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cc333 said:
The other day, I tried to DX KYNO, and I was greeted instead by an unrelenting roar of 60 Hz buzz spread out all across the AM band (with a hole at 740 and a couple of other frequencies).

I went outside with my radio, and found that if I aimed the null of the radio at the power pole across the road, which happens to contain the transformer that serves my house, the buzz disappeared. And when I aimed it head on, the buzz got louder.

So, today, I actually called the power company about it, because this happened kind of suddenly (there have been other noises, but all have been inside the house; this is outside) and it could be an early warning sign of transformer failure. I wonder what they will do about it?

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Well, it turns out it wasn't entirely the transformer's fault.

I run a two-monitor setup for my computer, and the power supply died on one of them recently.

Rather than buying another used OEM one (these are Apple displays that are about 20 years old, so the power supplies haven't been made for them for at least that long), I decided to buy a generic supply of the proper rating and modify it.

So I did.

And now my display works! But when I encountered nothing but noise the other night while DXing, I decided to check something. Sure enough, the display was on, and when I turned it off, the noise stopped! The impressive part was that I was picking up the noise at full strength three rooms away!

So if I want to DX, i have to keep my display off.

MarioMania said:
Carmichael, CA

Sony SRF-A1

Been DXing 1270, Been hearing KAJO Grants Pass, OR in place of KVMI right before dark, like 8pm on my walk
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So, on this same night, once I sorted the noise problem out, I discovered just how puny 97 watts is.

I'm less than 10 or so miles from KXBX 1270's single, nondirectional tower, and on day power (500 watts), it booms in. I thought that even on night power, it would boom in almost as well on night power (97 watts), given my relatively close proxmity to the tower, but I am apparently mistaken, as I discovered that the signal is so bad on night power I can barely receive it, despite being so close. So what comes in to fill the void? KVMI!

The two play similar music (though KVMI seems to lean somewhat newer and a bit softer), so it's hard to tell which is which, especially when they fade back and forth, but I heard KVMI's "The New My975" ID, and that clinched it.

c
 
I've been hearing WBOC on the Tabernacle, New Jersey FM receiver with a strong mostly steady signal and I don't think the current weather in the region is conducive for any kind of tropo, at least according to the tropo forecast map, not to mention it's the middle of the afternoon when tropo is at a minimum even under good conditions.
 

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Still getting WBOC 102.5 from Princess Anne, Maryland on the Tabernacle, New Jersey FM receiver hours later with a strong steady signal and what's weird is that I went to Radio Locator to see what other FM stations are in that region of the Delmarva on empty frequencies without any local station interference and I can't get even a trace of any of them.

I wonder why only that one station has been so strong and steady for so long while no others can be heard.
 
WBOC has always been present on the Tabernacle FM receiver every time I've checked over the past couple of days, though it been weaker where it sometimes fades out briefly but comes in strong again.

Maybe that's just normal conditions and something somehow makes it possible but the transmitter is just 463 feet with 50,000 Watts.

In Florida, it was normal to hear some FM stations over 100 miles away such as WFLZ but their transmitter is 1,500 feet with 97,000 Watts.
 
gar hi said:
WBOC has always been present on the Tabernacle FM receiver every time I've checked over the past couple of days, though it been weaker where it sometimes fades out briefly but comes in strong again.

Maybe that's just normal conditions and something somehow makes it possible but the transmitter is just 463 feet with 50,000 Watts.

In Florida, it was normal to hear some FM stations over 100 miles away such as WFLZ but their transmitter is 1,500 feet with 97,000 Watts.
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WBOC isnt far from the water and on a fairly tal ltower in flat terrain, thatll do it.. and make it a regular

When i was in NW PA, 80 miles SE of Erie the extreme height, clear ish dial and the water helped and i heard london and woodstock FMs just about every day 110-125 miles away
 
gar hi said:
In Florida, it was normal to hear some FM stations over 100 miles away such as WFLZ
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Before all the LPFMs or translators and HD booming all over the sunshine state, I was able to get WPCV 97.5 in West Palm Beach loud and clear day and night. This is impossible now thanks to WFLC's HD upper sideband.
 
