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What do you think you could get if you were...
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Lawppy said:
Probably a mess between W224BZ/Ionia, MI, WYVN/Saugatuck, MI, WDZZ/Flint, MI, and maybe even W224BY/Angola, IN
ftballfan said:
Daytime, it's probably dominated by WTSO/Madison, WI. A very weak CHOK/Sarnia is probably heard if you can null WTSO enough. Critical hours WFNI/Indianapolis probably mixes in with WTSO and/or CHOK. Nights is probably mostly CHOK...or at least however much may get through KYW 1060's I-BLOCK
Ok how about this one? 
(That is, if reception from places other than Earth's surface is allowed.)
98.0 MHz, from a satellite, or the Moon's surface, over 20N,40W...
using a tuner that has "crystal-set" selectivity, or -1.5dB at ±10 MHz (with no steeper skirt: ±80 MHz would be -12dB, if it weren't for the 6dB stopband attenuation spec)...
an antenna with a -0.375dB beamwidth wide enough to capture the entire visible surface of the earth (I checked Google Earth's app, and North America, northern South America, Europe and northern Africa are all visible)...
the antenna/radio combo should also be sensitive enough so a 15.239-compliant signal from Miami, FL, would be copyable by a DXer with good ears (if there were no other interfering stations)...
and resistant enough to overload (as I define it - distortion / clipping / etc ON-frequency due to being close to transmitters - on my Tecsuns this would be, I believe, above about 20-25 Volts/meter or so on AM) to not do so even if it was jacked directly into WMC-FM's transmitter.
So what might you hear with that type of setup under those conditions?
(That is, if reception from places other than Earth's surface is allowed.)98.0 MHz, from a satellite, or the Moon's surface, over 20N,40W...
using a tuner that has "crystal-set" selectivity, or -1.5dB at ±10 MHz (with no steeper skirt: ±80 MHz would be -12dB, if it weren't for the 6dB stopband attenuation spec)...
an antenna with a -0.375dB beamwidth wide enough to capture the entire visible surface of the earth (I checked Google Earth's app, and North America, northern South America, Europe and northern Africa are all visible)...
the antenna/radio combo should also be sensitive enough so a 15.239-compliant signal from Miami, FL, would be copyable by a DXer with good ears (if there were no other interfering stations)...
and resistant enough to overload (as I define it - distortion / clipping / etc ON-frequency due to being close to transmitters - on my Tecsuns this would be, I believe, above about 20-25 Volts/meter or so on AM) to not do so even if it was jacked directly into WMC-FM's transmitter.
So what might you hear with that type of setup under those conditions?
Re: pianoplayer88key's post:
What you'd probably hear would be like a graveyard channel at night X100 or more like 1610 kHz at night (far enough away from CHHA in Toronto) except on FM it may sound more like a hissing/rushing sound with all of those signals coming in at once. Of course sound wouldn't travel through from the receiver to your ear on the moon or where the satellites are but with the radio connected to a recording device you would get the audio that way.
What you'd probably hear would be like a graveyard channel at night X100 or more like 1610 kHz at night (far enough away from CHHA in Toronto) except on FM it may sound more like a hissing/rushing sound with all of those signals coming in at once. Of course sound wouldn't travel through from the receiver to your ear on the moon or where the satellites are but with the radio connected to a recording device you would get the audio that way.
ftballfan said:
Daytime probably WKLA/Ludington, MI and WHTC/Holland, MI both weak signals. Some receivers might get some bleedover from WBRN. Nights just a huge mess of stations.
Buckeyes2001 said:
I used to work at KNLV....
Not a fat chance of KYW out there.. and no real sign of KDYL that I know of.
KRCn was frequent, especially when they forgot to power down from 50KW to 110W.
IBOC crapola from what I presume was WHO and KRLD was also present on 1060 there.
ftballfan said:
KISO would only come in under tropo. KICX and KINI would only come in, very weakly at that.. if you had a directional antenna pointed right at them.. and it'd still be questionable if you'd pick any of them up.
I think during the day, it would be mostly WHTC. WKLA has to have one of the worst signals of any AM in the country (can't be heard at all in Manistee, 20-25 miles away). I heard WHTC this afternoon with a decent signal (not very strong) in Walker, just west of Grand Rapids.Buckeyes2001 said:
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