starman wrote:
wrote:

The first station I eveer IDed was R.A. back in 1963! It was on a
olde Zeneth SW. I was hooked.

Do you recall the frequency and time of day?

I dug out the "log" when I got home.
I haven't looked at it since I got married in
1977. Sadly the ink has faded and I can't make
it out. As our best guess, I asked my wifeto take
a stab at it, 13.655. I didn't know about SINPO for
another year. And this radio had no meter or tuning
eye. My father thinks I put the radio under the eves
when I received a Heathkit GR64 for my birthday in 196?,
the year the TV show "Manix" started.
I will have to look this weekend and see if the old radio
is still there.
Terry

It couldn't have been 13.655 if it was in the 1960's. The 22-m band
wasn't used for international broadcasting until the 1980's. I expect
you heard them on 31 or 25-meters if it was in the morning, US time.

wrote:

starman wrote:
wrote:

The first station I eveer IDed was R.A. back in 1963! It was on a
olde Zeneth SW. I was hooked.

Do you recall the frequency and time of day?

I dug out the "log" when I got home.
I haven't looked at it since I got married in
1977. Sadly the ink has faded and I can't make
it out. As our best guess, I asked my wifeto take
a stab at it, 13.655. I didn't know about SINPO for
another year. And this radio had no meter or tuning
eye. My father thinks I put the radio under the eves
when I received a Heathkit GR64 for my birthday in 196?,
the year the TV show "Manix" started.
I will have to look this weekend and see if the old radio
is still there.
Terry

Lie I said the ink is faded to the point where I guess
you can read anything into it. I guess I could send it to
the FBI, because I am sure they can recover it.
Terry

While shielded audio cable will work, real coax is much better.
Buy some dual shielded, braid with conductive foil, TV style
coax from you local parts outlet, RadioShack will work but it isn't
my first choice. Your receiver is 50Ohms, but even with a 9:1
matching transformer your antenna impedance will vary wildly.
And 75 Ohm instead of 50 ohm is only a 1.5:1 mismatch.
Hardly worth thinking about.
The Doty article on "Low Noise Antennas" is a must read.
His reasoning for burring the coax is excellent and can
help to really knock the noise down.
I say can, because some locations are hard luck and can be
very difficult to reduce the noise.
His approach gives the most result for the work of any I know of.
Terry

wrote in message
...
England is smaller in square miles area (I don't give a damn kilometers)
than the State of Oregon.Spain and Italy are not too far from
England.And they call that DXing over there!?

DXing on VHF FM frequencies! Around 88-108 MHz. These signals are usually
line of sight, so Italy most certainly is DX.

--
Simon Mason
Anlaby
East Yorkshire.
53°44'N 0°26'W
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net

wrote:

The Doty article on "Low Noise Antennas" is a must read.
His reasoning for burring the coax is excellent and can
help to really knock the noise down.
I say can, because some locations are hard luck and can be
very difficult to reduce the noise.
His approach gives the most result for the work of any I know of.
Terry

I agree. After building the low noise antenna system I can now listen to
shortwave with the computer and TV running in the same room.

Try these links:
http://www.anarc.org/naswa/badx/ante...e_antenna.html
http://www.anarc.org/naswa/badx/ante..._longwire.html
MiniCircuits makes 9:1 transformers if you aren't up to winding your
own:
http://www.minicircuits.com/transf.html
http://www.minicircuits.com/dg03-238.pdf
I use the T9-1, rated for .150~120MHz.
Works to well below 100KHz.

I found I got a slightly cleaner, better noise isolation from our home
by adding a T1-1 (1:1) at the halfway point and not tieing the grounds
in common.
One of the ham radio antenna sites I frequent has mentioned the
minicircuits are porne to getting zapped by ligthening. My antenna
has been up 3 years, and I had a tree split by a bolt with no effect on
the transformer.
Terry

Terry

Well,fix me up with some Eyetalian wimmins then.
cuhulin