[Elecraft] K3 for SWL?

[Wes Stewart]

On a slightly related note, at our last Southern Arizona DX Association club 
meeting we had an unexpected visitor.  He was from the local public radio 
station and had received a letter QSL request from a listener in Norway.  He had 
no idea what a QSL was but after some Googling came up with us and decided to 
see what we could tell him.  He interviewed me and a couple of other guys and I 
sent him some literature.  This may or may not make it onto the air.

What is interesting is that while the station runs 50KW on 1550 KHz, it is 
daytime only.

Wes  N7WS


  On 2/2/2017 2:55 PM, John Meade W2XS wrote:
> I just completed a 2 year low-key effort to log an AM BCB station (or
> stations - day and night) on every frequency from 530 kHz to 1710 kHz. I
> mostly used a Hallicrafters SX-100 and a Hammarlund HQ-145A, both
> highly-sensitive and well-calibrated vintage receivers.  To get the hardest
> ones, though, the K3 with its synchronous detection was invaluable. For
> example, WCBS radio is a powerful clear-channel station on 880 kHz located
> here in NYC. Using the K3 and USB, I could copy WLS in Chicago on 890 kHz.
> Trying to listen on LSB resulted in a lot of QRM.
>
> I feed my antenna into the "RX-in" jack which bypasses the input filters.  I
> sure wish the KX2 had this feature. I use a Bose Soundlink speaker system
> plugged into the rear headphone jack. A local oldies station sounds very
> nice (although a bit restricted in the treble due to the DSP bandwidth). I
> used headphones for the hardest stations.
>
> 1620 was the last entry in my log.  Usually, I heard several weak stations
> at the same time.  Finally, one night, QSB was in my favor and I heard one
> of the stations sign their call letters. Sometimes it took a long time to
> identify the stations. I heard stations up and down the east coast and
> Canada.  I clearly heard KCJJ in Iowa on 1630 early one evening.
>
> This was actually a lot of fun, especially when the ham bands were closed
> down. I was surprised at how crummy (dirty and wide) some of the stations
> looked on the P3.
>
> This helped a lot:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1160_AM
>
> Change the 1160 to whatever frequency you are interested in. I would then
> jump to the selected station's website.  If they had a "what's on now" link,
> then I could verify that that was indeed the station that I was tuned to.
>
> 73,  John W2XS
>
>
>
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