Subj : Re: Antenna
To   : Tom Walker
From : James Bradley
Date : Tue Jul 12 2005 08:57 pm

07-12-05  07:43, Tom Walker told James Bradley about Re: Antenna

 How do, Tom?

 JB>We've found a few am skip traces, mostly from Colorado on our travels. Last
 JB>was when Gulf War I was just tooling up, and they played 
 JB>an isolation of Lin
 JB>McArtney mic. What a floorer. You thought Oko was bad?


 TW> The dedicated AM band DX'ers used to stay up almost all night to
 TW> catch such things. At times the band really opened up Particualrly
 TW> after most of the local stations went off the air.
 TW> Of course th "Good Old Days" when one could hear WLW in the
 TW> Midle of the night all over the north Amercian Continent is gone.
 TW> there were also so called Clear Channels that would come in but i nthe
 TW> 30's WLW beat them all having the highest Output power ever allowed
 TW> for an AM station, 500,000 Watts. The rest of the stations were limited
 TW> to 50,000 Maximum. With most being 5,000 or even less in some
 TW> situations. -!-

Yup... You yankees can be a boisterous bunch. <G+D!>


.... 'am' B'ad'

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