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Signal Drifting & Other Help Needed
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? Looking on their website I see it also comes in on WGY on 810 from Albany, but I haven't been able to access that station. It's listed at 50KW which is the same as WABC, so I assume it's a stronger channel. KW's is stronger that W's? Can anyone in the NYC area help with this? What channel do you pick it up on during the week? Please also e-mail if kind enough to respond. Thanks! |
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I don't live in the NYC area, but I have been there enough times to know
what I can get on the radio there. Yes, WGY (810 KHz AM) is 50 KW, but you will have trouble from adjacent channel interference from WNYC-AM (820 KHz). A GE Superadio may help because you can rotate the radio and, maybe, null out the signal from WNYC. The station on 1110 KHz is in Charlotte, NC. That signal is subject from interference from Canadian stations on that same frequency. Here again, a GE Superadio may help in the same manner. Drift used to be a big problem with tube type radios. It is still present on solid state radios, but minimal. What you may be experiencing is signal fade. This is an unfortunate part of nighttime long distance reception. "Sheellah" wrote in message ... 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? Looking on their website I see it also comes in on WGY on 810 from Albany, but I haven't been able to access that station. It's listed at 50KW which is the same as WABC, so I assume it's a stronger channel. KW's is stronger that W's? Can anyone in the NYC area help with this? What channel do you pick it up on during the week? Please also e-mail if kind enough to respond. Thanks! |
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How much do you want to spend?
I'd go digital with synch detection and selectable sideband, a Sony 7600GR, about $150 at J&R; and a MW loop antenna next to it (Terk MW loop $40 or Select-a-tenna $60). The latter loops work wonders on any AM radio so are worth getting in any case for daytime reception. Perhaps at night they're superfluous though, because the problem at night is too many strong signals, not fishing out weak ones. The audio from the speaker isn't anything to rejoice in, but you can get used to it easily; however the elimination of adjacent channel splatter and fading distortion can't be replaced. And it has shortwave as a bonus. If you spend more you can get better synch detection, but this gets you what you probably need. I don't know of a cheaper way to get synch detection. -- Ron Hardin On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |
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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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In article , 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? A better antenna will help. A receiver with better automatic gain control will help a little bit. But you're basically hearing stuff due to problems in the ionosphere, which is something you don't have too much control over. Most of the digitally controlled radios have rotten AM performance, unless you're willing to invest some serious money. The original GE Superradio is worth checking out if you can find a used one; it is a much better performer than the Superradio III. Looking on their website I see it also comes in on WGY on 810 from Albany, but I haven't been able to access that station. It's listed at 50KW which is the same as WABC, so I assume it's a stronger channel. KW's is stronger that W's? It's probably too close for you to pick up by skip, but too far away for you to pick up by groundwave. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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On 8 Mar 2004 19:30:41 GMT, "David Eduardo"
wrote: 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. Shortwave is still kind of fun. I have an advantage in being a Ham Radio operator and use a Kenwood TS-690 that has a wide coverage receiver. The antenna is a long wire dipole with a 1:1 balun and an automaitc antenna tuner in the radio. It'll easily receive adjacent stations as it sits next to my noise-generating computer. I can also transmit legally. I like Art Bell as a person but I wouldn't have spent nearly $2,000 just to receive a radio show. I believe it's carried in my market, so a regular $5 radio will do for me. Rich KF2JO |
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