Jeff,

It really isn't dependent on the weather, that is, sporatic E.  Sporatic E 
generally occurs in the summer due to the earth's inclination toward the Sun 
as far as the northern hemisphere.  You'll see more of this in the coming 
years as sunspot indices rise.

I heard a couple stations back in June on the FM broadcast band.  You can 
get a good idea if there will be Sporatic E if you can monitor either 
channel 2 or 3 with an outside antenna.  Usually, you'll hear stations 
coming in from the south or southwest; provided you don't have a local 
channel 2 as you do in Detroit.  I think the closest channel 3 to Detroit is 
Cleveland and then Kalamazoo.

Steve, K8SP
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: rare FM DX catch from Michigan!


> Hi Steve, have you picked up much from Lansing with the weather we are
> having?