Re: Tropo still going on?

["Sean Smyth" <ssmyth@suscom.net>]

Aaron [Bishop] Read said:
> Is that tropo ducting still going on?   I was trying to listen to WBRU,
>  Providence (95.5) whilst down in Mystic, CT Saturday early-evening.
> That's  at the fringe but usually I can pick it up in the area I was
> trying to  listen.  But I was getting massive co-channel interference
> from another  95.5...enough that I caught the frequency clearly spoken
> and also part of  the call letters: "WBLJ"...there's no station by
> those calls on
> 95.5.  Instead I think it was WPLJ, which is on 95.5, but is out of
> NYC...even their fringe shouldn't reach much beyond New Haven.  Never
> mind  another 100-odd miles up the coast to Mystic.

I've always picked up the NYC AMs and FMs well in New Haven. It's a little
more of a straight shot across the water diagonally than just following the
coastline. I've had the FMs go to fringe about 10 miles east of New Haven
or so.