WBZ Reception

[Mark Connelly]

Two of the more interesting WBZ airchecks in my collections are these "way out there" receptions made by friends.

Dick Summer "Nightlight" show - OCT 1965. Recorded by Roger Perkins, K1CZH (later W1OJ) on an R-390A receiver on a US Navy ship docked at Midway Island in the Pacific.

http://chowdanet.com/markc/WEB2005A/dx_wbz-1030_heard_from_midway_island_oct1965.mp3

ID, talk about New England Flower Show - 29 FEB 1996. Contributed by Geoff Wolfe - Cooma, Australia 

http://chowdanet.com/markc/WEB2005A/dx_wbz_heard_from_australia_1996-02-29.mp3

I heard WBZ in Ireland on my trip there in 1977 but 850 (then WHDH) had the best signal out of Boston.  (1510 was still 5 kW night then.)  Here's the WHDH recording on a Realistic TRF portable with no external antenna.  I think this was from Sligo.

http://chowdanet.com/markc/dx_audio/WHDH_850_heard_in_Ireland_1977.mp3

Meanwhile, here on Cape Cod at night, WBZ is not bulletproof.  This recent recording shows an Argentinian station "Noticias del Plata" mixing in.  Water directly south of here is a big "conveyor belt" for RF from South America and the Caribbean as anyone who's ever tuned around at night on a car radio near West Dennis Beach can testify.

http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/argentina+wbz-1030_20160903_0100z.mp3

For a load of other AM DX audio clips, see:
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/dx_audio.htm

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

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>From     Paul B. Walker, Jr. <walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com>
Cc     Boston Radio Group <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
Subject     Re: WBZ Reception
Date     Thu, 20 Oct 2016 10:49:51 -0400

I once heard WBZ on a walkman while riding on a greyhound bus around 5pm
one late november afternoon in 2004 somewhere in north carolina.. and it
was pretty darn clear too

Paul

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Dale H. Cook <radiotest@plymouthcolony.net>
wrote:

> At 02:56 PM 10/19/2016, Kevin Vahey wrote:
>
> >The other 50 KW clear that roared into Chicago was WWL 870 New Orleans
> for the same reason WBZ did - directional by choice not mandate.
>
> Neither WBZ nor WWL gets an immense power gain in the major lobe from
> their directional patterns, which are cardioids. WBZ gains to the north,
> west and east because its parameters are close to 90 degree spacing, close
> to 90 degree phase angle, and unity ratio, yielding a single null to the
> east (very close to the classic simplest cardiod). WWL gains to east and
> west, maximizing coverage along the Gulf coast, with two nulls and a minor
> lobe to the south. WBZ has significantly higher power gain towards Chicago
> than WWL.. In both cases one primary reason for the choice of a directional
> antenna system is that fish have neither diaries nor people meters.
>
> Dale H. Cook, Radio Contract Engineer, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
> http://plymouthcolony.net/starcityeng/index.html
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