On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:50:05 -0500, Dave Hall
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On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 21:36:36 -0800, Frank Gilliland
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On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 05:19:54 GMT, "Landshark"
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"Dave Hall" wrote in message
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On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:57:27 -0500, (Twistedhed)
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From: (Dave Hall) wrote:
The "DX" has nothing to do with the amount of splatter and the
distortion a signal may have. The only effect that "DX" may have is
heterodyning of co-channel signals. In any case, when my observations
were made, the "DX" was not running heavy enough that a clean sample
of any particular transmission could not be made.

Ummm, no Dave. DX has everything to do with DX splatter.


He's right, Dave. You can receive more than one skip signal from the
same transmission, and their phasing can cause intermodulation
distortion in any RF stage of your receiver.

No dice Frank. The effect you have described is commonly referred to
as "multipath".


a.k.a, "fading".


The differences in phase angles of the received
signals can cause either an addition to or a subtraction from the
fundamental signal. But it does not cause it to splatter.


No it doesn't, and that's not what I said. I said that a non-linear
stage in the receiver can turn that fading into what appears to be
splatter. If you want an example I have a couple cheap shortwave
radios that do exactly that; you pay for shipping and you can examine
them all you want.