Charles,
Have you heard any SC ones. The one at Fort Jackson
Army base can be heard in Lexington SC during the day
some 15 ++ miles.
I have WAY too much noise here in Silverstreet for
that.
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--- chris and anne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately, no sign of WJXL tonight.I'll post
if anything changes later. Chris Johnson
K4NHL S.C.
Can't test until midnight
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--- John Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Eric, They are changing over to 42 volt batteries
to power the
hybrid cars. The driving motors must have enough
torque to power the
car while the gasoline engine is off. Eventually
all accessories
will run on 42 volts.
I was told
--- Charles A Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
800WDSC VADillon 5/14 @ 1000. ID for W D
S C, Dillon,
along with three
others (I think) running //.
Poor with dominant
WSVS Crewe, Virginia,
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I thought maybe the ground conductivity would help
it along, but
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--- Risto Kotalampi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The sporadic-E FM/TV season is around the corner in
the northern hemisphere.
The first good opening on FM-band with sporadic
E-propagation is usually
in
--- Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, he's in Electric Radio advertising a certain
type of microphone which
he says goes great with his boatanchors. That's me
with the SX-28A BTW, Joe
Walsh's call sign is his ebay name I think, I've
seen it a couple of times
and yes if he wants
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--- Doug Pifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
According to my local paper, it looks like Clear
Channel has sold 14
stations in Oregon. Three of the AM's near me
include 990 KTTH-Albany, 1240
KEJO and
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--- Patrick Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have heard that CC is getting rid of their smaller
markets as there is little money in them anyway.
But that is good news.
Not necessarily.
I wonder
--- Craig Healy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have an SX-28A being restored
right now, not cheap, this guy did an SX-28 for
Joe Walsh. I asked him if
he
jammed with him, he said no, but he's a fine
picker.
Joe Walsh is also a ham operator, and fairly active
in California.
He also
--- Guy Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By the way, what are the other programs which
control the SDR-IQ? I know
that RFSpace makes driver files available for
developers, but I've not heard
of software other than Spectravue.
I'll have to ask my friend. He showed me what
different
I have a R-388. It's a 51J3 off the shelf more or
less. The last 51J was a 51J4. actually it's more
or less the general coverage of the 75A series. The
75A1 looks like the 32V matching transmitter.
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--- WALTER SALMANIW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking forward to
getting my SDR-IQ in the near future as well. Who
knows, perhaps a WinRadio 313e will be there in the
future as well. The hobby has changed with the
advent of spectrum displays, etc as well! ...Walt.
At the Newberry
I may as well have a $2.00 radio until I get the power
line noise fixed.
There's a R-388, a SX-110, HQ-180A SX-71's (one only
works in the bands of single conversion)
SX-62A...and others.
But for basics, I am again amazed at what my S-38E
will do. It picks up a good many stations on
My friend Jack Jackson has one of the ones from RF
Space in Atlanta that will be for sale soon. One of
the most amazing things is you can record an entire
SWATH of spectrum, save it to the hard drive, and go
back to that file, and with the software that tunes
the radio, ACTUALLY tune the file as
--- Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A lot of 390A's and 390's tuning knobs are stiff,
mine was redone by Chuck
Rippel and turns very easily, takes no time at all
to go from one end to the other.
When your radio comes back from Chuck, it's as good as
...no, better than new, as he does
--- Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have you tried a phaser with LW's Powell? I have
noise here and can phase it
out almost totally,
No but the power company will be out here to fix the
bell insulators
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--- Pete Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hate to be dense but everyone else seems to call
it IBOC (for on
channel) so what's the AC - at channel?
Because it has never been and NEVER WILL be on
channel a lie started and perpetuated by the
inventors. The digital will ONLY be [mostly]
--- Ira Elbert New, III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
WKRP was said to have been based on an Atlanta
station. The call letters escape me at the moment.
WQXI
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--- Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I got two original GE Super radios last year at yard
sales, both for under 5
dollars each and they both work great. The Super
Radios have no tweeter, I
think that is the only difference, cosmetically they
look pretty much the
same, my father has a
--- Fred Nordquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could this have been KOA's IBOC? If so, it
interferred with WHAS-840 while
doing
a rerun of the Kentucky Derby that I was trying to
hear who won it.
Then the IBOC hash stopped ~8:20pm edt while driving
down I26 back toward
Charleston SC.
--- Patrick Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No night time IBOC as yet noted here either. I heard
anywhere from 30-90 days, so maybe not until Fall.
We can hope, never!.
In 1912 passengers on the Titanic hoped it wouldn't
sink, either.
They were wrong.
Powell
--- Rick Kunath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At least for me, I absolutely hate the color and
flicker of fluorescent
lighting. I have to tolerate it some places at work,
but I have almost no
fluorescent lighting here at home.
Even if they are quiet, I don't like the look.
