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From: dya@unccvax.UUCP (York David Anthony @ WKTD, Wilmington, NC)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Good FM and TV Dxing (long distance reception)
Message-ID: <1542@unccvax.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 89 14:24:03 GMT
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In article <1674@neoucom.UUCP>, wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:

> My besxt TV DX experience was back in the spring of 1972, watching
> the NBC Mystery Movie (Columbo) on what I thought was channel 3,
> WKYC, in Cleveland; I live/lived just outside of Akron, Ohio, which

	This is pretty decent.

	My experiences with TV DX are fairly rare, though I have 
had some strange occurrences with "ducting" at VHF.  Probably the
most predictable (for us) is KPRC Houston, which (with depressing
regularity) interferes with our enjoyment of WFMY-TV Greensboro.
There are periods of up to 5 minutes at a time where the video of
KPRC completely overtakes that of WFMY; however, the aural carrier
of KPRC never makes it.

	Much more rare are observations on channel 3.  However,
lately we've seen a channel 3 with the same offset as WBTV causing
great interference; we know it is an NBC affiliate in the same
or Central time zone.  This narrows down the choices considerably.

	During the skip season, putting the TV set on 4,5,or 6
(on which there are no local stations) doesn't seem to pull in
anything, except once we saw some strange Spanish-speaking program
in black-and-white, shot with aincent image orthicon cameras (on
channel 6) .

	My wife claims to have heard WEZC Charlotte, NC (104.7 mHz)
for about 15 minutes, while stopped at a rest area on I-95 around
Richmond, VA.   Once, some guy called me from Metter, GA (when I
worked at WPEG Concord, NC) with a request, though I don't know that
is authentic...

	Band I skip is common.  Anyone have any 174-216 mHz or  
470 mHz + TV DX? I've never observed any...

York David Anthony
DataSpan, Inc