... One of my regular visitors is AFN 810 The Eagle from Yokota Air Base in Japan, with 50,000 watts.
The signal can be quite good at times, but it doesn't last too long and fades out to mush but often comes back Also, it peaks about an hour before local sunset (sunrise is 1930UTC) and is gone just as the sun begins to rise. I know what it starts to break up at sunrise, that's obvious.. but it's never really present before 1830UTC, why is that? It's still dark in Japan, barely past Midnight local time, so one would think I could hear it well when it's dark in both places. Also why does the signal take such dramatic dives? Those dives happen everyday. I'm sure there's a reason for this and with the extreme cold I'm now dealing with, I just like to figure this out so I can figure otu the best times to go out and maximize the signal I hear/can get. Paul Walker Galea, Alaska Lower HF225 Grundig SAttelit 750 Two 225 foot long wires WEllbrook ALA1530LNP DXEngineering HF PreAmp 3 antenna coax switch _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
