Well, seeing that the thing that started this thread was skip in an area
that the bands are sparce locally it is a good place to chase skip..  I
would imagine that the area where I attended college the FM and TV and
VHF/UHF bands are hopping in the summer.





On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Brett Winchester wrote:

> two seconds not minutes.
>
> >>> [log in to unmask] 7/18/2005 6:25 PM >>>
> all we get around here (in my gaggy town) is about 3 top 40 stations, a
>
> country station, and some religious church station that bleeds across
> half
> the damn fm band
> oh yeah, when this one top40 station says "we only play what you like"
> i
> have to laugh,  because who in their right mind, unless you were a teen
>
> that was spoonfed what is good and what isnt, would listen to this new
>
> excuse my language, crap that seems like the kind of stuff that is
> either
> blaming the other person for going away or is the "get em' disrobed in
> 2
> minutes" stuff.  , but then i ramble
>
>   Ask not for whom the <CONTROL-G>
> tolls.
>
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Jeff Kenyon wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:15:30 -0400
> > From: Jeff Kenyon <[log in to unmask]>
> > Reply-To: For blind ham radio operators
> <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: e-skip
> >
> > Well, a majority of FM in Detroit is Clear Channel, and the station
> on
> > 93.1 I told you all about, and AM is either talk or religion or
> something
> > like that.  We have one ethnic station, and two music stations from
> Canada
> > of course.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, John Miller wrote:
> >
> >> they'll never have anything in this area that's worth listening to.
> I mostly
> >> got my XM radio for the NASCAR coverage for vacations and since the
> second
> >> half of the season NBC and TNT have so many commercials on TV I go
> to the
> >> radio for it but then found I really like the commercial free music
> and
> >> there's actually stuff people want to listen to, around here it
> seems every
> >> time a new station pops up it's that rap junk or something close to
> it and
> >> more commercials. There's just nothing around here on FM I'd listen
> to and
> >> AM's a complete loss, has been for a very long time.
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:20 PM
> >> Subject: Re: e-skip
> >>
> >>
> >>> I just change the station.  For those of you who may not have a
> station in
> >>> your area that says they play "everything" we have one in Detroit,
> and
> >>> they are coming on all over.  It is just automated, but the station
> here
> >>> in Detroit at 93.1 is doing well, and some people who listen claim
> to have
> >>> canceled subscriptions to XM or Serious.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>