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Old December 22nd 04, 05:24 PM
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Howdy - Actually, this set-up predated cable by quite a few years!
Mid-1970s. It was strung up in some of our BIG trees. We were lucky -
way out in the sticks of west-central state, we had no QRM to speak of,
and fine dark skies at night for astronomy. Could hear Arthur Cushen
on RNZ's little transmitter from half a world away easily. KFI - LA
was an infrequent but definite visitor. Could hear Lome, Togo 5047
too, while here it's just a weak heterodyne on SSB.

Lord, how I miss it. Urban California is a sad, sad substitute. sigh
Bruce Jensen

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Old December 23rd 04, 05:23 AM
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Brian wrote:

Well, I would have to disagree with the poster who suggested the 2010 was
not adequate for MW dx. I have a portable quite inferior to yours(dx-398)
with which I logged 1120 KMOX St. Louis, and 1080 WTIC Hartford, Ct. from my
qth in Wilmington, NC last night without any external antenna at all, and
those are just the two that I recall off hand. I do agree however that it
would prove difficult to say the least to log 48 states on MW, but I'll
leave that for someone more knowledgeable to comment on. You'll probably
want to construct a box loop antenna or some such for the mw band. There are
several sites with instructions on how to build various types of mw loops on
the internet. Good luck.

-Brian


The 2010 has more than enough sensitivity and AM selectivity with the
sync' detector for MW Dx'ing. All it needs is a good antenna and
possibly a passive preselector to control intermod's from strong local
MW stations.


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Old December 22nd 04, 02:48 PM
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Why not go for all 50 States -- for best bets see URL:
http://ac6v.com/clearam.htm#50

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"Maturin" wrote in message
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I'm new to the hobby of SWL, and currently studying for a amateur
radio license. I'm using a Sony ICF-2010 as my primary radio. I
apologize if my question is OT, but I'm interested in picking up
distant MW signals. One of my better catches would have to be WICC on
600 kHz broadcasting from Bridgeport, CT @ 500 W, and approx. 350
miles from me (reciever is in downeast Maine.) Anyway, my goal is to
pick up a signal from each of the 48 contiguous states. In addition to
the 2010 I've got a Terk loop. Is this setup adequate for my goal
(assuming "luck" as a factor)? I'd add that I'm limited to indoor
antennas at this time. I suppose I will need to pay more attention to
timing....

SNIP Question 2
thanks,
M.



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Old December 22nd 04, 03:00 PM
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"Caveat Lector" wrote in message
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Why not go for all 50 States -- for best bets see URL:
http://ac6v.com/clearam.htm#50

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Great link.

-Brian


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Back in the 1950's almost any cheap little transistor radio I owned that
had five or six transistors could at night time pick up some radio
stations in New York City and Denver and Detroit and Minneapolis and a
radio station in either (I forget which city now) Los Angeles or
Sacramento.
cuhulin



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) writes:
Back in the 1950's almost any cheap little transistor radio I owned that
had five or six transistors could at night time pick up some radio
stations in New York City and Denver and Detroit and Minneapolis and a
radio station in either (I forget which city now) Los Angeles or
Sacramento.
cuhulin

But one of the immediate problems is closer stations getting in the way of
distant stations. A local station will block the use of that frequency,
unless you wait till it goes off the air for some reason. Same if KDKA
is booming in. The problem of receiving distant stations can't come
into play until you can eliminate closer stations.

Michael


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Old December 22nd 04, 05:26 PM
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An MFJ-1025/26 does this pretty nicely if your offending station is
groundwave, a bit more difficult if your station is skywave. It helps
to disable the MW attenuation (easily done, not easily reversible).
Bruce Jensen



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