[NJARC] Accidental DX'ing in a Hyundai

[Dave Snellman]

Hello - just my "two cents" on the subject.  The newer vehicles with their "info-trainment" systems are very good choices for DXing on the road.  (Cars really don't have radios anymore...) I do find the challenge is finding "quiet" areas to enjoy listening.  Open highways seem the best, while urban areas pose quite another issue - that of power/data line interference.  An example: when I drive to the club meeting in Princeton I pass through Doylestown and New Hope areas.  AM reception through these areas is almost non-existent! - just pure noise!  As I continue the drive through Lambertville toward Hopewell reception becomes almost crystal clear.  I've noticed the number of power/data lines on the poles along the road between New Hope and Doylestown and can firmly place the blame for poor reception on them.  (Actually, I don't know how the poles can support that many cables.) The same holds true on my drive to InfoAge. Once outside the urban environment, reception improves greatly.  Oh, one other area I found to be an annoyance - railroad crossings.  As many data lines are run along the railroad "right of way," the rails themselves act as antennae for radiating the interference.  All railroads seem to be subject to this. Whether it be data lines or railroad signal lines, there's a lot of interference. I guess this is the price we have to pay for our dependence on the Internet?

Dave Snellman  

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> On Mar 10, 2017, at 8:48 AM, N3IBX <n3ibx at verizon.net> wrote:
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> Hello Bob,
>                   I'd love to see your "Frankenradio" sometime! It sounds really cool. 
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> 		   You mentioned that newer AM radios use a different IF frequency from what I may think. Isn't it the standard 455KC? Would you know some of the IF freq's newer car radios use? I'm curious.
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> BTW, I did plan on making it to the meeting tonight in Princeton. However, with the snow forecasted I'll have to cancel my plans to do so. It is 35 F and just started to snow here in Washington Crossing,Pa.
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> Best regards,
> Joe N3IBX 
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> On 03/10/17, Robert Bennett wrote:
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> Joe -
> Most car radios have really good AM. Traveling in a car with RF
> noises from several sources is really the worst scenario for an AM radio. To
> overcome this, they usually used a different IF frequency, had a good RF
> stage, and were well filtered. You are not alone with your "auto" DX-ing! I
> do it just for fun in my car. I went as far to make a "franken" radio for
> Dx-ing from a Chevy truck radio. I will bring it tonight to Princeton if
> you'd like to see it.
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> Bob Bennett
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> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 1:42 AM
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> Subject: [NJARC] Accidental DX'ing in a Hyundai
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> Just this evening I drove from New Jersey to Centreville, Virginia to stay
> with my aunt while she recovers from a broken wrist. On the ride down, I was
> scanning the AM band when I found a loud and clear station on 780 kHz. I
> quickly realized that I was picking up CBS Chicago perfectly from nearly six
> hundred miles away! This, by the way, is on the radio that came from the
> factory with my base model Santa Fe. It has an RF amplifier in there
> somewhere and I did upgrade the antenna whip from the stubby 6 inch to a
> whopping 30 inch mast. There is another antenna built into the windshield.
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> I know this is probably old hat to most of you, but I was thoroughly
> impressed!
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> Regards,
> Joe Giliberti
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