Re: [IRCA] pending radio setup in Newfoundland
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Re: [IRCA] pending radio setup in Newfoundland



Stephen -

I don't know what Allen has heard, but on rental car radios we've heard a handful of UK stations while driving from St. John's to Cappahayden in the middle of the day.


Chuck

On 3/31/2012 8:57 PM, Stephen Airy wrote:
Allen....

I'm curious to know what midday/groundwave catches you might have across the pond with that setup grounded in the saltwater? :)  I've heard of 5kW 560 Miami (when their transmitter was in Biscaine (sp?) Bay) being heard on a barefoot Sony ICF-6500W at Signal Hill, NFLD.  With some Europeans being in the hundreds of kW or even a megawatt or more, I wonder if you'd hear any on groundwave there with a good setup, especially longwave stations?  (I haven't heard any here, but I've got a major urban area between me and the Pacific, which also is much larger than the Atlantic, especially heading west or southwest from here.)


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On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 9:17 AM PDT Allen Willie wrote:

RE:

I'm amazed at Alan Willie's TA DX list of snags with an otherwise not so sensitive little pocket radio and also a little envious since I'm not even getting any TPs with a fairly good full sized portable but then he's much closer to his TAs than I am to my TPs. But anyway whenever he sends in a report it always mentions the ultralights. I'd like to see what the results would be if he used a big rig with adjustable RF gain etc.and something like a loop antenna. Can we persuade him to do some DXing with something a little more sensitive -weather permitting ? Bill in BC

Hello To All

Plans are,  once the weather clears up I'll be putting out a 300 foot longwire antenna for both my Kenwood R-5000 and Yaesu FRG - 100 receivers

I'm looking forward to finding out what is out there to be heard on them as well.

Will be reporting when everything is up and running in the months ahead.


Good DX

Allen Willie
Bristol's Hope, Newfoundland



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