Re: [IRCA] Oct 6-7 TP DX on the car radio

[midcapemarc@xxxxxxxxxxx (Marc DeLorenzo)]

Interesting.  Just today we had a Cape DX lunch, 4 of us, and we were talking about how Saudi Arabia-1521 audio frequently overrides strong WWKB-1520 Buffalo on our car radios.  Of couse the het is outrageous!  I've had the same thing happen with Denmark-1062 and a few others while driving home from work.  Before Dedham, MA arrived on 890 around 1994, Algeria-891 would be all alone on 890 around local sunset - well before WLS would fade in.  Cool stuff!

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From: Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Yesterday and this morning, I tried my hand at TP DXing on the car radio 
> while driving to work.  Fortunately, the car has radio controls mounted 
> in the steering wheel, making it a bit easier and safer to tune around 
> while driving 60+ mph in rush hour traffic. 
> 
> Yesterday, with the radio set for 10 kHz spacing, I managed to pull a 
> couple minutes of audio (woman in Korean) on 972 just after 1400 UT, 
> mixing with audio from the 970 domestics.  I also had hets on 693 747 
> 981 and maybe a couple other channels.   It was the second time I heard 
> TP audio on that car radio.  The first was JOIB-747 last fall.
> 
> This morning, I had the presence of mind to program the radio for 9 kHz 
> spacing before I left the house.  Unfortunately, I didn't hear any audio 
> today, but there were lots of hets: 621 648 657 693 729(a real screamer) 
> 738 747 801 972 981 and 1602(weakly).  I also checked 1575 (nothing) and 
> 1566 (maybe HLAZ but too much domestic splatter to tell for sure).  
> Again, this was just after 1400.  The radio's bandwidth is rather 
> generous, so there's no avoiding audio bleedover from domestics, but it 
> should be possible to bag a few more TPs if conditions hold up.  I 
> didn't have time to check the whole dial, so I may check 1000-1200 and 
> 540-600 tomorrow morning.
> 
> I've found it's not a huge problem to leave the radio set for 9kHz 
> spacing, since the only 3 local AMs I listen to are 1 kHz removed from 
> TP channels (KIRO-710 KOMO-1000 and KPTK-1090.
> 
> Bruce
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