Here we go again.

On 7415 at 0000 listening to a nice VOA 50's music program. Great stuff. Now
it is 0100 nothing but static.

I am new to shortwave and perhaps this goes with the territory, if so why do we
love shortwave so much???????

I'll do a search for Gigunda antennas, wish me luck.

Neil

BCcubed wrote:

Here we go again.

On 7415 at 0000 listening to a nice VOA 50's music program. Great stuff. Now
it is 0100 nothing but static.

I am new to shortwave and perhaps this goes with the territory, if so why do we
love shortwave so much???????

I'll do a search for Gigunda antennas, wish me luck.

Neil

I hear Gigunda has a pretty good line of antennas. Never owned one myself, but I've
heard that others swear by em (or was it at em?), at any rate good luck finding
one. The Gigunda Companys output is mighty low, and there is a waiting list.

In article , N8KDV
writes:


I hear Gigunda has a pretty good line of antennas. Never owned one myself,
but I've
heard that others swear by em (or was it at em?), at any rate good luck
finding
one. The Gigunda Companys output is mighty low, and there is a waiting list.


- Just tried them; their web sites down;

- Someone said they're relocating to another state..

Neil: On 7415 at 0000 listening to a nice VOA 50's music program. Great
stuff. Now it is 0100 nothing but static.

I am new to shortwave and perhaps this goes with the territory, if so why do we
love shortwave so much???????

LOL We love fickle stuff. Else we'd be DX-ing FM stations, instead. (Yet,
those, too, can get iffy with weather changes.)

Bill, K5BY

(WShoots1) wrote in message ...
Neil: On 7415 at 0000 listening to a nice VOA 50's music program. Great
stuff. Now it is 0100 nothing but static.

I am new to shortwave and perhaps this goes with the territory, if so why do we
love shortwave so much???????

LOL We love fickle stuff. Else we'd be DX-ing FM stations, instead. (Yet,
those, too, can get iffy with weather changes.)

Bill, K5BY

Hmmm....this begs a question that has bubbling in my head for a couple
of months. I have not been able to hear WBCQ on 7415 very well for a
few months now, and suspect their power may be reduced from what it
once was.

I realize propagation is a factor for reception but conditons just
aren't that bad. I am hearing ham stations from Maine on a Ten-Tec
direct conversion $30 radio kit on 40 meters with an 8 foot piece of
wire for an antenna laying on my floor, and at the same time hearing
WBCQ poorly with a Kenwood R-5000 connected to a tuned 80 meter
inverted vee.

Point being that I think propagation is not the only issue. I think
WBCQ may be on low power perhaps due to equipment problems at this
time.

My 2 cents...73 de WA2AFD