The main reasons I discounted it were 1) I never heard any easy splits from there with that setup; 2) when I subsequently relocated another 10-12 miles west, and upgraded to an HQ-150 ( dual conversion ) and a loop, I did start to hear TA's for real, but it was several months before I had any on 1 kHz splits; 3) as I got used to the new receiver, I came to realize just how many images and mixing products of all kinds the HQ-100 actually produced.
I did eventually hear Saar on 1421 a year or so later. Russ Edmunds 15 mi NW Phila Grid FN20id <[email protected]> AM: Modified Sony ICF2010's (2) barefoot w/whip FM: Yamaha T-80 & T-85, each w/ Conrad RDS Decoder; Onkyo T-450RDS; Tecsun PL-310 ( 2); modified Sony ICF2010 w/APS9B @ 15'; Grundig G8 w/whip; modified Sony ICF2010 w/whip On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:07 PM, R. Colin Newell <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it may have been likely that it was indeed Germany on 1421 -- > > Because TA's came thick and fast on many more basic radios - often with > little more than the loop-stick for an antenna. > > I once told an aspiring dxer near Halifax that he could easily hear the UK > on his Sony 7600G -- > He thought that was impossible -- and I suggested tuning to 1215Khz or > 1089Khz around sun-set any day of the week in September... > Sure enough, there it was. > > One part of the success formula for DXing is actually believing that it is > possible. > I picked up a copy of Communications World in 1973 that had a feature in > Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific MW DX. > It blew my mind - but I set about to be the best TP and TA dxer I possible > could... > And eventually I was hearing TA's and TP's on DX150B with a 3 X 3 ' > home-brew loop. > > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Russ Edmunds <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I remember way back in 1969, living in Northern NJ, using a Hammarlund > > HQ-100 ( single conversion ) and a > > short wire antenna from about 30 miles west of NYC. Tuning around one > > evening I noted a het on 1421. I played with it a bit and got audio. In > > German. Back then Saar was on 1421. Thought I had my first TA. In a > > roundabout way, I did, because it was almost certainly some sort of an > > image from SW. What are the odds ??? > > > > Russ Edmunds > > 15 mi NW Phila > > Grid FN20id > > <[email protected]> > > > > > -- > Colin Newell - Editor and creator *of *Coffeecrew.com > <http://www.Coffeecrew.com> and DXer.ca <http://www.DXer.ca> - > VA7WWV | Twitter @CoffeeCrew | Victoria - Canada > _______________________________________________ > IRCA mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca > > Be sure to register now for the Joint DX Convention > Kansas City, September 9 to 11. Hotel space is filling up. > Registration info: > http://www.nrcdxas.org > > > 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 Be sure to register now for the Joint DX Convention Kansas City, September 9 to 11. Hotel space is filling up. Registration info: http://www.nrcdxas.org 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]
