Monday, 8 January 2007
Christopher England <...> said:
It'll be interesting to see what bands and types of broadcasts you
settle on making a regular listen to. Am I right in thinking it's been
a long while since you were a DX listener?
Yes it has, I used to have a Sangean receiver which packed up a few years ago and like a lot of things i lost interest and could just not be bothered to get another set,
I have recently become interested again and dug out my small Roberts but that just covers the broadcast bands and as i wanted to listen to stations which use frequencies outside of these i knew i needed something else,
Due to family commitments like my Brother In Law emigrating to Australia next week and helping to move furniture etc for him and taking some of it down to my Daughters place i haven't yet had very much time yet to play about with this new set or go on the computer,
As my central heating uses copper pipes i rubbed one pipe down to the bare metal got a earthing strap from B&Q and have found this makes a adequate earth,
I was able to listen for a hour or so yesterday and as most people know a decent long wire antenna does make a hell of a difference, For example at this location Big L on 1395 day time is normally hard to hear but with this set up the signal was hitting the stop on the s meter,
I also had a quick listen to the Amateur bands and was able to tune in to quite a few SSB conversations,
I am not sure what type of broadcasts i will settle on yet but its great to have more choice and i must get around to having a listen to the many pirates who use frequencies outside of the normal bands.
Richard
Richard Sharpe <...> said:
Also the Guy said there was a extra board inside with a output on the
back of the receiver to enable a separate digital frequency readout
which would be handy but he didn't know much more about it, Any ideas?Richard
Richard that's probably a buffer amp, this allows a sample of the local oscillator to be fed to the socket on the back without loading the oscillator and making it drift. The type of counter you need is one that reads the frequency of the oscillator minus 455KHz, ie if you were tuned to a signal on 1000KHz the frequency at the output of that board would be 1455KHz so displaying that would be usless. now if the counter is programmed to have a offset of minus 455Khz the display will show the correct 1000KHz frequency. I can help you out with such a counter.
dave
From: Lloyd Atkins ...
Date: 06 Jan 2007 10:47:48 +0000
Wow, I am in total agreement with Geoff.
Amazing, thank you !
Anyway, if anyone is interested at how 'wonderful' vista will be (not) and you don't mind a long, somewhat but not too technical read, have a look at :
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
I'll dig out some more refs later.
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Regards,
Geoff
I'll dig out some more refs later.
And here is another interesting link.
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Regards,
Geoff
On 07 Jan 2007 13:07:49 +0000, Christopher England <...> wrote:
I'm given to understand that by next weekend we should get an
interesting announcement about the Isle of Man Long Wave 279 project.
Coooool. I just wish it would get on so's I can hear the programmes that
are set to change the world.
Ok, ok, I don't want to be a spoiler but I couldn't keep this for myself.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200701/s1823039.htm
They bought the stuff and signed an agreement with the Isle of Mann to allow for usage of the 279 outside their borders.
Sorry again for the spoiler.
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