For example, I have local WAXQ 104.3 with HD from my location. 104.5 is IBOC but if I tune to 104.53 or 104.54 I can get WRFF Philadelphia Alt 104.5. Same scenario with 95.7 BEN, 102.9 WMGK, or 94.5 WPST being received on 94.44. This is with the TEF6686 radio. I wonder if this would qualify for what is received regularly on the Frequency of the Week threads
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Does it count to receive stations only a few decimal points from the actual frequency to consider it a daily catch?
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Until there is an offer fabulous cash and prizes for DX catches.....that's fine
I feel like Hazleton PA's Jack Palance and his hissy 'Believe it ....or nnotttt' routine here, but .....
Lost in the paperwork of others, and from many years ago, plus misplaced in my own memory as to the source was a blurb I read from a DX Club.
Adding and making things even more dubious was the legitimacy of the nagging accusation that WWRL 1600 from NYC used to grossly overmodulate their signal.
As you can see, there are enough obfuscations -- and 70 years of dust -- to provide room for doubt.
The 'blurb' I read was that some DXer from southwest of Philly -- somewhwre around Chester PA iIrc -- logged WWRL's splashy audio.
On 1610.
But DIDN'T hear them on 1600 because the region's usual, grumbling 1600 muddle of weak other stations didn't include WWRL, which pulls it in, away from the southwest. And keeping in mind that there were no X-Band stations at the time ........
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One other notable and certified form of support for those to whom these reception asterisks are crucial does come from a renowned radio professional of the highest calibre whom we all know and respect.
Rather than give his name, for sake of anonymity let's just call him 'David Eduardo'.
Legend decrees he was at the dial late one night in the late 1960's when KFI 640 in Los Angeles got FCC permission to test-broadcast their 50,000 signal on 641 kc.; indeed heard their experiment, and counted it as a new station.
Different frequency; officially on federal file as such; somewhat different conditions for many DXers in the country (think those with a smothering 630 local).
If he says it counts as a new 'catch', it's a new catch.
Lost in the paperwork of others, and from many years ago, plus misplaced in my own memory as to the source was a blurb I read from a DX Club.
Adding and making things even more dubious was the legitimacy of the nagging accusation that WWRL 1600 from NYC used to grossly overmodulate their signal.
As you can see, there are enough obfuscations -- and 70 years of dust -- to provide room for doubt.
The 'blurb' I read was that some DXer from southwest of Philly -- somewhwre around Chester PA iIrc -- logged WWRL's splashy audio.
On 1610.
But DIDN'T hear them on 1600 because the region's usual, grumbling 1600 muddle of weak other stations didn't include WWRL, which pulls it in, away from the southwest. And keeping in mind that there were no X-Band stations at the time ........
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One other notable and certified form of support for those to whom these reception asterisks are crucial does come from a renowned radio professional of the highest calibre whom we all know and respect.
Rather than give his name, for sake of anonymity let's just call him 'David Eduardo'.
Legend decrees he was at the dial late one night in the late 1960's when KFI 640 in Los Angeles got FCC permission to test-broadcast their 50,000 signal on 641 kc.; indeed heard their experiment, and counted it as a new station.
Different frequency; officially on federal file as such; somewhat different conditions for many DXers in the country (think those with a smothering 630 local).
If he says it counts as a new 'catch', it's a new catch.
You exaggerate on my ability to establish precedents.
But AM or "medium wave" DXers often counted as separate stations things like call letter changes, significant facilities changes and, sometimes, testing of an auxiliary and lower power transmitter.
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