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[IRCA] old is new



After some needed hardware arrived last week, I finally got my 35-year-old Hy-Gain 18AVQ vertical back on the air. On the AM/MW front, I was immediately rewarded with three new entries in the log!

Compared to the 80-meter inverted Vee, the noise floor of the vertical is much lower, while signal strength on the vertical is slightly lower on the vertical with most stations. On the other hand, switching back and forth between antennas, I heard a handful stations on the each antenna that I could not hear at all on the other.

Anyway, here are the new stations I heard with the vertical:

*WMBS*on 590 kHz inÂUniontown, Pennsylvania, transmitting 1 kW, 376 miles to the west-southwest.

*WSLB*Âon 1400 kHz inÂOgdensburg, New York, transmitting 1 kW, 248 miles to the north-northwest.

*WJFK*on 1580 kHz in Morningside, Maryland, transmittingÂ50 kW,Â282 miles to the southwest.

The receiver was the ELAD FDM-S2/SW2.

Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Wolcott, CT, USA
horzepa.com
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