Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] 594 India into central USA?

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

The main reasons I discounted it were 1) I never heard any easy splits from
there with that setup; 2) when
I subsequently relocated another 10-12 miles west, and upgraded to an
HQ-150 ( dual conversion ) and a
loop, I did start to hear TA's for real, but it was several months before I
had any on 1 kHz splits; 3) as I got
used to the new receiver, I came to realize just how many images and mixing
products of all kinds the HQ-100
actually produced.

I did eventually hear Saar on 1421 a year or so later.



Russ Edmunds
15 mi NW Phila
Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>

AM: Modified Sony ICF2010's (2) barefoot w/whip
FM: Yamaha T-80 & T-85, each w/ Conrad RDS Decoder;
Onkyo T-450RDS; Tecsun PL-310 ( 2);
modified Sony ICF2010 w/APS9B @ 15';
Grundig G8 w/whip; modified Sony ICF2010 w/whip


On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:07 PM, R. Colin Newell <coffeecanuck@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I think it may have been likely that it was indeed Germany on 1421 --
>
> Because TA's came thick and fast on many more basic radios - often with
> little more than the loop-stick for an antenna.
>
> I once told an aspiring dxer near Halifax that he could easily hear the UK
> on his Sony 7600G --
> He thought that was impossible -- and I suggested tuning to 1215Khz or
> 1089Khz around sun-set any day of the week in September...
> Sure enough, there it was.
>
> One part of the success formula for DXing is actually believing that it is
> possible.
> I picked up a copy of Communications World in 1973 that had a feature in
> Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific MW DX.
> It blew my mind - but I set about to be the best TP and TA dxer I possible
> could...
> And eventually I was hearing TA's and TP's on DX150B with a 3 X 3 '
> home-brew loop.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I remember way back in 1969, living in Northern NJ, using a Hammarlund
> > HQ-100 ( single conversion ) and a
> > short wire antenna from about 30 miles west of NYC. Tuning around one
> > evening I noted a het on 1421. I played with it a bit and got audio. In
> > German. Back then Saar was on 1421. Thought I had my first TA.  In a
> > roundabout way, I did, because it was almost certainly some sort of an
> > image from SW. What are the odds ???
> >
> > Russ Edmunds
> > 15 mi NW Phila
> > Grid FN20id
> > <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> --
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