Fwd: RE: Tropo ducting

["Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>]

Personally, I've never become excited about receiving distant FM's 
during tropo periods.  (I think the greatest distantce reception I
remember was picking up a station in Rolla or Rollo, Missouri
running "All Things Considered" at 7:00 pm or thereabouts; I'm sure it
was not a repeat like on NHPR but the actual midwest feed).  What gets
me excited (among other things) is getting distant FM's under normal
circumstances when a space opens up on the FM band.  I mentioned this
earlier in the winter:  during the late-December holidays, a couple 
of non-comms were off the air, and I could get NRP programming on WNYE 91.5
pretty clearly. (At that time they were still duplicating WNYC-FM).
Going back quite a few years, when WXHR-FM 96.9 was about to be
supplanted by WJIB-FM, instead of stunting as is done nowadays, 96.9
was left unoccupied for a short period, and I regularly received the co-channel
station in Verdun, Quebec.  And what is now WQSX-FM 93.7 began life
as WCCM's FM partner and signed off at about 9:00 pm every day.  Then
I had no trouble picking up WHCN in Hahtford, which was then part
of the Concert Network.  Well, one day, their transmitter flummoxed
and apparently they had no back-up, and voila, I was getting a 93.7 in 
Delaware during the winter when there were no skips or inversions or
anything to boost it along, and I'm sure it was just 20,000 watts
horizontal!
Laurence Glavin


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
[mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Aaron
[Bishop] Read
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 12:51 PM
To: BRI@bostonradio.org
Subject: Tropo ducting


I'm seeing several posts on PubTech today that there's some hefty
tropospheric ducting from Texas up into New York & New England...in
addition to & from other places...apparently it's all over the FM band.



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