Re: [IRCA] CFGO 1200

[Barry McLarnon <bdm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 14:04, Dan Strassberg wrote:
> If CFGO is indeed running on day pattern at night, it could at least
> partly explain why reception of WKOX has been so bad here for the last
> four or five nights. I live about 15 miles northeast of WKOX and the 1.6
> mV/m night signal has almost invariably been good enough for listenable
> reception (notwithstanding that the NIF contour is 13.5 mV/m). I had
> thought that the reason WKOX was being bombed so badly was the
> extraordinarily good DX conditions that many here have reported,
> although the major pest, WTLA, was not much in evidence. I'd have to say
> that, based on what I've heard, CFGO lost the day/night switch button
> about a week ago and that the engineering types (probably should be
> type--I think there is one person left) in Clear Channel's Boston
> cluster ought to get on the horn with the CE (if any) at CFGO and tell
> him to look around the studios for a large red pushbutton. Of course,
> the clock in the timer at the Tx might simply have died ;>(

I know the CE of CFGO, and can let him know tomorrow.  Then again,
since this is a DX opportunity for some folks, maybe I should hold off a 
bit longer?

Day or night pattern, CFGO is a PITA at my QTH.

Barry

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Barry McLarnon VE3JF  Ottawa, ON

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