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4:45 Hi Loyd, Interesting that you could hear Haiti. I never heard them while in Virginia. Out here in the radio dead zone known as central Oregon, hearing anything is counted as a success. I won't even get into the massive amount of QRM. My question that I am curious about, could you have heard Haiti using the SDR# Co-channel plugin that you discussed in another great video? I would be interested how that test would play out. I know you are in LA and not SC now. Just any thoughts would be interesting. I do have a Time Wave ANC-4,but have never had any luck with it. Is it supposed work like the MFJ in your video? Since MFJ is gone, any recommendation for a specific model? Your videos are fantastic. Thanks so much for having them available. Regards, George, NJ3H Redmond, Oregon USA
Thanks, Loyd! Question--I'm still getting used to this feature. Should I tune for a null on the dominant station first, or max its signal before engaging the AM canceller?
I will say that it is harder for the CCC to cancel out weaker signals than a strong one. You may want to test it out and see if there is enough of the signal left after nulling to be able to get rid of the rest of it with the CCC. If not, that is where I would recommend adding more of the signal back in for it to 'grab' a hold of and be able to cancel.
I had a weather forecast and news headlines from CBC 740 Toronto I recorded on a cassette tape in the spring of 1991 I believe from regular AM radio. It was a clear cool spring night and the man reading the weather had a very British accent like this, and the man reading the news was named Ralph something. Sadly I believe I lost that tape years ago.
Great video. WNIS (formerly WTAR and always will be as far as Im concerned) always had a great signal from their 4 towers in Hampton. Signal shoots kind of SW and Im not surprised you got it as well as you did. I worked at 790 for a short time in 1989. Very cool, historic station!
Wonderful work, Loyd - thank you!!! It's nice to know my loggings (however minuscule!) from the Radio Hacienda are included in the FM List data you used for your analysis. Now, if you can just use this to send some better conditions to the low desert, that would be fantastic! 😁 One other thought: imagine what this data/analysis would look like for EUROPE!!!!
It is a fantastic resource! Combines a station list, a logger, a mapping tool, gives you distance and bearing from your location, provides alerts from Sporadic Es openings.....a must-use for FM DX!
I love DX reception and communicating with others. About 2 weeks ago, I was able to talk to a ham in Georgia from my location Northwest of Fort Worth Texas. And this was all on VHF with a really great band opening that morning. It's a blast searching for those new, far off signals and confirming them! Brian in Fort Worth
three things: 1.) the "Radio Sol" which is their slogan per FMlist and WTFDA, 2.) the RDS PI code decode of E486 which matches their PI Code at FMlist, 3.) they did say the call letters in there, it was in a fade but heard the definite "O - ellay FM" in a fade up and with the other two pieces it was a cinch!
Excellent video. Thank you. 🤝 I am exploring remote field stations deep in the South America jungles. As you mentioned your father and mother, I also prefer searching for the small, low powered, stations. Hope to make those contacts some day.
i am in the process of uploading about 130 airchecks from that opening and doing an in-depth analysis of the data. Roughly 391 stations heard during the opening, 360 of which were new logs. I do a mixture of autologging from RDS decodes, live DX during the opening and then recording the entire band for later review and extraction of every station I possibly can.
Nice! I thought about doing something similar for my area. I like hearing the different ways they pronounce New Orleans lol. Also does 90.9 KSLU not come in at your location? I figured WWOZ HD wipes them out unfortunately.
WWOZ definitely wipes out 90.7 most times. It takes a really strong Es or Tropo opening to get me anything on any of the HD side channels here......and there are a ton! It looks like a lot of open spots on the band, but most of those are HD and are super strong.
@@DXCentral I feel you there. Houston has a ton of HD signals. Thankfully being 40+ miles away from the tower farm I can sometimes get some good tropos or skip over the HD. Especially in the right spot
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I can’t love this enough, Loyd! I will be praying to the surrounding mountains to please let tropo and Eskip bounce over them and land in the Radio Hacienda! 🙏
I definitely thought about it. It is hard to do an. FM challenge though. It is completely dependent on where the openings are. I’m going to get more Tropo than folks outside of the gulf coast, folks out west sometimes get fewer Es openings. It is just so hit or miss makes a challenge difficultm
