Re: NERW 1/7 (WPTR/WDCD)

["Douglas J. Broda" <djbroda@mindspring.com>]

Returning from the ozone (after an illness) to say....

Tonight between 7:30 and 8 in Troy/Watervliet/Menands, 1540 has CHIN and
what I believe to be KXEL stepping all over each other, with CHIN doing
marginally better.

Also noticed: In front of my home in Troy, WCKL 560 Catskill was clear and
seemed decent strength at 8 PM. Should its 43 watt lightbulb power do that
well? (I also heard a Spanish-language station at 530 very clearly. Any
idea what this might be? Cuba? Maybe they were booming to the north to
curse Dan Burton?)

One other oddity was a female religious vocal singing, in English, at 1640.
Could that be WKSH in Sussex WI, this far away?

At 10:48 AM 1/9/00 -0500, Dan Strassberg wrote:
>No, CHIN is directionalized northward, to protect KXEL, ZNS, and WPTR. Last
>night, for the first time since WPTR signed on in the late 40s, I picked up
>KXEL, not strong, but clear as a bell. Imagine, it's been over 50 years
>since I last heard KXEL! (Back then, my QTH was in the Bronx.) KXEL comes in
>just as well on my Super Radio III as it did on the big Stromberg-Carlson
>console (the one with the 4-lb magnet in the phono pickup) in my parents'
>living room.
>