WLYF

[Betrayed]

Just a few minutes ago, I hop into the truck and hit the seek button on the radio. It stops on 101.5. No big deal. It's just WKXW over in Trenton. NOPE. The first thing I hear is something like "South Florida's favorite for light hits. Lite 101" WLYF in Miami. Not bad for somebody in extreme northern Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

 

[Radio-X]

Thats a pretty impressive catch, man! 8)

The furthest I have been able to catch a Miami station was just north of Jacksonville...picking up WLVE 93.9 in Nassau County while driving down to Ft. Lauderdale...which is a respectable 300 mile catch...

Now I just feel outdone

Radio-X

 

[vadar]

It happens, while living in Central Florida I once picked up an FM Rock station from Kansas City, MO. That beats both of ya.....................

 

[callfm]

This is called "tropospheric ducting." We get reception reports at WMKL from "DX" listeners in NY, and repeatedly in parts of Ohio. From what the reception reports tell us, it is due to a cloud of ions in the atmosphere that bounces FM signals. Reception like this works both ways. Unfortunately there are so many FM pirate stations here it's hard to pick up such long-distance reception.

Rob/CALL FM

 

[jlehmann]

Actually, this was E Skip, not tropo ducting. E Skip usually carries signals 600-1300 miles or so. Tropo can be anything from local enhancement to 500 miles usually, sometimes greater during big events, which this was not.

The different kinds of propagation are explained well here:

http://www.wtfda.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=43

 

[livingfruitvirus]

It happens, while living in Central Florida I once picked up an FM Rock station from Kansas City, MO. That beats both of ya.....................

I once picked up KDDS from Seattle while in San Diego trying to listen to XHOCL.

 

[Mike Sheridan]

FM DX

My story is.... I was on my way to St. Louis one day and thought I was getting close enough to receive the local St. Louis stations. I turned on the radio and was very surprised to hear FM stations from Dallas, Texas!

 

[ScottBurns]

A great area up north for DX'ing South Florida stations is the I-95 corridor between central Delaware and northern Maryland. Many stations from the Palm Beaches, such as WRMF and WLDI, can be caught when the atmospheric conditions are right.

My best DX'ing experience was last November, while in Tampa. I caught stations up and down the Gulf, but notably Houston's 93.7 The Arrow. Many New Orleans and Mobile stations were also audible.