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I suppose that with spectrum storing SDR receivers one can go to a beach,
mountain, desert, farm, etc. site a few times a year and come back home with
enough DX to work on for several months.
Newfoundland DXers have been known to keep finding new ones in their gigabytes
of files over two years after a DXpedition.
A different way to do things for sure. Since tips about stuff heard more than
a month or two ago start heading into the "historical" rather than "currently
relevant" category, you need to stick a few from-the-car-somewhere-quiet
sessions in between the really serious trips just to keep things fresh.
For many, the idea of DXing at one's own home is over. I can't really get
anything serious indoors on portables or indoor loops but fortunately the
SuperLoops a hundred or so feet out back are still somewhat productive. The
noise floor is about 20 dB above "pristine" but fortunately, at a site only 2-3
miles inland heading south, interfering broadcast signals and static are still
the limiting factor most nights. That's a lot better than inside the house
where even some semi-locals are under various squeaks, squawks, warbles, and
birdies from all the surrounding gadgetry.
For the average poor slob, AM is dead at home and not even all that great in a
mobile environment. Noise is a major part of the problem and
less-than-engaging program material factors in too. Our local station (WBAS)
on 1240, one of the few strong enough to beat down all the digi-hash in houses
and on the road, runs Portuguese, a language spoken by - at best - 10% of the
people in town. Meanwhile we have a predominately Irish / British / Italian
descent over-50 population that would love something like what Bob Bittner runs
on WJIB and WJTO, stations whose signals can be scratchy by day and
non-existent at night. WKFY "Koffee" (98.7 / 100.5) throws us some crumbs once
in a while but I'm sure 1240 could be much more useful running the likes of
Sinatra / Bennett / "rat pack" and a splash of big-band and post-war small
combo jazz (Monk, Mingus, Miles, Brubeck, etc.) with involved / sophisticated /
knowledgeable personalities a la old WNEW NY or Boston's late superstar DJ Bill
Marlowe. But the experts figure that an older population doesn't matter even
if it's over half the town. Even if those are the only people with a nodding
familiarity with AM. So, with that kind of logic, even when all the noise is
removed (in itself a pipe-dream concept), where is the audience going to be?
Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA
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From: Mark Durenberger <[email protected]>
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
<[email protected]>; DX @NRC <[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, Mar 22, 2016 8:05 am
Subject: [NRC-AM] Noise Is the Big Problem for AM, SBE Argues
Regulatory relief to knock down noise? NOT gunna happen, dear friends! The
noise is even starting to show up in cheaper FM radios.
Get your DX-ing in while you still can...or better yet, join us in the
desert :-))
Cheers!
Mark Durenberger, CPBE
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From: Dennis Gibson
http://www.radioworld.com/article/noise-is-the-big-problem-for-am-sbe-argues/278409
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