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December 24th 03, 03:26 AM

TommyBoy wrote:

(Bob) wrote in message
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Reception has been crappy lately up here in British Columbia. It
hasn't been up to much for quite a few months with the exception of
the odd decent day.
Bob

That's been my impression here in the PNW too. I've been expecting
lots of fine and tiny stations in the winter on my recently purchased
(summer) R75, but this really hasn't been the case. Except for some
5-10 kw stations in Brazil I haven't got good copy from anything but
the more powerful broadcasters. I've been waiting and waiting for the
domestic Papua New Guinea stations to make an appearance but so far no
joy. In the past my Sony 2010 captured the Aussie Alice Springs and
her sisters but I'm also waiting for them to become available as well.

North Korea was easy but recently is quite tough. Ditto for RHC
Havana--- and I think they may be having transmitter issues on top of
it all.

Oh well.

That's weird. I settled in for some nice tropical band listening last
night around 0230 and all I heard was this loud hum. It was everywhere,
it even wiped out WWCR on 3210. Nothing in the house is causing it. My
neighbor has what I think is a mercury vapor light on all night, could
that be it?