[TowerTalk] Sweet spot locations:

[Jim Rhodes]

Not just sweet spots, but "sour" ones also. I remember a few from my 
teenage years, driving around with the AM radio and certain spots the 
radio would just go dead consistently. Had not been back there for 
about 40 years before driving through the area a while back. Just to 
check it out I switched the car radio on to an AM station before we 
reached that section of highway and sure enough, it still dies there. 
Couldn't see anything around that should cause it, but whatever it is 
it is still there.

At 08:20 AM 7/28/2007, Barry Kirkwood wrote:
>Years back I recall a note in Technical Topics in RSGB Radio Communications
>to the effect that experience of the British Post Office (which once had
>monopoly of telecommuncations in the British Isles ) was that coastal
>stations had something like 20dB advantage over inland stations on HF. May
>not have the details precise, but it was to that effect.
>Whatever, as one of those older folk, back in the days when there was no FM
>broadcasting, I well remember "sweet spots" when listening to the AM MF
>broadcast band on the car radio while travelling, especially by
>night.Notjust skip distance, as effect was noticed on stations at
>different distances
>And not necessarily by the seaside.  Other folk noted the same thing. This
>was in ZL, but  certainly noticed the same effect in North America in 1980.
>Any thoughts on this?
>73
>Barry ZL1DD
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Jim Rhodes K0XU
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