I was nulling out local WAKS 96.5 from here in Vermilion, OH and caught another weak station broadcasting the Colts vs Bills NFL preseason game. Now to figure out what station I was getting just now.
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Nulling a local station to DX another station
- Thread starter Buckeyes2001
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The always-infallible Radio-Locator lists WZPN from Farmington Illinois as the only sports station on 96.5, Buckeye. I hope that's helpful.
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I'd thought your post was about good catches gotten by nulling locals so ferociously that their studio lights probably dimmed. Down near Kennedy Airport in Queens NYC, we had a lot of success doing that to locals WPAT 930, WBNX 1380 and 'WJRZ' 970, to hear some neat stuff, in broad daylight.
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I'd thought your post was about good catches gotten by nulling locals so ferociously that their studio lights probably dimmed. Down near Kennedy Airport in Queens NYC, we had a lot of success doing that to locals WPAT 930, WBNX 1380 and 'WJRZ' 970, to hear some neat stuff, in broad daylight.
Could it be a translator? Since it's a talk type format, it could well be a translator of an AM station.
WBKX 96.5 Dunkirk, NY carries the Bills. Good catch.
I do this a lot with some of my local FM stations. 98.9 here in Charleston used to get knocked off the air a lot, but even when it was on the air, I used to null out the local to get WSPA from Spartanburg if there was any skip going on. WSPA had a decent signal around here. Sometimes, WMMO from Orlando also came in.
A couple of times I've nulled 96.9, a 100kw monster here, and gotten Jacksonville.
I used to do that with TV audio also. There were a couple of times on Folly Beach when the local channel 2 or 4 were tough to get because of tropo. WESH would come in instead on 2.
With AM, I've nulled my 500 watt 910 several times. As close in as 10 miles from the transmitter at night, it gets interference from 910 in Spartanburg.
A couple of times I've nulled 96.9, a 100kw monster here, and gotten Jacksonville.
I used to do that with TV audio also. There were a couple of times on Folly Beach when the local channel 2 or 4 were tough to get because of tropo. WESH would come in instead on 2.
With AM, I've nulled my 500 watt 910 several times. As close in as 10 miles from the transmitter at night, it gets interference from 910 in Spartanburg.
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When I lived in Lubbock in the 1970's, I nulled semi-local KCRS 550 to receive KTSA San Antonio.
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boombox said:
You can throw a station into the null of a yagi - but I've never had much luck with local stations. The station being nulled needs to be quite a distance away. My most interesting DX involved getting five stations depending on which way an antenna was turned - from Plano, TX, on 92.9, I was able to get:
KBEZ Tulsa, OK
KNIN Wichita Falls, TX
KKBQ Houston, TX
KRMX Waco, TX
KTKC Springhill, LA
Sometimes the difference of a few degrees changed the station completely. This was all before KSKY put a stupid translator on 92.9 jamming the frequency.
Had to research info for a tough translator reception issue, and this article by one of our friends down under popped up in a Google search:
http://home.iprimus.com.au/toddemslie/phase-cancellation.html
He's using two identical antennas, one pointed at the local signal, the other at his desired target. He uses phase shift cancellation to null out the stronger signal. Don't ask me what is phase shift cancellation....
http://home.iprimus.com.au/toddemslie/phase-cancellation.html
He's using two identical antennas, one pointed at the local signal, the other at his desired target. He uses phase shift cancellation to null out the stronger signal. Don't ask me what is phase shift cancellation....
Have you ever tried 'nulling' a local FM station on a portable, using a whip.
When I move the whip to any of my portables around (especially the better ones on FM), there seem to be certain directions that reduce a station's reception. On one local channel if I turn the whip one way, I get a repeater somewhere nearby, and if I turn the whip another direction, when tropo enhancement is in, I get a weak copy of a station in Victoria.
When I move the whip to any of my portables around (especially the better ones on FM), there seem to be certain directions that reduce a station's reception. On one local channel if I turn the whip one way, I get a repeater somewhere nearby, and if I turn the whip another direction, when tropo enhancement is in, I get a weak copy of a station in Victoria.
I keep my antenna pointed at Muscle Shoals AL so I can record 105.5 WVNA-FM at night. During the day we have a local 105.5 out of Fayetteville TN(3kw), in the opposite direction as Muscle Shoals, that signs off at midnight and back on at 5am. I leave the tuner on all the time but usually muted, and sometimes I will look at it and see the stereo light blinking wildly in the middle of the day, when the local 105.5 is normally strong. I unmute it to find WVNA completely overpowering the local, or even hear both of them at the same time sometimes. I can also null out a couple of translators and get something distant.
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