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Hello Glenn: With the arrival of Hurricane Matthew on Florida's east coast, it
will be interesting to see if WOKV 690 gets an STA for overnight operation of
the 50 kW ND daytime facility at Orange Park along the St. Johns River. If so,
this will be a good DX catch. As a former resident of Jacksonville who has been
to the site, I know that the daytime antenna base is close to sea and river
level, which allows for excellent grounding of the copper radials. At high tide
with storm surge affecting river height, the tower tuning unit could be
affected.
I'm therefore wondering if the nighttime facility on higher ground west at
Baldwin could be configured temporarily with STA authorization to feed tower
one only for ND nighttime operation with the 25 kW transmitter. Another DX
catch if such operation develops. I'll be listening here in North Carolina
where I've heard the signal from the 50 kW transmitter once before years ago
during a similar weather event. Best regards, (Richard Howard, Burnsville,
Yancey county, NC, NRD-545, 80' longwire at 45' height, Oct 5, WORLD OF RADIO
1846, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
And of course many other MW stations could go onto emergency facilities, day
powers/patterns at night, enhancing local and DX coverage (Glenn Hauser, ibid.)
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