[HCDX]: 87.7 MHz results so far

[Mark Hattam <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is an email to say a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who's responded 
and contributed suggestions regarding my log last Monday on 87.7 MHz. 
I'm quite stunned by the number of people who've found time to listen 
and dig out further information.

You might receive this email via more than one route. I can't avoid 
this since I don't know which maillists you may or may not subscribe 
to. So apologies if you receive this 3 or 4 times.

Since I posted the original RealMedia file on Monday night, I've 
added a WAV and an AIFF version too which are larger but are better 
quality being uncompressed.
http://www.dxradio.demon.co.uk/unid.html

But of course, what you'll be wanting to know is have we had success 
identifying the station(s). The recording I made at 1115 UTC on Mon 
29 Nov 1999 on 87.7 MHz.

A quick summary is that most people say there are 2 stations, both 
with American accents (not Canadian), and that's it's audio from tv 
channel 6.

WECT's chief engineer in Wilmington NC says that the lady is their 
evening news anchor *but* she does recorded pieces for the morning 
show too.

The man's voice apparently is Kent Schocknek of KNBC-4 in LA ... 
derived from when he was on-air during the aftershocks of the 1994 
earthquake in LA. So there really is a timecheck for 5.26 ... it's 
just that it's recorded not live. So we still have to find out who 
was carrying an earthquake item at this time.

I've compiled all the responses so far from dx-ers and stations onto this page
http://www.dxradio.demon.co.uk/results.html

The obvious other question is "how did it get here?".

There is a big high pressure over the SE USA, and it was at 6.15am ie 
in the pre-dawn period. I'd have to assume there was an inversion or 
duct over the sea which carried the signal a fair way across the 
Atlantic. When that ran out, the signal became line of sight to the 
horizon and perhaps just needed one meteor ping to get it here, 
though two is also possible. There were a fair number of "pinging" 
meteors all that day.

I'll send out another update like this next weekend. And I'll be 
updating the results page daily.

73's
Mark Hattam
mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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