Re: [IRCA] East Coast online SDR's (most get an "F")

2019-02-27 Thread Stewart, Randy
Rick Dau wrote: "For me, the litmus test is how well they sound on longwave" FWIW, I was just poking around on Bill's Lubec, Maine receiver, which Mark favors. While longwave is a bit noisy at midday, I was getting very good copy of two Canadian NDBs: YZX-266 Greenwood NS and ZST-397 St. John

Re: [IRCA] East Coast online SDR's (most get an "F")

2019-02-27 Thread Mark Connelly via IRCA
--- Begin Message --- True Rick. Control of local electrical noise is one of the biggest problems for these sites. Antennas with poor RDF (directivity) is another. Woefully inadequate gain at MW is a third problem. To an extent a coastal site can mitigate the problems but a truly bad setup is a

Re: [IRCA] East Coast online SDR's (most get an "F")

2019-02-27 Thread Rick Dau
I checked out a few Southern KiwiSDRs last night, namely, from Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky. For me, the litmus test is how well they sound on longwave, i.e., if the amount of buzz is impeding non-directional beacons from being heard or not. I figure that if they are relatively clea

[IRCA] East Coast online SDR's (most get an "F")

2019-02-26 Thread Mark Connelly via IRCA
--- Begin Message --- Periodically I check out the KiwiSDR directory page since new receivers come on from time to time (and old ones are occasionally dropped). For the uninitiated, the links homepage is: https://sdr.hu/ Two TA stations are very consistent here mid-evenings and are therefore good