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November 21st 08, 02:12 PM
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RFspace SDR-IQ with RF DSP HF Receiver
RHF wrote:
On Nov 20, 6:47 am, Dave wrote: Dave wrote: wrote: On Nov 19, 6:34 pm, wrote: I live in Ontario, Canada. My goal is to listen to daytime SW broadcasts beamed to Africa by the likes of BBC, DW, VOA, RNW, etc. Right now I have a Sony 7600GR with a few indoor antennas (reel antenna, ANLP1, etc.). With this equipment it's difficult to get good reception of these daytime signals. I plan to install a wire antenna (around 30 feet long), either outdoors along my 5.5' high wooden fence (I live in the suburbs) or in my attic. Will a Sony portable and an outdoor/attic wire be enough to get consistently good reception of these stations? Or should I get a better receiver? If so, what receiver should I buy? Portable choices: Sangean ATS-909 (I hear it can handle long antennas) Eton E1XM Tabletop choices: Icom R75 Icom R1500 used Kenwood, Yaesu, etc. (ebay) PC-controlled choices Ten Tec Rx-320D The Icom R75 is a little pricy for me ($700 here in Canada). But if it is that much better than say, the Eton E1 at fishing out these broadcast signals then I will seriously consider it. I'm also a little afraid of buying a PC receiver because I live in a noisy RF environment. (I like the thought of receiving DRM, though!) Thanks! It's all to do with having the best antenna you can rig up on your suburban lot. There are many variations of wire antenna's to try in an inexpensive experiment, If that doesn't work there are a whole lot of options on excellent active antenna's. One of the best combo's is a simple outside wire antenna connected to the MFJ 1020C as recommended in Passport 2009. Try that before you go spending big bucks. - - This thing looks quite promising, - - other than the fact you have to have - - (yech) Windows to run it: - - http://www.universal-radio.com/catal...rxvr/0106.html - Oh joy. - Turns out this will work on Linux. - Temptation rears its ugly head. Dave - Go-A-Head Do-It : Buy-It and Try-It RFspace SDR-IQ with RF DSP HF Receiver http://www.universal-radio.com/catal...rxvr/0106.html then tell us how you like it ~ RHF . I generally don't buy receive-only radios these days. |
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