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I get the top-of-hour pips quite often but this is the best audio from here so
far.
I had a comparable pick-up in the '80s from what was then my parents house on
Trowbridge Path, West Yarmouth about 4 km west of here.
Antenna used is 10m tall by 11m across SuperLoop with the null at 345 degrees,
not too far off the heading to WBZ. Similar to '
http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm '. That definitely helps. The '80s
reception was from phasing an indoor loop against a sloper to the top of a pine
tree. Likely that combo provided a similar cardioid pattern with a
northwestward null (as in old loop / whip RDF antennas used on planes, or Ron
Schatz's LSCA scheme). In the '80s an indoor loop was still actually a
playable DX antenna, unlike in today's gnarly house-gadget-RFI environment.
Because DX was done one frequency at a time, the loop could be tuned for best
sensitivity in a small size. Nulling (whether by loop positioning or
two-antenna phasing) only had to work on the frequency of interest +/- 10 kHz
or so. The advent of spectrum-storing SDR's brought about the need for a
consistent null across the entire AM band and, fortunately, terminated loops
stepped in to fill the need for those without room for Beverages.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA
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From: Saul Chernos <sau...@sympatico.ca>
To: Mark Connelly <markwa1...@aol.com>; am <a...@nrcdxas.org>; irca
<irca@hard-core-dx.com>
Sent: Fri, Nov 20, 2015 7:50 am
Subject: RE: [NRC-AM] Argentina 1030 recent reception in MA through WBZ
That's very cool so close to WBZ!
Is that a new catch for you or have you done this before?
Saul Chernos
Burnt River ON
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 21:27:57 -0500
From: markwa1...@aol.com
To: a...@nrcdxas.org; irca@hard-core-dx.com; cap...@yahoogroups.com;
b...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [NRC-AM] Argentina 1030 recent reception in MA through WBZ
Argentina on 1030 received within 60 miles / 100 km of the WBZ towers. Duking
it out with 'BZ here at South Yarmouth, MA: Shania Twain "Man I Feel Like a
Woman", pips, "Noticias del Plata" at top of hour: UTC 31 OCT at 0200.
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/argentina+wbz-1030_20151031_0200z.mp3
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