Lou,

In a message to Tom I referred to Inner City as Emis.  I meant Inner 
City. Thanks for mentioning this.

Dave


On 2/6/2015 9:00 PM, Lou Kolb wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Wowo isn't even 50 k at night anymore. Years ago, Inner City broadcasting
> bought them expressly to change them to a lower power station at night and
> raise the power on their 1190 property in New York City where, of course,
> there is a bigger population base. To me, a problem just as big as the low
> power stations beating with the high-power ones is all the hash generated by
> the digital noise of stations broadcasting in HD. Often, its the difference
> between reasonable copy and no copy. 73. Lou WA3MIX
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 8:09 PM
> Subject: FW: OT But Still Radio
>
>
>> Very interesting, Dave.
>>
>> I guess I just wasn't A M d x ing at the right time to have that
>> experience!
>> (smile)
>>
>> I, too, also still enjoy A M d x ing, but with so many lower-power A M
>> stations now broadcasting at night on what used to be clear channels, it
>> just isn't like it used to be.
>>
>> One thing that really brought this home to me was when I was out in
>> Colorado
>> from 2009 to 2010.
>>
>> There were A M stations in the Denver area on 670 and 760 A M that would
>> broadcast at low output power at night, and they would overtake WSCR from
>> Chicago, and WJR from Detroit.  The frustrating thing was that you could
>> hear the power-house stations in there, but not well enough for
>> comfortable
>> listening.  I also have noticed this now on the East coast.
>> One particularly good example is WoWO in Fort Wayne, Indiana on 1190 A.m.
>> When I was a kid, that station was a 50 thousand watt monster that ruled
>> that frequency at night.  Now, I have trouble even picking them up when
>> visiting relatives, due to a number of stations heterodyning on the
>> frequency at the same time.  I think one is in New York City, and the
>> other
>> in Anapolis, Maryland.
>>
>> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Dave Marthouse
>> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 7:39 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: OT But Still Radio
>>
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>>  From my Clifton New Jersey location I did hear XERF once.  The Canadian
>> station was the predominant on 1570 but conditions must have been a bit
>> auroral at the time.  I was able to take advantage of a favorable null of
>> the Canadian and catch an XERF station id.
>>
>> I heard another of the classic Mexican stations on an early Monday morning
>> when WHN was off for transmitter proof of performance and CHUM in Toronto
>> was nulled.  It was XEG.  They identified as "The one hundred thousand
>> watt
>> clear voice of Monterrey Mexico".
>>
>> It's still fun to DX the broadcast band despite the fact that programming
>> content on AM radio for the most part is abysmal.
>>
>>
>> Dave Marthouse N2AAM
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