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About "pitched battles"..

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joebtsflk1

Rather than have the topic drift off of 1010 kHz (I didn't know we ever needed AFC on AM :) ) I thought I'd quote this here:

icybluelake said:
Speaking of pitched battles, one time while driving through central and western New York at night on Interstate 90, I landed on 1010 and heard among the more pitched battles that I have ever heard. It was like the two signals were muscling each other out -- both almost entirely audible and strong but a strain to listen to. Does this happen more frequently in other parts of the world, and I'm just unaccustomed to it? It reminded me of the few occasions when some Cuban blaster is coming in and surrounding another strong 50k US signal. Maybe this is common in western New York too, but it doesn't seem to happen too much in my part of the DX world.
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Having looked at some of the night patterns on nf8m.com 's site, a number of the regional channels in the northern tier of states, primarily from the Great Lakes east, appear to be regular war zones of overlap. (The east coast is another battlefield on many regionals) 1380 in Minnesota looks like one of the war zones, with KLIZ Brainard MN and WOTE Clintonville WI among the stations that probably have just little foxholes of coverage below a greater battle of skywave co-channels. I've think I've previously mentioned the night time mess in Minnesota on 1600, with three 5 kW-ers in Watertown MN, Ripon WI and Cedar Rapids duking it out with an extra 500 watts from Algona IA in the mix for added measure. I thought my radio was going to blow up. These kinds of battles I never remembered hearing further south in Iowa, nor do I notice them much out in the sticks in Colorado.
 
That is an awesome site; I didn't know about all the maps that are there. What a great resource! I have already spent a couple of hours poring over it tonight.
 
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