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1710 & 1720 KHz "The Big Q" This Morning

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kilokat7

1710 & 1720 SDR catches last night:

Great to hear the Big Q back with a better signal. Not heard this well since last year during the holiday season. Came on at 0525z as near as I can tell. Radio Celestial from the Bronx was annoyingly strong here last night, about 25Hz to the high side of 1710.

1710 KHz:

0525z: Rick Nelson "Garden Party"
0527z: Big Q ID
0528z: Announcer describing switching from digital to analog processing equipment for a better quality AM sound, new antenna array, etc. with clever audio voice-overs tossed in.
0529z: Announcer "Midnight Man" talking up the GE Superadio, signal abruptly dropped giving way to Radio Celestial again, technical issue I assume.

1720 KHz:

0808z: Noted back again, but on 1720, with massive AM carrier and high pitched test tones, and unobstructed signal thanks to the clear channel. I bet this would have been widely heard on this frequency if people had known to listen. Christmas oldies, slick jingles, and very nice quality 20 Khz wide audio.

These are worth a listen if you haven't heard the station before:

Complete 1710 recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K9IJ-Hfrbg
Complete 1720 recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhFvByqc978

Happy Holidays to all!
 
Nice catches. I'll have to keep an eye on 1710 to see if I hear anything unusual. All I usually hear is the Hudson County, NJ TIS station and some religious station thats probably a pirate.
 
What kind of receiver do you need to tune 1720 kHz? My Tecsun doesn't go past 1710 for AM and the SW bands start at 2300 kHz. Makes me wonder what other oddities are out there above 1710.
 
Buckeyes2001 said:
What kind of receiver do you need to tune 1720 kHz? My Tecsun doesn't go past 1710 for AM and the SW bands start at 2300 kHz. Makes me wonder what other oddities are out there above 1710.
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There periodically have been homebrew experimentor tips about expanding the dial. I remember some of them from the days of that little Radio Shack TRF portable in the 70's, and later for the GE Superadio.

Basically, it was opening up the back of the radio and manually adjusting the tuning capacitor with a wee screwdriver.
I have no idea how that would effect a digital-readout radio's accuracy, though. After all, the TRF, the GE SR and many earlier rigs were analog tuning.
Doubtless, someone aboard here will know whether the same sort of fiddling around with a digital-display radio would throw off the whole rest of the dial's accuracy. Or maybe even all the bands. I didn't even attempt it on any of the analog radios (though I was tempted).
 
Buckeyes2001 said:
Makes me wonder what other oddities are out there above 1710.
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In the US, 1720-1800 is "no man's land". There isn't much activity here, except for the occasional driftnet beacon that can be heard on clear nights. It's a different story outside of the US however. There are many coastal marine stations operating in this band from Europe, and maybe elsewhere. It can make for some challenging DX if you have a capable communications receiver and a quiet noise floor in this band. I've been lucky enough to catch Valentia Coastguard Radio from Ireland with navigational warning messages broadcasting on 1752 KHz upper sideband mode (the norm for these types of utility communications). Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSydPXRX3Uw
 
i'll have to check 1752 in sideband mode for that.


i have a Sangean ATS-505 that tunes continuously from 1711-29999 kHz
 
If you're on the West Coast, there is a Papua New Guinea NDB on 1737 khz, IIRC. It has been caught before by trans-pacific DXers here in WA and BC.

-crainbebo
 
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