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Loggings => North American MW Pirate Radio => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on June 13, 2019, 1520 UTC
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Haven't checked for them in a while, so I figured I would. Sure enough they are there again, just above the noise floor. Heard what sounded like some Sinatra.
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Really good reception this afternoon, 14 June 2019 around 1800 UTC. Solid SIO 333, perhaps 444 at times.
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No more presumed... I've had 1620 on much of the afternoon, and heard several IDs.
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1447 The usual SIO 222 or so signal, just heard an ID.
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I've noted changes in the local amers here depending on the rainfall. If it's been a few weeks or so since the last good soaker, the sig levels are down across the board - not much but noticeably so and consistent, if it rained recently sig levels are back at peak levels. I wonder if the ground plane conductivity at the tx site is more to do with this effect than the rx site.
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I've noted changes in the local amers here depending on the rainfall. If it's been a few weeks or so since the last good soaker, the sig levels are down across the board - not much but noticeably so and consistent, if it rained recently sig levels are back at peak levels. I wonder if the ground plane conductivity at the tx site is more to do with this effect than the rx site.
That could very well be the case. We have been in a pattern of generally lots of rain, but the occasional day or two will go by with no rain. Going to be dry the next few days, I'll check their signal and see how it behaves. My guess is this station is roughly ten miles away, so it is certainly all ground wave propagation.
As I've mentioned before, it is one of my test case stations / beacons of sorts, for checking out antenna designs and tweaks. I like to use ultra weak / just audible stations for this. I have a pair of AWOS stations on the VHF aircraft band I use the same way, one is about ten miles away and puts in a weak but generally audible signal, the other is maybe 25 or so miles away and is just barely above the noise floor.
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The usual signal at 1930 UTC 21 June 2019, some summer solstice longest day of the year MW listening.
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Very nice reception this afternoon (22 June 2019), especially after I did some repair work on one of the coax connectors on the resonant loop. SIO 333 most of the time.
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22 June 2019:
1416 ID as "Retro Cafe", which I have heard before from this station.
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The usual SIO 222 or so signal at 1653 UTC, heard a Retro Cafe earlier. Using the crossed parallel loop antenna today. Sounds like a mix of oldies today.
1700 The usual WEDG ID by OM