[BC] Re: The Future / Signal

[Robert Meuser]

That really does not prove or disprove anything. I can park near the 
studio of an NYC radio station and have full view of the Empire State 
Building about the top third of it and have a Philly Station over ride 
the signal. It is a propagation thing.

R


Tom Taggart wrote:

>Despite all the theory, I'll believe real world experience. In a car radio. circular or vertical will beat up on horizontal most of the time. 
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>We have a local NPR affiliate that is 9 kw at 300 feet AHAAT. Horizontal only.  From my experience with a regular commuting route, it's not at all unusual for their circularly-polarized co-channel station 120 miles away to take over their signal about 15 miles out from the tower.
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>(Incidentally--my tax dollars at work--they got a grant to go IBOC but haven't done a thing with the main transmitting antenna.  Still has a lousy signal for the power.)
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