What's the closest you've been to..?

[charlestondxman]

Well, my semi-local Spanish station at 98.9 (WAZS, 38 mi) gets overpowered a lot, usually by WSPA in Spartanburg (215 mi away). I can't tell you how many times that has happened, even with WAZS on the air. If they go off the air (which is a lot), WSPA blasts in for hours at a time, even on car radios.

During the summer, anything can happen, as the big 100kw at 96.9, WIWF (only 19 miles away), gets overpowered often during the summer, with a turn of the antenna, by Jacksonville's Eagle. Once or twice, the old 96.1 was overpowered by Jacksonville, but that doesn't happen often.

95SX never gets overpowered by anything, but that's because it's the closest FM to my area (7 miles, half over water).

 

[nd2023]

>>I quit my show in the middle of it because nobody would be listening, went to my car and DXed (and had a really good explanation why I quit in the middle of it ). The skip was strong and lasted over an hour>>

Did you get paid for that hour ;D

College station = Don't get paid

I did get questioned later why I suddenly stopped my show. I was prepared with a recording of the stream (that was sourced by a radio tuned to 90.3) and it was dominated by e-skip so no one would even hear my show online. And I also mentioned my passion for DX. If I stayed on, I would have had listeners over the air 1000 miles away (I should have just looped a legal ID till the skip stopped)
That won't happen again because we got a new transmitter site that can be seen from the studio, and it's 100 watts at 250 feet.

 

[kd8hho]

wildest thing i remember was living up in hammond indiana was listing to WXCD 94.7 classic rock at the time (now WLS-FM) it was early one morning. i noticed something underneath the WXCD sig. which got me curious. so i started playin with the boom box antenna.(thinkin i was getting some local interference) then i got it. W F B Q Indianapolis Q 95 made me laugh a bit as i grew up just outside Indianapolis and listend to the station b4 the move.

 

[radioman148]

wildest thing i remember was living up in hammond indiana was listing to WXCD 94.7 classic rock at the time (now WLS-FM) it was early one morning. i noticed something underneath the WXCD sig. which got me curious. so i started playin with the boom box antenna.(thinkin i was getting some local interference) then i got it. W F B Q Indianapolis Q 95 made me laugh a bit as i grew up just outside Indianapolis and listend to the station b4 the move.

Strong e skip interfering with a local. I've only experienced it on TV.

 

[MikeStandardsFromIndiana]

In anderson Indiana ive Had WFBQ get over ran by KSHE, WHHH killed by KIHT, KFTK over WLHK, WKRQ over WKLU, KLOU over WRZX, 104.1 St louis over Muncie's WLBC, WPNT over WYXB, WKFS over WEDJ and WNCI over Anderson's own WGNR. as the only Indy/East Central Locals over ran by DX'ed Stations

 

[radioman148]

In anderson Indiana ive Had WFBQ get over ran by KSHE, WHHH killed by KIHT, KFTK over WLHK, WKRQ over WKLU, KLOU over WRZX, 104.1 St louis over Muncie's WLBC, WPNT over WYXB, WKFS over WEDJ and WNCI over Anderson's own WGNR. as the only Indy/East Central Locals over ran by DX'ed Stations

Wow, when there's tropo you get everything.

 

[BobOnTheJob]

In anderson Indiana ive Had WFBQ get over ran by KSHE, WHHH killed by KIHT, KFTK over WLHK, WKRQ over WKLU, KLOU over WRZX, 104.1 St louis over Muncie's WLBC, WPNT over WYXB, WKFS over WEDJ and WNCI over Anderson's own WGNR. as the only Indy/East Central Locals over ran by DX'ed Stations

Did I read this correctly? You're in Anderson & WNCI creamed WGNR? That is an amazing catch. I'm 12 miles from WKKG 101.5 (a serious RF source) & long ago stopped looking for anything to overpower them, but based on your experience (pardon the pun as WGNR was once known as Experience 98), maybe I should start looking again.

 

[kd8hho]

In anderson Indiana ive Had WFBQ get over ran by KSHE, WHHH killed by KIHT, KFTK over WLHK, WKRQ over WKLU, KLOU over WRZX, 104.1 St louis over Muncie's WLBC, WPNT over WYXB, WKFS over WEDJ and WNCI over Anderson's own WGNR. as the only Indy/East Central Locals over ran by DX'ed Stations

lol wow. as im in anderson myself now. i can maybe look forward to some interesting catches

 

[Eli Polonsky]

I've been right in the studio/transmitter facility of WJIB 740 Cambridge MA, listening to 740 from Toronto.

Of course, WJIB was off the air for the night at that point... ;D

When skywave is strong, 740 Toronto can be heard below WJIB's five watt night signal only a mile from the transmitter, and can make it unlistenable just three miles away.

 

[radioman148]

I've been right in the studio/transmitter facility of WJIB 740 Cambridge MA, listening to 740 from Toronto.

Of course, WJIB was off the air for the night at that point... ;D

When skywave is strong, 740 Toronto can be heard below WJIB's five watt night signal only a mile from the transmitter, and can make it unlistenable just three miles away.

