On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 13:41:32 -0500, "Lenny"
wrote:

NW NJ.
Lenny

"David" wrote in message
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On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:03:32 -0500, "Lenny"
wrote:

Hello again all.
By now, you should be getting tired of my endless beginners questions.
Well, here's another, so get over it! : )
If you recall, I have an Icom R-75 with all the Kiwa Mods, hooked up to an
Antenna Supermarket Eavesdropper
which runs into a Zap Trapper, then into the radio.
Both the radio and antenna are grounded to a cold water pipe in my
basement.
I am generally pleased with SW reception, but, as this is my first SW
radio,
I'm sure it could be better.
Does anybody have any simple improvements that I can try to improve
reception?
I'm kinda limited in my antenna placement as I only have one tree large
enough in my yard to anchor an end of it to.
The other end is anchored to my house. Both ends are anchored with rope,
and then an insulator connected to the antenna.
I'm sure I could pop for a expensive antenna like the Wellbrook, but I
don't
wanna spend that much $ now.
Whatever suggestions you have, please keep them simple as I'm not an
electrical engineer.
My listening interests are mainly International broadcast and some utility
monitoring.
Thanks,
Lenny


Where are you?

(QTH?)



With that radio you'd get the best results using the SSB modes. The
AM is OK for local stations in the daytime. S-AM mode doesn't really
work (Kiwa has a mod program for this). I listen to AMDX on my R-75
all night long in the SSB mode and it works extremely well. Use the
Dual PBT controls and the FIL button to get the most pleasant sound.

I own a Terk TV 50 antenna I bought for five dollars at a Goodwill store
about a year ago.It is about seven feet long and it has a lenght of
coaxial cable fasten to the middle on one side of the antenna and there
is a little slide switch for Off,On, to TV, to Antenna connected to the
coaxial cable and there is also a 112volts dc Terk wall wart connected
to the slide switch and another lenght of coaxial cable permantley
coonected to the other end of the slide switch.(the other coaxial cable
connections are ordinary screw on connections) Of course the antenna is
intended for use with a tv set.I wonder how well the antenna would work
as a shortwave radio antenna?
www.devilfinder.com Terk TV 50 Antenna
cuhulin

David wrote:

With that radio you'd get the best results using the SSB modes. The
AM is OK for local stations in the daytime. S-AM mode doesn't really
work (Kiwa has a mod program for this). I listen to AMDX on my R-75
all night long in the SSB mode and it works extremely well. Use the
Dual PBT controls and the FIL button to get the most pleasant sound.



Funny but on all my radios, AM works extremely well.

--
Brian Denley
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html

I have a Four Star 12 transistor made in Japan AM/FM radio I want to try
out.The plastic battery holder holds four AA 1.5 volt batteries and the
battery holder has a connector on one end that is similar to a nine volt
battery.The wire springs battery contacts are completely corroded and
one of the connectors on the battery holder has corroded completly
away.I guess Radio Shack might sell plastic battery holders that might
work ok.
cuhulin

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:29:46 -0600, wrote:

I have a Four Star 12 transistor made in Japan AM/FM radio I want to try
out.The plastic battery holder holds four AA 1.5 volt batteries and the
battery holder has a connector on one end that is similar to a nine volt
battery.The wire springs battery contacts are completely corroded and
one of the connectors on the battery holder has corroded completly
away.I guess Radio Shack might sell plastic battery holders that might
work ok.
cuhulin

http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...entPage=search

David - Good Link ~ RHF

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 21:49:41 -0500, "Brian Denley"
wrote:

David wrote:

With that radio you'd get the best results using the SSB modes. The
AM is OK for local stations in the daytime. S-AM mode doesn't really
work (Kiwa has a mod program for this). I listen to AMDX on my R-75
all night long in the SSB mode and it works extremely well. Use the
Dual PBT controls and the FIL button to get the most pleasant sound.



Funny but on all my radios, AM works extremely well.
I'm so happy for you. Where I live I can get 2 AM signals cleanly at
night, KNX and our hideous KHTS 1220. KFI has sky/ground
cancellation. Everything else is DX and subject to selective fading
all evening long.