--- Begin Message ---
- Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] TWR Bonaire "Power Up Project"
- From: Mark Connelly <markwa1ion@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:09:45 -0400
- Delivered-to: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mx.aol.com; s=20140625; t=1429186186; bh=wnY8CMjSpcMPSPGly8EzYSNP7nrqijOoAOSNyDN+p1U=; h=From:To:Subject:Message-Id:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=TSQhcxwM4v+/bmId3rQZT4qkkb581S+pokyfH/xXe+T2md/SWW6/3b2ocVs3UNgmQ 0Is1AOYq1tEVtnkuXOvezHzrCjlXnQf6BBOqY0AkMYk6mxlZGgQZ84VPG0GQXaKp/1 r0EZb9fiZiTpxHSUfHBTLNCG/EvNBfcEt7f9WnIs=
Even at the current lower power, PJB is a regular here on Cape Cod, often topping 800, as noted in this recent recording of one of their Spanish broadcasts as "Radio TransMundial":
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/pjb-800_20150320_0330z.mp3
Of course a nearly total over-water route helps.
I remember hearing PJB in 1986 on a Sony Walkman on a night flight from Dallas-Fort Worth to El Paso, TX. Ten minutes after taking off from the DFW airport, I noted something slopping over onto WBAP 820. Even that close to WBAP, the slop source, which turned out to be PJB 800, was stronger than 820. Right on 800, XEROK was way way under, even though only about 300 miles away versus something like 2000 miles for PJB.
Given that much clout at that kind of distance, I have no doubt that PJB was making it to New Zealand.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA
<<
We had this plan some months ago in DX
Listening Digest.
So does this cause any concern now among US or Canadian
regulators? Does TWR have to do anything with NARBA or just go for it? Of maybe
that`s why it`s `only` 450 kW?
WRTH shows no Cubans or Brazilians on 800, but
there are several stations now in most other S American countries, the DR but
nowhere else in Caribbean; in most Central American countries, numerous
Mexicans.
73, Glenn
Hauser
--------------------------------------------
On Thu, 4/16/15, Bob
Galerstein <bobgale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] TWR Bonaire
"Power Up Project"
To: am@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, April 16, 2015, 4:07
AM
Correct my memory if
necessary, but didn't PJB-800 have to power down
from 500k because of a (potential) shortage of
electricity on Bonaire
needed to power the
500k transmitter?
Bob
Galerstein WB2VGD
Monroe,
NY
On 4/15/2015 11:00 PM, Stewart, Joseph R
wrote:
> I honestly can't
recall
seeing this anywhere but on TWR's own website
(http://www.twr.org/powerup)...
they're trying to raise $3.8 million to boost
power on
PJB Bonaire-800 kHz from the current 100kW up to 450kW (just
short
of the 500kW they used from sign-on in 1964 into,
what, sometime in the
1990s?). No idea why they aren't
going for the last 50,000 watts that would
get it back up to
the original 500kW level.? There's a video on the site
that shows proposed directional patterns for the new tx--the
"north" beam will
be farther west than currently,
basically beamed right at Cuba, the Yucatan
peninsula,
northern Mexico and up into the western U.S. The south
pattern
would blanket all of Venezuela and Guyana, the
eastern half of Colombia, the
western half of Surinam, and
the extreme north of Brazil.? There will also be
a ND
"Caribbean" pattern at some time during their
broadcast day (or rather,
night).? Despite the tweaking of
the DA pattern--and the large amount of
competition on the
>???frequency--presumably the
power increase will make it
an easier target for North
American DXers once again.? I don't think I've
conclusively logged PJB here in Missouri since they cut
power. Before that of
course it was a nightly regular for
many years.
> Randy Stewart
>
Battlefield MO
>>
--- End Message ---