5 watts aren't what they used to be.

 

[schmave]

I forgot my best one..WIOT Toledo in Springfield with WTUE nulled..with a weak Bob and Tom a few seconds behind WTUEs feed

Both those stations have tremendous signals. If it weren't for the 104.9 in Lima covering 104.7 in Allen County, I think you'd hear those two slugging it out regularly in and around the Lima area. As it is, you get WTUE up 75 until it's covered by Lima, then on the other side heading toward Toledo it's WIOT.

 

[hipporadio]

A few years ago I was flying into John Wayne Airport in Orange County, CA. After a stop in Salk Lake City – a few minutes after assent, my trusty Sangean DT-200V “Walkman” snared 103.5 KRUZ Santa Barbara, CA... ‘Held it thru the entire flight into the LA area. I lost it at about the 200-foot level on decent to the J.W. runway... It was overpowered by 103.1 10 miles away in Newport Beach, CA just seconds before the plane hit the runway... Interesting how FM works!

Here’s a good one... In 1979 -"shocked" by 100.7 WBIZ Eau Claire, WI while in the parking lot of the University Park Mall [north side of South Bend, IN - Cleveland at Grape Road]. It totally overpowered LOCAL 50kw [then]-WYEZ on an August afternoon as we hit my car after concluding a "radio lunch". WYEZ's TX was only 9 MILES away on the south-end of South Bend [on the Channel 28 tower]... At first, we thought they were WYEZ, and switching from beautiful music to a CHR format [a radio-rumer going around at that time]... After a few minutes of listening, and WBIZ's Eau Claire station ID, we decided we could forgo a visit to Osco for some Rolaides. It was a great “fake-out” for us WNDU folks... And awesome E-skip, too!

 

[hipporadio]

Sorry, KRUZ is on 103.3... Darn, I'm getting old... 103.5 is in L.A. and never knocked-it off :-[

 

[Lawppy]

That's pretty amazing stuff about 100.7 in South Bend. Those flamethrower stations from across the lake are no contest for even the local stations!

I was in Michigan City, IN during the freak lake enhancement in August of last year. Milwaukee stations were pounding in like locals. I heard WKKV trying to get on top of B100 (the former WYEZ) within approximately 15 miles. I was stopped in a construction zone (one-way traffic) so I got to actually park my car for a few minutes. I was able to hit a spot where WMYX completely wiped out South Bend's Movin' 99.1. No small feat because I was only 10 miles from the Movin' tower. Pretty crazy!

 

[radioman148]

That's pretty amazing stuff about 100.7 in South Bend. Those flamethrower stations from across the lake are no contest for even the local stations!

I was in Michigan City, IN during the freak lake enhancement in August of last year. Milwaukee stations were pounding in like locals. I heard WKKV trying to get on top of B100 (the former WYEZ) within approximately 15 miles. I was stopped in a construction zone (one-way traffic) so I got to actually park my car for a few minutes. I was able to hit a spot where WMYX completely wiped out South Bend's Movin' 99.1. No small feat because I was only 10 miles from the Movin' tower. Pretty crazy!

WMYX has a very good signal even when there's no tropo. I can often pick them up well around Chicago.

 

[cyberdad]

In 1979, WBIZ-FM would've been 50kw off the old WEAU-TV tower on the SE side of Eau Claire. Probably not much...if any....taller than 500'. WEAU-TV had already moved to their taller stick to a location between Eau Claire and La Crosse. The old tower was adjacent to the TV station parking lot. Ironically, WBIZ's am stick was so short, no tower lights were required (1kw/.25kw at 1400).

 

[crainbebo]

only ones I've encountered are

88.9: KMIH Mercer Island over Calvary Chapel translator
89.1: K206DL Issaquah (translator) over a CSN translator in Granite Falls
89.9: KASB Bellevue over KGRG Auburn
94.5: does this count? KMIH translator (CHR). About 2 years ago picked up CFBT (CHR) out of Vancouver.
96.1: CHKG Vancouver, BC over KXXO Olympia, WA
102.1: KSWW Aberdeen, WA over KPQ Wenatchee (the more dominant one) (their tower is so high, it can be heard over most of Central and North Central Washington!)
99.3: sometimes (VERY rare) CFOX Vancouver, BC over KDDS Elma, WA
97.7: (Rare) CBUF Vancouver, BC over KOMO Oakville, WA
96.9: CKLG Vancouver, BC over KGY McCleary, WA
105.7: VERY rare: KJET Raymond, WA over CBU Vancouver, BC

-crainbebo

 

[TheDingo]

I have this incident on tape, Back in 1998 while I was vacationing in Orange Beach AL (Pensacola / Mobile market) I was recording Arrow 100.7 on the 11th floor balcony, at about 24 miles from the 100kW local 100.7 transmitter, and the Arrow started fading out, under massive interference from Tampa's 100.7 (Then Kiss-FM) from around 350 miles over the gulf.