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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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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. -----------== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----= Over 100,000 Newsgroups - Unlimited Fast Downloads - 19 Servers =----- |
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Why not go for all 50 States -- for best bets see URL:
http://ac6v.com/clearam.htm#50 -- Caveat Lecter "Maturin" wrote in message ... 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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![]() "Caveat Lector" wrote in message news:GOfyd.12163$JI.5760@fed1read07... Why not go for all 50 States -- for best bets see URL: http://ac6v.com/clearam.htm#50 -- Caveat Lecter 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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m II wrote:
wrote: 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. I would not have thought that there were any CHEAP five or six transistor radios in the fifties. Didn't the Sixties bring in the less expensive sets? You win. It wasn't until the little Japanese companies flooded the market with cheapies that the prices became very affordable. Before that, an all-transistor, American-made radio cost about one week's take-home pay. -- The state religion of the USA is atheism, as established by the courts. |
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m II wrote:
wrote: 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. I would not have thought that there were any CHEAP five or six transistor radios in the fifties. Didn't the Sixties bring in the less expensive sets? The first generation of transistor radios cost several hundred dollars in today's money, which is similar to the first pocket calculators in the 70's. -----------== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----= Over 100,000 Newsgroups - Unlimited Fast Downloads - 19 Servers =----- |
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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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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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