[R-390] OT - Any SAQ reception success??

[ToddRoberts2001 at aol.com]

Subject line says it all.  I should have built a loop, but didn't.
Any R-389 owners out there have any luck hearing the broadcast?
73
Tom NU4G

Hi Tom, reception of SAQ 17.2 was successful here in South Carolina. I was 
not able to use an R-389 as I had to pull the main breakers to the house and run 
the radio on batteries to get away from line noise. Quite a few people copied 
them at their 0900 and 1300 UTC transmissions 02/19/06. For a good rundown on 
what people were hearing go to the Longwave Message Board at -
http://www.lwca.org/mb/index.htm
Several people have posted wav files of their reception there. The consensus 
is that their signal was much weaker this time compared to other transmissions 
 and conditions were not the best with static and poor propagation. My RST on 
them was 229 using a 160 meter dipole resonated with an adjustable inductor 
on 17.2 KHz. 73 Todd WD4NGG