Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Closing in on WAV?

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

>From here, I have all of DC & DE, missing 1 in RI and missing 2 each in CT, MD, NJ & VT.


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 Tue, 9/4/12, Barry McLarnon <bdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Barry McLarnon <bdm@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] [IRCA] Closing in on WAV?
> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, am@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 5:49 PM
> On Tuesday 04 September 2012 00:31:08
> Jim Renfrew wrote:
> > It took a long time to get my first VT station, and it
> finally turned up
> >  as  1390 WDOT Burlington at 9:55 in the
> morning in 1987.  That was 13
> >  years after I started DXing in Rochester, and how
> long it took to receive
> >  a signal from an adjacent state.  WFAD is
> now VT #14.  Interestingly, VT
> >  would probably be my best shot at logging an
> entire state, since it looks
> >  like there are only 20 MW stations 
> there.  WAV - worked all Vermont!
> 
> Shouldn't that be HAV (or HAVT?), since "working" implies a
> two-way link? 
> Anyway, this topic is an interesting one to me, since I've
> tried to 
> "complete" some nearby states and provinces on the AM
> band.  I did manage to 
> complete VT a few years back, and I've also heard all of the
> AM stations in 
> RI.  I'm missing one station in NH, two each in CT and
> ME, and three each in 
> MA and NY.  On the Canuck side of the border, I've
> completed ON and PE 
> (before their AM station count went to zero), and am missing
> one each in QC, 
> NB and NS.
> 
> Due to steadily rising noise levels, it's unlikely that I'll
> improve on these 
> stats. :-(
> 
> Barry
> 
> -- 
> Barry McLarnon VE3JF  Ottawa, ON
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