--- On Wed, 8/27/08, BARRY DAVIES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: BARRY DAVIES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] EWE Up and running in Carlisle UK! (off topic)
> To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America"
> <[email protected]>
> Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 5:45 PM
> Hello Patrick
> That sounds like very efficient EWE. I use 936 Fresh
> Radio to my South East to null Germany and Holland. I start
> at S9 and can drop the signal strength to S4-5 leaving a lot
> of shush and traces of Fresh Radio. At night I have a
> spluttering Holland on 1008 and a substantive signal from
> Spain at due South of me.
> Barry
>
What you're hearing could be atmospherics in the absence of any signals, or it
could be background noise or some of both. With less directional antennas, you
have more signals coming in from other directions and so you hear those. The
more efficient the directional antenna, the tighter the pattern and therefore
the smaller the number of stations with readable signals on any given
frequency. You may want to do some serious comparisons to what you normally
used to hear and see where that fits with the anticipated pattern of the new
antenna.
Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
AM: Modified Sony ICF 2010 barefoot
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