Wow! WESX Really Gets Out!!! P=)

[markwa1ion@aol.com]

Being on the ocean gives WESX a big boost.  Its Radio Locator coverage 
map at 
<http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WESX&service=AM&status=L&h
ours=U> shows this effect: quite dramatic for a "non-directional" 
station.

WCMC in Wildwood, NJ has a similarly advantageous shore location.  In 
Chatham on the Cape, it's a dogfight on 1230 between these two during 
the day.

Tests I have run (with a special mobile set-up including a Drake R8A 
receiver) indicate that "coming the other way" European and North 
African AM stations are about 20 dB stronger at seaside sites such as 
Granite Pier in Rockport and Powder Point in Duxbury than here at home 
in Billerica near the Burlington line, about 15 miles inland from 
Salem, Lynn, etc.

If you're curious about what gets across from the Old World to this 
side of the pond,  check 
<http://home.comcast.net/~dx_lab/dx_clams_2005.htm> for a sampling.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION - Billerica, MA

<<
 From the SpaceWeather Man (Jan Alvestad) at http://www.dxlc.com/solar 
over in Norway,

> Monitoring remarks from a location near N58E06: September 11:
> Propagation was best to the northeastern USA and to Cuba. In
> particular New Hampshire was favored with occasionally excellent
> signals from 1250 WKBR, 1270 WTSN and 1290 WKBK. 1230 kHz had WESX
> and WCMC as the dominant signals.

He frequently notes 1.510-WWZN, but itty-bitty local 1.230-WESX?!?!!

  ~Kaimbridge~
>>
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