[AF] Summertime FM DX season is here

[Mark Humphrey]

At that distance, it would probably be E-skip.  A
friend of mine called to pass along the "DX tip" this
afternoon, but I was working at an FM transmitter site
in Philadelphia where de-sense make it impossible to
copy anything but local signals.

The distance and region make sense: a couple of years
ago on a June afternoon, I caught several Wisconsin
Public Radio stations within a 30 minute period (all
easily identified by their RDS callsigns) in the
Philadelphia area.

And last summer, I witnessed an "HD hijacking" when
the 88.1 HD station in Pensacola took control of my
receiver away from the local analog-only 88.1 in
Warwick, PA, about ten miles west of here.

Mark

--- Kevin Tekel <amstereoexp at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Today I happened to stumble across one of my best FM
> DX catches ever, on
> my stock 1997 Volkswagen car radio.  I tuned in 90.5
> MHz, expecting to
> hear local high school station WCVH from Flemington,
> NJ, but instead I
> heard classical music with a consistent
> local-quality signal.  After the
> musical piece was over, the announcer IDed the
> station as "Classical
> Minnesota Public Radio."  That's 90.5 KGAC from
> Saint Peter, MN, a 75 kW
> Class C1 signal.  Distance to my QTH at time of
> (mobile) reception was
> about 1,030 miles!  I checked again about two hours
> later, and the signal
> was still there, coming in just as clearly as
> before.
> 
> Any guess as to whether this was tropo or E-skip?  I
> noticed many local
> stations had very poor reception, with lots of other
> stations trying to
> come in and making a mess of cochannel interference.
>


       
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