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« on: April 15, 2020, 1729 UTC »
Sorry for the late posting as I was in the midst of driving to a meeting & had no acces to cellular signals to post this....
At 2100 UTC, I was driving down the mountain at Kumbrabow State Forest, located near Elkwater Dam, Randolph County, WV. When I started down the southeasterly descent, I began hearing a distant radio station playing classical music. It was at 89.1, FM. Usually there's an NPR-related station out of Roanoke, VA (on that freq) which I always receive as I travel easterly, & it always has "All Things Considered" during that time frame. In this case though, there was classical music. Once I was in the valley, the reception (miraculously) became crystal clear. When I arrived at the post office (In Huttonsville, 26273), I was able to see the RDS on the display & it showed WSRM, Classical, 89.1. My elevation at the time was 2,000 feet in the valley. At the onset of reception, my elevation was close to 2800-feet.
The announcer did a psa for donating old vehicles (for NPR), however, when they did their call letters & numbers (89.1 and 103.9) no geographical location for the radio station was mentioned.
I went back to the supt. residence here at the state forest, looked up the call letters + the frequency, & saw that the station was based outa FLORIDA!!!
The radio I heard the station on is an AM/FM unit, in a 2012 Ford Excape XLT. Nothing special, but has very good reception, for a non-touch screen head unit. Its' RDS Display was showing WSMR; Classical. 89.1
Is this some special type of eskip-event?
Alternatively, condition of our skies were gray, with a cold front moving, with heavy snowfall. Local-to-me stations had very poor reception. lot's of fading and static (no thunderstorms were in the area).
I should contact the station, however I don't think they'd give a sh!t.
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