[BC] WLW Superpower Coverage

[Robert Meuser]

You're probably correct about the propagation. You also had a northerly 
great circle path which would have also helped.

R


Bill Harms wrote:

>Welp,
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>	Before the band was crowded, I heard WLW in Utah in midday, at noon 
>Cincinnati with a listenable signal.  Of course, it was in the middle 
>of the winter, and the signal was probably propagated via skywave, 
>which can happen in winter.  I was using a Beverage antenna.
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>Bill Harms
>Elkridge, Maryland
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>On 15 Dec 2005 at 15:02, Robert Meuser wrote:
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>>I am not sure how Richard is calculating this, but the FCC charts will not
>>take you out that far for the ground conductiviy given. The chart bottoms
>>at about 800 KM for that ground conductivity. The power required for that
>>distance is 50 megawatts more or less. To get out 1000 miles, you would
>>have to have a sea water path for that power.
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