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Enjoying Global Tuners Lately

newfoundlandtime

newfoundlandtime

Since signing up late Monday night and being approved the following morning, I've mostly taken advantage of my favorite Halifax FMs that I have stream links bookmarked, but I have picked up on the Lexington receiver WOWO 1190, WGN 720, WSM 650, WSCR 670, and WMVP 1000 among others.

St. Margaret's Bay receiver allowed me to get CJCB 1270 at night (and I'm on the "other side", where I get that all the time). Have briefly toyed around with an Australian receiver.

The Mojave Desert receiver got me my first listens to KLAA 830 (when it's not Anaheim Ducks games) and briefly heard Roger Lodge; also got KNX 1070. Wasn't sure if I'd get Bay Area AMs but that'll be attempted later.

Global Tuners - it's quite a fun thing. Maybe if I win the lotto jackpot I'll get myself a similar unit to what most there use. It would be interesting one day to see how you guys make out on the nighttime AMs I've been getting for the past 5 years.
 
newfoundlandtime said:
Since signing up late Monday night and being approved the following morning, I've mostly taken advantage of my favorite Halifax FMs that I have stream links bookmarked, but I have picked up on the Lexington receiver WOWO 1190, WGN 720, WSM 650, WSCR 670, and WMVP 1000 among others.

St. Margaret's Bay receiver allowed me to get CJCB 1270 at night (and I'm on the "other side", where I get that all the time). Have briefly toyed around with an Australian receiver.

The Mojave Desert receiver got me my first listens to KLAA 830 (when it's not Anaheim Ducks games) and briefly heard Roger Lodge; also got KNX 1070. Wasn't sure if I'd get Bay Area AMs but that'll be attempted later.

Global Tuners - it's quite a fun thing. Maybe if I win the lotto jackpot I'll get myself a similar unit to what most there use. It would be interesting one day to see how you guys make out on the nighttime AMs I've been getting for the past 5 years.
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If you ever got on Global Tuners that would be great. I'd love to listen from your location.
We also need somebody to get one going in Hawaii ;D
 
There is one in Hawaii, but I didn't note any mainland stations, even though it can get the Honolulu AMs fine. I was expecting KNX and KPNW real strong...

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
There is one in Hawaii, but I didn't note any mainland stations, even though it can get the Honolulu AMs fine. I was expecting KNX and KPNW real strong...

-crainbebo
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Antenna is everything!

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crainbebo said:
There is one in Hawaii, but I didn't note any mainland stations, even though it can get the Honolulu AMs fine. I was expecting KNX and KPNW real strong...

-crainbebo
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When I was in Hawaii I could pick up the Mainland stations with just the ferrite antenna in the radio.
Maybe this listening post is tuned for different frequencies.
 
My favorite receiver is the one in Colorado because you can easily hear stations with an ID from California to Chicago and I often tune to 660, 770, and 880 hoping to get a New York station with an ID.

You can hear so much of the country on one receiver.

And what kind of a radio and antenna is on the TranAtlantic MWDX receiver?

The big NYC clears often come in from there much better than they do here and I'm only about 1/3 the distance.

If I had my Sangean PR-D5 in that same location, would I be able to hear the New York stations that well?

There is one in Hawaii, but I didn't note any mainland stations, even though it can get the Honolulu AMs fine. I was expecting KNX and KPNW real strong...
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I have to check that out. Guess I never noticed it but I see it there on the list.
 
newfoundlandtime said:
St. Margaret's Bay receiver allowed me to get CJCB 1270 at night (and I'm on the "other side", where I get that all the time). Have briefly toyed around with an Australian receiver.
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I've found the St. Margaret's Bay mode to be rather disappointing, not being TA DX friendly, at all.

I do find I spend lots of time in Sekule (Slovakia) ~> http://www.globaltuners.com/receiver/232/ , or the Hong Kong node ~> http://www.globaltuners.com/receiver/28/, where I've bumped into an ex-Canadian Navy user, on several occasions, who has a taste for Chinese military CW traffic. 8)

~BG
 
I spend most of my time at Mohave Desert (Ridgecrest, CA), Albany NY Capitol District (great antenna) and of course, the Northern Ireland Transatlantic AM DX machine.

Mohave Desert is good for everything. AM, NDB, SW and FM do great. I have caught a few E-skip openings there with some stations well into the 1400 mi range (El Dorado, AR 93.3).

-crainbebo
 
radioman148 said:
When I was in Hawaii I could pick up the Mainland stations with just the ferrite antenna in the radio.
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My experience as well. On Maui, I'd just go out by the pool at night with my Grundig YB 300, and all manner of stuff would come in....barefoot. No such luck during the year I lived in Honolulu as a teenager....too much noise and too many local signals. North shore of Oahu in the car was another matter entirely, however.
 
cyberdad said:
radioman148 said:
When I was in Hawaii I could pick up the Mainland stations with just the ferrite antenna in the radio.
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My experience as well. On Maui, I'd just go out by the pool at night with my Grundig YB 300, and all manner of stuff would come in....barefoot. No such luck during the year I lived in Honolulu as a teenager....too much noise and too many local signals. North shore of Oahu in the car was another matter entirely, however.
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I actually found that in the rental car I used that in parts of Honolulu away from the concrete jungle I could get some very good DX. Heard KOKC in the car one night. I needed the Grundig G5 away from the city in order to hear 1116 from Brisbane, Australia, especially with the split frequency. However, all of my DX there was done without any special antennas.
I'd love to know what you could hear from those islands with a longwire.
 
Quick observation, and this was mostly unintentional: Friday night, tried to listen online to the KometCast stream but it broke until early Saturday morning so I was forced to use alternate means to hear parts of the hockey game (I ended up listening to about 10 different games on about as many different feeds through the course of the night), and while it was easy to get WOWO 1190 on both Lexington receivers, they became unavailable for me most of the game (did hear parts of the first period on it), so after checking out some others, I found out St. Jean Sur Richelieu's receiver was able to pull in WOWO so I heard as much as I could there, alternating with TSN 1050 (due to personal conflict with the satellite TV recording a different game). I was surprised WOWO could make it to St. Jean Sur Richelieu as good as it did.

One personal note: if WOWO was still a "Clear Channel" designation, I'd probably have no problem getting it outright on my own.
 
Hi newfoundlandtime

On the St. Margaret's Bay tuner you will find YVLF in Puerto Cabello Venezuela quite often with a good signal in Spanish and Latin type music . I hear it quite often here on the radio in Bristol's Hope
 
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