Last week’s Surfin’ inspired readers to tell about listening to distant AM radio stations as written up in this week’s Surfin’. After you read Surfin’, you can leave your comments here.
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The band is open up and down the East Coast this morning. So far, the most distant station heard directly* by my APRS digi station is WB4YNF-4 in Ahoskie, NC, over a 422-mile 211° path.
* Directly meaning station-to-station and not via any repeaters
This morning, my APRS digi station is receiving many stations directly from along the Northeast coast. W4CAR in Chesapeake, VA, a 382-mile 208° path, is the most distant so far.
Hot summer nights listening to distant AM radio stations inspired this week’s Surfin’. After you read Surfin’, you can leave your comments here.
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Same conditions this morning as yesterday morning with my APRS digi station receiving N1YHR-15 in Bourne, MA (on Cape Cod), directly at 10:52 Z over a 122-mile 86° path. This path to Cape Cod is open here on many summer mornings.
My APRS digi station received N1YHR-15 in Bourne, MA (on Cape Cod), directly at 12:33 Z today over a 122-mile 86° path.
In this week’s Surfin’, you can go to the ARRL National Convention by means of the Internet. After you read Surfin’, you can leave your comments here.
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I’m on the road this week. Tonight, I’m in a Ramada Inn in State College, PA.
Around 2030 EDST, I went to my car to get something. I turned on the car radio and dialed up WTIC-AM on 1080 kHz to see if I could catch some of tonight’s Red Sox game.
I was impressed on how well I was able to receive the broadcast over 300 miles away. The signal was very clear and I could listen to it all night if I wasn’t tired of sitting in my car half the day today driving here.
Usually, I listen to WTIC only ten miles away from its transmitter, so it is interesting to hear something familiar as DX.
Did I ever mention the time I listened to a Red Sox game on WTIC, while sitting in my car in a hotel parking lot in Orlando, Florida, 1200 miles away as the crow flies down I-95? Now, that was a challenge!
My APRS digi station received N3NRI-2 on Tuscarora Summit, PA, directly at 08:08 EDST today over a 290-mile 247° path.
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