Which NYC FM Signals Can You Pick Up?

[kms575]

Ever been to Hogback Mtn. in Vermont? You can get Hartford, New Haven, Springfield, Albany and Boston stations.

Is Hogback Mountain in southern Vermont? I only get to Brattleboro in Windham County these days.

Yes, it's on the Brattleboro-Bennington road, in Wilmington. Allegedly there's a 100-mile view to the south.

 

[Ozman]

aww man thats on my way to Stratton/Mt Snow.. I love to watch the sunrise while taking a nap & listening to the radio. then go skiing at Mt.Snow-Stratton. the back roads in Putney Vt is also a good place to be. another is Next to bromley Mtn near Stratton and onwards route 100 towards Okemo. Okemo ( ludlow VT ) seems to be the end of the line for any city radio. I never can get anything in Killington.
-OZ

 

[nd2023]

In Meriden, I get 103.5 and 97.1.

 

[BRNout]

In Meriden, I get 103.5 and 97.1.

Interestingly enough, those two are the only New York FM signals that I can pick up from north-facing hills in Chester County, PA (30 min west of Philadelphia). We're over 120 miles from NY City. For whatever reason, the signals on 97.1 and 103.5 certainly seem to get out the farthest!

When driving through CT, by the way, I tend to lose most New York signals (after a bit of in-n-out fading) in Middlebury (I-84), Meriden (I-91), West Peak Tunnel (CT 15), Madison (I-95) and Beacon Falls on CT 8. I know that they get further north and east in select locations, but that it totally dependent on topography and is quite localized.

By the way, the NY signals are pretty sketchy from New Haven to Meriden - but you can pull them in weakly.

 

[kms575]

In Meriden, I get 103.5 and 97.1.

Interestingly enough, those two are the only New York FM signals that I can pick up from north-facing hills in Chester County, PA (30 min west of Philadelphia). We're over 120 miles from NY City. For whatever reason, the signals on 97.1 and 103.5 certainly seem to get out the farthest!

When driving through CT, by the way, I tend to lose most New York signals (after a bit of in-n-out fading) in Middlebury (I-84), Meriden (I-91), West Peak Tunnel (CT 15), Madison (I-95) and Beacon Falls on CT 8. I know that they get further north and east in select locations, but that it totally dependent on topography and is quite localized.

By the way, the NY signals are pretty sketchy from New Haven to Meriden - but you can pull them in weakly.

Agreed, that's pretty much my experience too.
BTW, intersesting you pick up those 2 signals in the Philly 'burbs. Where in Chester County? I used to live down there.

 

[BRNout]

Agreed, that's pretty much my experience too.
BTW, intersesting you pick up those 2 signals in the Philly 'burbs. Where in Chester County? I used to live down there.

In Paoli (near the hospital) and at the western edge of Valley Forge Park. Both places give reliable reception of 97.1 and 103.5. During tropo events, you can get both in Devon and Wayne too. But, they are a little too weak in that area to pick up on an average day. All of the other NY stations are too close to Philly locals (0.2 MHz or co-channel) to pick up.

Where I live, which is on the other side of the valley from Paoli, the terrain gives a southeasterly advantage - meaning I get many South Jersey and DE stations but no New Yorkers.

 

[kms575]

Small world. I lived in Paoli

That has to be what, 100+ miles from the Empire State Building?

 

[nd2023]

103.5 and 97.1 are relatively clear, they don't have adjacents in Philly or Hartford. It's amazing how KTU and Hot 97 can be heard from central Connecticut to southeastern Pennsylvania! I couldn't get 107.5 up in CT though.
I get Star 99.9 and WEBE 108 all the time in New Brunswick, NJ, and I once heard WEBE in King of Prussia, before the new 107.9 in Philly came.

 

[BRNout]

Small world. I lived in Paoli

That has to be what, 100+ miles from the Empire State Building?

Indeed it is!

I'd say that Paoli is definitely more than 100 air miles from ESB - no small feat.

I get Star 99.9 and WEBE 108 all the time in New Brunswick, NJ, and I once heard WEBE in King of Prussia, before the new 107.9 in Philly came.

I've had the same experience, though both are pretty sketchy that far south. This past summer, I was listening to WRNB on my Sangean portable radio one night from my southward-facing location (20 min W of K of P) and picked up an interloper. After adjusting the headphone antenna just right, I was shocked to hear that it was WEBE! So, it's definitely possible - though you also have another 107.9 signal to deal with from Wilkes-Barre too - it also fights with WRNB in certain spots.

 

[KML0224]

I think that's the repeater for WKRZ-FM 98.5 of Wilkes-Barre. It covers the Stroudsburg/Delaware Water Gap area quite well. The last time I was there Kelley K was their mid-day DJ. She was once at WZMX-FM 93.7 in the previous Dancin' Oldies days.

As for WEBE-FM 107.9, a.k.a. WEBE 108, they get out quite well for a side-mounted smokestack transmitter!

 

[Ozman]

for some odd reason a couple of NYC station are a fade almost to the mass border in parts of the Litchfield hills, I have picked up a couple of NYC'ers next to Butternut it seems to be the end of the line for faint NYC signals is next to great Barrington MA. another spot is also between Torrington and winchester where the Highway of Route 8 ends I have gotten NYC stations very faintly during the winter months.

In Meriden, I get 103.5 and 97.1.

Interestingly enough, those two are the only New York FM signals that I can pick up from north-facing hills in Chester County, PA (30 min west of Philadelphia). We're over 120 miles from NY City. For whatever reason, the signals on 97.1 and 103.5 certainly seem to get out the farthest!

When driving through CT, by the way, I tend to lose most New York signals (after a bit of in-n-out fading) in Middlebury (I-84), Meriden (I-91), West Peak Tunnel (CT 15), Madison (I-95) and Beacon Falls on CT 8. I know that they get further north and east in select locations, but that it totally dependent on topography and is quite localized.

By the way, the NY signals are pretty sketchy from New Haven to Meriden - but you can pull them in weakly.