July 5 Coastal Tropo

Mid-morning coastal tropo and the NOAA radio station in Southard, New Jersey, was loud and clear, so I moseyed over to the FM band and logged a new station: WCAI on 90.1 MHz. Licensed at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, the WCAI 12.5 kW transmitter is actually located across Vineyard Sound on Martha's Vineyard, 121 miles from the WA1LOU receiving station, which was using an ICOM IC-R8600 receiver and ICOM AH-7000 discone antenna at the time.

Surfin’: Got Tropo?

This week, your Surfin’ contributing editor has deja vu when his car radio begins acting funny again.

Tropo Propagation This Morning

Like four weeks ago, I noticed a tropo opening on my car's FM broadcast radio while running Saturday morning errands. However, I was able to do something about it this time.

I logged four new stations using my CCRadio-SW and its whip antenna.

The best of the quartet was WOMR on 92.1 MHz, 147 miles away in Provincetown, MA and WBUR on 90.9 MHz., 100 miles away in Boston.

Surfin’: Going Tropo

This week, your Surfin’ conductor considers the reasons why his car radio is acting funny.

Tropo Opening Yesterday?

Anyone notice unusual propagation Saturday morning? I was taking my wife grocery shopping at about 10 AM EDST and tuned the FM radio to 102.10 to listen to WAQY in Springfield, MA, which is literally line of sight less than 35 miles from my location.

Instead of hearing WAQY's loud signal, I could hear two or three other stations competing with WAQY on 102.1. Since I was driving my car and on a mission with my wife, there was no opportunity to DX.

My guess it was a tropo opening. Anyone else hear anything DX-interesting?