Guys, I just cannot compete with your TA signals from North of the border. They seem to like your QTH. I guess in reality, you have a pretty good open shot for miles to the NE, which I don't have here. Those hills NE of me which is the beginning of the Coast Range do a number on blocking the signals. At least nowdays. Back in the early 80s, TA's were strong and I could get them on the car radio, like Algeria 891. I haven't set up a NE EWE as yet, but thanks to Dennis Vroom who sent me pix of his movable EWE antenna, that NE EWE may be possible here. It remains to be seen, "if" a NE EWE will help. Right now I can phase the SW & NW EWE's giving me a lobe to the NW/N/NE. The Alberta stations are dominant, to the NE of me, but yet TA's are not common. In the past couple of years, I have IDed exactly three TA's, Radio Farda-1575, VOR-1215, and Croatia-1134. I have had bits of audio from Virgin Radio 1215, Moldova-999, VOR 1323, Germany 1269, and that is about it! Norway 1314 used be be a regular visitor every Winter for a number of years. Back in the early 90s, Sweden-1179 and Finland-963 were heard. That hill was still there, but I did have 800 feet of wire running North. A road was put in and the antenna went. I could put in a BOG to the North, but the neighbor on the far side has the light dimmers and I don't want that radiating back. But I keep trying.....
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