[HCDX] CKZU : signals fading badly ...

["mhev" <mhev@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

CKZU : signals fading badly ...

Even in Seattle, where CKZU comes in by groundwave -- it fades very badly.
The transmitter is a 1 kw CBC-SRC built transmitter; it should be called the
CBU Prissmaster 1k!

I wish Canada had a proper domestic SW service:
http://cbc.am/cbc.htm


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Subject: [HCDX] Can a Solar Flare Cause This? / Logs
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 Usually in the morning around 1400 I check out CKZU Vancouver Canada on
6160, usually a good strong signal with some weaker interference from VOA on
the same frequency. The other morning I heard something I've never heard
before in my years of dxing. To best describe what I heard imagine having
two radios one playing VOA the other CKZU. Now imagine listening to CKZU
only and slowly turning the volume down until the station is completely
quiet then slowly turning the volume up on the other radio and now hearing
only a strong VOA and CKZU GONE!. I believe it happened at 1600 on saturday
during a "changeover" but CKZU is still on at this hour. The whole process
took about 5 seconds. The strangest thing was that there was NO atmospheric
noise involved! It was completely quiet!  ???


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