[MRCA] Command Receivers on the Broadcast Band

[Rob Flory]

AL's post motivated me to dig up my log from a different year of the NJ
Antique Radio Clubs AM BCB DX contest.  I knew without looking it up that
it was a different year because I used the same radio that AL showed in his
post.  I mean, like, literally the same radio.  AL was kind enough to let
me schlep his receiver to Prince Edward Island.

I wanted to take a real receiver, not a crystal set or portable, so that I
could take advantage of the oceanfront location hundreds of miles closer to
Europe, and Beverage antennas.  I was used to running this contest from
home with things like RBB or AR-88 but those were out of the question, even
if we weren't already heavily laden with other radio gear.

The R-24/ARC-5 fit the bill perfectly.

Sunset is a target rich opportunity because the band isn't open to the West
yet, but open across the pond.  The band was full of heterodynes from the
EU stations on 9kc channel increments and the NA stations on the 10s.  The
only station I was able to confidently identify was the mega-power station
from Duba, Saudi Arabia.

A morning session was all about chasing South America.  Those are often the
big score stations(its by miles) from NJ, and they were worth more from PEI.

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Good times.

This was a side quest to a serious multioperator entry in the CQWW 160m DX
contest

RF
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