On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 20:20:30 -0600, "Ric Trexell"
wrote:

I'm only a casual listener to SW and I only have a Grundig 400YB that I have
had for 15 years or so, but now when I go through the channels, I find
mainly static and an occasional Christian (or so called) station. I have
found a few from Europe and ofcourse a few Spanish stations, but in the old
days you would find the BBC on about 5 stations, VOA on several and a host
of others. I mainly use my radio to check the time signals. Speaking of
which, I seem to only get them on 2500, 5000 and 10,000. Are they still on
20,000 and 25,000? I know the internet has put a lot of stations out of
business, but there seems to be a lot of bandwidth not being used. If my
radio died, I really don't know if I would replace it. Ric.


Hearing WWV on 20 MHz just before sunset in SE Michigan - 2200UTC @ S8
with a heterodyne from some other station. WWVH is not on 20 MHz.

I notice if you can find a quiet location that you can hear more DX
stations due to the loss of some the high power international
broadcasters, except of course China. China has more transmitters on
the air than most I think although as of 2008 some South American
countries are in the lead according to this website (Peru 189 SW
stations):
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/me...dcast-stations

I don't think this takes into account the jammers such as the Chinese
music jammer or utility jammers.

Jim