Re: [IRCA] New to list

[James Renfrew <jim.renfrew@xxxxxxxxx>]

Welcome, Stan.  Glad to have you on the list.  The night time powers you
see listed for those stations MAY or MAY NOT be accurate in actual
practice. It leads to considerable discussion on this list whether some
stations actually turn down their power at night!   We even see daytime
only operations sometimes running at night, usually due to the primary
station being on FM, and someone at the station forgetting to turn off the
AM at sundown.  Also, at 6:00 AM, some stations have PSSA authorization to
run a little more power than at night, but not full day power.  Jim
Renfrew, Clarendon NY

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Stan Horzepa <stanzepa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> New to list, joined last week, but have been DXing for awhile (like about
> 50 years).
>
> Tried something new this winter: AM DXing from the car while driving to
> work. My daily 35-minute commute is around dawn local time, so the band can
> be very interesting. I use the stock radio and antenna in my 2007 Subaru
> Outback Sport and my iPhone to record what I monitor with me annotating the
> times and frequencies by voice.
>
> I suspected conditions were good this morning when the first thing I heard
> was a French language station (I assume Canadian) interfering with local
> WPOP on 1410. So I slid up the band, parked on 1440 for the ride to work,
> and logged two new ones: WCDL and WJJL.
>
> Sports talk station WCDL is located in Carbondale, Pennsylvania,
> transmitting 37 watts, 134 miles to my west. Oldies station WJJL is in
> Niagara Falls, New York, transmitting 55 watts, 334 to my north-northwest.
> During my commute, the two stations took turns dominating 1440.
>
> Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
> Wolcott, CT
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