This is the
Fluorescent lighting has been around since the late
1930's, Color correction was not very good on early
lamps. The first color was called White, and had a
color temperature of 3500K. In a STANDARD T12 bulb
it's not available, but is in the new solid state T-8
(that's the bulb diameter) ballasted
--- Patrick Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bill,
The car manufactuers read it the same way the rest
of us do. No one
cares about HD Radio. If the cars do not have HD
Radio, then it is
doomed.
Make no mistake about it. We are getting digital. No
whining here or wishing will make it go
--- willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The major gripe I have is that a 100 watt florescent
buld is not as bright
as a 100 watt incondecent bulb.
Incandescent.
You can't purchase a 100 W standard base fluorescent
compact. The 100 watt ones are mogul base, and
generally are 6500 lumens.
--- Patrick Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dan,
I was at Fred Meyer looking at bulbs yesterday and I
saw some bulb. I
thought it may be a CFB, but it was shaped like a
regular bulb, but it
said something like uses 20 watts and as bright as a
60 watt bulb or
something like that. It was
--- Charles A Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ANOTHER THING: According to their change-of-mode
time (7:00 PM, EST),
they should have powered down to 42 watts at the
time I heard them, at
2004. I really doubt that, with all the co-channel
QRM. I'd say they were still at 1 kW.
I guess you
--- Paul B. Walker, Jr.
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I wouldn't doubt that someone may have been working
on it, especially since
WEAF has a CP to go to 5KW Day/3200 Watts CH/7 Watts
Day and an application
to move to another City Of License
Paul
I doubt that. Alex is going to sit on that
--- willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is to Powell, Chris and Paul--
Chris and Paul--
WKJK was never the pest here, until about a year
ago, when they changed to
their present format. Before a year ago, they would
weak or not there at
all. I also heard KRLD more often than I do now.
--- Paul B. Walker, Jr.
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The difference between 500W and 1KW will be slightly
noticeable, but not a huge increase.
Paul
With a modern receiver with a good AVC / AGC you
won't even be able to hear the difference. An S meter
reading change will be very small.
--- Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure where this is from, Australia?
Figmentofimaginatia?
Boughtandpaidforia? Selloutia? Screweveryoneia?
Bob Young
Analog, MA
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I was listening to some hams on 1885 running AM rigs.
One of the guys said he was switching from the 500
watt
Globe King 500 C to one of those 25 watt BC units he
had converted to 1885. Well the signal went down, but
not nearly as much as I thought it would.
Powell
--- willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some really rare DX on 1080kc.
WTIC Hartford,CT heard here for the first time this
year!
They send almost no power this way.
With WKJK in Louisville, KY cheating all the time,
it has been hard to hear WTIC or KRLD.
Spring is here, finally.
You
--- Paul B. Walker, Jr.
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i honestly think most NIMBY's and enviromental
wackjobs need to get a life,
if AM was such a huge problem.. we wouldnt have
engineers who ar ein their
50s, 60s.. and even 70s today!
Ray Gilliam was engineer at WKDK for 60 years. He
retired
--- Charles A Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Paul,
You have a chance to put up a permanent beverage,
maybe two.
There's already a beverage or two...in the cold drink
machine
Powell (running for cover)
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There are some folks on the DX lists that think that
getting an out of town radio station on skywave is DX.
It's not and most of us know that. That's why, in my
little write up below, I call it DX
Most of us never think of clock radios as a DX radio.
In this case I say DX as...well DX. No,
--- Charles A Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the possibility of your group (when it
meets) planting posts for a
semi-permanent beverage?
It would be useless, and could also change the non DA
characteristics of the WABV pattern.
I, myself, probably couldn't make it out. Does
--- Charles A Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charles is right about Okinawa. My father was
stationed there from 1959 to 1961. Summers never over
88, but winters hang in the 50's but at night never
gets but into the 40's 55 and humid feels cold.
Being inland I don't remember any thing but
--- willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
590 WCAB NC RUTHERFORDVILLE 2210 08/03/07
IT'S 41 DEGREES IN RUTHERFORDVILLE AND YOU ARE
TUNED TO WCAB 590 THEN
QSBed UNDER CUBA. NICE SIGNAL FOR 228 WATTS. [WM-TN]
WCAB has impressive coverage even when they were 500
watts daytime. That 228
--- Paul B. Walker, Jr.
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George Blaine:
Thanks for your comments.
So far, Im leaning towards the Kaito KA-1102 unit as
it has almost
everything I need in terms of features, AM, FM and
SW in different tuning
steps.. but I'm going to wait a little while for
--- Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well in all fairness, (pardon the pun), the fairness
doctrine seemed to work before didn't it?
Bob Young
In A word.NO.
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--- willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bob-
It may be true for most people, myself, I would just
turn to 40 meter ham
band and copy CW. It's more fun.
