Great HDTV Tropo, VA to RI (and the NBC10 Trifecta!)

[snoqualmie7]

Some great tropo observed last night and this morning here in Richmond, VA.

1. Scan in the early evening last night showed nothing unusual, but a few stations from Norfolk (90 miles) were drifting in, including WAVY-TV (NBC10).
2. Did another scan, around 11:30pm , this time saw another NBC10, this time WCAU Philadelphia (first time catching this station).
3. Rescanned again minutes later, and this time, caught yet another NBC10: this time WJAR, which I had to look up to learn was from Providence RI. 428 miles, and my farthest HD catch ever.

Seems to be a very dynamic/unstable opening, stations not persisting very long like they sometimes do

Some other nice catches:
17 WPHL Philadelphia (203 miles) new
2 WFMY Greensboro (174 miles) new
7 WDBJ Roanoke (145 miles) new

--sno7

 

[dx1ng]

Sunday nights tropo made it to the Hudson Valley / Poughkeepsie, NY area, with signal coming in from all directions.

On DTV: New loggings included:
WSYT-68 Syracuse, NY.
WNYS-15 Syracuse, NY.
WGAL-8 Lancaster, Pa.
While not new, WPSU-3 Clearfield, Pa was in and out much of the evening.
Also not new was WBOC-16 Salisbury, Md. but I noted their secondary channel was "Fox21", and it came up as "21.2" instead of "16.2". (WBOC main channel came up OK as 16.1)

I had a signal much of the evening on ch 16 which I think was WHRO Hampton, VA, but it never came in strongly enough be decoded. Also a couple of signals from suspected Richmond stations were noted, but again not strong enough to decode.

Around 11pm, I switched over to FM briefly, long enough to nab logging #1300, WDYL-100.9 loud and clear from Lakeside, Va (Richmond's new rock). Also noted previously heard WKHK-95.3 Colonial Heights (Richmond), VA coming in very nicely.

Just before midnight, I swtiched to analog TV, and noted CBOFT-9 Ottawa, Ontario in French, and CHCH-11 Hamilton, Ont, both snowy, but watchable.

Then back to "no-snow" DTV, to catch WGAL-8 Lancaster, PA, now on rf 8, previously logged on transitional channel rf 58.

Monday morning, around 7am, I noted new log WIVB-4 Buffalo, NY.

During the day, while at work, I got an "unattended" new logging of WHYY-12 Wilmington, DE.

Now Monday late afternoon, no distant DTV noted, but I am getting some long-haul FM, such as "The Point"-94.9 Virginia Beach, Va, and WFMI-100.9 Southern Shores, NC back and forth with WDYL-100.9 VA. I hoping for some more DTV tropo later tonight.