Cbk 540

[cyberdad]

So is it possible, maybe in the right area and with the right setup, to have CBK and XEWA Or could there be another place/frequency to regularly hear a Canadian and Mexican station simultaneously, each strong enough to stop a scan, when the sun is high in the sky? (and no cheating with tropo/skip/etc )

The closest thing I can think of this being theoretically possible would be on adjacents. XERF back in it's blaster days running 150kw perhaps bumping into CKDO. Winter daytime skywave. Somewhere in the Midwest.

 

[cyberdad]

Back to CBK....

I spent a good amount of time today driving around the Milwaukee area listening to sports talk on WAUK, and it's amazing 400-watt signal. City grade signal throughout the metro, despite the stick and the COL being in the suburbs.

My 68-mile drive home commenced a little after 5pm CST....and about a half hour after sunset. By the time I was about 35 miles southwest of downtown Milwaukee (on I-43 at East Troy), I could hear CBK underneath. About 20 miles south of that point....at the Illinois state line....CBK and WAUK were both equally strong and mixing. Continued that way for the rest of the drive. I'm sure if I had turned on a radio when I got home, I could have nulled either one and heard the other.

 

[davideduardo]

The closest thing I can think of this being theoretically possible would be on adjacents. XERF back in it's blaster days running 150kw perhaps bumping into CKDO. Winter daytime skywave. Somewhere in the Midwest.

That type of occurrence on high frequencies is not surprising. The X-Band stations are even more prone to daytime skywave.

In the 60's into the 80's, XERF used a 250 kw RCA. However, most of that time it did not operate at all during daytime hours as there was no local market in Cd. Acuña / Del Rio.