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In Reply to: RE: shortwave posted by kh6idf on December 12, 2020 at 07:18:56
thanks for the link and tips. I got another tip since I'm using a portable shortwave unit to just hook up a wire (speaker wire, whatever I have) and throw it out the window for better reception, similar to what you said. take it back in when not listening.
thanks a lot for the link again, this will help me get into shortwave. :)
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Here's a couple of photos of my complete station and antenna. I've marked the two ends of the antenna with yellow arrows. I put the antenna up this morning and will take it down tonight for 2 reasons - lightning and deer. Since one end is close to the ground I don't want the nightly parade of deer through the back yard to get snagged in the antenna.
I can receive shortwave bands on the transceiver as well as ham bands. It has a maximum transmit power of 5 watts. I still can work a lot of stations with just 5 watts.
I sometimes run WSPR mode (Google WSPR) using just 1 watt and have heard / been heard from Africa, Europe and other faraway places.
very impressive and must be good fun as well. I've attached a picture above, that's the one I am using.
as a side note I've found this youtube channel all about shortwave, there's instructional videos and many videos about how-to get into shortwave for beginners.
all kinds of tips there.
thanks again for the help, I appreciate it. I will try the outside antenna tonight.
Ah, you have one of the 'guess what frequency you're on' radios like in the old days. Tune in WWV on 5.0 MHz and see where the dial says you are. If it says you are right on 5.0 then it is pretty accurate.
Your SW4 covers the 40M ham band from 7.0 to 7.3 MHz but does not have SSB so most ham conversations won't be heard clearly. Some hams use AM though, and you could hear those. I was listening to some AM conversations on 40M this afternoon on 7.160. 40M is mostly a night time band but today it had a fair amount of activity.
If you remember John from the old outside asylum (now John EH on the green door forum), he has a blog where he sometimes talks about shortwave radio. He has 29 blog entries on the subject - see link below.
I am listening to some pirate radio station, in between going up and down it sounds like sea waves from the ocean. LOL! I'm on the northeast ...
Have a nice Winter, this is great. My tuner is not accurate at all but it gets the job done.
One last thing for you to try tonight. If you want to use a better radio / antenna, you can use somebody else's online!
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