Re: [IRCA] If Skywave Protection for Class A's was Ended, Would That be Good for DX'ers or Bad?

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Anything that potentially adds more stations or activates more stations at
night is only going to make interference worse. An individual DX'er may log
a few, and probably will lose more.

I'd probably suggest 500 as opposed to 350 or 700 miles because for some of
the 1A's there is an audience that matters out of the local area. How far
out they are and how this would impact them is probably unknowable.

But adding more watts and/or more stations isn't solving the problem of
having granted too many small stations to begin with.

Russ Edmunds
15 mi NW Phila
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Les Rayburn <les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dennis referenced this article earlier today:
> http://www.radioworld.com/article/kill-the-class-a-
> skywave-protections-now-nabob-urges/280058
>
> Forgetting the impact to the industry or individual radio stations, would
> this be positive or negative for DXâers? Why do you think so?
>
> Personally as someone who has logged less than 700 stations so far with my
> meager efforts, I have mixed emotions. Ending Class A protection might give
> me a better chance to log additional stations on the Clear Channel
> frequencies. For example, Iâve never logged anything on 650 KHz where WSM
> dominates. Likewise WSB, and a couple of others.
>
> But it would also virtually eliminate any chance of my logging some other
> stations that have eluded me so far.
>
> How do others feel?
>
>
>
>
> 73,
>
> Les Rayburn, N1LF
> 121 Mayfair Park
> Maylene, AL
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>
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