[Boatanchors] Car Radios

[Geoff]

A good antenna for the BCB is the first step and I spend a fair amount of 
time listening there.
The antennas consist of 5 two wire reversible Beverages for 10 directions, 
and a pair of BOG's, all are 500-900' long. The antennas were installed for 
chasing DX on 160-40M but the have excellent directivity down as low as the 
LF BCB at around 200KHz.

My most used receivers for BCB and lower are TS-950SD, HRO-500/LF-10, 
HQ-129X, and HQ-180.

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil" <ko6bb1 at gmail.com>
To: "Bry Carling" <bcarling at cfl.rr.com>
Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; "rbethman" <rbethman at comcast.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Car Radios


> Well, here there is a fairly wide variety of English language AM
> stations.  The usual large number of talk radio stations, a couple
> religious stations I listen to (and a couple I don't), as well as ESPN
> sports stations and even a couple of Oldies But Goodies stations that
> have a somewhat different format than the usual FM Oldies stations.  One
> of those, 1200 in the San Jose area actually has live local DJs (I've
> called into it a couple times).  In addition to that, there are a LOT of
> Spanish stations, a Mong station or two and so forth.  In the daytime it
> is hard to find a 10KCs slot that doesn't have 'something on it.
>
> Of course, it helps that I use an outdoor antenna, modified (for BCB
> band) MFJ 1040C preselector  and decent quality radios for AM (a Zenith
> Royal 7000 transoceanic and Grundig Satellit 750), both of which are
> excellent on AM.  IF I had to rely on the built in antennas in this
> noise hole called a mobile home things would be different, it would be
> slim pickin's. . .
>
> 73 de Phil,  KO6BB
> http://ko6bb1.multiply.com/ (OTR Blog)
> http://www.qsl.net/ko6bb/  (Web Page)
>
> RADIOS:
> Grundigs: Satellit 750 (2011), S-350 (2006)&   G6 (2011).
> Kenwood: TS130S Transceiver (circa 1980).
> Radio Shack: DX-380 digital portable (circa 1990).
> Yaesu: Two FT-8800 Mobiles, VX8R Quad-Band (circa 2010).
> Zenith: Royal-7000 Transoceanic (circa 1969).
>
> ACCESSORIES: MFJ 1040C Pre-Selector, W9GR Audio DSP.
> ANTENNA: 88' Long Ladder-line fed dipole, Apex at 35 feet.
>
> Central California
>
>
> On 1/21/2012 8:10 PM, Bry Carling wrote:
>> Yes Bob... same sad state of affairs on shortwave too. Hard to find much 
>> now other than a few preachers.
>>
>> Looks like the push for "English-only" will eventually be too little too 
>> late in a changing world.
>>
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