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Could the Shutdown's backlash help DX'ers?

K

kenglish

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Been listening to a lot of stuff about the closures of National Parks and monuments....the "How DARE they close OUR parks!", and similar comments.
Lots of on-air types are opening the phone lines with things like, "The (name your favorite) Memorial isn't even an indoor venue. How can they justify closing it?"

So, I'm wondering if we could benefit from some of that, in areas where the local, county or state governments enforce curfews on the area parks, beaches, cemeteries, etc. Why is it a "problem" for me, a DX'er, to sit in a nearby park and listen to the radio after dark?

I know the FCC loves to do their enforcement monitoring from cemeteries, since it's a great place to get away from the noise and interference.
Why don't we ask some serious questions of our local and area governments. too?
 
Here in my location there are some parks that have public parking nearby, and it's easy to walk in as a pedestrian. Although there technically is a curfew, it's hardly ever enforced. Tried using one of the long fences at one park earlier this year as a makeshift / ersatz 'beverage' -- it didn't work at all.
 
I think it depends on the fence. The top bars of the chainlink fences around my yard (and around the adjacent elementary school) work quite well. Also a barbed wire fence across the street works for longwave, but ONLY a certain strand/level, and it's not the top one.)

Also some wooden utility poles (with overhead wires) work too. You just need to find one that's not too noisy, and it must have a ground wire running down the pole. This will often be hidden by a strip of wood about an inch or so in diameter, or by a metal sheath.

To determine if said antenna will work, tune in a weak/medium signal away from the antenna, then approach it and see if it gets stronger. Alternately, tune just off the side of a strong local station, but where you can still hear faint splatter just above the noise. Then approach the antenna and see if the splatter gets wider. :)
 
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