[Elecraft] Anyone near an FM station on ~97.1

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Tue Jul 24 18:54:05 EDT 2018


On 7/24/2018 9:17 AM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
> When I lived near Chicago I heard a mixture of two AM broadcast on 80m
> using a 160' high rotating dipole.

I first experienced this in 1953 (before I was licensed) with stations 
near me on 930 kHz and 1470 kHz mixed on 3870 (I think). This is nothing 
more than passive intermod, and can occur virtually anywhere, including 
in one of the transmitters! I also experienced it intermittently when I 
lived on the northside of Chicago three miles N of Wrigley Field, and 
the mixes were of 50kW stations with TX locations 20 miles W of me. I 
even heard WBBM's second harmonic (on 1560 kHz)!

73, Jim K9YC



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