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- Sun Aug 20, 2023 9:54 pm
- Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
- Topic: FM Antenna Price Inflation and Performance Deflation?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1979
Re: FM Antenna Price Inflation and Performance Deflation?
DIY antennas are my thing. But the price of wire, coax, twinlead, light metal tubing, and various insulators , have gone out of reach with the current economy. I am starting to forget "L in Ft = 468/F in MHz" !
- Sat Aug 19, 2023 2:36 pm
- Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
- Topic: 90% Of World Population Lives Within 6 Miles Of Fresh Water
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1781
Re: 90% Of World Population Lives Within 6 Miles Of Fresh Water
OK so now TV is migrating to UHF due to the deep wisdom of FCC suits ?
- Sat Aug 19, 2023 2:28 pm
- Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
- Topic: WMVP Downgrade
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2249
Re: WMVP Downgrade
Just took a look at RadioLocator and the FCC AM Querry pages, and WMVP has no CP listed for this downgrade ! Must be inside info! I recall when it was WCFL. Drove past the three mismatched towers (not quite in a line) many times when I lived there. I know there is a AMBC transmitter site with (maybe...
- Sun Aug 13, 2023 2:12 pm
- Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
- Topic: TV AMP
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2192
Re: TV AMP
I would try a bigger and higher antenna before investing in a preamp. A preamp may be best for overcoming the losses of an extra long coax line from ant to TV. Like a circuitous routing for a Coax cable thru the house , before it gets to the TV receiver. An other example, when I moved to the far sub...
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 11:58 am
- Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
- Topic: Hum in am signal
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2308
Re: Hum in am signal
I have worked with remote controlled Two Way Radio base stations with telco links for 4 decades+ and even a high resistance leakage on one side of a DC pair can induce hum into the audio. A "split pair" with one wire from one twisted pair in a cable, to the other wire from a different pair connected...
- Wed Jul 19, 2023 6:53 pm
- Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
- Topic: AM Radio might have 10 more years
- Replies: 44
- Views: 8680
Re: AM Radio might have 10 more years
When I tune in a noisy signal I just listen harder It may be DX!
- Wed Jul 19, 2023 6:47 pm
- Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
- Topic: Another antenna question
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2021
Re: Another antenna question
I hear the AM pretty well on my Amateur radio recievers with a 250 ft Dipole but I was looking for some FMHD reception as welll with a JVC aftermarket auto radio . Just hoping to get away from the noise on AM. The high Z input for a car radio, on the AM side, is a problem. 50 or 75 Ohm coax feedline...
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 8:00 pm
- Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
- Topic: 910 WFDF
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2567
Re: 910 WFDF
I got an earfull of Chicago radio history from some Radio folks I met there and worked with at WOPA. (WOPA is now history)
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 7:52 pm
- Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
- Topic: 910 WFDF
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2567
Re: 910 WFDF
OK finally fouund the third AM site, a mile west of Dort, down Bristol Rd. Looks all dug up where the towers once were , forgot that it was WTRX having the site right off Dort Hiway, with two short and one tall tower. !
Getting old and forgetting stuff
Your info is Gold !
Getting old and forgetting stuff
Your info is Gold !
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 6:59 pm
- Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
- Topic: 910 WFDF
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2567
Re: 910 WFDF
Recalling Flint AM Stations The tall tower of the three seems to have an FMBC antenna on top now. Pretty sure it's been there a while... I Get up that way now and then and can still see the tall and two short towers. OK.... I now recall the towers right at Dort hiway were WFNT 1470 and the three to...
- Fri Jul 14, 2023 6:39 pm
- Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
- Topic: Another antenna question
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2021
Another antenna question
I have been considering running more coax to get my AM/FM 36 " auto antenna away from the house and noise on AM. Currently it uses the incorperated high Z (maybe 90+ Ohms) Shieded fine wire coax and a 12 ft extension coax made for the auto radio design.. I was thinking of using some Cable TV grade R...
- Sun Jul 09, 2023 2:29 pm
- Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
- Topic: CKSY completely wiping out Royal Oak Twp translator at 94.3
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1900
Re: CKSY completely wiping out Royal Oak Twp translator at 94.3
I’m spending the weekend at the family cottage outside of Lexington. The WBTI stick is less than 2 miles from me, so it usually booms in. But last night, it was struggling and fading in and out. Something was making its way in but I couldn’t identify it. This morning I did a bandscan on my Eton Min...
- Sun Jul 09, 2023 2:27 pm
- Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
- Topic: CKSY completely wiping out Royal Oak Twp translator at 94.3
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1900
Re: CKSY completely wiping out Royal Oak Twp translator at 94.3
W232CA is listed as 99 Watts but up 899 Ft agl. Signal probably flies over your head
- Fri Jun 30, 2023 7:56 pm
- Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
- Topic: AM Radio might have 10 more years
- Replies: 44
- Views: 8680
Re: AM Radio might have 10 more years
I listen for bad signals and DX
- Fri Jun 30, 2023 7:31 pm
- Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
- Topic: Seven tower array
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2162
Re: Seven tower array
WTKA is far enough from any major road , it's difficult to spot.
I see 4 towers at WTKA
I see 4 towers at WTKA