Paul,
Sure, you can hear a station with 10 watts 5 miles or 10miles, but not
at S9+55DB 47 watts at 5 miles is not going to give you S9+55DB
directly from an EWE antenna to a receiver, unless you have alot of
amplication to push that S meter up. If the station was operating with 5
KW rather
Well, can someone explain exactly what S9+55db is to someone clueless like
me? I simply know thats a STRONG signal, but thats all I know.
However, in the realm of propigation and AM radio, I like to remember
anything is possible. I once heard a station on 1590khz about 300 miles
away and verified
Yay - almost.
In downtown Toronto this morning, where cx seem to always favour the south -
possibly due to the construction of my house and/or location fairly
immediately adjacent to very tall buildings to the west - I had a very
dominant SSB by a woman start at about 0558 as Niel had
Heard Daybreak USA at 0650 on 950, 0655 Super Talk 950 ID at 0655, ad for
Marty's Tire in Charleston at 0656. Faded down. Back at 0659 I heard tail
end of the same woman singing the SSB, just as she did an hour earlier,
followed by a slight drop-off but quickly followed by a full ID with show
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Good Morning:
Below is a band scan this morning 4:00 am PST. The
JRC NRD 545 connected to a 2 foot coax cable with a
straighten out 8 inch paper clip as the antenna.
CALL STRENGH POWER ANTENNA DISTANCE
620 KPOJ S-5 10 kw
You can absolutely rule out WROC, if you haven't done so already. I've
been recording the last couple of mornings at 0558, and it's ESPN promos
right through to the local ID at 0600, then back into ESPN.
And at only 2 miles away, WROC is the only thing I hear on 950 unless I
get in the car...
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Paul,
The link below tells about signal strenght meters
and how they work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_meter
KXMG has a CP, night time one tower and 10 watts.
Dennis,
Salmon Creek, WA
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Well,
Listened from 1325-1435 UTC and conditions were way down from yesterday. Only
a few weak carriers and the only audio was from JOUB-774 which was very weak.
Bill Block
Prescott Valley, AZ
Drake R8
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Hi Dennis,
Thanks for your bandscan. I should try that myself, to see what I get.
Yes, KGO wth 200KW ERP North, they put in a really strong signal.
Infact back in the early 70s, KGO made number #2 in the ratings. It
shocked the local broadcasters. That many people listened to KGO in
Portland.
Hi Patrick/Dennis:
Apparently KGO used to show up here in the Seattle-area ratings as well,
at least until 820-KGNW went on the air a few years back. If people all
had selectable sideband synch radios (and they should!), that would
probably still happen, since KGO still booms in every night and
If you want to see what's happening behind the scenes at the FCC I can think
of no one better than Mr. Copps to explain it. I went to the December 2007
hearing where he read this statement below and it was truly amazing.
Please read Mr. Martin's statement to get the other side too.
George KC2SCI
Hi Dennis,
I think it's very likely that the two foot long coax cable's shield is also
contributing to signal reception, and coupling to the inner conductor. I'd
be interested to read a comparison using the unfolded paperclip stuck right
into the SO239 jack on the back of your receiver.
Congrats
Fellas, Fellas,
We got to establish a Committee to define just which size paper clips
really count and do those metal clamp-type clips with two wire
handles count, too... Or could we at least use one of the handles,
rather that the standard paper clip??? They both hold paper and are
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:Issued: 2008 Dec 10 2106 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
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# Geophysical Alert Message
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Solar-terrestrial indices for 10 December follow.
Solar flux 71 and estimated mid-latitude A-Index One.
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Guy,
A list of the stations heard with the paper clip attached to the
S0239 jack.
620 KPOJ S-2.5 db
750 KXLS-.75 db
800 KDPQ S-0 audio with noise.
860 KPAMS-7.25 db
910 KTRO S-3 db
970 KCMDS-0 audio with noise.
1010KOOR
Hey Dennis:
Do you have a hi-Z input to the receiver, and if so does that fare better
than inserting into the 50-ohm SO-239 jack? A longwire/longclip antenna
is typically several hundred ohms...
Also, have you tried terminating the paperclip? I'm thinking you should
have a good ground this
0100 utc, 171 with poor audio from Morocco; 1134 very poor occasional audio;
1521 very poor occasional audio; only weak het on 1575.
Steve
NE Oregon
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Solar-terrestrial indices for 10 December follow.
Solar flux 71 and mid-latitude A-index 2.
The
Hi Kevin,
Yes the JRC NRD 545 has a hi-Z input switch that the
user can switch between 50 ohm and hi-Z.
The paper clip works much better on the hi-Z
mode. Since most stations around here lower
power at night I will test the difference during
the day.
Just measured the paper clip and
Good evening Paul,
First of all, no one mentioning the term cheating or phoning the
station. S9+55DB is almost overload. That is one STRONG signal. 47
watts at 5 miles could not produce a signal that strong.
I have heard a many stations under 50 watts at sometimes thousands of
miles, but
Kevin,
I think a similar situation happened in Portland with KPDQ 800 going 24
hours. A lot less power, but still in strong in Western Portland.
73,
Patrick
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So, S9 is almost as strong as it can get?
S9+55db seems excessive, maybe even an exageration even for a station if it
was on day power during the day.. but then again, I don't fully understand
the use of the S signal stuff.
Paul Walker
www.onairdj.com
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Paul,
There is no limit on how strong a signal can be. Although, I have not
seen anything over S9+60 DB. To give you an example, once a signal gets
over S9+40DB, depending on how good the receiver is, the front end can
start to overload and you may get images from the strong signal. The
better
--
Pat,
The S9+55DB signal on the NW ewe was after I adjusted the
pot to cut down KXMG signal which is Southeast of my
location.
Tonight KXMG signal on the omni directional H-800 skymatch
active whip antenna 18' up in a tree is S-9+50db.
Will be nice when their CP is completed and the
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Good Evening,
Heard KNZZ this evening at 0333 utc.
KNZZ with Grand Junction weather. Heard
on the Palstar R 30cc with the Kiwa loop antenna
KFAX nulled somewhat. Luckily, KFAX
had a man from the SF rescue mission interviewing
a sports person, a lot of gaps in the interview.
Not much
850 WRBZ NC RALEIGH0158
11/12/08
Celebrating 10 years as your sports station, WRBZ, 850, Raleigh, THE BUZZ.
FOX sports radio network programs. At 0158 they were blasting into
Tennessee, but 10 minutes they had faded. [WM-TN]
DXer: Willis
Dennis,
It sounds to me that they are not dropping power allright. Even when
they are oked with 10 watts, I wonder if they will be using it?So
many stations seem to forget to drop power these days. With basically
no FCC to ride herd on them, the chances of getting caught are slim. The
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