[IRCA] How I turned a walkman-like radio into a DXing machine!

["Mike Westfall, Lost Almost NM" <mwdx@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey, I've been playing around tonite, and I decided I needed to mod my 
RCA RP-1878A walkman-like portable for better selectivity.

What I did was replace the 15 kHz filter (marked HLB450BY) with the 6 
kHz filter (SFP450IA) taken from my dead DX440.

Of course, it didn't plug right in, so I had to add some pigtails to the 
  new filter.

Anyway, I put it back together and wow! What a difference!
Where as before I would get a strong station across 50kHz worth of 
tuning, I now get no bleedover from one channel to  the next.

With this mod and my RS loop antenna, it makes a pretty decent portable 
DXing machine!

Pictures here:
http://www.gentoo.net/mike/radio/mwdx/RCA-mod





-- 
Mike Westfall, N6KUY, WDX6O
Los Alamos, New Mexico (DM65uv)
"Los Alamos" is Spanish for "More than one Alamo" -- Dave Barry
Online logbooks: http://dxlogbook.gentoo.net?account=mikew
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