Boomer FWR this to me. Looks easy enough, and if I was stuck as an apartment dweller, I´d build and try it.by ThaDood - The Workshop
Got home late last night to hear Timtron, WA1HLR, QSO with big-gun Don, K4KYV, on not having time to do AM on the higher bands in the daytime. Then, he mentioned that whenever he finally does, he wants to get some 12M, a.k.a. 24.9MHz, AM activity going. Well, sure... Why not??? That´s a very under utilized WARC Band, yet shares F2 and Sporadic ¨E¨ propagation like 11M, 10M, and 6M. And, you haveby ThaDood - General radio discussion
Looks like a kit, but I like that display.by ThaDood - The Workshop
Came home last night to hear them wind down the list of 20 stations that had kids that wanted to do the Santa talk. FREQ = 3916kHz LSB, and the site to do the net and request your kids to be on this is: This year, they are also doing one-way ´Shout-Outs´ for just RX´ing SWL´ers and are using the neat tool of other folks´ Kiwi-SDR´s, which they had to do list night when 75M made it so one of tby ThaDood - General radio discussion
Tis the season, for Part 15 FM X-mas stations. And, that dude, about a mile from me, is back with the wholly-kow decked-out yard X-mas display, is back on 101.3FM. True Part 15, with it MAX´ing-out at maybe 400ft away with my good truck stereo receiver. Good audio and levels, and no distortion, so he knows what he´s doing. And, ya know that he´s not the only one out there doing that. So, watch foby ThaDood - General radio discussion
Got this FWR´ed from Boomer. I haven´t tried this, yet, but looks like it could be indeed a very useful audio tool to download and use.by ThaDood - The Workshop
Just last night, I was listening, before bed time, on 3892kHz LSB. Some douche was continuously messing with that group, keyed-up. What was crazy was that in seconds the usual 3892 group made comments about this douche, that douche was commenting about what they were saying back, while the douche was still TX´ing. The 3892-group figured out that this douche was using an on-line Kiwi-SDR to listenby ThaDood - General radio discussion
It was still a neat project, but it really ticked-off the Beacon Freaks. Even Glenn Hauser wrote-in to suggest that AM on 13.560MHz, even at Part 15 levels, wasn´t a good idea. So, if you were to use this ´lil transmitter, a Hamfest, or even something like Winterfest, events would be perfect. Use this at an event, then tear-down and get out afterwards.by ThaDood - The Workshop
Well, this will be a good test of your VLF capabilities.by ThaDood - Broadcast announcements
Here´s what Radio Jay has to say about the Skywave SSB2.by ThaDood - The Workshop
Well, this would suck... Especially, for the Amateur Radio community, that likes getting various info on that station.by ThaDood - General radio discussion
Hmmmmmmmm... That limited AM Bandwidth kind of bugs me. Just my picky take.by ThaDood - The Workshop
November, already, but Sporadic ¨E¨ propagation should be showing up soon, especially on CB FREQ´s, then 10M, and hopefully, 6M. There are still a lot of rural highway departments still using upper 30MHz and 40MHz VHF rigs, so you might hear snow plows on-the-air soon. Don´t forget to check, for this. However, warm fronts, going to cold fronts, still can make Tropo neat on upper VHF and UHF baby ThaDood - General radio discussion
Oh yeah!!!! Always a wealth of info. I´ll even keep the older editions for the info in those.by ThaDood - The Workshop
Thanks, Boomer!!! For that follow-up link. Huh... Well, I didn´t think that this was going to be such a big issue. I still say, have STEREO / MONO switching done at the receiver end, and let the listener decide.by ThaDood - The Workshop
Tis the season for those Halloween pirates, like MW stations from 1710kHz - 1790kHz, late at night. Most stations pretty much heard on 43M in North America, but with F2 propagation back in there, now could be a decent time to check-out 11.401MHz, 13.900MHz, 15.050MHz, 17MHz region, 19.0000MHz even, up past 21.450MHz, and the entire 11M INT band, 25.670MHz - 26.100MHz. You'll just never know whatby ThaDood - General radio discussion
Yeah, SWL´ing rip: Ya know, for $200.00, I could get an older YB-400, and have much $$$$ lest over. For a good used price, I would consider the C Crane SSB2, but not for $200.00 new.by ThaDood - The Workshop
I was wondering when I was going to hear domestic NBFM on CB, with it now allowable. Well, heard it today, and of all places, the very informal Gentleman´s Agreed LSB CB calling channel 38. This dude was teasing the LSB´ers saying that he can use any voice mode that he wants there. No idea upon where he was TX´ing from, and I don´t think that he was going to tell that anyway. 10min later, he finaby ThaDood - Other logs
Had KCJJ, again, to listen to on a job site commute. And, surprise, the female DJ was live, talking about the 1st tune she heard at the time when 1st working there as a teen in 2015, and then playing it as her choice. (WOW!!! A commercial station that still let´s you do that? That´s rare, today!) Top of the hour ID, CBS News, and local Iowa city, IA news, then back to 10-year-old hit music. Nice,by ThaDood - Medium Wave Logs
Heck, I´d take one today. That 5¨ X 7¨ speaker must be a treat for a portable. I use to have those as car stereo speakers in the 80´s.by ThaDood - The Workshop
Grabbed this link from a post on The HF Underground, but should be of interest here. I´ll look at it this way, we´ll take what we can get.by ThaDood - General radio discussion
Ok... I know that a lot of radio buffs are Whovians out there, and since I´ve been show that Classic Doctor Who channel, on Pluto TV, I might be hard-pressed to get a damn thing done around here late at night. From 1963 - 1989, from William Hartnell to Silvester McCoy. And, surprise!!!! Reanimated fill-in episodes of the BBC trashed 79 episodes, where the audio tracks were still saved, and orby ThaDood - General radio discussion
Somehow, I suspect that a lot of stations are in this state of ´need repairs´ in Central FL.by ThaDood - General radio discussion
Well, these seem intriguing. and Hmmmmmmmmmm... Which is the better of the two?by ThaDood - The Workshop
Hearing earlier that Cuba´s power grid was down, I tuned to 1620AM, to see if that station from there, was off-air. Apparently, it seems to be. I hear Pensa Cola, FL and another classic hits station, in there, on the drive home from work. So, those MW , and maybe SW, FREQ´s, that are normally dominated by Cuban station might be freed-up for a few days.by ThaDood - Medium Wave Logs
Info from 2018, but still pretty much valid. And, Could make for some interesting monitoring these next few days.by ThaDood - General radio discussion
Looks like a last hurrah of hot, summer-like, temperatures, around the 1st day of Fall, THUR 9/22/2022, then crash to around lower 70´s, or Fall-like weather for where I am. So, could this be a possibility that we could see some nice VHF / UHF Tropo Propagation? The last time that I´ve DX´ed those conditions was in late September 2004, where 2M, VHF MURS, 222MHz, 440MHz, and 462MHz GMRS, actedby ThaDood - General radio discussion
I understand that there are some Part #15´ers experimenting with DRM, so it would be nice to have gear to test with. Might be the only way to get DRM on to the AM / FM bands in the USA. Still, waiting to see if if catches on SW here.by ThaDood - The Workshop
FWD from Boomer: Question is, will LPFM´er and Part #15´ers benefit from this? I have my doubts... We have the 800lbs gorilla in that room called The NAB. And, this...by ThaDood - General radio discussion
I´ve heard about this. Boomer just linked me to the ebay site. To me, this looks like an AM version of the ´ol Ramsey FM-30B in menu set-ups. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm...by ThaDood - The Workshop