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JOUB 774 kHz Akita, Japan

Congrats! Like I said to hawaiigar, JOUB is about the easiest trans-Pacific to catch in the United States. Try 594, 693, 747, 828 and 1566 (Korea) next time. The first 4 are all NHK Japan blasters.

-crainbebo
 
I've heard differently from others but my personal experience is that my loop only helped with daytime reception when a station was very weak.

Didn't make a difference to me at all at night.

Maybe it would be different with some of those large loops people have made.
 
When I got JOUB a few years ago, a loop antenna (in my case the Select-A-Tenna) helped immensely, with careful positioning and tuning. I was using a Tecsun PL-380 at the time, and it greatly helped cut down the front-end desense from my local station on 760. I also used the same setup to hear 594 JOAK, which was out from under a local station on 600 which also uses IBOC.
 
hawaiigar said:
I've heard differently from others but my personal experience is that my loop only helped with daytime reception when a station was very weak.

Didn't make a difference to me at all at night.

Maybe it would be different with some of those large loops people have made.
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A tiltable and rotatable loop can put enormous nulls on skywave signals. My Ohio loggings of Hawai'i were all done on a loop with the South American co-channels nulled in some cases.
 
MarioMania said:
On my Grundig, I have SSB...What does it do?
I know I can Google it, But I want someone here to say it so I could understand it
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To make it really simple, if you tune to a station on 774 in the upper sideband mode, it will greatly reduce the splatter from a station on 770. In the lower sideband mode, it will remove much of the noise from anything on 780. Many becons between 190 KHz and slightly above 400 KHz have carriers, but "beep" identifiers only on one side, but I forgot which side. CHU, the time station in Canada, on 3,330, 7,850, and 14,670 are all lower sideband with reduced carriers. Switch from LSB to USB while listening to CHU on any of their three channels and your receiver will get quiet. Play with your Grundig and have some fun. Our next lesson will cover cheap synchronous detection with the Kahn-Hazletine AM stereo chip.
 
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Beacons will depend. I have heard some NDB stations in USB and others in LSB. I don't DX NDB that much because my Grundig G5 sucks, but I have spent many a session on the Ridgecrest (Mojave Desert CA) Global Tuners node, logging NDBs. Farthest so far is DDP-391 San Juan PR. Have also caught NDBs up in Nunavut and Northwest Territories.
 
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