Re: [IRCA] KICY Nome [and non]

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

Russian sked ``11 pm-4 am`` matches that at http://www.kicy.org which admits
that the operation is run by the Evangelical Covenant Church. Timeanddate.com
says Nome is on DST of UT -8, so in winter it`s UT -9, same as most of AK, tho
at Nome`s longitude of 165-24 W, it ought to be on UT -11! (11 x 15 = 165). So
in summer they are on triple-DST, and in winter really on double-DST. 

U10? Here`s how the NRC AM Log defines that: Non-direxional day and night, but
a single direxional pattern during Critical Hours, which in this case means the
external service to Siberia. Shouldn`t that be based on the DST dates in
Russia, not US? O well, in winter that would be equivalent to 08-13 UT.
However, the NRC AM Log 2006 says the DA hours are 03-07 ``ELT``, only a 4-hour
span, so equivalent to 07-11 UT in summer, 08-12 in winter. One wonders how
much difference it would make anyway during the Midnight Sun. Perhaps some
residual ionization remains due to low solar angle. Over water/ice path for
surface wave should help. 

Can one think of any other US MW station which has a skywave external service
and direxional antenna to match? Quite a number of US stations in the northern
tier of states are direxional northwards or into Canada at night, but that is
more of a consequence of having to protect US stations in other direxions, than
a deliberate desire to serve sparsely-inhabited Canadian rural areas. 

WTOR 770 Youngstown NY for Toronto, would be a good example but is daytime-only
on groundwave, and I bet they still have to pretend they are serving their city
of licence, unlike KICY which is admittedly broadcasting trans-oceanically, not
just trans-lakally, across time zones, dateline, language, national and
continental boundaries, using the ionosphere. 

I can`t think of any US MW station which is directly and deliberately skywaving
toward Mexico at night, with the possible exception of KGBT-1530 which looks to
have more nighttime coverage in Mexico than the US, but they have to protect
Cincinnati. 

Cuba is quite another matter, of course. Several S Florida stations have big
lobes day and/or night toward Cuba, but again, being in one far corner of the
US were probably engineered that way originally to protect other US stations,
and were not even in Spanish when they started, e.g. WGBS 710, now ``Wacky``
WAQI, Radio Mambí causing the dentroCubans to try to block it. 73, Glenn Hauser


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