RE: FM Skip (was: TV skip)

["Fitzpatrick, Mike" <mfitzpatrick@wwlp.com>]

Driving home from work in Agawam, Mass. towards Westfield, Mass. listening
to WJMN in Boston at 94.5 over 50,000 1st adjacent WMAS here in Springfield.
Also I was receiving severe co-channel on 97.9 from WCPR in Wiggins,
Mississippi, over local WPKX. In fact on the mountain side from the
transmitter, where the mountain shadowed the signal, "979 CPR" came in
pretty clear! On the TV side, I have a small indoor antenna setup and I
picked up a ABC affiliate channel 11 from Raleigh/Durham. I could see the
logo several times and advertising for local stores but no legal. I am
assuming its WTVD? (FCC Query). This is always a tough time of year, which
do I listen to? My Radio, TV or scanner!





> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of David
> Merrill
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 10:17 AM
> To: 'Bob Nelson'; boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: RE: FM Skip (was: TV skip)
>
>
> Last summer, a "window" opened to Miami and later to
> Missouri/Illinois.  It
> is wierd to hear small town radio from a 100,000 watt FM
> signal from the
> Ozarks while driving down I-95 in Connecticut.  My Florida
> skip happened
> while on route 3 on the South Shore when I got WPOW (96.5)
> and Magic (102.7)
> and some station on the Keys I had never heard of (94.3).  I did get a
> couple of responses from the stations in which they were
> amazed.  My record
> for a summer FM pull is Lake Charles, LA and the SD/Minn
> border (even heard
> an ad for 4th of July fireworks at a place in the Dakotas.)
> Whenever this has happened, it has been clear in stereo like a local.
> Amazing phenomenon!  There is something about that 4th of
> July weekend too.
> -Dave
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> > [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Bob
> > Nelson
> > Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 9:47 AM
> > To: Sven Weil; boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> > Subject: FM Skip (was: TV skip)
> >
> >
> > I'm sure many of us can tell of some interesting
> > FM skip as well.
> >
> > I was driving in Lynn one late morning (in June,
> > I think) and was picking up an FM talk station
> > from Philadelphia (WWDB-FM ,I think, were the calls).
> > This was several years ago.
> >
> > Also, one morning when my own station, WMWM in
> > Salem (91.7 FM) was off the air, I picked up
> > WEGS in Pensacola, FL, on that frequency.
> >
> > And once in Western Mass., I picked up some NPR
> > affiliates from North Carolina and Carbondale, IL
> > (the latter was WSIU, 91.9)
> >
> > --- Sven Weil <sven@lily.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >   Here in New York, before the Korean Broadcasting
> > > System set up a tv
> > > station on channel 17 I would get PHL-17 out of
> > > Philadelphia
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