I just completed a 2 year low-key effort to log an AM BCB station (or stations - day and night) on every frequency from 530 kHz to 1710 kHz. I mostly used a Hallicrafters SX-100 and a Hammarlund HQ-145A, both highly-sensitive and well-calibrated vintage receivers. To get the hardest ones, though, the K3 with its synchronous detection was invaluable. For example, WCBS radio is a powerful clear-channel station on 880 kHz located here in NYC. Using the K3 and USB, I could copy WLS in Chicago on 890 kHz. Trying to listen on LSB resulted in a lot of QRM.
I feed my antenna into the "RX-in" jack which bypasses the input filters. I sure wish the KX2 had this feature. I use a Bose Soundlink speaker system plugged into the rear headphone jack. A local oldies station sounds very nice (although a bit restricted in the treble due to the DSP bandwidth). I used headphones for the hardest stations. 1620 was the last entry in my log. Usually, I heard several weak stations at the same time. Finally, one night, QSB was in my favor and I heard one of the stations sign their call letters. Sometimes it took a long time to identify the stations. I heard stations up and down the east coast and Canada. I clearly heard KCJJ in Iowa on 1630 early one evening. This was actually a lot of fun, especially when the ham bands were closed down. I was surprised at how crummy (dirty and wide) some of the stations looked on the P3. This helped a lot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1160_AM Change the 1160 to whatever frequency you are interested in. I would then jump to the selected station's website. If they had a "what's on now" link, then I could verify that that was indeed the station that I was tuned to. 73, John W2XS -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-for-SWL-tp7626390p7626416.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
