Re: [IRCA] 800 in Bonaire

["Neil Kazaross" <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I get them commonly here near Chicago on routine equipment when cx are 
somewhat AU, around 7 or 8 PM CLT. 73 KAZ

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From: "Stewart, Joseph R" <RandyStewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] 800 in Bonaire


> That increase to 100kW may not make them any easier to hear this far
> inland, but it's a nice increase over what they had. It's funny... Who
> would've thought, 20 years or so ago, that good old 500kW blowtorch
> PJB-800 would become rare DX??  Between their directional patterns, the
> dropping of their evening English programming, and their (until
> recently) 10-fold reduction in power output (not to mention the
> increased congestion on the frequency!), I haven't heard 'em in years
> here in Missouri.  After all, 50-100kW isn't exactly LOW power.  But I
> don't think they beam this direction--a beam heading toward Central
> America and Mexico would certainly do the trick, I would think.
> Randy Stewart
> Springfield MO
>
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> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:36:20 -0400
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> Subject: [IRCA] 800 in Bonaire
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> I talked to one of the "powers that be" yesterday from TransWorld Radio.
> I asked about 800, some changes have been made.  They have put in a
> 100kw
> solid state box, evidently a Harris along with a new Kintronics phasor
> which is described as bigger than the transmitter. They are now capable
> of directing the four tower array north or south or non directional.
> Target audience in Spanish is either South America or Cuba.
> This answers why they are again penetrating the eastern U.S. better.
> Jerry Kiefer
> Roswell, NM
>
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