Re: [IRCA] New to list

[James Renfrew <jim.renfrew@xxxxxxxxx>]

WJJL is not even a good signal from where I am, about 50 miles east of it!

Yes, as far as what power to add in the log, I put in both day and night
power.  I might also add a note like "day power?"

On some occasions at sunset you can hear a station drop power or change
antenna pattern, so then you know it was day power that you were hearing.

With WFME 1560 off the air several days last weekend, many of us heard
daytimer WKIK through the night!

Jim Renfrew

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Stan Horzepa <stanzepa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Jim.
>
> I do realize that the powers may not be accurate, but what's a poor boy to
> do but assume that the stations are running legal power.
>
> However, it is a very legitimate point, so I think my loggings will now
> include the daytime power in parenthesis next to the nighttime power (or
> vice versa for daytime loggings).
>
> By the way, WJJL runs 1 kW during the day, so that is still a nice catch!
>
> And my best catch during my "Dawn Patrol" this winter was KCJJ in Iowa
> City, 950 miles to my west running 1 kW (10 kW). Also caught KXEL a couple
> of times 996 miles away, but they are running 50 kW (50 kW) LOL.
>
> Stan, WA1LOU
>
>
>
> On 3/31/2015 10:43 AM, James Renfrew wrote:
>
>> Welcome, Stan.  Glad to have you on the list.  The night time powers you
>> see listed for those stations MAY or MAY NOT be accurate in actual
>> practice. It leads to considerable discussion on this list whether some
>> stations actually turn down their power at night!   We even see daytime
>> only operations sometimes running at night, usually due to the primary
>> station being on FM, and someone at the station forgetting to turn off the
>> AM at sundown.  Also, at 6:00 AM, some stations have PSSA authorization to
>> run a little more power than at night, but not full day power.  Jim
>> Renfrew, Clarendon NY
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Stan Horzepa <stanzepa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  New to list, joined last week, but have been DXing for awhile (like about
>>> 50 years).
>>>
>>> Tried something new this winter: AM DXing from the car while driving to
>>> work. My daily 35-minute commute is around dawn local time, so the band
>>> can
>>> be very interesting. I use the stock radio and antenna in my 2007 Subaru
>>> Outback Sport and my iPhone to record what I monitor with me annotating
>>> the
>>> times and frequencies by voice.
>>>
>>> I suspected conditions were good this morning when the first thing I
>>> heard
>>> was a French language station (I assume Canadian) interfering with local
>>> WPOP on 1410. So I slid up the band, parked on 1440 for the ride to work,
>>> and logged two new ones: WCDL and WJJL.
>>>
>>> Sports talk station WCDL is located in Carbondale, Pennsylvania,
>>> transmitting 37 watts, 134 miles to my west. Oldies station WJJL is in
>>> Niagara Falls, New York, transmitting 55 watts, 334 to my
>>> north-northwest.
>>> During my commute, the two stations took turns dominating 1440.
>>>
>>> Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
>>> Wolcott, CT
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