[Scan-DC] Interference on Baltimore's Channel 2

[Chris Smolinski]

b_thom@juno.com wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 12:25:11 -0500 Chris Smolinski <csmolinski@erols.com>
> writes:
> > b_thom@juno.com wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 06:48:19 -0500 Chris Smolinski
> > <csmolinski@erols.com>
> > > writes:
> > > > Another (somewhat related) cause is a VHF-Lo opening, you were
> > > > seeing
> > > > interference from another station on Ch 2.
> > >
> > > I can't recall where the other nearby stations broadcasting on
> > channel 2
> > > are.
> >
> > New York Ciy is one location.
> 
> I'm not surprised to get ghosts from TV stations in Philadelphia (channel
> 6) and Hampton Roads (channel 13), but I've never detected ghosts from
> NYC.

I don't know where a Ch 2 is to the south of you, Hampton Roads may have
one? At my location (northern Carroll County near PA  line) Ch 3 from
Philly is not very unusual, Ch 2 and others from NY are possible with a
rooftop antenna. None at my present location, but when I was a kid, at
my parents, we had one, and I had a lot of fun TV DXing for several
years. I'd like to get a rooftop antenna on a rotor and do some more TV
DXing before digital TV eliminates the hobby.

Best catches were Nebraska, Florida, Canada (see below), audio from UK
and France, and a UHF station in northern NJ (Ch 68 or 69? All I
remember is some corny local show called the Uncle Floyd Show)

> best TV DX: when I was housesitting in Rapidan VA, I got a TV station in
> St. John's or Halifax, somewhere in the Maritime Provinces. For a while,
> it was clear as a bell. This was New Year's Eve of some year, and it was
> raining steadily.

I have a verification from a station in the same area, perhaps the same
station? It sounds familiar.