RadioBanter - View Single Post - I'm tired of crummy reception !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

February 8th 04, 04:08 PM

(WShoots1) wrote in message ...
Neil: On 7415 at 0000 listening to a nice VOA 50's music program. Great
stuff. Now it is 0100 nothing but static.

I am new to shortwave and perhaps this goes with the territory, if so why do we
love shortwave so much???????

LOL We love fickle stuff. Else we'd be DX-ing FM stations, instead. (Yet,
those, too, can get iffy with weather changes.)

Bill, K5BY

Hmmm....this begs a question that has bubbling in my head for a couple
of months. I have not been able to hear WBCQ on 7415 very well for a
few months now, and suspect their power may be reduced from what it
once was.

I realize propagation is a factor for reception but conditons just
aren't that bad. I am hearing ham stations from Maine on a Ten-Tec
direct conversion $30 radio kit on 40 meters with an 8 foot piece of
wire for an antenna laying on my floor, and at the same time hearing
WBCQ poorly with a Kenwood R-5000 connected to a tuned 80 meter
inverted vee.

Point being that I think propagation is not the only issue. I think
WBCQ may be on low power perhaps due to equipment problems at this
time.

My 2 cents...73 de WA2AFD