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March 8th 04, 07:30 PM
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"Rich Wood" wrote in message ... On 8 Mar 2004 05:16:42 GMT, (Sheellah) wrote: I love the Coast To Coast show with Art Bell, but I get a lot of signal drifting at night listening in Brooklyn. It's fine on the weekends where it comes in on WABC, but during the week the signal is very weak on 1110 AM. Would a longer range radio like the GE 7-2887 Superadio III help, which has station selectivity and sensitivity, or is a digital radio better where I can preset the channel. Would that help lock it in, and adjust for drift? Either the GE Superradio of the CC Crane CCRadio Plus with the Crane Active AM antenna might help. WGY is going to be a problem (WABC and WGY are the same power) because you have WNYC-AM at 820. Your radio would to be very selective to pick up WGY without splatter from WNYC even though it's only 1KW at that time of the night. There are several antennas that couple inductively (without a wired connection) to receivers like the GE (my choice on price:value ratio) or Crane and which allow nulling locals or semi-locals to get distant stations. A visit to rec.radio.shortwave (where AM distant reception is also discussed) will produce a number of helpful responses... and a hungry troll or two, as well. Depending how badly one wants to hear shows, there is also the chance of moving into a communications receiver like the ICOM R-75 ($500 range) and its ilk; an antenna like the Kiwa (discontinued, but available on e-bay) or others is advisable. The advantage is that such a receiver adds shortwave, an entertaining albeit anachronistic, feature. |
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