The guy, I don't remember his name, who was building the "ultimate" M.W.
receiver?
Not another Satellit 900 fiasco, I hope...

--
Jim

Ultimate MW Reciever???

I already got it

Ten Tec RX-340 and a 2100 foot skywire loop up 125 feet on the low
end...almost 600 feet high on the high end.

What could be better?

From Central VA I pick up hundreds of stations daily....at NOON! From Canada
to Mexico.....From Alaska to Western Europe

Around 11 PM it gets better!


"Jim Hackett" wrote in message
nk.net...
The guy, I don't remember his name, who was building the "ultimate" M.W.
receiver?
Not another Satellit 900 fiasco, I hope...

--
Jim

I think it was Pete KE9OA.

-Brian

At the rate the stations on shortwave are shutting down I may have to sell
all my junk soon.....30 mhz of static and nothing to hear??

Except a few fruitcakes Like stair and Jones LOL!
"Jim Hackett" wrote in message
nk.net...
The guy, I don't remember his name, who was building the "ultimate" M.W.
receiver?
Not another Satellit 900 fiasco, I hope...

--
Jim

"Smitty" wrote in message
news
And no.....Power lines DONT show up on aviation charts no matter how high
over valleys....abandoned or not...planes have no bizz in valleys but if
its
any consolation while these same lines were "hot" they took out a
helicopter
once LOL!

What a coincidence. An old friend of mine was lucky enough to live next to
one of those abandoned power lines. Worked alot of great DX until one day
the power company was running field training for new linemen and reactivated
that section of the line so that the the new guys could get some meaningful
experience.

It fried over $15,000 worth of his radio gear and burned down half of his
house.

LOL! LOL ! LOL !

wrote:



From Central VA I pick up hundreds of stations daily....at NOON! From Canada
to Mexico.....From Alaska to Western Europe


Alaska from Virginia at high noon???

Forgive me for being skeptical, but if you are indeed receiving Alaska at noon
on MW it is an extraordinary achievment. Heck, Alaska at midnight would still
be almost a miracle given all the co-channel QRM nowadays on the so-called
"clear" channels. What Alaska station(s) are you hearing at noon?

Western Europe is easier to believe since that's mostly a water path. whereas
Alaska is all ground path.

What's the farthest MW station you've heard so far?

If you're not joking about all this, I'm sure a lot of us in here would LOVE to
see some highlights from your log.

Yes! Pete was his name. Sounded to good to be true...



"Brian" wrote in message
ink.net...
I think it was Pete KE9OA.

-Brian

"Jim Hackett" ) writes:
The guy, I don't remember his name, who was building the "ultimate" M.W.
receiver?
Not another Satellit 900 fiasco, I hope...

--
Jim




It was Pete KE9OA. Remember, this is to be from a company that isn't
in the market already. I get the impression that if the receiver happens
it's because Pete is working on it himself.

From July 24th to this newsgroup:

I don't have a picture of this unit. Right now, I am working
seven days a week on a couple of projects at work. This will
go on for the next couple of months. To get this prototype up
an running, I was averaging 3 hours of sleep a night for a week
straight. Last night was the first time I slept for 8 hours. In
another week, I will start the Fractional N synthesizer design.

In other words, he's working on various things at work, and it seems
like the shortwave receiver is lower priority. Around the same time,
I'm sure he said something about the receiver was going on the backburner
for a while, but I've not tried to see if there is a message to that effect.


Actually, that thread back in July was started by you too. If you're
so curious about this receiver, you should at least keep track of the
details. Seeing that you started that older thread, and the tone of
both, I now suspect you are less interested in the receiver than in
pointing out it's "not here yet".

Michael