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December 28th 05, 11:47 AM
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World Service UK Reception
I live in the North East of England and I have dabbled a bit with a poor
20GBP receiver ( it was a gift! ). When on Holiday in Portugal I got good reception of the BBC WS on various SW frequencies. I have now bought a Roberts R9969. Actually this is the second as the first had a fault ( the sound switched on and off whenever I touched the case! ) I took it back to the shop and replaced it but I am not impressed with the SW reception on the second set. I have programmed the following frequencies into it for the WS but I do not get any signal at all despite trying it at various times of the day and evening; 6195 9410 12095 15485 13855 I thought I would try the American Forces Network and again got no reception at all on these frequencies; 7590 4319 5765 6350 7812 10320 12579 Is my area a black hole for SW or is it likely that this is another duff radio? -- ~~~~~~~~~~ All the best, Henry ~~~~~~~~~~ |
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December 28th 05, 12:26 PM
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Were you listening last night?. We has a corona event on the sun that
wiped out a lot of the shortwave band. Jim On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:47:07 -0000, "Henry" wrote: I live in the North East of England and I have dabbled a bit with a poor 20GBP receiver ( it was a gift! ). When on Holiday in Portugal I got good reception of the BBC WS on various SW frequencies. I have now bought a Roberts R9969. Actually this is the second as the first had a fault ( the sound switched on and off whenever I touched the case! ) I took it back to the shop and replaced it but I am not impressed with the SW reception on the second set. I have programmed the following frequencies into it for the WS but I do not get any signal at all despite trying it at various times of the day and evening; 6195 9410 12095 15485 13855 I thought I would try the American Forces Network and again got no reception at all on these frequencies; 7590 4319 5765 6350 7812 10320 12579 Is my area a black hole for SW or is it likely that this is another duff radio? |
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December 28th 05, 04:58 PM
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"Henry" wrote in message ... I live in the North East of England and I have dabbled a bit with a poor 20GBP receiver ( it was a gift! ). When on Holiday in Portugal I got good reception of the BBC WS on various SW frequencies. I have now bought a Roberts R9969. Actually this is the second as the first had a fault ( the sound switched on and off whenever I touched the case! ) I took it back to the shop and replaced it but I am not impressed with the SW reception on the second set. I have programmed the following frequencies into it for the WS but I do not get any signal at all despite trying it at various times of the day and evening; 6195 9410 12095 15485 13855 I thought I would try the American Forces Network and again got no reception at all on these frequencies; 7590 4319 5765 6350 7812 10320 12579 Is my area a black hole for SW or is it likely that this is another duff radio? -- ~~~~~~~~~~ All the best, Henry ~~~~~~~~~~ Henry, I also am in NE England, it certainly isn't a black hole for RF! Suggest you consider an external antenna for better reception but any reasonable portable should pick up any of the major SW broadcasters depending on propagation of course! Regards, Eddie |
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