Grundig S350 AM BCB DX results part II
 

Hello Friends
Having had the S350 for a day or two I have had the chance to do some
DX'ing with it. Nice catches I never heard before :
WOC 1420 Kc/s Davenport IA
CFRW 1290 Kc/s Winnipeg MB
WLIK 1420 Kc/s Paducah KY (1KW)

nothing real exotic. but not afraid to take on the graveyard freqs
now. Maybe my memory is playing tricks but sure seems harder to pull
'em out now than on the pre-1975 dial. Not to raise flames but I'm
glad I didn't spend big money for that CCrane receiver. I am very
happy with this one. Only fly in the ointment..I get an image at 690
KC for a local on 1600 KC and
an image on 950 Kc/s for WLS 890 Kc/s (whose 50KW transmitter site is
in a town very close to here). At night "real stations" come in on
these freqs and I don't get the images..so no big deal.
All in all....nice little RX. Glad I got one.
73 Greg

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Hello Friends
Having had the S350 for a day or two I have had the chance to do some
DX'ing with it. Nice catches I never heard before :
WOC 1420 Kc/s Davenport IA
CFRW 1290 Kc/s Winnipeg MB
WLIK 1420 Kc/s Paducah KY (1KW)


I love my BCL2000 (OEM S-350)
Try 1040 WHO in Des Moines, Iowa
They sent me a QSL card for a written report sent to:

WHO Radio
1801 Grand Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50309

I'm sure lots of other MW stations still QSL, but
WHO was kind enough to respond when I
emailed the chief engineer and inquired about sending
reception reports.

WHO does come in ok all day in the Chicago area...........good signal. Since
you are also in the Chicago area, try for WLW, 700kHz; 1520, for some
station in southeast Missouri..........I haven't IDed it yet; 524kHz, the
Iowa City aero beacon; WKAR, 870kHz, East Lansing Michigan; and finally,
WOWO, 1190, Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
These are pretty easy to receive, except maybe the 524kHz station.

Pete

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Hello Friends
Having had the S350 for a day or two I have had the chance to do some
DX'ing with it. Nice catches I never heard before :
WOC 1420 Kc/s Davenport IA
CFRW 1290 Kc/s Winnipeg MB
WLIK 1420 Kc/s Paducah KY (1KW)


I love my BCL2000 (OEM S-350)
Try 1040 WHO in Des Moines, Iowa
They sent me a QSL card for a written report sent to:

WHO Radio
1801 Grand Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50309

I'm sure lots of other MW stations still QSL, but
WHO was kind enough to respond when I
emailed the chief engineer and inquired about sending
reception reports.

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Hello Friends
Having had the S350 for a day or two I have had the chance to do some
DX'ing with it. Nice catches I never heard before :
WOC 1420 Kc/s Davenport IA
CFRW 1290 Kc/s Winnipeg MB
WLIK 1420 Kc/s Paducah KY (1KW)

nothing real exotic. but not afraid to take on the graveyard freqs
now. Maybe my memory is playing tricks but sure seems harder to pull
'em out now than on the pre-1975 dial. Not to raise flames but I'm
glad I didn't spend big money for that CCrane receiver. I am very
happy with this one. Only fly in the ointment..I get an image at 690
KC for a local on 1600 KC and
an image on 950 Kc/s for WLS 890 Kc/s (whose 50KW transmitter site is
in a town very close to here). At night "real stations" come in on
these freqs and I don't get the images..so no big deal.
All in all....nice little RX. Glad I got one.
73 Greg



Some of those images could be lower-power rebroadcasting transmitters in
nearby cities, couldn't they?


Only issue I had on MW with an S-350 when I had one was drift, mostly from
the dial-string tuning mechanism. I got a scrap bcl-2000 sitting around,
got to try to modify it to use a geared mechanism on of these days.