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First shortwave radio questions?
Telamon wrote:
In article , dxAce wrote: "I. P. Yurin" wrote: On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:59:32 -0700 (PDT), Art Harris wrote: elfa wrote: The same question from me. I live in San Francisco bay area. I have a Sony 2010. My antenna is a wire connected to my metal gutter. Stopped listening when the BBC stopped broadcasting to US. I'm looking for a reason to listen to SW again but need some help with time/freq of English speaking stations. Yes, it's not as much fun as it used to be, especially with the poor propagation, many long-time SW broadcasters calling it quits, and all the paid religious broadcasts all over the spectrum. I'm on Long Island, so I can't give specific advice as to what's hearable in SF. There are websites that list current english language shortwave broadcasts. http://www.primetimeshortwave.com/ You can still hear BBC, it just takes a little more work. Also Radio Canada, Deutsche Welle, France, Romania, etc. And the ubiquitous China Radio. Art Harris Art, One of the original questions in the thread was WBCQ (although I think he was using an old freq). You're on LI; I'm in NYC. What's your reception like on WBCQ (7415)? I can get them so-so, as an average, in late afternoon and very early evening. But come sundown, they might as well be TXing from the moon. The dark side. It's all I can do to make out the Last Day Prophet's harangue. I've been given arguments that the skip zone is in effect. Yes, that would explain it... the band goes 'long'. When it comes to WBCQ the band might be going long but it stops short of southern California. You can DX it, but it's not really listenable. |
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First shortwave radio questions?
In article , dave says...
Telamon wrote: In article , dxAce wrote: "I. P. Yurin" wrote: On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:59:32 -0700 (PDT), Art Harris wrote: elfa wrote: The same question from me. I live in San Francisco bay area. I have a Sony 2010. My antenna is a wire connected to my metal gutter. Stopped listening when the BBC stopped broadcasting to US. I'm looking for a reason to listen to SW again but need some help with time/freq of English speaking stations. Yes, it's not as much fun as it used to be, especially with the poor propagation, many long-time SW broadcasters calling it quits, and all the paid religious broadcasts all over the spectrum. I'm on Long Island, so I can't give specific advice as to what's hearable in SF. There are websites that list current english language shortwave broadcasts. http://www.primetimeshortwave.com/ You can still hear BBC, it just takes a little more work. Also Radio Canada, Deutsche Welle, France, Romania, etc. And the ubiquitous China Radio. Art Harris Art, One of the original questions in the thread was WBCQ (although I think he was using an old freq). You're on LI; I'm in NYC. What's your reception like on WBCQ (7415)? I can get them so-so, as an average, in late afternoon and very early evening. But come sundown, they might as well be TXing from the moon. The dark side. It's all I can do to make out the Last Day Prophet's harangue. I've been given arguments that the skip zone is in effect. Yes, that would explain it... the band goes 'long'. When it comes to WBCQ the band might be going long but it stops short of southern California. You can DX it, but it's not really listenable. I gave it a try last night and at 7.415 I got SSB signal but it was too ragged to make out a call sign. USB, it sounded like a religious station. elfa |
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