Those of us of a Certain Age may well recall the CFA of the 60's and 70's -
The 'Joystick VFA'.
Go search it out on the net, it was very popular for a while. I
suspect that eventually people figured out that the feed line was the
active component of the antenna...
Lee
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I managed to added another new station to my ULR medium wave log on 4/13/14.
1060 kHz CKMX, Calgary AB (50 kW @ 2077 km/1290 mi). It was heard at 1105 UTC
identifying as "The All New Funny 1060", followed by a comedy skit by Joan
Rivers before fading out under KIJN, Farwell TX. Heard again at
Apparently there was one that worked in Egypt. There were plans to use one on
the Isle of Man longwave station but the station never materialised.
Mike
From: Lee Reynolds
To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Sent: Monday, 14 April 2014, 13:49
Subject: [IRCA] Re. CFA an
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:Issued: 2014 Apr 14 1805 UTC
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Solar-terrestrial indices for 13 April follow.
Solar flux 137 and estimated planetary A-index 16.
The esti
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Solar-terrestrial indices for 14 April follow.
Solar flux 150 and estimated planetary A-index 8.
The estim
A few Asians of the regular variety today; not too bad for mid-April.
pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker,
at least briefly):
not quite today; HLAZ was close
Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it
understandable by a native speaker, th
