bpnjensen wrote:

Heck, I used to get 40 states and Canada and Mexico on my old
Astronaut-8 and a 60 ft. wire from Massachusetts, and I didn't know
what I was doing.. MW is not that hard if you just spend a bit of time
at the right moments.


Was the sixty foot wire from Massachusetts attached to a cable company
on the other end? I bet being so close you could wave to their secretary..




mike

wrote:

Back in the 1950's almost any cheap little transistor radio I owned that
had five or six transistors could at night time pick up some radio
stations in New York City and Denver and Detroit and Minneapolis and a
radio station in either (I forget which city now) Los Angeles or
Sacramento.


I would not have thought that there were any CHEAP five or six
transistor radios in the fifties. Didn't the Sixties bring in the less
expensive sets?



mike

) writes:
Back in the 1950's almost any cheap little transistor radio I owned that
had five or six transistors could at night time pick up some radio
stations in New York City and Denver and Detroit and Minneapolis and a
radio station in either (I forget which city now) Los Angeles or
Sacramento.
cuhulin

But one of the immediate problems is closer stations getting in the way of
distant stations. A local station will block the use of that frequency,
unless you wait till it goes off the air for some reason. Same if KDKA
is booming in. The problem of receiving distant stations can't come
into play until you can eliminate closer stations.

Michael

Howdy - Actually, this set-up predated cable by quite a few years!
Mid-1970s. It was strung up in some of our BIG trees. We were lucky -
way out in the sticks of west-central state, we had no QRM to speak of,
and fine dark skies at night for astronomy. Could hear Arthur Cushen
on RNZ's little transmitter from half a world away easily. KFI - LA
was an infrequent but definite visitor. Could hear Lome, Togo 5047
too, while here it's just a weak heterodyne on SSB.

Lord, how I miss it. Urban California is a sad, sad substitute. sigh
Bruce Jensen

An MFJ-1025/26 does this pretty nicely if your offending station is
groundwave, a bit more difficult if your station is skywave. It helps
to disable the MW attenuation (easily done, not easily reversible).
Bruce Jensen

m II wrote:
wrote:
Back in the 1950's almost any cheap little transistor radio I owned that
had five or six transistors could at night time pick up some radio
stations in New York City and Denver and Detroit and Minneapolis and a
radio station in either (I forget which city now) Los Angeles or
Sacramento.

I would not have thought that there were any CHEAP five or six
transistor radios in the fifties. Didn't the Sixties bring in the less
expensive sets?

You win. It wasn't until the little Japanese companies flooded the market
with cheapies that the prices became very affordable. Before that, an
all-transistor, American-made radio cost about one week's take-home pay.

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cuhulin

wrote:

The Birth Of Christ And The Birth Of America Are Linked.
www.chuckbaldwinlive.com


There was a white horse at the nativity?

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/kaleidos...me7/birth.html




mike

I'm using a Sony ICF-2010 as my primary radio. I
apologize if my question is OT, but I'm interested in picking up
distant MW signals. One of my better catches would have to be WICC on
600 kHz broadcasting from Bridgeport, CT @ 500 W, and approx. 350
miles from me (reciever is in downeast Maine.) Anyway, my goal is to
pick up a signal from each of the 48 contiguous states. In addition to
the 2010 I've got a Terk loop. Is this setup adequate for my goal
(assuming "luck" as a factor)? I'd add that I'm limited to indoor
antennas at this time. I suppose I will need to pay more attention to
timing....

The 2010 is primarily a shortwave radio. For MW you're gonna need a
radio that is just an AM/FM radio, and that has good MW circuitry.
Examples would be a GE Superadio 3 or a Sangean CCRadio.

Huh? I would say that the 2010 and its Sync Detector will beat out the
GE and CC radios every single time.

I have the GE SR2 and a Sony 7600GR. I can tell you that I much prefer by
far
the 7600 with its Sync Detector on MW. Also, the use of SSB mode in the
cluttered MW band is priceless.

The aero band is like the police and fire bands-if you're tuning across
the band at random you'll be unlikely to hear anything unless you're
near a major airport. This is because the aero, police, and fire bands
are "point to point" transmissions

That's what I thought he meant at firsst, also. The VHF aircraft band.

However, I now think he was talking about the shortwave aircraft bands.

Those do supposedly propagate worldwide.