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Transatlantic MW targets
On 20 Aug 2006 23:06:19 -0700, Han wrote:
Steve wrote: I'm no seasoned MW DXer by any means, but I've been having a lot of fun lately with my Quantum QX loop. And I'm curious: are there any transatlantic MW targets that I could reasonably expect to hear using the loop alone, without attaching a longwire to it? I'm on the East Coast. I haven't made any transatlantic "catches" yet, but there's always been unusually bad atmospheric noise when I've tried. Steve The other way around I could give advice, as I am living in the Netherlands. I live in North England, and I listen to US and Canadian staions quite often. A few years back, when conditions were better, CJON (Newfoundland) was as loud as a local station some nights. But also in my home I heard a lot of transatlantic radio stations.. Ilive in a small village.I use a Wellbrook ALA 1530. A very good mediumwave antenna I usually use an old Trio R1000 and a short whip antenna outside. The R1000 is rigged so the 2.4KHz SSB filter is available in AM mode, it makes all the difference, but for difficult stations I use SSB, tuning to zero-beat with the carrier. If things get _really_ difficult I also have a Racal RA-1792 and a selection of better antennas :-) -- Cheers, Stan Barr stanb .at. dial .dot. pipex .dot. com (Remove any digits from the addresses when mailing me.) The future was never like this! |
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Transatlantic MW targets
You anywhere near Newcastle,England? I know of a guy from Lafayette
County,Indiana (his name is Bob) and he married a divorced woman (with kids) in the somewhere around the Newcastle area. cuhulin |
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