Posted by jdemaris on April 01, 2009 at 06:48:44 from (67.142.130.43):
I've got another set of questions about bad AM radio reception in fringe areas, made worse with flourescent shop lights and ionospheric-bounce. Yes, I know it was somewhat discussed earlier.
Real questions; not rhetorical. I can only get one AM station, and it works pretty well during the day or after midnight. At night, once the ionospheric bounce starts, my signal drifts to parts of Qu�bec,Canada - or Chicago, instead of Albany, NY that is only 50 miles away.
I'd like to find away to eliminate the bounce/drift and stay locked on to the New York channel. Either that, or I have to practice my 17th century French like the Qu�becois use.
Other problem is the shop lights. When the signal is weak, and only one bank of my shop lights are turned on, the humm and static is so bad I can't hear anything. But . . . if I turn on ALL the lights in the shop, it clears right up with no hum at all. I've got the shop lights on one 20 amp circuit with a switch box containing three switches. Each switch controls a bank of six flourescent two-40-watt-tube light assemlbies. That's got me a little stumped. One bank - extreme hum. Turn on a second bank, it goes half-way away, and if I turn on all the lights - signal gets absolutely clear.
I did try buying several radios supposedly made for fringe AM areas, including the GE Super Radio II and III. Works no better than any other cheap Chinese junk. My old tube-powered Hallicrafters S-200 works much better.
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