As always Neil, thanks! Good advice. I love Sunset skip (not a morning person) but usually not home in time to catch most of it. One day back in 1986 on the Superadio (at LSS) I got the Elkhart AND Gary IN stations on 1270 (separated by no more than 70 miles) and three years later got Madison. None of that would be possible now, with WNDE 1260's IBOC.
I've been toying with the idea of getting 5-600' of wire and hooking it to either my old DX-400 or newer S-350 and heading to the soccer fields, near work. I do understand that both radios have built in antennas and that it would interject some signals too but at least I could orient the radio to compliment the BOG. I used the DX-400 with a Sanserino loop in much the same way. Both radios have two terminals, which one would I put the end of the BOG into (not using coax)? An old Hallicrafters that I had as a kid had a similar A1 / A2 setup and a little metal "blade" that would short out A2, if desired. Would plugging the BOG wire directly into one would work and would I need to do a small jumper from that one to the other one (A2)? Thanks. 73, Dave in Indy ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 23:12:58 -0600 From: "Neil Kazaross" <[email protected]> To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [IRCA] State Count Message-ID: <007601ca730e$1d9a7a80$3200a...@bigyam> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original I'll chime in here and say that trying to complete an entire state (obviously one nearby for most of us) will challange both your DXing skills and your antenna skills. You'll become more proficient with sunset skip DX and also likely with sunrise skip and it may also be that you take that ULR of your's and get it just right to null that 50 kw pest and the desired 250 watter from the other side of your state is just copiable for 30 seconds during their quick sign off. Here in Barrington IL, Iowa has been completed for several years, and I just completed WI. I need just a few for IL, and 4 for MN (northern GYers) and just a few for IN. High school sports can be a big help in this endevor ! 73 KAZ _______________________________________________ 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]
