[Spooks] Sam Signal Strength

[Chris Smolinski]

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>  Greetings:
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>I've heard speculation that Sam is in Arizona or New Mexico.
>
>I'm in NE Arizona, using an RX-320 with a 600' north-south longwire about
>80' off the ground.  Here is what I observed at 05:15 UT:
>
>3700: Sam sounds close, but not enough to cover all QRN
>4300: lots of QRM here (FAX), but Sam is strong enough to block most of it
>6500: QRM here too (weather and FAX), but Sam is barely readable underneath
>10500: No Sam at all
>
>Sounds to me like:
>
>1) Sam is close with very low power--which means east coast probably cannot
>hear him at this time
>2) Sam is somewhat distant from Arizona/New Mexico
>
>Is my thinking correct?

Well, you're certainly not in the ground wave zone. We need to find 
someone who can hear Sam on 3700 24 hrs a day. That person would be 
fairly close to Sam, within maybe 500 hundred or so miles. That would 
at least narrow down the QTH to a region of the country. The best 
comparison to Sam's 3700 kHz I can make is CHU on 3330 kHz. In my 
location,  north central Maryland, I can get it most of the day, 
during normal solar/geomag conditions.
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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
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