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What Can You Hear From the Top of a Tower? RW rip!!!
« on: February 19, 2026, 1717 UTC »
https://www.radioworld.com/tech-and-gear/nicks-signal-spot/what-can-you-hear-from-the-top-of-a-tower   Whelp, the closest that I could say that is bringing an AM / FM Walkman up into the Toronto CN Tower. What did I get??? RF overload from 102.1FM CFNY and the then 107.1FM CLIQ, (Q107), and whatever other stations were up there. Well, I was able to see the CFNY Auxiliary Studio there at least. Better luck, a decade later, being up on Corning, NY's, Quackenbush Hill, plugging-in my Standard C228A HT to a tower mounted Hygain Co-linear 2M antenna and with just 5W FM Simplex, making a contact to a station in Maryland during a mid-90's ARRL VHF Sweepsteaks. Thought that to be cool.
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“I am often asked how radio works. Well, you see, wire telegraphy
is like a very long cat. You yank his tail in New York and he
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exactly the same, except that there is no cat.”
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