Hi Steve, I've heard TV 3 from Cleveland, with moderate signal, but
nothing from Kalamzoo.  See my last post about  tropo.  I've had good luck
with a scanner I have that  receives a portion of the TV band.





On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Ham Steve wrote:

> 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]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> 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?
>