You have to be in really good shape to schlep those R-390As around, but how would you say smaller LIGHTER modern Communications Receivers stack up to the R-390A? I knew a ham who passed away several years ago who had a couple of them (maybe 3) in his basement, but I could never arrange to get radio people and hams to help take them out, but I found out that radio people are remarkably undependable at that point! I think he got most of his stuff in Dayton. The man's wife and daughter were seriously upset with me for not arranging that, and I think they just got junked. I always felt bad about that. But they probably wouldn't have performed any better than an RF-2200 in any area electrically noisier than the wilds of Northern Michigan anyway.
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Speaking of Communications Receivers, what was that Radio Shack PLL Communication Receiver that came out around the late 1970s to early 1980s before everything went to digital tuning? It had a preselector on it, and with no antenna, the RF gain all the way down, and the preselector way detuned (back to Storer and WJBK), a mile North of the WLQV 1500 towers, it pinned the signal meter in the Radio Shack in the Sears Shopping Center there. Was that receiver any good? What was the model number?
Good conditions this morning before sunrise, and one new catch for yours truly. WCHS on 580. I presume they were on 5kw, non directional day pattern. The night pattern is still 5kw, but nulled in my direction. Signal was fair and steady with local news/weather, and positive ID just after 4:30 am CDT. Distance was 431 miles. Radio was C Crane Skywave.
Also a few rare, but not first time catches.....
570: WNAX, Yankton, SD. Usually, 570 is WKYX....if anything
730: CKDM, Dauphin, MB Present as often as not under WGN splatter, But this morning much stronger than usual
950: CFAM, Alatona, MB On top of the mess.
960: CFAC. Roaring in on top of everything.
1090: A continuous tone on top. Nulling it (NNE-SSW), produced WBAL on top, with KAAY and what was left of the tone.in the background. Very strange and not a het. Any ideas
All of these between 4:30 and 5:15am CDT with the C Crane skywave.
Also a few rare, but not first time catches.....
570: WNAX, Yankton, SD. Usually, 570 is WKYX....if anything
730: CKDM, Dauphin, MB Present as often as not under WGN splatter, But this morning much stronger than usual
950: CFAM, Alatona, MB On top of the mess.
960: CFAC. Roaring in on top of everything.
1090: A continuous tone on top. Nulling it (NNE-SSW), produced WBAL on top, with KAAY and what was left of the tone.in the background. Very strange and not a het. Any ideas
All of these between 4:30 and 5:15am CDT with the C Crane skywave.
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Nice catches. I haven't heard CKDM in quite awhile.
Nice catches, specially CFAM on 950. Is WNTD an issue for you interference wise? They are fairly strong at my location even though their nighttime site is farther away than the daytime one from me.
The FCC used to not allow more power at Night than during the Day. I think KFNS Wood River, IL was the first, and WNTD, although being one of the 50 oldest surviving stations in the country, could not negotiate rules to allow full time operation in until circa 1980. The first problem was not being able to protect WWJ with 500 watts nondirectional on 920, then 950, and it needed more power to move to the South Side of the Metro.
Not the DX150 or DX160 series?
Nice catches, especially CFAC. I've tried to get anything in Alberta but have yet to succeed. As for WCHS, there was a period several months ago where it would regularly come in for me in the evening. More recently 580 has been the usual jumble of several stations.
In Vallejo, CA
Seems like KDYA 1190 is off the air when I went on 1190 around 3 something
Seems like KDYA 1190 is off the air when I went on 1190 around 3 something
Thanks. CFAC is probably your best bet from Alberta. I heard it three or four times this past winter. usually weak and mixing with other signals. But this morning, it was really kicking butt. I can see if you're in the city where WNTD splatter along with WSBT could complicate thingds.
CFAM is probably the toughest of the group that I heard this morning, but it too occasionally pops up. It's mostly a brokered station, but they run classical music overnight. Which makes it easy to ID. The transmitter is about 50 miles south of Winnipeg, practically on the U.S. border. The signal is aimed north at Winnipeg and is good there 25/7. Ground conductivity in that area is spectacular.
In Vallejo, CA
I'm hearing KGBN 1190 at 6:50pm
The Web Stream Match
No sign of KEX
I'm hearing KGBN 1190 at 6:50pm
The Web Stream Match
No sign of KEX
Very good conditions to the midwest this morning on the Key West, Fl SDR. WGN and WBBM very good. WMVP fair and even WLS was fighting it out with Cuba. The best signal was WLW very strong. This was all around 1AM CDT.
Wasn't that WSAZ at one time? Maybe I'm thinking of something else. But if it is the fromer WSAZ, I think I heard it once or twice in the 60s or early '70s. Still a nice catch, regardless, so congratulations. Congrats also to DX Bob on snagging KFCD.
Nice catch.
Any chance at KXNT possibly?