In the mid 1980s, I took an RAK receiver to a friends camp in the Adirondack mountains. We put up a longwire antenna, and powered the receiver with batteries. The camp was lighted by propane, so there was nothing else electrical for miles around. At the time, I didn't know exactly what I was hearing, but there was far more on the air in the bands from 500 KC down than either of us imagined. The RAK tunes a bit higher than 600 KC, so DXing some broadcast stations was fun too. Who else has gone on an LF DXpedition, either a really remote location or even in a park?   Has anyone ever heard an LF broadcast station from Europe? It would be interesting to compare an RAK,  RBA, and BC-453 in the same place, powering them all with batteries.

    B. Gentry, KA2IVY

Hi Everyone

For the past 2 years I've been using my RBA receiver for vintage LF/MF fun, and have logged over 200 NDBs each year.   This year I decided to use my BC-453B receiver.   It's been recapped, and all out of tolerance resistors (sans one....) have been replaced.

Since early November,  I've logged 52 NDBs.   I'm hoping to log 100 this listening season (which runs through March).

73 Mark K3MSB

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