[Scan-DC] Scanning Ocean City

[Ed Tobias]

>>One of the most astonishing catches I made at the beach was WABC, while I
was in North Carolina near Wilmington

I've heard WTOP, 1500, at the Kennedy Space Center during daylight hours. 
It can regularly be heard down there at night.  When I worked at TOP, MANY 
years ago, we used to get occasional QSL cards from SWLs in Europe.  50kw, 
with a NE-SW pattern, can really propagate with a frequency just below 160 
meters.


Ed

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <b_thom at juno.com>
To: <Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Scanning Ocean City


>
>
> On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 16:13:15 -0400 "Doug K." <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>
> writes:
>> All,
>>
>> I'm headed for a vacation in North Ocean City MD (138th Street at
>> the beach,
>> just south of the MD - Delaware line) in a few weeks...
>
> Many years ago, I'd go over to Fenwick Island from time to time. I would
> walk down the beach to the amusement park at OC. There may be some radio
> traffic from that. About ten or so miles inland is the airport where the
> planes that drag the banners over the ocean land and take off. They might
> not have too much radio traffic, as their flight pattern is routine. Of
> course, anything can happen. FRS and GMRS ought to be amusing.
>
> One of the most astonishing catches I made at the beach was WABC, while I
> was in North Carolina near Wilmington. This was in the middle of the day.
> It came in as soon as I got within a few hundred feet of the ocean, on my
> car radio. That's the coastal effect at work. I mean, it was as if I was
> in Manhattan, it was so clear.
>
> Have fun.
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