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WSM 650
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Re: WSM 650
Skywave service is not perfectly reliable. On the best paths (and Central Tennessee to Southeast Michigan is a pretty good one), I guess it's about 95% of nights will have propagation. with fade outs and fade ins, of course.
I did hear there was a coronal mass ejection recently
I did hear there was a coronal mass ejection recently
Re: WSM 650
I have a friend that is at KENI in Anchorage, and about 5 years ago KENI had shut down for Technical Maintenance one night and my friend claimed that he was able to get WSM for about 2 hours is that possible?
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Re: WSM 650
Skywave service is not perfectly reliable. On the best paths (and Central Tennessee to Southeast Michigan is a pretty good one), I guess it's about 95% of nights will have propagation. with fade outs and fade ins, of course.
I did hear there was a coronal mass ejection recently, but I don't know if was related to your outage.
About 15 years ago, I had been watching TV with my in-laws. An ad for a credit card was using the Grand Ole Opry as a setting, and my mother-in-law (Kentucky born), turned to my father-in-law and said "remember the Grand Ole Opry?"
I told her she could still listen to it. She answered "You used to could" (love that!).
So, I set out to show her she could still get the G.O.O. from WSM, by turning on a radio, only to find Bogota, Colombia alone on 650!
I did hear there was a coronal mass ejection recently, but I don't know if was related to your outage.
About 15 years ago, I had been watching TV with my in-laws. An ad for a credit card was using the Grand Ole Opry as a setting, and my mother-in-law (Kentucky born), turned to my father-in-law and said "remember the Grand Ole Opry?"
I told her she could still listen to it. She answered "You used to could" (love that!).
So, I set out to show her she could still get the G.O.O. from WSM, by turning on a radio, only to find Bogota, Colombia alone on 650!
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Wow! that’s pretty cool, just curious if the DXer’s in Alaska have good catches with the longer hours of darkness in the Winter, just how the hell does that work, and what about stations on Critical Hour patterns.
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Re: WSM 650
using my F150 2006 Ford truck radio and Sangean ATS 405
Here in Fairbanks, 365 miles north of Anchorage in interior, my best catch is 1530 KFBK Sacramento..
1330 has boomed in mornings from Juneau some 600 miles away
local 820 makes it hard to get 810 KGO San Francisco
Surprised Seattle or Vancouver BC doesn't make it here with skywave
550/590/700/750/1080/1110 out of Anchorage area
620 Homer/680 Barrow/770 Valdez/790 Glennallen/890 Homer/920 Soldotna/1140 Soldotna
love to DX
Here in Fairbanks, 365 miles north of Anchorage in interior, my best catch is 1530 KFBK Sacramento..
1330 has boomed in mornings from Juneau some 600 miles away
local 820 makes it hard to get 810 KGO San Francisco
Surprised Seattle or Vancouver BC doesn't make it here with skywave
550/590/700/750/1080/1110 out of Anchorage area
620 Homer/680 Barrow/770 Valdez/790 Glennallen/890 Homer/920 Soldotna/1140 Soldotna
love to DX
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Re: WSM 650
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Last edited by Arthur Mometer on Sun Dec 30, 2018 9:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.
"I'm meteorologist Arthur Mometer."
"Those of you who think you know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."
"Lies have to be repeated and repeated to be believed. Truth stands on its own merit."
"Those of you who think you know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."
"Lies have to be repeated and repeated to be believed. Truth stands on its own merit."
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Re: WSM 650
Can you get KBHR 580 K-Bear there since the "Upgrade"?
I swear I think they got Chris Stevens character name from Kris Eric Stevens. One was from the 906 Area Code, the other from the 907 Area Code. Both Frozen Tundra. Ever hear of Peter Kott and Bernard Rosenberg there in Alaska? They went to my HS a few years before me.
I swear I think they got Chris Stevens character name from Kris Eric Stevens. One was from the 906 Area Code, the other from the 907 Area Code. Both Frozen Tundra. Ever hear of Peter Kott and Bernard Rosenberg there in Alaska? They went to my HS a few years before me.
"I'm meteorologist Arthur Mometer."
"Those of you who think you know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."
"Lies have to be repeated and repeated to be believed. Truth stands on its own merit."
"Those of you who think you know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."
"Lies have to be repeated and repeated to be believed. Truth stands on its own merit."
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Re: WSM 650
Funny coincidence, I mentioned KFQD on another thread this evening (wondering if it is the source of white noise in the after midnight hours affecting CFZM 740 Toronto).fairbankshockeypuck wrote: ↑Sun Dec 30, 2018 9:04 pmusing my F150 2006 Ford truck radio and Sangean ATS 405
Here in Fairbanks, 365 miles north of Anchorage in interior, my best catch is 1530 KFBK Sacramento..
1330 has boomed in mornings from Juneau some 600 miles away
local 820 makes it hard to get 810 KGO San Francisco
Surprised Seattle or Vancouver BC doesn't make it here with skywave
550/590/700/750/1080/1110 out of Anchorage area
620 Homer/680 Barrow/770 Valdez/790 Glennallen/890 Homer/920 Soldotna/1140 Soldotna
love to DX
Does KFQD use IBOC (AKA HD radio) at night?
Re: WSM 650
WSM took a big lightening hit last week. Repairs underway.