{"id":1248,"date":"2017-07-10T14:44:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T19:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2018-07-05T14:56:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T19:56:49","slug":"were-not-in-phoenix-anymore-how-radio-signals-skipped-all-the-way-to-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1248","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Not in Phoenix Anymore: How Radio Signals &#8220;Skipped&#8221; All the Way to Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 187px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/501688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/a2\/a9\/e3\/a2a9e30bb4a4a6f9f953808b672ee694--jack-haley-wizard-oz.jpg\" width=\"187\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yes, it&#8217;s that exciting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Unlike AM signals, FM is confined to line-of-sight, so Phoenix&#8217;s KBAQ radio station doesn\u2019t typically reach much beyond the Valley of the Sun, let alone to a Volkswagen Beetle 875 miles away. So it&#8217;s no wonder that\u00a0Ken Baker of the Radio Kansas Network was surprised to see what resolved on his HD tuner that day.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/501688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Phoenix-Area Radio Signals Can Bounce All The Way To Kansas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike AM signals, FM is confined to line-of-sight, so Phoenix&#8217;s KBAQ radio station doesn\u2019t typically reach much beyond the Valley of the Sun, let alone to a Volkswagen Beetle 875 miles away. So it&#8217;s no wonder that\u00a0Ken Baker of the Radio Kansas Network was surprised to see what resolved on his HD tuner that day. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1248\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We&#8217;re Not in Phoenix Anymore: How Radio Signals &#8220;Skipped&#8221; All the Way to Kansas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,185,63,54,94,31,312,74,3,13,207],"tags":[1285,1287,1286,1288,427],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-climatology-and-meteorology","category-culture","category-electromagnetism","category-engineering","category-how-to","category-music","category-physics","category-science","category-technology","category-weird","tag-am","tag-e-skip","tag-fm","tag-ionosphere","tag-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}