Re: [IRCA] DXers under the age of 30

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

I can hear WHP but I can't say that I've paid any attention to them. Anything on AM that's regular I ignore except for KYW for news and WPHT for Phillies games.

Russ Edmunds
15 mi NNW of Philadelphia  
Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'; Grundig G8
AM:  Modified Sony ICF 2010's barefoot


--- On Wed, 4/6/11, Tom Dimeo <am@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Tom Dimeo <am@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] DXers under the age of 30
> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 4:10 PM
> Rene and Russ,
> 
> To add to the annoyance of listening to AM radio is the 
> excessive processing some stations use.  Can either of
> you 
> hear WHP 580?  Their processing is so extreme that I
> have to 
> turn the volume way down and even then it gets fatiguing to
> 
> listen.
> 
> The attack and release time of their processor is so fast
> and 
> the volume reduction is so great that sometimes it's 
> difficult to understand the traffic and weather over the 
> sounders.  Some commercials are the same.
> 
> I can't imagine what they are trying to prove, they have
> one 
> of the best signals in central Pennsylvania and certainly
> do 
> not need that kind of processing.
> 
> Tom
> 
> ** Message Separater **
> >You're right, Russ.  Even at my age (59), as one
> who cut his 
> >DX teeth and listening habits in the 60s, I have to
> admit 
> >that unless I am specifically listening for DX, I very
> rarely 
> >listen to terrestrial radio anymore, especially
> AM.  I just 
> >get way too frustrated with the noise (IBOC hash,
> static, etc).
> 
> 
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