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Old 8th Feb 2021, 8:55 pm   #4
G6Tanuki
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Default Re: 5.6m telescopic whip and AUT for SW/Ham receivers

As noted upstream, SW reception in urban areas is blighted by 'sharsh' from modern electronic devices like SMPS and LED/CFL lights.

[But in reality is this any worse than the every-15KHz rasp from 625-line TV line-timebase harmonics we put up with in decades past?]

Tnere's a lot less to listen to on SW these days too: almost all the nation-state broadcasters [Radio Nederland, Sverige Radio, RNZ, Radio Tirana, Deutsche Welle, Swiss Radio International and such] have closed down - what remains is predominantly the likes of Radio China and a bunch of religious broadcasters - hardly an enjoyable menu.

Hams are still out there: the last sunspot-cycle was a bit of a dud but in recent times 21MHz has been showing signs of life. There's always the lower ham-bands: I operate predominantly on 3.5 and 5MHz, both of which currently offer good inter-Europe and east-coast-Transatlantic contacts especially in the small hours.
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