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Best online SDRs for Medium Wave
- Thread starter gr8oldies
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Same here. For the same reason as you. But the noise level. especially on the Barrington Hills receiver, can sometimes be an issue. I also liked the Milwaukee receiver when the MW band filter was off.
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I have to give the Bonaire SDR another try. When I first visited it 2-3 years ago, the current version of PJB had just signed on, and I don't think it was set up properly. I didn't hear much of anything.
They attenuate 800 but it doesn't seem to nuke that whole part of the band.
It was pretty good when I tried it last week. Hopefully it stays that way.
That's right, you can tune very close to 800 and the band is pretty noise-free. One interesting thing about Bonaire, before using the SDR I didn't appreciate how close Bonaire (and the northern coast of SA) is to the Caribbean islands. Puerto Rico and Hispanola (DR and Haiti) are only 400 miles from Bonaire and Cuba's just 7-800 miles. Thus, you'll hear a lot of stations from up there mixing in with the South Americans.
I am impartial to the Edmonton, Alberta, Canada SDR. That one gets a pretty clear signal on the dial for AM stations. Plus, since it is located in Edmonton, you can get Chicago stations like WBBM, WGN and WSCR, while also getting all the big stations out west including KFI, KSL, KOA, KOMO, CKWX and my personal favorite, W 1440 from Wetaskiwin!
I just to any Random SDR to listen to AM, I have no Faves
Totally agree George. I should have included that in my mentions. IIRC, that SDR was down for a while earlier this year, so I kind of got away from it. That's the SDR where I snagged daytime skywave on 1340 from a Montana station about 400 miles away.
And I'm with you on W-1440. Great listen, and their stream isn't available outside of Canada.
None of the W1440 airstaff is live or local. Stella is in Camrose/Edmonton and Gerard is somewhere in the Canadian maritimes.
Though, good station musically.
Exactly a year ago I was in the hospital for 8 days and brought along my laptop. A nurse hooked me up onto their WiFi and I read about the SDR radios on this forum.
Whee!
Imagine being in a cot with tubes and bags of stuff going through you, in Pottsville PA, and listening during lunch to KFQD 750 Anchorage. That was off the Vancouver Island B.C. dial.
I alarmed the nurses a few times by the beeping from my side of the dorm. I explained that I was setting my watch to WWV, a time station from Hawaii (the Kahakuloa SDR). I'm sure they believed me.
The Holland CT / MA dial is a 'car-button' as well. So is the Milford PA dial, Rockport Maine and Key West. I've been essentially an AM-only DXer for decades, and a mostly Domestic one at that.
As Mitch Brewer suggests, 'counting' stations on one log with this new cornucopia is sort of like shooting fish from a barrel, so I have a separate log. It's surprising how many music stations there are on some of those SDR dials.
Best 'catch' so far has been back here at home -- adult-hits KIFW, Sitka Alaska, off that Vancouver Island SDR. It's great, giggly, guilty fun enjoying a GY station from Alaska at noon in Pennsylvania.
Gr8 topic, GR8 Oldies!
Whee!
Imagine being in a cot with tubes and bags of stuff going through you, in Pottsville PA, and listening during lunch to KFQD 750 Anchorage. That was off the Vancouver Island B.C. dial.
I alarmed the nurses a few times by the beeping from my side of the dorm. I explained that I was setting my watch to WWV, a time station from Hawaii (the Kahakuloa SDR). I'm sure they believed me.
The Holland CT / MA dial is a 'car-button' as well. So is the Milford PA dial, Rockport Maine and Key West. I've been essentially an AM-only DXer for decades, and a mostly Domestic one at that.
As Mitch Brewer suggests, 'counting' stations on one log with this new cornucopia is sort of like shooting fish from a barrel, so I have a separate log. It's surprising how many music stations there are on some of those SDR dials.
Best 'catch' so far has been back here at home -- adult-hits KIFW, Sitka Alaska, off that Vancouver Island SDR. It's great, giggly, guilty fun enjoying a GY station from Alaska at noon in Pennsylvania.
Gr8 topic, GR8 Oldies!
try hearing a graveyard from San francisco and sacramento in alaska at night.. i have.. THAT is a thrill
That makes two of us, Steve. I was in the hospital for a week and a half during December 2019. The SDRs....and this board....were part of what kept me from going stir crazy!
Found a new one in Tustin, Michigan, which seems to be near...not much of anything (a little south of Cadillac) which seems to be good and quiet (usually when I say that, all of a sudden "bzzzzzzt"). 5pm hour EDT WONE, Dayton OH with sports mixed with a country station, 610 WTVN barely there, and WGVS-850 mixed with WKNR, Cleveland. Not many locals in that area.
WTVN blasts into Tustin at night, much stronger than I would have expected. But it's a regular, and a solid regular at that, whenever I check that SDR.
I hope the one in Lubec, Maine makes its return now that we're entering prime AM DX season. Their location plus the really early sunsets out that way could make for some interesting catches.
I hope the one in Lubec, Maine makes its return now that we're entering prime AM DX season. Their location plus the really early sunsets out that way could make for some interesting catches.
I hope trans Atlantic DX improves soon. The last several nights I've heard nothing from North America on the Iceland receivers.
Just a week ago conditions were very good.
Lubec is usually only on (or public) for short periods. Tustin is fascinating, and yes I've caught WTVN near sunset, also the first time I tried it, WONE, Dayton. CFZM is there at night but not day. I've heard bleedover from the shortwave bands, first figuring it was possibly the owner of the rig operating on the ham bands but also I've had RTTY and and even CHU on 1510. I often find the audio muted until I try a different browser (OK I can take a hint! Though it's timed for a maximum of one hour.) Most of the positions are taken by "wsprdaemon".
Still sounding auroral tonight, on the Tustin MI and Edinburgh IN SDRs.
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