You can string up a wire just about anywhere and get a good signal on shortwave. Fifty feet of very fine wire, strung along the ceiling on thumbtacks, will give you much more signal than the telescopic whip that comes with portable radios. Telescopic antennas are way too short for shortwav...
The tuning capacitors found in these radios consist of 4 separate variable capacitors (C1 through C4) and each of these capacitors has a trimmer parallel to it. There’s also a convenient tuning wheel attached to the tuning capacitor. You’ll need that also....
Sad for the news, the closing of WWV is like close a park, a comunity place where scientifics and enthusiast of radio could learn and experiment not only about time, radio propagation too. I not have much money for bought radiofrecuency equipment for repair or make my own radios, i us...
PSK31(iOS; $2.99) Launch this app, place it in front of your radio which you’ve tuned to a PSK31 signal, and it decodes on the fly. Very simple to use, and quite effective as long as your microphone is near the radio speaker. Meanwhile, Droid PSK (Android; $5.49) will deco...
to within the 2 week period. Also, many radios do not have the ability to tune in 1 KHz steps so your radio may not be able to monitor all the transmitters. Scanners may work. Regardless, do the best you can. If you are planning to participate and haven’t already notified me, ...
Zenith T/O Royal 7000, Emerson AR-176, Zenith 8S154, T/O 7G605 (Bomber), Tecsun PL-600, Tecsun PL-880, Zenith 5S320, Realistic DX 160 using 40 feet of copper wire. With apologies to Senator Gramm for his thoughts on firearms, "I have more radios than I need but not as many ...
Radios: Afedri AFE822x, Airspy HF+, RX-888, RSPdx, Tecsun PL880 Antennas: 700' Loop Skywire, Wellbrook ALA1530LN Loop, 400' Beverage, 34' Vertical, low dipoles on upper bands. blw DXing Phenomena Posts: 3710 Re: UNID 6950 AM 2313 UTC 20 Feb 2021 ...
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