Say what you will about Coast to Coast AM; I consider it an asset in the game of mediumwave DXing*. During the past week, I used my Tecsun BCL-2000 and my Eton E5 on a few occasions to receive WWL on 870 khz. But a peculiar thing happens before I can hear a positive identification from the broadcast. As a half-hour mark approaches, the signal weakens considerably, and I am lost in a world of static.
Now, I appreciate the fact that this signal travels a great distance, and continuous reception would be a fluke. But it seems odd that the signal regularly fails at these intervals. Is there any way that this is intentional?
*(I'm not working on a new mediumwave DX initiative at this time.)
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A quote from the September 2006 Monitoring Times (describing someone trying to ID 100 stations over 48 hours):
"Radio Japan- A horrible signal. Wonder why stations can't synchronize their IDs with the fading so that it fades in when they're identifying themselves."
Heh, that's funny. (I wonder if that was a daytime reception; Radio Japan is more reliable at night for me.)
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