Re: [IRCA] TA season

["Bill Harms" <wharms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pat:

I bet you are right.  I was able to hear DU/TP's in Utah as the west 
was wide open and the mountains were to the East. At one point I also 
heard every station in California and Nevada, but hearing every 
station in Colorado was problematic.  I could hear Colorado better 
once I got up into the mountains with my beverages.  Your experience 
with Bill Block lends credence to the hypothesis that the final (and 
intitial?) path of the signal is the most important part because the 
rest of the time, the signal is in the ionosphere and not blocked by 
anything, except the overall conditions. The same effect is noted 
when you compare signal strengths between the seashore and locations 
further inland.

Bill Harms

On 5 Aug 2006 at 22:48, Patrick Martin wrote:

> George,
> 
> You are right with that. The mountains do make a big difference. Back in
> the 60s/70s when the dial was pretty clear on MM, I remember Bill Block,
> then living in Portland, used to hear more Eastern stuff than I did and he
> was using a loop. I had a 600 foot longwire. Between here and the Midwest,
> there is the Coast Range, between me and Portland, then, the Cascades East
> of Portland, onto the Rocky Mountains. So alot of mountains to get a
> signal through. If it was flat between here and the Midwest, the 1500'
> beverage would probably overload the receiver. hi.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Patrick



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