Re: Interesting tropospheric ducting this morning

[rickganley@juno.com]

Hi there-


oh Yeah, big-time tropo today...

Was driving up to Franklin, NH this mornin' at 4:30 to do my morning gig
on 'The Planet' (WPNH) and heard lots o' stuff... on the air today I
coudn't monitor off-air as 'The Fox' out of Webster, MA (I think that's
it) was coming in over me! Imagine my heart attack when walking in the
studio to hear Ted Nugent's "Stranglehold" playing on my carefully
programmed Modern Rocker...

but ya know, I really enjoy listening off the board... NO COMPRESSION! 

Anyway, sorry I missed 'TOS... one of the 'Best Damn Rock' stations in
the country, in my opinion. Interesting point- the COL is 48 miles from
their tower location- Sugarloaf, USA.

Happy Orbiting-

- -Rick Ganley



On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 10:57:03 PDT "Kyle Stephanos"
<majorradiofreak@excite.com> writes:
>Hello all.
>I was driving home to Groveland, MA, this morning at about 1am and 
>caught
>quite an interesting opening on FM. On I95 at the Rt. 133 exit in
>Georgetown, Oldies 103.3 was getting completely clobbered by the 103.3 
>in
>Maine. I could not hear Needham at all for a half mile or so, then 
>they came
>in again. While driving home, I also heard WTOS 105.1 coming in under 
>Lite
>105, Fun 107 in RI coming in over WERZ, and heard that 3K station on 
>the
>cape at 103.9FM full quieting for a time once I was far enough away 
>from
>104.1. 92.9 was also getting quite a denting from somewhere (Probably 
>Mt
>Mansfield). I decided to listen to the Boston FM's to hear how things 
>were
>there. 98.5 was getting beaten up by somewhere, 104.5 had some 
>competition,
>and to my surprise, 104.1 had a touch of a signal from somewhere 
>coming
>underneath. 107.3 from Paxton had something for a short time. I could 
>not
>hear any solid programming underneath those Boston FM's but did hear 
>the
>weaker signals below them. Just 103.3 92.9, 98.5 and 102.5 had enough
>competing signals to be annoying to the average folk.
>While driving past WBMT 88.3 (which always seems off the air) I 
>checked out
>2 other signals there. Just about every frequency was occupied with
>something. There was a very thin "fog" layer above the trees and no 
>wind at
>all! Quite a strong dome of high pressure for this time of year. It's 
>like a
>huge bubble with all these signals just bouncing around inside. 
>  Interestingly enough, 94.9FM was solid with nothing coming in 
>underneath
>them at all! 
>
>Best Regards to all.
>
>Kyle (MajorRadioFreak)
>
>
>
>
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