[HCDX] A new radio !!!!!!!

[aurel chiochiu <acq@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We did go at a shop with old radios this afternoon and we buyed an old Sanyo radio (a bit different from the Sanyo MCD-S830 but with pretty much the same sensitivity and selectivity carachteristics, so I will be able to tape my DX sessions and to DX on a good radio with a good internal ferrite bar antenna that can null out west-east North Americans and pick up Latins from the south again starting this evening. During the day-time, this radio picks up a lot of semi-locals like CFRA Ottawa. The only problem, is that despite the fact that both the sensitivity and selectivity are very good, the nulls of the ferrite bar antenna are very slightly less sharp than those of the Sanyo`s ferrite bar one; for exemple I can`t really completely null out CFRA and it is just a SEMI-local, not a local. With my Sanyo I could null 99.9% of it and only detect it as a kind of extremely weak het in the sharpest null. This is because the ferrite bar antenna is of a much little size (I have to actually orient my radio EAST-WEST to pick up what it`s north and south of me and vice-versa), but the probably higher sensitivity compared to the Sanyo MCD-S830 more than makes up for that. I could replace it eventually with the Sanyo`s ferrite bar, but for hearing strong Latins like Coro-780 wich is really strong during Auroras and WBBM is almost always completely during such condx, so it`s nice !

73 and good DX,
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