Bob Dobbs wrote:
dave wrote:
Always. I blame HAARP,

That's a UHF gimmick that is designed to affect the ionosphere which at
night isn't as much a player as the lithosphere hugging "D" layer for
the frequencies I was referring to (low SW and MW)

I listen to 720, 740, 760,
770,780,790 and 810.

Do you have any blowtorches nearby
or is your isolated location an ideal?

I use my old Drake SW2 and a 60' random wire.

I have an indeterminate length wire (several hundred feet or more)
but it's plagued with noise here in town.


I have a 1 KW days/0.5 KW nights directional on 1220 about a mile away.
It makes single conversion AM radios whistle on other MW stations, but
it's too wimpy to affect any the Ten Tec or the ICOM or the Drake. It
might screw with the HF-150, which has a naked front-end.

I'm in the middle of a bedroom community with underground utilities.
The houses are all stucco with wire lath and foil faced insulation. It
is usually very quiet here.