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Default Using an insulated backstay for A) Navtex rec. and B) ssb transc

In article ,
"Bob Furterona" wrote:

Only if they transmit 100 kW EIRP. AM radio sensitivity is around 100 uV. FM
radio is 0.5 uV.


I don't know what school you went to, but your RF Engineering Degree,
must have come from a Cracker Jacks Box...... Typical AM Broadcast
Field Strength Measurements for Antenna Pattern Contours are done
at 100 uv/Meter, and those levels are a VARY STRONG Signals, and usually
out from the Transmitter site, many miles.