best longwave radios? is sony 2010 any good down here?
 

just curious what the LW enthusiasts are using for beacon hunting. i'm
using a palstar r30 and a kenwood r-1000 with the palstar beating the
r-1000 out. the r-1000 hold its own on the MW bands, but on LW it's no
match for the palstar. been thinking about purchasing a sony 2010
anyone with experience with this radio below 540Khz?

sincerely, john

best longwave radios? is sony 2010 any good down here?
 

john wrote:

just curious what the LW enthusiasts are using for beacon hunting. i'm
using a palstar r30 and a kenwood r-1000 with the palstar beating the
r-1000 out. the r-1000 hold its own on the MW bands, but on LW it's no
match for the palstar. been thinking about purchasing a sony 2010
anyone with experience with this radio below 540Khz?

sincerely, john


Hi John. the 2010 is a nice shortwave receiver, but i don't think it
would
do much for you below MW. the Palstar is good. you can make it great by
adding a better power supply. the people at Palstar suggest a better
power
supply for any LW/ beacon work. check out the Palstar group on Yahoo.
lots
of good info there. i use an R30CC for beacons, and an MW550P to clean
up
the signals. works great. i added a 12 amp power supply i had laying
around,
and it does help in the lower freqs. all the long wave info you need for
the Palstar on the yahoo group. enjoy.

Father Michael.

best longwave radios? is sony 2010 any good down here?
 

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john wrote:
just curious what the LW enthusiasts are using for beacon hunting. i'm
using a palstar r30 and a kenwood r-1000 with the palstar beating the
r-1000 out. the r-1000 hold its own on the MW bands, but on LW it's no
match for the palstar. been thinking about purchasing a sony 2010
anyone with experience with this radio below 540Khz?

There's a signal in the R-1000 that desensitizes it below 2 MHz.
A DC control line (D7, D8, R87, Q8) off the MHz knob that turns on a
transistor in the IF. If you got a tunable preselector, (matched to
the strange antenna impedance for the Medium/Low Wave input), you could
disconnect this signal (pull out/clip a lead on R87).

I live in sight of a 1/4 megawatt (KOMO-1000, KIRO-710, etc.) collection
of AM transmitters, so I've never tried it out. YMMV.

Mark Zenier
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