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- Subject: 680: WAPA Puerto Rico hammering WRKO Boston
- From: Mark Connelly <markwa1ion@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 10:28:40 -0400
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On (UTC) 19 OCT at 0000 / (EDT) 18 OCT at 2000:
https://app.box.com/s/glgwd7or0vzmqxm1j43ib1nqxv3i80ve
You can just BARELY hear WRKO under WAPA San Juan.
WRKO is one of the stronger Boston stations here at South Yarmouth, MA on Cape Cod.
V-Soft (average of 3 closest post offices 02664, 02675, 02660) gives signal strength of 4.42 mV/m.
Distance from here to the WRKO Burlington, MA transmitter site is 122.6 km / 76.1 miles on a bearing of 316.6 degrees.
So it's interesting how a station at a distance of over 2600 km / 1620 miles can come in with a signal that totally blows WRKO out of the water some nights.
Factors to consider are that the route to Puerto Rico is something like 98% water and the antenna I'm using puts WRKO near its 345 degree cardioid null (effectively making it more like a 500 watt station instead of a 50 kW one).
680 would not necessarily sound like this on a typical car or table radio.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA
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