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- Sun Jan 24, 2021 10:50 am
- Forum: Political Potpourri - U.S. and World
- Topic: The MAGA Party
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2182
Re: The MAGA Party
I think we also need a separate political party for the former Democrats (because the Party really isn't Democatic) who are not insane, Democrats Who Are Still Sane, that would balance things out.
- Sun Jul 14, 2019 9:32 pm
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Review: Cheap $17 portable radio with 7-band SW from Menards; how well does it work?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6949
Re: Review: Cheap $17 portable radio with 7-band SW from Menards; how well does it work?
For a while, Sony and Panasonic were putting the same chips in several levels and price ranges of radios, like the Sony Shower Radio, which outperformed much more expensive radios on AM. Not sure what the FM problem was, but it could have been antenna related.
- Sun Jul 14, 2019 2:41 pm
- Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
- Topic: I'm stumped
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1495
Re: I'm stumped
Tropo favors certain distances and directions, usually. It's like you have a radio mirror at a certain direction and midpoint. Think what you could see with an optical mirror in the same place. There may be a larger or smaller mirror or more than one in different directions and midpoints.
- Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:54 pm
- Forum: Everywhere Else
- Topic: Lexington KY radio
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2088
Re: Lexington KY radio
Have you seen that self supporting 3 tower inline array yet? It’s the 1300. I think WVLK and WLAP are 4 tower parallelograms.
- Sat Jul 06, 2019 8:18 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: The atrocity known as AM HD radio
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8290
Re: The atrocity known as AM HD radio
When the signal has to cut across the Northwestern part of Detroit, it affects the WFDF signal. WWJ cuts through the river bed delta areas more, next to the Detroit River. I suspect that besides the pattern and the different locations, that explains it. Because if you go straight North, the signals ...
- Sat Jul 06, 2019 7:16 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: The atrocity known as AM HD radio
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8290
Re: The atrocity known as AM HD radio
When WFDF runs the full 50000 watts, I have heard them neck and neck with WWJ in HD, all the way to Sterling, MI on I-75. I’ve heard it goes even further on US-23 on Lake Huron. I get the impression that the newer 50000 watt transmitters have a lot of issues. WWJ has two, so it’s not as much of a pr...
- Sat May 25, 2019 9:16 am
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: WFDF Is Ninety Seven Today, Belated WJR Ninety Seventh! WWJ 100th Next Year!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1206
WFDF Is Ninety Seven Today, Belated WJR Ninety Seventh! WWJ 100th Next Year!
WFDF is 97 today. It signed on May 25, 1922. WJR turned 97 on May 4. I hear that WWJ is planning a big party next year for its 100th Anniversary. I remember watching VP/GM Don DeGroot MC on WWJ-TV 4 for the 50th Anniversary in 1970. DeGroot started at WFDF as a teenager circa 1931.
- Sun May 05, 2019 12:19 pm
- Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
- Topic: Picture Of Two Old Self Supporting Towers On Drudge
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1787
- Fri May 03, 2019 7:33 pm
- Forum: Grand Rapids/West Michigan
- Topic: WLAV Tower Relocation - new update 7/29
- Replies: 98
- Views: 33654
Re: WLAV Tower Relocation
CMU doesn't need a higher power translator in Sterling.
- Wed May 01, 2019 8:35 am
- Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
- Topic: We're Ahead Of The Curve Again On TV Antennas!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3101
We're Ahead Of The Curve Again On TV Antennas!
TV Antennas are the latest thing for young adults as well as older Americans. Next rage will be the resurgence of landlines. Vacuum tubes are still very much alive and hot in guitar amplifiers, and Russian avionics. Spooks are using typewriters and snail mail for secret communications. What's next? ...
- Mon Apr 08, 2019 3:45 am
- Forum: Lansing/Mid-Michigan
- Topic: Fm translators
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8580
Re: Fm translators
Remember listening at WVIC 730 as a kid....had a nice top 40 format and a great daytime signal In the History Card for WVIC...WVFN, it shows that WGN objected to the application for 730. Not may details, so I don’t know how it was resolved. WITL 1010 was close to WCFL...WMVP overlap also. But the h...
- Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:00 am
- Forum: Lansing/Mid-Michigan
- Topic: Fm translators
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8580
Re: Fm translators
It's had to keep track of all the changes. Some of those translator applications go that far back, to when they were coowned.
- Sun Apr 07, 2019 12:29 pm
- Forum: Lansing/Mid-Michigan
- Topic: Fm translators
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8580
Re: Fm translators
They’re working on a rebuild at KAAY, so they’re spending money. They just finished the WJRW build out.
- Fri Mar 29, 2019 5:03 pm
- Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
- Topic: Most distant AM/FM/TV signal you ever tuned in?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 20374
Re: Most distant AM/FM/TV signal you ever tuned in?
Most of us were introduced to Crystal Set DX by accident. Usually it happens with the 8-16 years old experimenter who has received or built a crystal type set. We should have realized that AM BC DX was possible when the "Voice Of America signing off from Greenville, North Carolina" started coming th...
- Wed Mar 27, 2019 11:31 pm
- Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
- Topic: Most distant AM/FM/TV signal you ever tuned in?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 20374
Re: Most distant AM/FM/TV signal you ever tuned in?
WNOB 107.9, now WENZ, was my very FIRST true DX log on FM. But nowhere near the furthest. Growing up in Central Genesee County, there were few local FMs at the time, but a lot from Detroit Birmingham Dearborn Windsor, Lansing East Lansing, and Saginaw Bay City Midland, and other towns in between, La...