHF FM DX From Canadian Wildfire Smoke
- Thread starter Schroedingers Cat
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It's complex. Both logically and mathematically. Part of it is water molecules condensing on smoke particles. There was a paper that explained that the index of refraction of smoke in the air has an "imaginary", complex, mathematical component which varies with frequency/wavelength. Differences in the index of refraction between two differing layers of air results in reflection off the interface between the two layers. AI, which is often suspect I agree, says smoke in the air affects communications. It happens with volcano eruptions also.