Some information on KHMB from 12/17/2012. Amazing catch Bill. Dennis,
Kalama, WA
From: Bill Whitacre <b...@his.com>
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] Grayland 12
KHMB is, as their website says, a community station on 1710 near SFO. Neil
Kazaross thinks it’s a FCC Part 15 station ‘on steroids’ — they’ve gone WAY
beyond the usual boring TIS fare and, who knows, may be running more than the
regulation power? From Sans Souci one gets really good CA reception. That’s
all I know … and even some of that is speculation. ;-)
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> On Aug 8, 2015, at 9:01 AM, Walter Salmaniw <can...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Bill, a very interesting report. I like your format, and audio clips.
> Tell me more about KHMB 1710. I've never heard of them. I see that they
> have a website. The only KHMB that comes up on the Radio Locator website
> is a FM station in Hamburg, Arkansas. Are we talking about a 100 mW
> station here? 73,...Walt
>
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Bill Whitacre <b...@his.com> wrote:
>
>> Between the two ‘cliffsider’ DXpeditions organized by Gary DeBock I had
>> the opportunity for another trip to the west coast visiting the Grayland
>> Motel in Grayland, WA and a place called Sans Souci, between Yachats and
>> Florence, OR from July 26 - 31, 2015.
>>
>> I’m still working my way through the Perseus wav files but you can get a
>> look/listen to what I heard and uncovered so far on this webpage:
>>
>> http://realmonitor.com/am_logs_grayland12.php
>>
>> Highlights so far include; a nice ID on Samoa on 540, Kiribati on 1440
>> with their National Anthem at 1000utc s/off, Fiji on 558 and a bunch of
>> Aussie & NZ stations.
>>
>> This time Murphy stayed away and I was able to get three concurrent days
>> of wav files from Grayland and Sans Souci for later comparison of
>> conditions. Based on a limited sample of the past 3 years of the same
>> situation it appears that Sans Souci is more conducive to Aussie reception
>> than Grayland. We’ll see how this year’s stats feed into that conclusion.
>>
>> Antennas used at both locations were 160’ DKAZ pointing at 230-250 deg
>> with a fixed, 902 Ohm terminal resistance [Rt] in Sans Souci and a
>> variable, vactrol Rt in Grayland. If you’re into EZNEC modeling, both
>> antennas used 20 gauge wire.
>>
>> Bill Whitacre
>> Alexandria, VA
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