[BC] What brought me into radio

[robertm]

The big part of the cat and mouse was that VOA and RFE had sites that were single hop to their Eastern European targets along with some that were ground wave. With 250 kilowatt shortwave transmitters feeding 22 DB gain curtains at the optimum frequency for the particular day part that's almost 40 megawatts ERP. With a signal like that jamming can only do so much. 


> On Jul 31, 2014, at 12:38 AM, "Mike Vanhooser novaelec at sbcglobal.net.INVALID" <reader1 at oldradio.com> wrote:
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> They were the old Soviet jammers, blocking out all Western/free programming and information.  They were somewhat effective, but skip being what it is, not every hop landed in the same place as the intended reception point.