[Scan-DC] Tropospheric Ducting?

[Ed Tobias]

It's not unusual for the ten meter ham band, (28 mHz, right before CB at 29 mHz), to be open all over the U.S. these days, as well as to Europe and South America.  Colorado on Ch 19, sounding like a local, would certainly be possible…especially if the guy was running more than the legal power.

Ed

On Jan 30, 2013, at 12:22 PM, Dewey3 <dewey3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I actually heard a guy on CB channel 19 (yes, I still occasionally listen
> to a CB) Sunday before last saying that he was in Colorado.  I remember it
> well because he was coming in like he was right behind me, and I was saying
> to myself, "Yes, I bet he's in Colorado".  Maybe he really was in Colorado
> after all.
> 
> Dewey
> 
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Blair Thompson <b_thom at juno.com> wrote:
> 
>> Has anybody picked any transmissions from faraway lately? There was a good
>> example mentioned over at DCRTV.com. A humid, 67-degree day in DC ought to
>> wake up the troposphere.
>> 
>> http://dcrtv.com/mailbag.html
>> 
>> "I've never gotten Colorado FM stations from here, but then I don't
>> monitor FM as much as AM. Although no cigar, still close. One evening in
>> the summer of 1986 a strong T-storm front passed right over the D.C. area
>> and for hours I was picking up FM's from all over South
>> Dakota/Minnesota/Iowa, including 91.1--the freq next door to WETA. Nowadays
>> the %#@! IBOC hash from WETA would drown that one out. KOF (1/29/13)
>> 
>> 
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> There is a 101.7 The Wolf. But it's in Boulder, CO! Are you sure that's
>> what's you got? Besides, the station's format is not rock, it's New
>> Country. KOF (1/29/13)
>> 
>> Dave's response: There is a spring-like weather front dangling over the
>> Midwest today. It wouldn't surprise me to get a few minutes of a tropo duct
>> allowing a Colorado FMer to be heard in these parts. In the past, I've
>> heard FMers from Texas around here during such atmospheric "openings"....."
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