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Originally Posted by Bob Dobbs
kyle williams wrote:
hello, i am new to shortwave listening, i just got a kaito 1103, mainly
to receive weather fax while out on my boat in California, but I am in
utah now messing about with it, and I am wondering if 1)I just need more
practice tuning, or 2)are there just no signals here I can hear, 3) or
is my radio faulty? and how do I know which? I cannot seem to pull in
any signal I can recognize as a broadcast, with the exception of the FMs
and MF AM stations local to my home here. (1160).
I have strung the wire antenna about head high across several large
windows inside my house, which is a normal 1 story brick bungalow. (no
big steel beams or massive lead walls...). I found a string of posts on
this forum from 2006 with a fellow named Matt who described exactly what
I am going through and there were several suggestions to him of how to
very carefully try to tune in, and I have been trying that, at all hours
of the day and night, aware that many signals seem to propogate better
at dusk, dawn, and night.
is there any way to test whether my radio is faulty, or is it just me?
thanks and happy holidays
Kyle
You should be able to receive more than KSL with even a minimum antenna.
try the eternal WWV freqs or some popular HAM water holes like 3840.
You didn't say if there was any white noise on those 'dead' bands, so maybe
you've got a defective radio, do you even get static pops from a light switch?
Maybe you could tune up to the "S" (****izens) band 27.185 for a test?
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Hi Bob and thanks for the ideas. I should have been more plain, I do hear copious and variable white noises that changes pitch and tone as I tune. I can also watch the signal indicator rise and fall as I go through the bands. and I forgot to mention that I did hear a very faint and brief time stamp message on 15000, only once though, I can't seem to get it to come in again.
we in the middle of a nasty storm here in Utah so I have not taken the radio outside, but I will keep trying.
cheers
Kyle