DX experience in southeastern US

[tico]

This morning, I was able to pick up FM stations in southern Florida and this evening, stations were coming in from eastern North Carolina. From Florida, I got Power 96, Y100, WRMF and Sunny 104.3. I also got stations from Ft. Myers and Vero Beach. From North Carolina, I got 94.1 and 94.3 Hot FM and 101.1 the Party.

[roadrunner]

I got a bunch of southern Florida stations here in Nashville, too. The ones I pulled in were 92.7 (top 40 Wow FM from Key West), and (all Florida) 93.5, 94.5 (classic rock), 94.9 (Spanish), and 102.1 (AC) . This was around 2 or 3 p.m. in my car. Couldn't get anything in the house. This went on for a good hour or more. I found out it was "troposhereic ducting" from the radio-info board.

[irock]

I seldom tune to FM in my home anymore, except for public radio. But I can remember pulling in some very far away stations a long time ago. I used to get a Baton Rouge FM CHR station in Jackson quite often one winter, but most of the distant stations I would pull in only came in once. I remember one morning when I was about 17, just before it started snowing (which rarely happens here) I picked up WLS-FM out of Chicago. And for about an hour one day I picked up an excellent rock station that billed itself "Kiss FM" out of San Antonio. I don't remember the call letters. I remember what I was doing at the time, and I'm therefore certain it happened during the spring of 1985.

Speaking of WLS, I used to love listening to their AM station late at night during the early 80s. It was easy to pick up with a good receiver, which I had. Theirs was a CHR/Pop format, with a strong leaning toward rock. You'd hear everything from Madonna to Willie Nelson to Iron Maiden.

[tico]

The San Antonio rock station is KISS-FM.