Geoff,
Would be interesting to know its call sign and how much power it was
running, AND, if it is still on the air.
The AM BC band is dying over here.
Perhaps 10kw or 20kw would be enough to hear it at that distance.
It might not have been 50kw.
I can hear British AM BC stations here at night, and Radio Luxembourg comes
in loud and clear, but like I said, Europe was never blanketed wall to wall
with 50kw AM BC stations.
I'm sure people living close to that particular station will benefit from
the RX366.
They may even need an external hpf as well.
73
Rick, DJ0IP
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Geoffrey S.
Mendelson
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 5:20 AM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] RX366
On 05/22/2013 10:45 PM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
> James, you are completely correct.
> We have never had the problem with AM BC stations here in Europe like
> you guys have in the states.
> My hunch is, it doesn't make a lot of sense to have a 50KW AM BC
> station that propagates for thousands of miles at night because our
> language changes about every 300 miles! (hi) Therefore we have lots
> of smaller stations broadcasting a lot less power, but in many different
languages.
Not 100% true.
There WAS a BBC station on 648kHz that was so strong I could hear it here in
Jerusalem.
The BBC dropped it about a year ago in a cost cutting move, and someone in
the Netherlands took over the frequency.
Geoff.
--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 It's Spring here in
Jerusalem!!!
_______________________________________________
TenTec mailing list
TenTec@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
_______________________________________________
TenTec mailing list
TenTec@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
|