[NJARC] Accidental DX'ing in a Hyundai

[Joseph W. Koester]

A similar thing happened to me several years ago.  I had gone back to work
in the Washington, DC area in 2001/02 and had my car radio set to the local
stations, including WTOP at 1500 AM.  I was in southern Virginia on I-81
near the Tennessee border and happened to hit that push button and WTOP came
in loud and clear. Listened to it for maybe 10 minutes and it was gone.

When I was a kid in central Florida in the mid-1950s we didn't have too many
TV stations and you could buy a Yagi antenna cut for a specific channel.
The best TV near us was channel 4 in Jacksonville and one night we watched
it until it went off the air and another signal came in, a little snowy, but
good enough to see and it was a channel 4 in Green Bay, WI!  I later found
this phenomena was called ducting on the low vhf channels, which channel 4
was.  Later I put up a channel 11 antenna on my roof for Ft. Myers, FL and
tried to get channel 38 in St. Petersburg with a big UHF antenna on top, but
neither were very successful

We have come a long way from the days of snowy black and white television
with boosters on top of the sets!

Joe Koester

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Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2017 11:42 PM
To: New Jersey Antique Radio Club <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [NJARC] Accidental DX'ing in a Hyundai

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Just this evening I drove from New Jersey to Centreville, Virginia to stay
with my aunt while she recovers from a broken wrist. On the ride down, I was
scanning the AM band when I found a loud and clear station on 780 kHz. I
quickly realized that I was picking up CBS Chicago perfectly from nearly six
hundred miles away! This, by the way, is on the radio that came from the
factory with my base model Santa Fe. It has an RF amplifier in there
somewhere and I did upgrade the antenna whip from the stubby 6 inch to a
whopping 30 inch mast. There is another antenna built into the windshield.

I know this is probably old hat to most of you, but I was thoroughly
impressed!

Regards,
Joe Giliberti
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