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[rfoxwor1 at tampabay.rr.com]

Jim K9YC posted a message at 1337 LT on 5 November about "very deep QSB"
on the TX3A signal, and I remembered the attached message that showed up
just about 2 days ago on the IRCA reflector (a Mediumwave BC DX list,
I think that Tree recently joined IRCA, but maybe just the print version)

Anyway there seems to be a lot of similarity between what Karl describes
on MW and what is being heard on 160, except this is on local signals.
I wanted to share this here.

And as well I am hearing, sometimes, this kind of fading as high as on 40
meters, which I haven't noticed before now.

Hope this is not too far off-topic. Any thoughts here? Anyone hear this
effect on 160m local signals?

73 Bob


>OK. This may be completely psychological, but it is unnerving. 
>At the risk of sounding like a Coast-to-Coast AM caller, something weird is 
>going on. 
>I live 31 miles from High Island where WCBS and WFAN transmit from (NYC area.) 
>The New Jersey swamp stations are slightly farther away. 
>As the crow flies, these stations are really close by. 
>Only in the last two weeks or so, I have been experiencing deep fading and 
>especially phasing of the NYC clear channels to the point of almost complete 
>obliteration. 
>This is not just at my home QTH, but driving to and from work within a 
>reasonable radius of my house. 
>It is reminiscent of what you would expect at SSS/SRS on a regional or local 
>channel. 
>I've been an active DXer since about 1958 or so and I've never heard the big 
>boys (NYC's 50 kWs) bend in the breeze like this. 
>Unintelligible speech and sometimes nulling so you can actually hear weak 
>stations behind them? Really weird. 
>These stations are usually so rock solid that all the nulling in the world can't 
>squelch them. 
>My regular out of town biggies don't bend anymore than usual. 
>In fact, even distant 50 KWs like WHO, KMOX, and WWL are unstoppable and live 
>long past sunrise. 
>Am I the only one who is experiencing this effect with backyard locals? 
>BTW, the across-the-pond hets have just been enormous. 
>When I can hear Arabian chanting and loud 1 kHz howling over WWKB Buffalo day 
>after day on a car radio, you know conditions are good. 
> 
>Thanks for listening (pun not intended)  Karl Zuk  N2KZ 
 
(Footnote, those stations are on 660 and 880 kHz, and SSS/SRS is a
reference to sunset skip/sunrise skip, mostly a lack of D-layer
absorption, generally noted most strongly above, roughly, 1200 kHz.
And, the "Arabian chanting" (qura'an recitations) is from Saudi Arabia
on 1521 kHz.)                                          sent at 2315 EST