In the car last night in west Houston, heard my first new AM logging of the season:

1660 WCNZ FL Marco Island 9/10 1927 CDT praying the Rosary, presumably Relevant Radio //stream, mixing w/KRZI Waco TX

I'm guessing they were on day power about an hour after Marco Island sunset. Logging 496 on AM from Houston.
 
I've heard WSM 650 Nashville (at night) From South Central Kansas all the way to Upstate S.Carolina...

Also heard WSM up to Central NJ, but difficult with much adjacent splatter from WFAN.

Memphis TN now has a local 640 AM - WCRV (Bott Radio Network) which causes some splatter on 650 AM even at night in some parts of the city.

Also I can hear WBT 1110 (Charlotte) Much Better at night over 600 miles away to the North in Northern NJ, than just 50 miles away to the west (almost inaudiable most of the night) ...in which case, their FM signal on 99.3 really helps out alot with that issue.
 
KyleSmith1988 said:
Also I can hear WBT 1110 (Charlotte) Much Better at night over 600 miles away to the North in Northern NJ, than just 50 miles away to the west (almost inaudiable most of the night) ...
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geeee.. i wonder why? lol
 
WCRV Memphis has an amazing daytime signal, easily reaching east 200+ Miles into Northern Alabama ... due South Of Nashville (Near Florence Alabama) where both WSM and WCRV are about equal in strength.

The WCRV site is in a Great Location, A Few miles SE of the Memphis Airport and Almost on the TN State Line A Few Hundred Feet into Mississippi. (Perhaps Some Great Ground Conductivity There As Well).
 
Few weeks ago band was opening in Florida, I was getting WMXC FM (as well as most stations from Pensacola/Georgia area) in stereo near Ocala about 340 miles out laying in bed listening with a 3M worktunes headphone. It lasted hours before slowly fading away, it was a good tropo for sure and longest I've logged by far.
 
KyleSmith1988 said:
Also I can hear WBT 1110 (Charlotte) Much Better at night over 600 miles away to the North in Northern NJ, than just 50 miles away to the west (almost inaudiable most of the night) ...in which case, their FM signal on 99.3 really helps out alot with that issue.
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That's why WBT had a "simulcast" synchronous repeater in a town to the west of Charlotte with 1 kw. It was in Shelby, I believe.

Similarly, WBZ had a synchronous repeater on 1030 in Springfield, MA, to fill in for its Boston signal.

Both were victims of the old 7/7/7 ownership rules.
 
Randall the D said:
In the 70's when WSM signed off Sunday nights I could hear KFI from Los Angeles on 640.
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When I was installing my new station in Ecuador, 660 and 5 kw, I heard WSM a number of times on our two tower N-S directional system before we put my station on the air. Very good signal after midnight, nearly every night.
 
davideduardo said:
That's why WBT had a "simulcast" synchronous repeater in a town to the west of Charlotte with 1 kw. It was in Shelby, I believe.

Both were victims of the old 7/7/7 ownership rules.
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The void (null) to the west is so severe. To the point where on 485 you can see the WBT towers a few miles away and still hear some static until you go north or south of their site. The perfect 'pattern' to cover "From Maine to Miami" at night. Except to the west.

The WBT-FM signal is in Mono, and covers the southern and western half of the CLT metro Very Well. No Problems reaching west out into Spartanburg before WCON from Georgia starts to interfere near Greenville. WBT-FM was in HD but thats been off for at least a year. Tho WLNK-HD2 also carries WBT for the entire area as well.

Growing up in NJ I remember the Tower Site/Pattern for WOBM-AM 1160 in Howell NJ (Now WJLK) and you can drive around the site and watch signal strength go way up travelling south on US-9, but since they send alomst no signal to the north, its amazing to watch it fade to almost nothing within just a few short miles.

Similarly, Recently experienced that with KMMM 1290 in Kansas as well, with their Big Null to the East.
 


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