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BCB TA DX
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built-in antenna. Or am I wrong? Is there good a way to eliminate the phantom stations and pull in the DX? I'm not completly familiar with this radio, so I can only comment in general. If you live on th Atlantic seaboard, you stand a fair chance of hearing transatlantic DX with a built in loop. If you live in the midwest (your header suggests central time zone), you can just about forget it except under _extremely_ favorable conditions (once in a life time type stuff). I have heard Mexico, and Cuba with a cheap boom box, but it's a LOT easier with a decent table top radio (Icom R75, or Drake R8a, or such with good loop or outdoor antennas). You can improve your reception with a _tunable_ external loop (names excape me at the moment) and expect to hear Cuba Mexico and perhaps Columbia, Venzuela under good conditons from the midwest. A hombrew 3 foot box loop will work well if you're not in a concrete/metal building. Others will give additional suggstions I'm sure. I'm certainly not trying to discourage you from chasing the DX, but rather just putting some perspctive on what an achievment hearing TA's on MW is. From here in Wisconsin, I have yet to hear any audio from europe on MW (and I have tried ! ), but have logged a few longwave BC stations from europe and Africa using an Icom R71a and an ewe antenna. GOOD DX ! jw wb9uai |
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Oh but the HETS are certainly there!!!!
Kent, K9EZ Menomonee Falls, WI "J999w" wrote in message ... n with only the built-in antenna. Or am I wrong? Is there good a way to eliminate the phantom stations and pull in the DX? I'm not completly familiar with this radio, so I can only comment in general. If you live on th Atlantic seaboard, you stand a fair chance of hearing transatlantic DX with a built in loop. If you live in the midwest (your header suggests central time zone), you can just about forget it except under _extremely_ favorable conditions (once in a life time type stuff). I have heard Mexico, and Cuba with a cheap boom box, but it's a LOT easier with a decent table top radio (Icom R75, or Drake R8a, or such with good loop or outdoor antennas). You can improve your reception with a _tunable_ external loop (names excape me at the moment) and expect to hear Cuba Mexico and perhaps Columbia, Venzuela under good conditons from the midwest. A hombrew 3 foot box loop will work well if you're not in a concrete/metal building. Others will give additional suggstions I'm sure. I'm certainly not trying to discourage you from chasing the DX, but rather just putting some perspctive on what an achievment hearing TA's on MW is. From here in Wisconsin, I have yet to hear any audio from europe on MW (and I have tried ! ), but have logged a few longwave BC stations from europe and Africa using an Icom R71a and an ewe antenna. GOOD DX ! jw wb9uai |
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