Re: [IRCA] All Hail the SRF-59!

[satya@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi all:

I foresee a Sangean in my future as well, but the SRF-59 pulled off a
miracle last night.  1250-KKDZ (Radio Disney) is my perfect storm:
overcompressed kids music, with IBOC, 6 miles away with its lobe right in
my teeth.  It has one of the highest s-meter reading of anything I
receive, and it's been impossible to null, phase, or otherwise wish out of
existence.

On the way home last night I bought a cheap plastic camera tripod (an
"Ultrapod") and attached the barefoot SRF-59 to it.  With this
three-dimensional positioning aid (a new micro-DX term?), nulling out KKDZ
to the southeast of me produced a perfect (and I do mean perfect - not a
hint of KKDZ) null, so that a 5kw station 300 miles due east (KWSU) came
in with easily readable audio, one that I had only logged during a KKDZ
maintenance outage.  The internal ferrite on this unit is amazingly
directional!  The 5kw 1590-KLFE, a mere two miles away, can be nulled to
allow weak audio of its competitors which are not that strong and a few
hundred miles away.

One proviso - the SRF-59 is very sensitive to hand capacitance, and so I
needed to leave my hands where they were, otherwise the very precise null
was quickly lost.  I am going to rig up a longer arm on the tripod
mounting plate so I can be a couple feet away and see if that helps.

Kevin S.
Bainbridge Island, WA

> OK Bruce,
>
>      The DT210V sounds good enough to be a worthy  contestant in the next
> (2008) Pocket Radio Shootout, after this year's  competitors slug it out.
> It
> will be ordered ASAP (as if I really needed  any persuasion).  9 kHz
> splits with
> memories is a great advantage, although  my own experience leads me to
> doubt
> that any digital pocket radio can equal the  SRF-59's selectivity.  Sony
> has
> packed some mean power in that SRF-59  design, and if you can adjust to
> the
> analog tuning, it's truly  a DXer's dream machine.
>
>
>                     73,  Gary
>
>
>
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