On 22 Oct, 04:12, nurk_fred2000 wrote:
On Oct 21, 4:43*pm, Bill Baka wrote:



NS8S wrote:
On Oct 20, 2:52 pm, dave wrote:
Bill Baka wrote:
The sun is going through a weird sunspot cycle right now and skip should
be pretty good even during the day. 20 years ago I had a big outside
whip and managed to talk to a guy in Jamaica who was really surprised to
be talking to someone from California. If 2x5 watt ERP radios can do
that the stations still on the air should come in strong.
I give this about 2 posts before someone goes off topic.
Second, I have to mention that those el-cheapo CFL's that Wal-mart is
selling have one hell of an RFI output. I thought my radio had gone down
when I thought to turn off all the CFL's in my house and it got
listen-able. I have an oscilloscope monitoring the audio and the noise
spikes are at 60 Hz and very consistent.
I think that if someone wanted to get into their radio it would be a
small matter to put a line synced blank pulse when needed.
Anyone?
No politics.
Bill Baka
CFLs do not operate at 60 Hz.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Interesting topic. Good find on the compact lights. Regarding
listening to shortwave from Michigan, North Korea english service has
been pretty good, s7 on 11.735 at 9 pm est. Always bizarre talk there!
Dave NS8S

I hope it is better than the stuff I could find last night.
The evangelical stations drive me nuts but they are still putting out
the word, their version at least. The first station I ever tuned in was
HCJB, the voice of the Andes. It was about an S-7 every night.

Bill Baka- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

***find God Baka...you need help!!!

I found SW signals very stable and strong and caught news from China
that we are currently passing through outer elements of Haylley's
Comet around this time 22nd to 29th October and that apparently 23,00
hours was mentioned as being a good time to enjoy the view. Apparently
according to Chinese SW, the Southern Hemisphere will see more of a
show than the Northern. It was a nice find from dial twiddling and the
signal from Romania was also strong but the programme about Romanian
teenagers didn't grab my interest. I found a lot of Spanish stations
too also with solidly stable signals. All of this in a 15 minute time
slot. I will listen in more this week, I agree that the signal
strengths and stability were well up on my expectations.