Re: [IRCA] antenna performance and snow

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Craig Healy <bubba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> *** My experience here is that when either of the above conditions
> prevail, the mixing products from the stronger locals are
> intensified.
> Those I can usually hear become more pronounced, and some I only hear
> under such conditions. Since this is based on either indoor loops or
> car radio whips, the effect comes either from the transmitter
> location
> or some other remote location.
> 
> -=-=-=-
> Wonder if that is from the water creating virtual mixing diodes out
> of some metal to metal junctions?  Aluminum downspouts, metal fences
> and the like.  I can't say as I have ever noticed that around here.
> 


*** Certainly a probability. I used to notice the same thing in
Northern NJ - it's just that there were far more of them up there on a
usual basis due to multiple 50 kw'ers.



Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
AM: Hammarlund HQ-150 & 4' FET air core loop


 
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