Old Geezer from Old Fort, TN
Right now, either text like this or CW is the only way
I can communicate well. My voice is still out with
this
--- Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, I was not very political in my younger years
(even though I thought I
was) but I do not remember political blowhards all
over the dial back then,
so to my way of thinking letting the blowhards spew
their biased views all
over the airwaves as
If you want to see a dismal one if you want to have
good radio service, but good for DX'ers try 87830
which is Reserve, NM in Catron county!
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--- Barry McLarnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, I'll withdraw my claim of first skywave
digital audio - now, you and
Powell can fight over it. :-)
Well WLAC just pounds in, so at night before they went
DA and cut the IBOC off, it decoded for rather long
periods of time. I haven't gotten
--- Paul Crankshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can I ask a question about HD in the US?
Here in Europe the noise from the few stations
running digital radio on
medium wave kill the band +/- 10 kHz.
I assume there are a relatively large number of HD
stations in the US.
Do you suffer the
--- Paul Crankshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can I ask a question about HD in the US?
Here in Europe the noise from the few stations
running digital radio on
medium wave kill the band +/- 10 kHz.
I assume there are a relatively large number of HD
stations in the US.
Do you suffer the
--- Jim Pogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, for us less-than-technical types, why don't some
of our ace propagation
prognosticators share what they believe this will
hold in the next few years
for BCB DXers?
OK, get ready for the Kill Shot according to Dr. Doom.
Powell
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--- Jim Pogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
WTOF 1110 Bay Minette, AL is on with huge signal S9+
with religion. They are running simo with WMOB
Mobile.
Carrying on as they did when they had the call letters
of WBCA.
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--- Mike Brooker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did they have car radios in 1941? In those
pre-transistor days, the radio
must have taken up half the dashboard and the tubes
would have kept the car warm in winter.
The whole middle part of the dash and under dash. My
grandmother's 1947 Studebaker
--- Eric Floden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
good question -- I thought I recalled a restored 34
Ford with a radio, so
googled first car radio and got this
Car Radio In 1929, American Paul Galvin, the head of
Galvin Manufacturing
Corporation, invented the first car radio. The first
car
--- Patrick Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Craig,
I did not catch the X-Class solar event. That
probably was the reason.
73,
The flare was not really pointed earthward. Now as the
sunspot rotates more into view and faces us, we could
have more flares, aimed DIRECTLY at earth.
Powell
http://lists.radiolists.net/mailman/listinfo/af
Barry M had moved it from the BC list there.
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--- BARRY DAVIES [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Is 1610 KALT's TX 1610 licence still good?
Barry
No cancelled, dead and buried.
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--- Patrick Griffith, N0NNK / WPE9HVW
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So who / what is it? Why the secrecy?
Kent's not at liberty to say. If he can find out more
he'll post it over at the AF list on radiolists. I'll
let you know.
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--- willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If it is ever discovered where this 1610 mystery
station is located,
I will predict that it will be found at one of
these locations
If it's government/ military it will be from one of
these areas--
CAMP LEJEUNE, NC (marine)
NORFOLK, VA (navy)
--- willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
710 WAQI FL MIAMI 2345 24/11/06
ENGLISH ID AT 2345, WAQI, MIAMI THEN A SPANISH ID,
RADIO MARTI, LA
GRANDE, MIAMI. QRM FROM WOR. [WM-TN]
Normally I hear WOR, WAQI and Cubaall mixed
together. Last night Cuba was coming in well. 710 was
I was in High School and our principal Mr.Kneece came
on the intercom and told us JFK had been shot. A while
later he came on crying, and told us that JFK had
died. Saturday I remember glumly raking leaves in the
yard.
Sunday, right after church, we came into the living
room and turned on the
--- Ira Elbert New, III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I listened to KTNN for about 15 minutes this evening
from 0048 to 0102. TOH
ID and everything!
I've heard KTNN, but ahem! I was not 50 miles away
at the time.in Candy Kitchen, NM.
Powell
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--- Ira Elbert New, III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
AHEM! Go try for them now. I think they're still
there...1461 miles away.
Just getting WFAN weakly in the metal mobile home I'm
currently staying in.
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--- Patrick Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1510 UNIDPlaying Supremes song followed by
male ancr , It would
be great even if you had to pay for it. But you
don't. This is the New
True Oldies Channel. KGA is off at the moment at
0420 EST 11/18. UNID
CtoC under, probably WLAC.
--- Scott Fybush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
WBT had other problems in that era, too. Craig Healy
can tell the story
better than I can about the Providence station on
1110 that was
operating at night when it didn't have proper
authorization to be there.
s
And Bay Minette has cause
--- C B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes,
I believe I've heard Navaho on KTNN.
Craig Barnes
Wondervu, CO
And you would be correct.
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