Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] 594 India into central USA?

[Sudipta Ghose <oneghose@xxxxxxxxx>]

The 3x400kW transmitter of AIR Maitri uses directional antenna pointed
towards East. The configuration is generally 2x350kW using a combiner. In
very favourable situation it is likelyto propagate to Pacific as my fertile
brain imagines.
73 de Sudipta Ghose VU2UT

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 12:40 AM, Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The main reasons I discounted it were 1) I never heard any easy splits from
> there with that setup; 2) when
> I subsequently relocated another 10-12 miles west, and upgraded to an
> HQ-150 ( dual conversion ) and a
> loop, I did start to hear TA's for real, but it was several months before I
> had any on 1 kHz splits; 3) as I got
> used to the new receiver, I came to realize just how many images and mixing
> products of all kinds the HQ-100
> actually produced.
>
> I did eventually hear Saar on 1421 a year or so later.
>
>
>
> Russ Edmunds
> 15 mi NW Phila
> Grid FN20id
> <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> AM: Modified Sony ICF2010's (2) barefoot w/whip
> FM: Yamaha T-80 & T-85, each w/ Conrad RDS Decoder;
> Onkyo T-450RDS; Tecsun PL-310 ( 2);
> modified Sony ICF2010 w/APS9B @ 15';
> Grundig G8 w/whip; modified Sony ICF2010 w/whip
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:07 PM, R. Colin Newell <coffeecanuck@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > I think it may have been likely that it was indeed Germany on 1421 --
> >
> > Because TA's came thick and fast on many more basic radios - often with
> > little more than the loop-stick for an antenna.
> >
> > I once told an aspiring dxer near Halifax that he could easily hear the
> UK
> > on his Sony 7600G --
> > He thought that was impossible -- and I suggested tuning to 1215Khz or
> > 1089Khz around sun-set any day of the week in September...
> > Sure enough, there it was.
> >
> > One part of the success formula for DXing is actually believing that it
> is
> > possible.
> > I picked up a copy of Communications World in 1973 that had a feature in
> > Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific MW DX.
> > It blew my mind - but I set about to be the best TP and TA dxer I
> possible
> > could...
> > And eventually I was hearing TA's and TP's on DX150B with a 3 X 3 '
> > home-brew loop.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I remember way back in 1969, living in Northern NJ, using a Hammarlund
> > > HQ-100 ( single conversion ) and a
> > > short wire antenna from about 30 miles west of NYC. Tuning around one
> > > evening I noted a het on 1421. I played with it a bit and got audio. In
> > > German. Back then Saar was on 1421. Thought I had my first TA.  In a
> > > roundabout way, I did, because it was almost certainly some sort of an
> > > image from SW. What are the odds ???
> > >
> > > Russ Edmunds
> > > 15 mi NW Phila
> > > Grid FN20id
> > > <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > >
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