Re: [IRCA] 690 French Saskatchewan

["Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx>]

Glad to clear things up.. and glad to help anytime. I hate to nitpick, like
I said.. but it's hard not to, being a radio guy myself.

Paul

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Kevin S <satya@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks Paul - I did indeed mean a pattern problem, not a transmitter
> problem (given their signal, they obviously don't have the latter!).
>
> 73 - Kevin
>
>
> > Hate to nitpick and get technical here, but since I work for a
> directional
> > AM myself.. a transmitter fault would cause a pattern to go out of
> > whack...
> > a transmitter fault would only cause the transmitter to operate at less
> > then
> > full power. What controls the pattern is  a phasor.. and if stations
> > switch
> > patterns from day to night, sometimes things get stuck on day pattern
> > because of a power outage or lightning strike damaging something in the
> > phasor.
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Kevin S <satya@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Recently it has been competing well here in Seattle with 690 out of
> >> Vancouver.  I finally heard a "CBC Premiere Saskatchewan" or words to
> >> that
> >> effect last week (have to check the recording...), although they often
> >> mention "CBC" and/or "Canada", especially on the hour.  I wonder if
> >> their
> >> pattern destabilized due to a transmitter fault?  I don't recall them
> >> being that prominent before.  At any rate, good stuff!
> >>
> >> Kevin S
> >> Bainbridge Island, WA
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > Good chance for many of you in the east who need the French-language
> >> > station in SA not to log it ... heard it last night for third time
> >> this
> >> > month, and I've only checked a handful of times. In the overnight
> >> hours.
> >> > Not //540 860 etc CBCs but remember there's a time zone difference. It
> >> is
> >> > // during news. Nothing else there that would be French, though.
> >> Pattern
> >> > must be a bit outa whack? Mixed last night with WELD and a Spanish
> >> > station. Have had lots of Cuba there, another I suspect is Colombia
> >> (which
> >> > I've yet to conclusively ID).
> >> >
> >> > The above DXed on the Sangean ATS909 with Radio Shack loop. Had to use
> >> a
> >> > sideband to get it clear enough through the WLW 700 IBLOCK. Also using
> >> a
> >> > loopstick-modified Tecsun, and while it had bits of French on 690 it
> >> was
> >> a
> >> > tad harder to ID there.
> >> >
> >> > Lots of thunder crashes and crap on the weekend, but these have
> >> cleared
> >> > out a day or two ago and the band sounded almost winterlike last
> >> night.
> >> > Crisp, clear. On the Tecsun, had 790 in Fargo before sunset here.
> >> Haven't
> >> > had them the last year or two as much as I used to.
> >> >
> >> > Looking forward to getting my AOR7030 and BOG longwires out after
> >> Labour
> >> > Day, and comparing it to the Tecsun, which hasn't yet seen a MW DX
> >> season
> >> > here and is begging for action.
> >> >
> >> > Saul
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