Posted by Steve Green on July 29, 2007 at 15:34:57:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: a SCARY 101.1 story... posted by Marty Glenn on July 29, 2007 at 14:38:40:
You'll need to seek the advisement of a higher power on this one, Marty. I'm no engineer but was always in the belief that trope was stagnant weather (which it was ... the three H's) and 300-400 miles, and that E-skip could happen anytime, even in crystal icy weather at the reception point, and was 1000-1500 miles. So I tend still to consider stagnant FM and TV abberations from Baltimore, DelMarva, et al, to be trope and Florida, 1000+ miles away, as E-skip. Makes things easier, hi.
From Halifax to the spot we were on Long Island was 570 miles. Since that entire overnight's listening seemed to be of the trope kind -- hearing DelMarva and coastal New England while enfogged on Long Island -- then CIOO was either a deepening of the trope, a water-path fluke, or the approach and/or arrival of completely different conditions such as E-skip irrepsective of the trope.
The real FM-TV DXers would know. They're the ones who consider CIOO a 'pest'.
Dave Revay posted this link
http://www.dxfm.com/
as a very good reference.