Hi all: I foresee a Sangean in my future as well, but the SRF-59 pulled off a miracle last night. 1250-KKDZ (Radio Disney) is my perfect storm: overcompressed kids music, with IBOC, 6 miles away with its lobe right in my teeth. It has one of the highest s-meter reading of anything I receive, and it's been impossible to null, phase, or otherwise wish out of existence.
On the way home last night I bought a cheap plastic camera tripod (an "Ultrapod") and attached the barefoot SRF-59 to it. With this three-dimensional positioning aid (a new micro-DX term?), nulling out KKDZ to the southeast of me produced a perfect (and I do mean perfect - not a hint of KKDZ) null, so that a 5kw station 300 miles due east (KWSU) came in with easily readable audio, one that I had only logged during a KKDZ maintenance outage. The internal ferrite on this unit is amazingly directional! The 5kw 1590-KLFE, a mere two miles away, can be nulled to allow weak audio of its competitors which are not that strong and a few hundred miles away. One proviso - the SRF-59 is very sensitive to hand capacitance, and so I needed to leave my hands where they were, otherwise the very precise null was quickly lost. I am going to rig up a longer arm on the tripod mounting plate so I can be a couple feet away and see if that helps. Kevin S. Bainbridge Island, WA > OK Bruce, > > The DT210V sounds good enough to be a worthy contestant in the next > (2008) Pocket Radio Shootout, after this year's competitors slug it out. > It > will be ordered ASAP (as if I really needed any persuasion). 9 kHz > splits with > memories is a great advantage, although my own experience leads me to > doubt > that any digital pocket radio can equal the SRF-59's selectivity. Sony > has > packed some mean power in that SRF-59 design, and if you can adjust to > the > analog tuning, it's truly a DXer's dream machine. > > > 73, Gary > > > > **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's > hottest > products. > (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001) > _______________________________________________ > IRCA mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca > > Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the > original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the > IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers > > For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org > > To Post a message: [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
