Subj : Re: Antenna
To   : TOM WALKER
From : THURSTON ACKERMAN
Date : Wed Jul 13 2005 12:45 am

TW>JB>We've found a few am skip traces, mostly from Colorado on our travels. La
TW>JB>was when Gulf War I was just tooling up, and they played an isolation of
TW>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 catch
TW> such things. At times the band really opened up Particualrly after most
TW> 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 for
TW>an AM station, 500,000 Watts. The rest of the stations were limited to
TW>50,000 Maximum. With most being 5,000 or even less in some situations.

I still remember my solid 10 meter skip contact to the African Gold
Coast while mobile south of Hartford, CT.  (Ah, the good old days !-)

Ciao and 73s de W1SHX

("world's 1 silverhaired x-ray man"   was for real on 10, 40 & 75 8-)

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