W0W!!! That's some great DX!!! Now I know where all of the DU DX is
going. Long live the BOG!
Thank you.....
Derek Vincent
Vmedia360.......everywhere
On Sep 8, 2010, at 7:51 AM, neilkaz <neil...@earthlink.net> wrote:
Success this morning digging out some weak DU audio from Barrington
IL using my R8A and the big guns aimed west (Phased BOG System at
273 deg, 930 ft // 600 ft). Times GMT.
I got out to the DX truck just after 1100 and there were decent
sized hets from 738 and 702. Things improved a few minutes later and
also were aided by sunrise oriented weakening of WLW and CFZM which
now were easy to phase out, leaving weak western QRM. At 1113 I
noted some weak audio on 738 and the usual SAH when there's DU cx.
Audio was good enough to tell that the guy was speaking FF and it
went into mx, but soon the audio that came up weakly on peaks was
accented English and sometimes short bits of mx. Over to 702 and
some audio peaks at 1115 also seemed to be Aussie accented EE and
similar to 738. When I logged Aussie 702 and 738 from WI, two
Septembers ago, they were // in this time frame. The last weak audio
from these died about 1121 (sunrise was 1125) and as usual even the
hets have usually faded lots by a couple minutes after sunrise.
Thankfully superlocal WGN no longer has IBOC and there's no hash to
bother 702 and 738 anymore.
756 had a het during this time frame, but not strong enough to yield
audio. I checked 891 but nothing as usual. There also was a het on
about 531. I didn't note anything from 612, which was almost audio
level a few years ago and this inspite of no IBOC on WTMJ and if WMT
had IBOC, it wasn't in well enough to bother me.
I didn't make it up to higher freqs other than to check for Marshall
Islands 1098 but KFAB IBOC ruins that channel to the west.
As is common during these brief sunrise DU openings here, California
area stuff was good. KFI was decent in the mix on 640, and with WJR
phased the programming matched KFMB's listed. On 600 the talk show o/
u WMT matched KOGO. 700 had something Mexican at times with weak WLW
phased but not strong enough to prevent some weak 702 audio.
The phased and rather longish BOGs certainly are a help for this
stuff here as it is necessary to phase even the weak daytime signal
level remains of CFZM or WLW.
73 KAZ
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