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The Mightier 1090 Signal

SomeRadioGuy

SomeRadioGuy

I am in McGrath, Alaska which is a village of 300 people about 250 miles NW of Anchorage. I use a small portable radio and a custom tunable loop for my long distance AM radio reception. XEPRS is about 2700 miles away from me.

When conditions arent ripe with auroral/solar storms and things are quiet, The Mightier 1090 is actually quite often heard here.. almost nightly. Sometimes poor, sometimes really good. Usually somewhere in between.. but at least listenable, however KFNQ Seattle, another sports station on 1090 is sometimes audible in the background

I have a recording of my most recent reception of The Mightier 1090 where the signal is incredibly strong, stable and clear with no "chatter" from KFNQ present in the background. It's at this google drive link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dDgsd30-pwbU5MtfDfekvzaS1TzI3t4D/view?usp=sharing
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
I am in McGrath, Alaska which is a village of 300 people about 250 miles NW of Anchorage. I use a small portable radio and a custom tunable loop for my long distance AM radio reception. XEPRS is about 2700 miles away from me.

When conditions arent ripe with auroral/solar storms and things are quiet, The Mightier 1090 is actually quite often heard here.. almost nightly. Sometimes poor, sometimes really good. Usually somewhere in between..
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That's because The Mightier 1090 has a highly-directional 50kw signal, aimed almost directly northwest towards Alaska. It might be the equivalent of 150kw in your direction.
 
Signal Geek said:
That's because The Mightier 1090 has a highly-directional 50kw signal, aimed almost directly northwest towards Alaska. It might be the equivalent of 150kw in your direction.
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I know that... notice i said its audible up here almost nightly. :) DX/long distance signal reception is what got me interested in radio in the first place nearly 30 years ago and why i got into the business
 
TomasEstefan said:
I'd say it's closer to a quarter of a million.
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That is a good estimate. The two lobes are about 30° wide, meaning all the power is sent on a total of 60° out of 360°, so it is nearly 300 kw equivalent in each lobe.
 
Indeed, as I said in a previous post that's the only way they're able to put a near city grade signal in parts of LA, including my area, and can be heard underneath Seattle's 1090 within 15 miles of their xmitter. We used to visit relatives in the Willamette Valley area of western Oregon and I would occasionally tune to 1090 to hear the SD Padre Games, and except for some selective fading, the signal was absolutely local.
 
off topic, but I always loved when 1090 WILD AM in Boston shut down at sunset and WBAL out of Baltimore beamed in like they were local.
 
XEPRS Sent me a mousepad and asked for a picture in a very Alaska setting.. here I am along McGrath, Alaska's main Road, Chinana Avenue holding the mouse pad.. behind me is Tatalina Mountain and behind the camera is KSKO

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I tweeted out about two weeks ago of your report of hearing 1090 in Alaska, and tagged in both Scott Farrell and Scott Kaplan (who both responded).

Great to hear 1090 management got in contact with you!!
 
MrCrumpets said:
I tweeted out about two weeks ago of your report of hearing 1090 in Alaska, and tagged in both Scott Farrell and Scott Kaplan (who both responded).

Great to hear 1090 management got in contact with you!!
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@MrCrumpets .. how does one find your twitter account then? :)
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
I am in McGrath, Alaska which is a village of 300 people about 250 miles NW of Anchorage. I use a small portable radio and a custom tunable loop for my long distance AM radio reception. XEPRS is about 2700 miles away from me.

When conditions arent ripe with auroral/solar storms and things are quiet, The Mightier 1090 is actually quite often heard here.. almost nightly. Sometimes poor, sometimes really good. Usually somewhere in between.. but at least listenable, however KFNQ Seattle, another sports station on 1090 is sometimes audible in the background

I have a recording of my most recent reception of The Mightier 1090 where the signal is incredibly strong, stable and clear with no "chatter" from KFNQ present in the background. It's at this google drive link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dDgsd30-pwbU5MtfDfekvzaS1TzI3t4D/view?usp=sharing
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What kind of reception do you get up there for 690 XEWW? They have a similar pattern at night with a NW lobe pointed directly towards Alaska.
 
KilowattKat said:
What kind of reception do you get up there for 690 XEWW? They have a similar pattern at night with a NW lobe pointed directly towards Alaska.
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Not much of anything that I recall
 
A video was posted Thursday in the Facebook group "Broadcast Engineers" showing the east tower had collapsed. Up here in Idaho they're rather weak, under a couple other stations. Normally on top.
 
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