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Old May 25th 09, 09:39 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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David Eduardo wrote:

"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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I don't know what
sort of oddball signal black hole you have there, but in the rest of the
real world, low power does work.


No, it does not. In evaluations of the listening of several million Arbitron
diary keepers, where listening locations were identified by ZIP code, less
than 5% of the listening time was outside the 54 dbu contour. Most, 85% was
inside the 70 dbu. Interestingly, this matches the reception characteristics
of most consumer grade radios.

Your anecdotal evidence is amusing, but there is no data you provided that
shows that anyone even listens to these facilities at the distance you
mention. We all have such experiences... I got the exciter of one of my
transmitters in Ecuador (located about 3000 feet above Quito) nearly 200 km
away on a friend's hacienda; unfortunately, the fact that only the exciter
was on made for a long drive back to the city and up the hill.


You had no transmitters.