Topband: WLW

[Bill Aycock]

Mark—I’m sorry. Yours DID have technical merit. Much of the rest did not.
I lived through a lot of the best of the old AM Radio days, and reading faulty memories about it IS boring.
Bill—W4BSG

From: Mark Connelly 
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 1:14 PM
To: billaycock at centurytel.net ; topband at contesting.com 
Subject: Re: Topband: WLW

Got it, I'll cease from sending out this sort of rubbish. 

Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Aycock <billaycock at centurytel.net>
To: topband <topband at contesting.com>; Mark Connelly <markwa1ion at aol.com>
Sent: Tue, Sep 17, 2013 1:00 pm
Subject: Re: Topband: WLW


I HATE it when Topbanders get bored; thing like this "WCKY<WLW" etc flood 
out.
Bill--W4BSG

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mark Connelly
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 10:15 AM
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Topband: WLW

1.7 megawatts out of WLW was no doubt the highest power run by anyone in the 
Western Hemisphere on medium wave.


Duba, Saudi Arabia runs 2 megawatts on 1521 kHz all the time.  No wonder 
that it often screams in here on the coast of Massachusetts around local 
sunset, as in this recording:
<http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/dx_saudi_arabia-1521_20060503_2300z.mp3>
or this one:
<http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/dx_1521_saudi_arabia_20081029_2300z.mp3>


1521 has proven to be a useful propagation indicator to the Middle East, as 
is the UAE station (R. Farda) on 1575 with 800 kW and Kuwait (R. Sawa) 1548 
(600 kW).


The signals are at least 15 dB stronger at seashore sites than at locations 
even just 5 to 10 miles inland, especially if the intervening land is sandy 
or rocky.  A receiving antenna that is substantially elevated would cut 
those losses some at the inland site.


Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA


<<
>He told us it was put in for Crosley who got a bug in his butt to  see what
>the rig would really do. The meter showed the total current on the  three
>finals. One night he cranked it up as far as it would go. Keep in mind, 
>the
>voltage on the finals was 17,500 volts, as I remember. He got that meter up
>to 100 amps. Do the math. He burnt up some local fences that  night.
>
>Of course, 13 transmitters (with plug-in coils) each  running 220,000 watts
>simultaneously on several bands down the road at  VOA was astonishing, but
>that 1,700,000 watts at WLW was stuck in our minds  all the way home that
>night.  We were TopBand guys,  afterall!
>
>73, Best DX, Barry, W9UCW
>>
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