[IRCA] WAPA 680 Puerto Rico blasting over local WRKO

[Mark Connelly via IRCA <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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• Subject: WAPA 680 Puerto Rico blasting over local WRKO
• From: Mark Connelly <markwa1ion@xxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 12:49:47 -0400
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Last night WAPA San Juan, Puerto Rico was booming in on 680, clobbering 50 kW WRKO Boston.  The WRKO transmitter site (Burlington, MA) is 76 miles (123 km) from here and I'm in its main beam southeast so ERP this way is at least 100 kW.  But WAPA at something like 20 times the distance was hammering it.


Combination of SuperLoop nulling northward and salt water about 2 miles away heading south no doubt contributed to this.


Audio (UTC 25 MAR @ 0200):
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/wapa_pr_o_wrko-680_20160325_0200z.mp3


Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA

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