I was driving to work today, thinking about transatlantic AM radio reception....has anyone, using a standard radio and or car radio, picked up any of the big east coast stations while in the Azores, Iceland, and even Greenland? They lie in the middle of the Atlantic, and with a complete salt-water path the signals should propagate quite nicely, one would presume.
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Random Thought -- AM stations from East Coast in the Azores, Canaries, Iceland?
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Never been there, of course but just by looking at the map, I'd rule out any daytime reception.
It's about the same distance to the Azores as Hawaii is from California and nobody has ever heard any of the big California 50 kw stations there midday.
Nighttime is another story and I imagine the Azores would have amazing nighttime reception from the US.
It's about the same distance to the Azores as Hawaii is from California and nobody has ever heard any of the big California 50 kw stations there midday.
Nighttime is another story and I imagine the Azores would have amazing nighttime reception from the US.
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Y'know, it sure would be interesting to hear from an Icelandic DXer. He's got the best of both worl---er, continents!
I also have read that there is still a TV channel E4 there in Iceland, and I am sure that folk in the Maritimes/Newfoundland/New England are trying for it.
As for AM, I'd agree that in the day it would be a waste of time....but oh those nights, especially in winter.
BTW isn't it true that Iceland & Greenland ought to switch names? I read/heard that somewhere.
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I also have read that there is still a TV channel E4 there in Iceland, and I am sure that folk in the Maritimes/Newfoundland/New England are trying for it.
As for AM, I'd agree that in the day it would be a waste of time....but oh those nights, especially in winter.
BTW isn't it true that Iceland & Greenland ought to switch names? I read/heard that somewhere.
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cd637299 said:
Yes, today Iceland has a greater percentage of land that is not under ice or snowpacks than Greenland.
However, when Greenland was originally colonized (800 to 1200 AD), it had a wide swatch of arable land and grasslands suitable for grazing livestock. The cooling of later centuries with the onset of the Little Ice Age (around 1300) covered almost all of this with ice and the population dedicated to farming declined to nearly nothing. Only in recent years is some of that arable land reappearing.
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I have never been able to DX broadcast on longwave, ever. I no longer have a unit, but even when I did (Yaesu FRG-7700), I struck out every time, outside of maybe some USA beacons. I so wanted to hear Atlantic 252.....and Iceland should not have been hard. I live (almost) along the Atlantic coast in Fla.
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Zach said:
U.S. Armed Forces Radio used to have a station on 720 at Thule AFB in Greenland. IIRC, it was 5 or 10kw (for some reason). I'm not sure if it's still there, especially since my understanding is that the base is now a fraction of its former size.
Despite ongoing shutdowns and migrations to FM, still no shortage of stuff yet on the MW dial in the rest of Europe.
cyberdad said:
And even before that, AFRS was on 1425 at Thule with 1 kw. A few DXers in New England and the Maritimes got it verified, and many of us a bit farther SW of it found carrier signs and very weak unintelligible modulation a few times. Given the absence of anything else on 1425, I could say it was tentatively heard in Ohio by myself and several other DXers... that would be around 1961, though.
*FM* DX has been reported in the opposite direction.
There was an item in the VHF column of QST some 35 years ago, where someone serving at the U.S. air base at Lajes began receiving stations from mainland Europe. (apparently coastal stations like Spain and the Portuguese mainland were not unusual, but he was hearing things further inland -- like Germany) After a day or so, things moved west -- and he heard several stations from the U.S. mainland. I want to say 94.5 Trenton NJ was on the list. (unfortunately I can't find the article in the online QST archives..)
Interestingly.. this reception was NOT sporadic-E; it was tropo.
There was an item in the VHF column of QST some 35 years ago, where someone serving at the U.S. air base at Lajes began receiving stations from mainland Europe. (apparently coastal stations like Spain and the Portuguese mainland were not unusual, but he was hearing things further inland -- like Germany) After a day or so, things moved west -- and he heard several stations from the U.S. mainland. I want to say 94.5 Trenton NJ was on the list. (unfortunately I can't find the article in the online QST archives..)
Interestingly.. this reception was NOT sporadic-E; it was tropo.
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