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Author Topic: 1540 KXEL Cedar Rapids, IO 1024z 9/12/14  (Read 2823 times)

Offline atrainradio

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1540 KXEL Cedar Rapids, IO 1024z 9/12/14
« on: September 12, 2014, 1026 UTC »
Hearing right now, stronger than I've ever logged before. Little fading and strong enough to let me use 6 kHz filtering rather than the usual 3 kHz I use for MW DX'ing.
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Re: 1540 KXEL Cedar Rapids, IO 1024z 9/12/14
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2014, 1502 UTC »
They get out fairly well to the West also.

I've heard them in a local 1540 station's null. Even without an external loop.
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