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Worst tropo interference in years.

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Fieldtech1

This morning tropo was so bad that I could visibly see KSMB's tower from I-10 yet barely hear the station through all the co-channel mix mosh. Nearly every station on the FM dial had some degree of co-channel interference in south central Louisiana this morning.
 
It was bad in North Texas too. The Houston stations were all over the Dallas stations and I live next to Dallas.
 
Fieldtech1 said:
This morning tropo was so bad that I could visibly see KSMB's tower from I-10 yet barely hear the station through all the co-channel mix mosh. Nearly every station on the FM dial had some degree of co-channel interference in south central Louisiana this morning.
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What were some examples? Did you pick up 94-5 The Buzz instead of KSMB? I can remember picking up KRUF 94.5 out of Shreveport when I was in Breaux Bridge.
 
I know Friday with the exception of my locals, every station had two or three stations on it. For example on 103.7 I had Houston, Hattiesburg, and Corpus Christi all in fighting for signal, was even catching the RDS signals on the Houston signals
 
93-3TheSurge said:
Fieldtech1 said:
This morning tropo was so bad that I could visibly see KSMB's tower from I-10 yet barely hear the station through all the co-channel mix mosh. Nearly every station on the FM dial had some degree of co-channel interference in south central Louisiana this morning.
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What were some examples? Did you pick up 94-5 The Buzz instead of KSMB? I can remember picking up KRUF 94.5 out of Shreveport when I was in Breaux Bridge.
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It was several stations mixing, none were clear enough to ID.
 
On Thursday, I was walking in downtown (Houston) while listening to my Insignia portable HD radio and not only did KSMB prevent me from locking in on KTBZ-HD at 15 miles or so, I was hearing Bobby Novosad cut in.
 
KZMZ from Alexandria has been a easy catch lately.

BTW KTAL (98 Rocks) in Shreveport has been off the air for a few weeks ...anyone know whats going on? On radio-info they have a CP.
 
Tonight I am picking up Mexico all over the dial. And on analog tv. Weird to see tv on analog again!
 
To answer your question about 98 Rocks, they had a burnout in their transmission line on their tower. Funny thing is they are back on the air using the channel 6 'batwing' TV antenna no longer used by the TV station (KTAL) they rent tower space from. Good coverage too.


billyg said:
KZMZ from Alexandria has been a easy catch lately.

BTW KTAL (98 Rocks) in Shreveport has been off the air for a few weeks ...anyone know whats going on? On radio-info they have a CP.
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buttonpuncher said:
To answer your question about 98 Rocks, they had a burnout in their transmission line on their tower. Funny thing is they are back on the air using the channel 6 'batwing' TV antenna no longer used by the TV station (KTAL) they rent tower space from. Good coverage too.
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Thanks for the info. I have friend wondering what happened. I remember those classic antennas too. I suspect they're putting out much less than 50K because they're barely reaching Longview TX.
 
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