[BC] Null Distortion (WAS: Westinghouse at NAB)

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In a message dated 06/02/2006 10:39:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
brew at theMode.com writes:

> Mike Venditti (from WRCP) and I once drove in a wide circle around WTEL's
>  site in the early seventies, listening to the signal.  The nulls were so
>  deep, and the array had such narrow bandwidth that the audio sounded like
>  SSB (really DSB, I guess) as you went through the nulls.

If you drive along I-95 through Stratford, CT, right near Exit 31, you will 
hear WFIF's null. It's pretty deep, but fairly small. At 55Mph, you're in and 
out of it in about 2 seconds. It sounds more like the selective fading effect 
you get from a SW station than SSB.

Willie...