FM Stereo DXing in August 2001
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- Found on an old cassette: some time back in August 2001, unusual atmospheric conditions allowed long-distance reception of FM stations all across the East Coast, from my location in central New Jersey, using only a Panasonic RF-HS90 Japanese-market AM Stereo/FM Stereo/TV audio walkman. In some cases multiple stations were coming in on the same channel, and even drowning out strong, local New York City stations. Summer evenings often bring in FM DX but this one was unusually good!
This video never gets old it's amazing how radio stations travel and drown out the local stations. Dixie 105.7 had a smooth sailing across the ocean
In areas with severe tropo, some stations have an auxiliary antenna at a lower height which they switch to when tropo is occurring, to try to get their signal out of the duct.
1. WRSF is still country as "Dixie 105.7"
2. WQRC is still soft rock, but has rebranded as "99.9 the Q"
3. WBHX still has the same calls, but has gone from classic rock to adult contemporary and then to its current classic hits format
4. WWFG is still country as "Froggy 99.9"
5. WCIB is still classic hits as "Cool 102"
6. WSTW is still "93.7 WSTW" but has shifted toward top 40 from hot AC
7. WAXB is now WDBY with country as "Kicks 105"
WRSF still uses the same jingles too!
North Carolina, that was. I've heard FM stations from as far away as Arkansas, Florida, and Oklahoma, but unfortunately not when I was able to record it -- that was when I was either driving in my car, or listening to the radio at work.
That's Sporadic E-skip!
In this case it was caused by an unusual atmospheric condition called tropospheric ducting (Wikipedia will tell you all about it). Any radio can pick up distant stations under these conditions, but of course it helps to have a radio with good sensitivity and selectivity.
Ventura Highway on AC radio (WSTW) Holy cow, radio was so much different then.
I once got Caracol Televisión Ch. 3, that's from Colombia!
Every now and again I'll pick up a station in Houston, TX for a little bit. Sometimes they can come in so strong you'd think it's local.
I knew people who worked in our college radio station in Hammond, LA who said that every now and again they'd get a call from somewhere like Ohio who were hearing us loud and clear! It's all about the band conditions, sometimes the moment is right for it.
Nice compilation of tropo DX catches. Thanks for uploading!
Amazing quality from a cassette. I don't know why, but my cassettes always sounded crappy. I guess I was doing something wrong.
Trees don't affect radio signals below 500 MHz or so; the radio waves just pass right through them.
These kinds of atmospheric conditions result in radio stations getting lots of complaints from listeners who can't pick up their signal, due to the distant stations coming in. Sometimes it even fools you into thinking that a local station has changed to a different format, because you hear a far-away station totally drowning out the local station on the same channel.
Tropo usually happens under several conditions, at my home, i can't get currently very far signals (max : 160Km from Holland) due of the hills all around the town.
In summer, i receive ES which i got some stations from Spain, Algeria, Greece or even Turkey and Italia (1000 Km in average !) but they doesn't last hours :(.
Wow! You must have been really lucky that day. I live in Michigan and I've never gotten in any FM station more than 50 or 60 miles away where I live. AM is a different story. I've gotten stations as far away as Colorado!
@vwestlife That's pretty far away!
0:47 They still use this jingle!!!
5:10 Music made 20 years ago was amazing! Janet Jackson - Somebody To Call My Lover... sounds beautiful
I used it in my latest video at 6:19 ruclips.net/video/DYGTK3BuY48/видео.html
Nice Tropo DX from New Jersey.
Again, in my mind, I found those to be somewhat impressive DXs. Grand Rapids is about 270 miles from where I live, and the Twin Cities (which is where I now go for college), is about 215 miles from where I was picking up the signal (northwestern WI).
Wow! normally, you can barely get any reception on a Walkman! :-P
I'm surprised you were able to pick up such distant FM stations though, since you seem to live in a heavily wooded area.
What did the rest of the dial sound like that day? Considering how extremely densely populated the north eastern US is, I'm sure most of the dial was nothing but a garbled mess of overlapping signals! Even here, the FM dial gets pretty crowded on some nights, even though transmitters are few and far between.
Cool video! I don't get exactly get DXs as far as yours, but I have got some nonetheless. Where I live (Milwaukee, WI), I'm able to pick up a station from Grand Rapids, Michigan, 101.3 The Fox (a classic rock station). I also remember a time this past summer when I was fooling around with my radio late at night up at my cabin up in northern Wisconsin, and I was able to pick up a very fringy signal of 101.3 KDWB (a top-20 station) from the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul) area of Minnesota!
this video is currently unavailable? I was just watching the first few seconds!
damn i like all your videos looks like i know what im doing for the next 5hrs
Nice catches
Interesting. It must be odd getting stations from South Carolina!
Have you ever picked up any Tennessee stations in NY other than WSM AM?
You're probably right. In my whole life I was using just one boombox-style Toshiba taperecorder. All tapes sounded shitty except the METAL tapes. But they were very expensive and they lacked BASS. Maybe the BASS lacking could be corrected, but on the taperecorder there wasn't switch between Normal-CrO-Metal
Where abouts in New Jersey was this FM bandscan done
I wonder,
how many of these stations have the same formatt?
About 400 miles away.
I've picked up Canada on AM. But that's nothing. I can't pick up that much on FM unless its a tropo condition. I can get multi path signals though.
I got Dixie this pass December up here in Rhode island clear for a good hour and a half this year has been different than others in winter e skip? this new years eve 1 pm in the afternoon some of the best skip I ever heard it sounded like a.m. radio at night every frequency filled with 2 or 3 stations some as far as southern Florida it was the most I ever heard at my house and I am right near a power 50,000 watt blender the only other time I heard f.m. sound like a.m. at night was away from my house away from the 50,000 watt bleed monster and it was also afternoon but! it was June not new years eve!
that's alesome I'm 6 hours from 1057 sometimes it comes in where I live I live in the same state 😎
@@kevindavis4709Dixie sometimes comes in so decently. I actually got it last night here in Raleigh, great jingles!
Try again. It plays fine for me.
101.9. How did you knock out 101.9 from NYC???
Read the description.
Is transatlantic FM DXing possible?
Let me Google that for you: swling.com/blog/2018/07/impressive-transatlantic-fm-dx-newfoundland-to-northern-ireland-on-88-5-mhz/
I can get tropo from Kentucky, and Mississippi in Dalton, Georgia. E-skips that I can get are mostly in the north in Canada on 90.7 from Ottawa. Check out my videos for tropo and E-skips.
Look at the very beginning of the video. ;-)
most of the time e skip will center on one area all the different frequency will have that same part of the country coming in and visa versa the people in the place you receiving will get yourstations
I'm from NC
me too...
2001
I was able to pick up WBBM-AM in kansas from chicago via am skip