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KDRB at reduced power?

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The Hustle

Usually can get them in Ft Dodge/Humboldt area...last few days have gotten KZ-100 out of Columbus, NE and this morning during the typical AM tropo time KFAN out of Minneapolis was booming in. Nothing, of course, on the Bus Facebook page....just stories about Mick Jagger, Katie Couric and Boy George.
 
Massive tropo across the Midwest and Great Lakes has resulted in DX catches as far as 700-800+ miles away. A DXer friend in Ontario was getting Minneapolis, UP MI, and even Sioux Falls on FM...not E-skip...it was all tropo due to the record heat wave!!!
So KDRB getting wiped out should be a given...
 
I noticed it a lot on Monday. Went on a trip and was struggling with KFMW Rock 108 up until within 45 miles of Waterloo. That’s notable because KFMW is a full Class C and usually has no issues until at least 60-70 miles away. It was getting stamped out and walked on by other stuff. Noticed other stations severely affected as well.

Things have seemed somewhat better now later in the week.
 
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I forgot which station it was but it was one either in south Mississippi or south Alabama class C's that their main antenna was on a high TV tower and they had a really short under 400 foot high aux antenna just for foggy mornings. When I was stationed at Keesler, I stayed on base and the fog wasn't a hassle, but at Eglin sometimes I had to go to one of the remote airfields. I actually got lost one "dark thirty" when I missed a turn off. This was pre cellphone days (1977) and I had to turn around till I got to an intersection which had signs. Still had to use a compass to drive in the correct direction at the intersection. Maybe you could see 10 feet past the hood of the truck. 10MPH seemed too fast.
 


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