After some needed hardware arrived last week, I finally got my
35-year-old Hy-Gain 18AVQ vertical back on the air. On the AM/MW front,
I was immediately rewarded with three new entries in the log!
Compared to the 80-meter inverted Vee, the noise floor of the vertical
is much lower, while signal strength on the vertical is slightly lower
on the vertical with most stations. On the other hand, switching back
and forth between antennas, I heard a handful stations on the each
antenna that I could not hear at all on the other.
Anyway, here are the new stations I heard with the vertical:
*WMBS*on 590 kHz in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, transmitting 1 kW, 376
miles to the west-southwest.
*WSLB* on 1400 kHz in Ogdensburg, New York, transmitting 1 kW, 248 miles
to the north-northwest.
*WJFK*on 1580 kHz in Morningside, Maryland, transmitting 50 kW, 282
miles to the southwest.
The receiver was the ELAD FDM-S2/SW2.
Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Wolcott, CT, USA
horzepa.com
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