[BC] am receiver for monitoring at a 20 KW site.

[Mark Humphrey]

One of my clients, WYSL 1040 in Avon, NY (about 20 miles south of
Rochester) had a similar problem monitoring WHAM 1180 for EAS during
20 kW daytime mode.  A Ramsey loop antenna, positioned "just so" in a
corner of the basement -- feeding a car radio -- was the solution for
years, but the noise floor was still too high for my liking.   So we
asked the state EAS coordinator to change WYSL's LP-1 monitoring
assignment to WHAM's sister FM station WDVI, and this has greatly
improved the quality of RMT retransmission.

Now, I wonder how an R-390A would work in this situation...  You would
need to keep it fed with 220 watts (about $25/month in energy) and
replace tubes from time to time, but I'll bet it would do the job.

Mark

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Mike McCarthy <towers at mre.com> wrote:
> We're fighting the same thing.  Co-located AM at the studio and we need
> monitor another AM a few miles away as well as when it goes to night
> power...2mV.