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Old August 8th 10, 08:09 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
VegasNightOwl VegasNightOwl is offline
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Default MW DXers. WWVA is down. Pix.


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dxAce wrote:

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On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:52:39 -0400, Drifter wrote:

On 8/5/2010 1:44 PM, dave wrote:
Drifter wrote:
Just an FYI for all you MW DX people out there.

WWVA, out of Wheeling WV. towers went down in

Wednesdays storm. they are right now on another

freq. so, 1.170 was wide open last night, for anyone

in their area. I caught 4 new-to-me id s last night

on this freq. I'm east of Pittsburgh, and they weren't

that strong here, but, it's wide open right now for

DXERs in their area.

enjoy.
Drifter...


Bummer. You're in the skip zone, they normally have a good signal on
the
East Coast.

http://fccinfo.com/CMDProEngine.php?...08625&sHours=N





http://www.wwva.com/cc-common/mainhe...rticle=7439986

from their home page. i see they still call themselves "the big one".
wonder what the guys on 700, out of Cinci, think about that?

Drifter...

Monitoring 1170 with the Perseus. Looks like there is an IBOC sideband
from 1165 to 1170. Checked - it is WHAM-HD on 1180 covering 1165-1195
in Rochester, NY. So if you hear digital hash on 1170 thats where its
coming from.


Sure can here the hash here! What I hear in sporadic checks is a station
playing oldies.


The oldies station is WFDL, Waupun, WI. Operating with 1000 watts daytime
and a PSRA of 9 watts. I think I may
have heard them with the 9 watts.

Have to do further checking and maybe send 'em a report. Not that terribly
far away, but still interesting at
that power.




If you copied them at 9 watts it's worth sending a report because with all
of the IBOC hash and interference copying such a station would be a
challange, even if fairly close.


VegasNightOwl