Re: Topband: 1820 BCB + My Problem Partially Solved

2011-12-25 Thread Joe Giacobello, K2XX
to a antenna of some sort with good primary RF energy from the stations) - that maybe located many miles from both stations - but breeds the mix. And that is what you hear on 160 and 80. [snip] 73, Tim K3LR Subject: Re: Topband: 1820 BCB At this point, I'm convinced that the source

Topband: 1820 BCB

2011-12-25 Thread lrpmbt
I received a Email from WDOR stating the engineer had found a defective capacitor and it had been corrected. This morning the BCB on 1820 was considerably less than the last few days, but we will see what happens. Larry W8VVG ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9

Re: Topband: 1820 BCB + My Problem Partially Solved

2011-12-25 Thread Don Moman VE6JY
MW stations have been legally broadcasting in the so called X band from 1610 to 1710 since about 1997. *On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Joe Giacobello, K2XX k...@swva.netwrote: * * You said it, Tim! I started tuning around the AM band on Thursday and* * noticed that in addition to the

Re: Topband: 1820 BCB + My Problem Partially Solved

2011-12-25 Thread Wayne Rogers
PM To: k...@k3lr.com Cc: topband@contesting.com; rich...@karlquist.com; lrp...@comcast.net Subject: Re: Topband: 1820 BCB + My Problem Partially Solved You said it, Tim! I started tuning around the AM band on Thursday and noticed that in addition to the spurious AM stations on 1840, there were

Topband: 1820 BCB + My Problem Partially Solved

2011-12-25 Thread Charles Otnott
May I suggest that those who had their BCB problem reduced or eliminated by the engineering staff at the various stations do one thing. Send the station a letter thanking the management and staff for their fast action to correct the problem. This results in several good things: a. The BC

Re: Topband: 1820 BCB

2011-12-23 Thread Dan Zimmerman N3OX
That is a VERY important point Joe. getting mixed somehow- often occurs without fault from either of the two mixed stations - but as a result of a nearby rectification area (the right metal hardware (rectifiers) coupled to a antenna of some sort with good primary RF energy from the stations)

Re: Topband: 1820 BCB

2011-12-23 Thread Wayne Rogers
, 2011 12:07 PM To: topband topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: 1820 BCB That is a VERY important point Joe. getting mixed somehow- often occurs without fault from either of the two mixed stations - but as a result of a nearby rectification area (the right metal hardware (rectifiers

Re: Topband: 1820 BCB

2011-12-22 Thread Joe Giacobello, K2XX
There have been some interesting developments and observations regarding my noise problem on 1836 that I had mentioned in a previous message. (See below.) First of all, I'd like to thank those folks who responded to my post with some excellent suggestions. I started to search in earnest

Re: Topband: 1820 BCB

2011-12-22 Thread Tim Duffy K3LR
...@comcast.net Subject: Re: Topband: 1820 BCB At this point, I'm convinced that the source of the problem is the 24 hour station and that the WPIN and WGFC signals are getting mixed somehow to produce the AM signal on 1840. 73, Joe K2XX ___ UR RST

Topband: 1820 BCB

2011-12-22 Thread Bill Tippett
This could be reduced ~30 dB by a shorted 1/4 wave stub on the TX output...~178.5' of 0.66 Vf coax and one T-connector. 73, Bill W4ZV ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK

Topband: 1820 BCB

2011-12-21 Thread lrpmbt
The BCB on 1820 has become considerably louder lately. The interference has been identified as WDOR www.wdor.com out of WI. As the audio is intelligible. I know of a couple of Emails that have been sent to the station. Maybe if more polite Emails are sent to the station corrective actions will

Re: Topband: 1820 BCB

2011-12-21 Thread Rick Karlquist
lrp...@comcast.net wrote: The BCB on 1820 has become considerably louder lately. The interference has been identified as WDOR www.wdor.com out of WI. As the audio is intelligible. I know of a couple of Emails that have been sent to the station. Maybe if more polite Emails are sent to the

Re: Topband: 1820 BCB

2011-12-21 Thread Steven Raas
I was sort of curious abt why I never seemed to hear ppl on 'evens' so to speak. BCB Fishing bouys.. I just learned something TY VM! -Steve N2JDQ On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Rick Karlquist rich...@karlquist.comwrote: lrp...@comcast.net wrote: The BCB on 1820 has become considerably

Re: Topband: 1820 BCB

2011-12-21 Thread Scott Long
Message: 6 Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:59:53 -0500 From: lrp...@comcast.net Subject: Topband: 1820 BCB To: topband@contesting.com Message-ID: B1546533610B4FB3998B55622A5C77A5@ownerPC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 The BCB on 1820 has become considerably louder lately

Topband: 1820 BCB

2011-12-21 Thread Roger Parsons
I am over 500 miles north-east of WDOR, and their spurious signal on 1820 kHz is over S9 with me in the past week or so. I do not believe this is intermod as the station modulation is quite intelligible, and it cannot be a coincidence that their fundamental is 910 kHz. It is also extremely

Re: Topband: 1820 BCB

2011-12-21 Thread rfoxwor1
Roger Parsons ve...@yahoo.com wrote: I am over 500 miles north-east of WDOR, and their spurious signal on 1820 kHz is over S9 with me in the past week or so. I do not believe this is intermod as the station modulation is quite intelligible, and it cannot be a coincidence that their