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Loggings => MW Loggings => Topic started by: NQC on April 29, 2023, 1524 UTC
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Hey All,
Yesterday I took a road trip to NH to the big ham radio flea.
I left MY Boston QTH (Bos -NYC 215 Mi) at around 0700 local .
Notes :
Stayed with 880/WCBS on car radio the entire way up. Initially I encountered a good deal of 1st adjacent QRM from local WAMG 890.The car radio seems to play kind of broad. This QRM gradually went away as I proceeded North away from Boston,as expected .CBS's occasional ( sometimes deep) QSB also pretty much went away while traveling North- ODD .
AT Deerfield ,NH (277 Mi to NYC ) 0900 local in huge RF quiet open field :
660 WFAN fair to good.
710 WOR fair.
770 WABC fair to poor.
880 WCBS VERY GOOD.FWIW Their "fringe" pattern contour is "depicted" as being on the MA/RI border.So QUITE a ways beyond that !
1010 WINS - nothing heard. WCNL NH 10 Kw from a "short" tower copied instead.
1130 WBBR poor.
Kind of cool to receive and compare day time signals over some of the least conductive ground in the US (although admittedly , all @ 50 Kw). I am sure it's not an overly spectacular distance record , but was fun.
I wonder how much further North before before these (especially WCBS ) start to get into trouble.
K