RadioBanter - View Single Post - 120 and 90 Meters, 11/04/04, 0600-0800

November 5th 04, 10:02 PM

bpnjensen wrote:

(Kachina 78) wrote in message ...
I fired up the old Hammarlund HQ-180 tonight, and she was working great in the
Trops. The noise level keeps droping, the later in the Fall it gets. Got a good
copy, and ID of Radio Maria at 0730, on 3279khz. Lots of other stations rolling
in, but I didn't copy any other ID's, so I had to resort to PWBR for assistance
in sorting them out. The old "boat anchor" still works great, especially down
in the Trops. It outperforms my JRC NRD-535D, in these bands. Good DXing to
you, Gary

Hey, Gary, what's your QTH? Antenna of choice? I'm using an R75,
DX-Ultra and a makeshift temp random-squared (both length and
direction) wire.

I've been noticing increasing station carriers all across the Trops
too lately, as with you, using PWBD to sort 'em out. The Brazilians,
in particular, seem to be making the trip here around early evening.

Love to get a HQ-180!

Had an HQ-180A in the past in virtual mint condition. Sorry I sold it. It would have been nicer if I'd had
a digital readout on it.

That was back in the days when one had to use the logging scale on the bandspread to determine the correct
frequency. Wasn't to hard to do though once one fabricated a few tuning charts.

They were nice too, for those cold winter nights.

dxAce
Michigan
USA