/r/shortwave
A community dedicated to shortwave radio broadcasters, experimenters, and listeners.
A community dedicated to shortwave radio broadcasters, experimenters, and listeners.
Other bands of radio are allowed to, but this is primarily a shortwave subreddit. Always and forever.
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Good to very reception at time of recording and the signal has improved a little since then.
📻 RSPdx and MLA-30+ fitted with a four-metre loop, used indoors, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
A bit of fading resulting in variable reception ranging from marginal to very good. Not bad given frequency and time of day.
📻 RSPdx and MLA-30+ fitted with a four-metre loop, used indoors, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
New radio for listening: Tecsun S-2200x on the test bench.
I'd like to install this app but it says that my phone is not compatible with this app, however I have downloaded it previously...any reason why this has changed?
Just compared my Tecsun PL-330 with quite old non-DSP Tecsun PL-600 and was a little disappointed with the sensitivity and SSB capability of the PL-330, comparing to PL-600.
Given this experience, I'm looking to upgrade my PL-330. Can anyone recommend a portable receiver that matches or exceeds the PL-600's reception quality, but in a form factor somewhere between the PL-330 and PL-600? Ideally, I'd like the best of both worlds - the PL-600's performance and DSP-stuff in a more compact package.
Voice of America, Udon Thani, Thailand in Chinese, at 12:05 UTC 24 OCT 2024. 250 kw received in the Pacific Northwest, USA at 11,735 km (7,292 mi) using AirSpy HF+ Discovery, 20 m end fed random wire antenna.
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252 kilometres on MW during the day.. Really good signal
I recently bought a used grundig G5. Everything worked great at first, but today the audio is so quiet it's almost imperceptible. I plugged in headphones and the issues was the same through them. Any help would be appreciated thanks in advance!
China Radio International's English language service at 01:50 UTC, 24 OCT 2024, from Kashi-salbagh, China. 10,385 km (6,453 mi) from my location in the Pacific Northwest, USA. AirSpy HF+ Discovery/SDR#, 20 meters end fed random wire antenna.
ATS25 long wire other Active Loop
Right now. 19:16 UTC heard in Sweden. SINPO 35253. Can barely make out it is music.
My Sony SW7600G antenna got loose off the socket. It doesn’t seem broken but the bottom stainless steel part is still attached to the radio with a screw. The entire antenna assembly could be removed from the radio when I opened the radio casing. Is there a way to firmly re attach the antenna to the stainless steel socket?  At this time, I can still push it into the socket and extending it but it’s wobbly, and I wonder if my radio reception would be severely degraded with loose contact?
Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
Minneapolis Minnesota for those that have similar radios
Does this radio have bass, treble, tone controls?
Would this work in sdr
Radio Nikkei 1, Chiba-nagara, Japan. 6055 KHz, 50 KW, 09:05 UTC, 23 OCT 2924. AirSpy HF+ Discovery/SDR#, 20 Meters length end fed random wire antenna. Listeners location: Pacific Northwest 129 km inland from Pacific Ocean.
Radio Exterior De Espana, Noblejas, Spain on 17885 KHz at 21:03 UTC. Heavy fading on marginal signal. I'm located in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Antenna 20 meter end fed random wire to homebrew passive preselector, to Retekess TR110.
My G6 appears to be fully functional, lights, jog wheel and display all work. I just get static on all bands even local AM and FM stations. I’d guess bad caps in the receiver but it’s all surface mount. Any ideas?
JRC NRD-545 DSP reciever, Wellbrook ALA1530LNPro loop antenna.
I'm building a tea set and camp stove into a Stanley lunch box. I'd really like to include a small radio, am/FM/short wave/anything else I can get, that either has a magnet that I can stick on the outside of the lunch box, or that I can put magnets on/in to do the same.
Small, light, capable, and affordable, and if the magnets might interfere with workings or antennas, I'd love your input.
Hoping to hear from other RUMlogNG users out there.
Context/background info:
Am running SDRConnect on my MacBook, which "feeds" FT8 signals to WSJT-X for decode and RUMlogNG gets "fed" by WSJT-X.
What seems to be the most important window when you're monitoring stuff is the "DX Spots", that has a "Notes" column with very important information. Thing is, when I double-click on a listed QSO to transfer it to the main logging window, the "Notes" aren't transferred.
According to the software's website, it is possible to transfer the note:
"A double click on a spot transfers the callsign, frequency, mode, and the note (optional) to the main logging window if it is visible. A double click on the frequency column tunes your radio and sends the data to the log entry section!"
But for the life of me, I cannot find the option to copy the note over.
Methinks it would be a good thing to include when sending out a QSO to get a QSL. So, anyone to point me the obvious answer that is staring me in the face?
Thanks in advance.