Re: [IRCA] For eastern USA DXers (or anywhere) - is this typical/routine GY reception?

["Martin Foltz" <martinfoltz@xxxxxxx>]

Stephen,

Yes, this is typical reception out here on the west coast. Stations will
fade up for several minutes with signal strengths as strong as the regular
channel dominant stations. The difference is that the signal on the GY
channel will not typically last long. Many stations fade up for 2-5 minutes
for me. You will find times where a station is dominant on the GY channel
and when that happens enjoy it.

I haven't listened on the east coast but in the Midwest (Michigan) in the
1970's and 1980's the GY channels sounded more mixed and more difficult to
hear IDs on. Don't know about now but there are some good DXers on the GY
Yahoo group that have heard quite a few stations.

Martin Foltz
Mission Viejo CA

> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 20:08:38 -0800 (PST)
> From: Stephen Airy <pianoplayer88key@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
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> Subject: [IRCA] For eastern USA DXers (or anywhere) - is this
> 	typical/routine GY reception?
> 
> Hi all ... so almost a couple months ago I caught this...
> 
> 2012-10-03 02;35 PDT - 1400 KTUC - PL-398mp - (or possibly KCYK)
> 
> That
>  was, I think, KTUC Tuscon, AZ, about 349 mi / 562 km from me, heading
> 94? (reverse 277?).? Or, could it have been KCYK Yuma, AZ, which is
> about 134 mi / 215 km at a heading of 93? / 274??? KTUC is listed as
> Nostalgia, and KCYK is Country according to Radio-Locator.? I'm leaning
> toward KTUC, as I was often hearing music from the 50s, 60s, etc when
> pointing my radio to the east.? It's possible that KCYK could have
> popped up briefly though.? Interesting thing is, the song is one that
> I've always thought as being similar to some of the upbeat 50s / early
> 60s pop music (before the Beatles), but per Wikipedia, apparently it
> came out in like 1975?
> 
> I actually started the recording a bit
> after the strength had started to wane somewhat.? A minute or two
> prior,  it was a cleaner signal, and was indicating up around a
> moderately solid 50-54 dB? or so on the Tecsun's signal strength
> display.? That's a  strength normally reserved for 50kW clears, and
> even then only exceeded  on propagation peaks by nearby directional
> 50kW stations like KDWN, KCBS, KXNT (25kW night), KMIK, whose main
> lobes are aimed pretty much right at me.
> In the several days/weeks surrounding that, KKJL San Luis Obispo, CA
> from 274 miles NW, also nostalgia per R-L, was quite common, to the
> point where I was listening to it for the music, not for DXing (and it
> would have been a candidate for a preset on some radios). :) (It was in
> a deep fade when I recorded that video, though, besides coming from
> another direction.)
> 
> So for you DXers out there ... is that typical routine graveyard DX
> reception, say, in the eastern states?
> Or
>  is it even remotely possible (assuming that was KTUC @ 349 mi, not
> KCYK  @ 134 mi), that for a few minutes I had a graveyard station
> coming in clearer than some of you regularly receive some "clear"
> stations even if  you're the same distance or closer to the
> transmitter? ;) Could the roles of "graveyard" vs "clear channel" have
> temporarily been reversed? :)


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