[Milsurplus] Down the Rabbit Hole...

[Bill Cromwell]

On 01/14/2014 02:04 AM, Thomas Adams wrote:
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> It may not be optimal, but it appears that there's certainly MORE than 
> one way to skin the proverbial cat. A
> K9AY would be NICE...  but a used 15 buck marine D/F radio can do the 
> job too, it appears.
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>
> Too bad that Chief Engineers these days don't know diddly about 
> reception reports or QSL cards; THIS one
> would be well worth writing for!
>
>
> Mr. T., W9LBB

Hi,

A couple of years ago I (re)discovered the same thing with a fifty cent 
garage sale, cheap transistor radio with a built-in loopstick antenna. 
You don't get a compass rose for fifty cents and there is no crank. You 
aim the whole gosh-darn radio. But it will null the much stronger 
'local' transmitter and pull in the Mexican station (or other Spanish 
language station). In the other direction it will do the same thing in 
French for stations around Quebec. Unfortunately I don't understand 
either language...so no ID.

73,

Bill  KU8H