at 11:45 UTC, Picking it up here on 9.580 (using an external antenna )

but am able to pick it up On The Whip with my Degen DE1105

Signal strong but full of static due to Air Conditioners . ..

Radio New Zealand has been absent the last few nights


weatherall wrote:
I had success receiving Radio Australia last summer in the 19 meter
band. I've been looking up their frequencies on primetimeshortwave.com
. Lately I am only getting faint signals, which are even weaker than
the Voice of Russia.

Has anyone in North America had success with Radio Australia in the
past few months? I'm curious to know which times and frequencies are
successful.

Typically I use a Sony ICF SW7600GR or Eton E5 with just the builtin
antenna. Grounding hasn't helped much - the signal just seems too
weak. I'm in an apartment and I don't have the option for a lengthy
outdoor antenna. I have a DE31 loop antenna that doesn't really help.




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weatherall

wrote:

at 11:45 UTC, Picking it up here on 9.580 (using an external antenna )

but am able to pick it up On The Whip with my Degen DE1105

Signal strong but full of static due to Air Conditioners . ..

Radio New Zealand has been absent the last few nights

Radio New Zealand coming in well here on 9870 at 1200.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:00:52 -0400, dxAce
wrote:



wrote:

at 11:45 UTC, Picking it up here on 9.580 (using an external antenna )

but am able to pick it up On The Whip with my Degen DE1105

Signal strong but full of static due to Air Conditioners . ..

Radio New Zealand has been absent the last few nights

Radio New Zealand coming in well here on 9870 at 1200.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


Kiwi bird, S-7 1258

I'm in an apartment in Hong Kong with a Sony ICF 7600GR tied to a few metres
of wire hanging outside the window as antenna.

Radio Australia is strong as if it is my local MW station. That's probably
because they've relays in Singapore and Taiwan. In contrast, Radio New
Zealand is noticeably weaker although it's still audible. Seems their
signal come all the way from their country with no relay halfway.

I'm very surprised that you could pick them up as far as central US.

ngu wrote:
I'm in an apartment in Hong Kong with a Sony ICF 7600GR tied to a few metres
of wire hanging outside the window as antenna.

Radio Australia is strong as if it is my local MW station. That's probably
because they've relays in Singapore and Taiwan. In contrast, Radio New
Zealand is noticeably weaker although it's still audible. Seems their
signal come all the way from their country with no relay halfway.

I'm very surprised that you could pick them up as far as central US.

I've never had any particular trouble receiving the Aussies from
anywhere I've lived in the U.S., east or west, almost any time of day,
since 1973. That big watery mirror between them and us gives us a leg
up, I suppose.

In fact, this past week, their domestic-program 50 kW stations on 60m
were banging in here better than I can ever remember.

Bruce Jensen