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WLNG puts a decent signal into southwest Rhode Island right up to Exit 3 on Route 95. How far west can they be heard on Long Island before 92.3 in NYC starts to interfere? <P ID="signature">______________
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> WLNG puts a decent signal into southwest Rhode Island right
> up to Exit 3 on Route 95. How far west can they be heard on
> Long Island before 92.3 in NYC starts to interfere?
>

Depends on your radio. I can hear them to the Sag on the LIE usually with my radio. After that it is a crapshoot but I have heard them in Nassau and even Queens if conditions are right.
 
> Depends on your radio. I can hear them to the Sag on the
> LIE usually with my radio. After that it is a crapshoot but
> I have heard them in Nassau and even Queens if conditions
> are right.
>

My own expierence only covers up til Oct. 2001, but I used to get Paul and Co. in Melville decently at night on occasion. It was a crap shoot because sometimes he would be blown out of the water by WSHR, which, back then, was not as engineeringly "right" as it is today. They used to splatter WLNG into a pancake.

There were other times, in the AM hours, that WLNG would blow K-Rock out of the water. I would try to listen to Howard, only to hear Gary Sapphiene booming in.

It was ALWAYS a crapshoot. No rhyme or reason.
 
Re: WLNG signal (north/west)

> WLNG puts a decent signal into southwest Rhode Island right
> up to Exit 3 on Route 95. How far west can they be heard on
> Long Island before 92.3 in NYC starts to interfere?
>
On the subject of WLNG's signal...you can pick up the station in Albany County in your car radio. I would est. 175 to 200 miles away. In the dead of winter. I would pick it up for a mile or so.
 
Re: WLNG signal (north/west)

> > WLNG puts a decent signal into southwest Rhode Island
> right
> > up to Exit 3 on Route 95. How far west can they be heard
> on
> > Long Island before 92.3 in NYC starts to interfere?
> >
> On the subject of WLNG's signal...you can pick up the
> station in Albany County in your car radio. I would est.
> 175 to 200 miles away. In the dead of winter. I would pick
> it up for a mile or so.
>

I have some vacant land in Greene County, NY about 10 miles west of Hunter Mountain. WLNG had a fairly consistent signal there, although it is mountain top land at 2800'. Of course that ended when 92.1 in Poughkeepsie went on the air.
I've also heard that there is a section near Howe Caverns, NY in Schoharie County where there is a signal.
At home in Amityville I'm using a Blaupunkt car radio with a FM antenna pointed east, only about 20' in the air. WLNG is there noise free 98% of the time. Occasionally I lose it to WVLT in Vineland, NJ, but there are rarely any adjacent channel problems from either 91.9 or 92.3.
Most of the newer car radios are pretty selective, and any of the Ford radios I've seen lately are very good.
 
Re: WLNG signal (north/west)

> I have some vacant land in Greene County, NY about 10 miles
> west of Hunter Mountain. WLNG had a fairly consistent signal
> there, although it is mountain top land at 2800'. Of course
> that ended when 92.1 in Poughkeepsie went on the air.
> I've also heard that there is a section near Howe Caverns,
> NY in Schoharie County where there is a signal.
> At home in Amityville I'm using a Blaupunkt car radio with a
> FM antenna pointed east, only about 20' in the air. WLNG is
> there noise free 98% of the time. Occasionally I lose it to
> WVLT in Vineland, NJ, but there are rarely any adjacent
> channel problems from either 91.9 or 92.3.
> Most of the newer car radios are pretty selective, and any
> of the Ford radios I've seen lately are very good.
>

I used to hear them at WVNJ's transmitter site in Oakland NJ, another high altitude location. I've also heard them in the mountains upstate in Rockland County near Orangeburgh.
 
> > Depends on your radio. I can hear them to the Sag on the
> > LIE usually with my radio. After that it is a crapshoot
> but
> > I have heard them in Nassau and even Queens if conditions
> > are right.
> >
>
> My own expierence only covers up til Oct. 2001, but I used
> to get Paul and Co. in Melville decently at night on
> occasion. It was a crap shoot because sometimes he would be
> blown out of the water by WSHR, which, back then, was not as
> engineeringly "right" as it is today. They used to splatter
> WLNG into a pancake.
>
> There were other times, in the AM hours, that WLNG would
> blow K-Rock out of the water. I would try to listen to
> Howard, only to hear Gary Sapphiene booming in.
>
> It was ALWAYS a crapshoot. No rhyme or reason.
>
I heard WLNG a little further into Rhode Island today, but going west, they were barely audible all the way in Stamford, CT. When there's tropo, I get them here regularly in Princeton Junction, NJ. WLNG is an awesome oldies station.<P ID="signature">______________
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