Re: [IRCA] Radio (Part Ninety-Three)

["Ira Elbert New, III" <ien3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My In-Laws live in Brookfield West and my Sister-In-Law lives in Queensbuery 
West (I think).  Another member of the family has a guitar shop, 
Dreamcatcher, in downtwon Roswell. I have been travelling over there since 
1986, but it all looks the same to me. I know how the Yuppie neighborhoods 
go...all of them live in them! Sadly, my wife and I bought a home in one of 
them too!


Bert,
 
I actually lived in Woodstock, GA for thirty-four months; my QTH was in the 
Willow Creek subdivision (one of those "Yuppie" neighborhoods), one block 
north of the Cherokee-Cobb County line. Woodstock was about 15 minutes' 
driving time from Woodstock, coming in either on State Road 92 from 
Woodstock or Shallowford Road from Cobb County. I spent the last twelve 
months in Marietta, one mile from the line. It was a fifteen-minute commute 
from my QTH to WFTD's studios, which were then on the third floor of Roswell 
Street Baptist Church (about a mile west of the intersection with U.S. 41). 
The ground conductivity was TERRIBLE down there; the ground conductivity 
value was either a 1 or a 2 (compared with a 15 in the St. Louis area, or 
even a 30 in Milwaukee and Topeka).
 
One example is that I could even get a tight null on WSB 750 at night. The 
other audible Atlanta signals in Woodstock were 590, 640 and 
920. On Marietta's far north side, 1380 was audible. I heard St. Louis area 
stations on 550, 590, 630, 690, 770, 850, 1120, 1260, 1380, 1430 and 
1600 from suburban Atlanta. It was interesting to hear 590...I caught the 
local on open carrier (ditto with 101.5, which it was simulcasting at the 
time), allowing me to pull in Wood River (then using a 250-watt ND STA).
 
73, Eric (N0UIH) 


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