Re: [IRCA] Tips for TP reception EAST of the Rockies? (i.e. in Missouri)

2006-11-03 Thread Stewart, Joseph R
Thanks so far for all the suggestions comments. Bill Harms mentioned a DXer, I don't recall his name right off hand, who lives on the Gulf side of Florida who has picked up several stations from Down Under on the MW Band. You thinking of Ray Moore? Randy Stewart Springfield MO

Re: [IRCA] Tips for TP reception EAST of the Rockies? (i.e. in Missouri)

2006-11-02 Thread Patrick Martin
Bill, Hank Wilkinson and DXers put up longwire antennas on a lot in metro Philly in the 20s/30s and heard 100 watt Australians on MW. The dial was a lot quietier in those days without noise, so low power TPs/DUs were fairly easy to log on the East Coast years ago. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin

Re: [IRCA] Tips for TP reception EAST of the Rockies? (i.e. in Missouri)

2006-11-02 Thread George McLachlan
At 10:11 2006-11-02, Andy Stewart wrote: Anybody got any tips for *TP* reception this far east of the Rockies? Obviously, early morning is mandatory as a time to tune, but might be the BEST time to try--how long before local sunrise, in other words? (I figure post-sunrise is probably not an

[IRCA] Tips for TP reception EAST of the Rockies? (i.e. in Missouri)

2006-11-02 Thread John H. Bryant
Randy, I've ever expended much effort DXing TPs from Oklahoma since, for the past 20 years, I've been spending at east a couple of months a year in western Washington State, where the TPs are just the right degree of DXing difficulty. The one time that I did hear them from Oklahoma was in