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From: stephany.WBST@Xerox.ARPA
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Subject: Re: TV DXing discussion from Videotech
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Date: Fri, 10-May-85 17:36:44 EDT
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Re:  TV DXing

In reference to how far you can get on TV, here on the Great Lakes we
regularly receive stations 200 miles away with a radio shack $25 antenna
and an old rotar.  The antenna is about 20 feet off the ground.  During
Summer, particularly, we get excellent reception, but almost never
during the Winter.  The duct formed is due to the humidity and
temperature differentials.  We can regularly pick up stations in
Ottawa,Toronto, and Quebec.  My son sent in a DX report and asked for
QSL cards and he got a long distance phone call from the station manager
in Quebec because he thought it was impossible and wanted to know how we
did it.

During World War II there was a guy in Boston that that picked up
Rommels Afrika Corps regularly on about 150 MHz.  The data was relayed
to Washington and decoded, one of the factors leading to Rommels
failure.  (The "key to Rebecca" story about the same thing was pure
fiction).

Also, one night, my wife picked up a New Orleans FM station (about a
1000 miles away) on her radio in the kitchen with an internal antenna.
We all verified that the station was one in New Orleans.

					Joe N2XS