[BC] Frequency Measuring

[Barry Mishkind]

At 04:30 PM 3/20/2007, Thomas G. Osenkowsky wrote
> > During my very limited experience in broadcasting back in the
> > sixties, the station I worked for in central Pennsylvania
> > used a person in Massachusetts to measure the frequency.
> > I always wondered how he could hear the station well enough
> > to make the measurement?

         As has been explained, with a good antenna array
         and sensitive test gear, it is possible to "pull
         one out of the grass" ... not entirely unlike DXers.
         However ....

>You no doubt had the late Clarence Cheney of Cambridge
>Crystals. Some speculated that he was unable to actually
>receive the stations.

         Some years back, we did have a series of
         "reports" for stations that somehow "forgot"
         to turn on for the overnight "test" or ... in
         one case, had a "special" engineer who detuned
         the transmitter by about 80%.   Eventually,
         the measuring fellow did call and ask if there
         was something wrong, he could not receive it.

         But that apparently was several months later.