Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Gary DeBock, who shares the following notes and video:
The 7.5 inch (19cm) loopstick Radiwow R-108 model “smokes” the stock R-108 model in this video demonstration of receiving daytime DX fringe station 550-KARI in Blaine, WA (5 kW at 150 miles). The modification uses the same enhanced loopstick as described in the XHDATA D-808 “Supercharging” article, and is reasonably easy to complete (although some experience is recommended)
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mike, who shares the following video from David Casler featurin the CHA RXL amplified loop antenna:
Click here to view on YouTube.
Thank you for the tip, Mike!
I just checked out the loop at Chameleon and discovered that they’re currently offering a sale on the “two sections” version of the CHA-RXL. Click here to check it out.
Also, if you live in Switzerland or Europe, Lutz Electronics is now a distributor of Chameleon products.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Tracy Wood, who writes:
While searching the revamped Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation’s website (gbc.gi) I came across a recent documentary that might be of some interest. It’s titled “GBC: The Move”. The GBC website states it’s a “story about the move from our home of the last 41 years to the ‘new’ Broadcasting House on Rosia Road, a project 4 years in the making. Featuring interviews with staff, the build, history and insight to the huge undertaking that is moving whilst staying ‘”on air’.”
The documentary includes photos of the former 1458kHz top-loaded medium-wave originally located at the Bastion downtown, before it’s relocation to a site above Engineer Road with a much larger “top-hat.” The program covers aspects of both the radio and TV services. (GBC offers three radio services – Radio Gibraltar, Radio Gibraltar Plus FM, Radio Gibraltar Plus AM. The Plus services include two hours of Spanish Monday-Friday and run in parallel except when the AM service covers Gibraltar Parliament sessions.
https://www.gbc.gi/tv/programmes/gbc-move-1189
Direct URL :
https://www.gbc.gi/tv/programmes/gbc-move-1189/clips/gbc-move-627
Runtime: 54:16
GBC’s radio service and locally-originated TV programs are available at www.gbc.gi.
This is fascinating! Thank you for sharing this, Tracy!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jack Dully, who shares the following video of a crew replacing a TV station antenna on top of a 1,500 foot tower.
Fair warning: if you’re afraid of heights this might make you weak in the knees!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Giuseppe Morlè (IZ0GZW), who shares the following:
Dear Thomas my friend,
I built another Tferrite, (TFERRITE 2), for medium waves–this time also with the shortwave option.
A single variable capacitor, 800 pf, and a primary winding on the 2 ferrites of about 46 turns, a secondary winding of 3 turns to pick up the signal and send it to the receiver.
On the PVC tube I wound 4 more coils, for the shortwaves, connecting the ends to the same variable together with the other ends.
I interposed a switch on one end to eliminate or insert shortwaves.
I am sending you these 3 links from my YT channel where you can see the tests I have done in these days with no propagation.
The yield in mediumwave is excellent, like the other one, yet also good for the shortwaves–to be so small it compares very well.
Let me know what you and the whole SWLing community think!
Thanks to you and a greeting from Italy, Formia on the Tyrrhenian Sea.
73. Giuseppe.
This is brilliant, Giuseppe! Thank you so much for sharing your homebrew antenna projects. It seems they work so well from your beautiful urban location in Italy!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ted Ostrowski, who writes:
Hey Thomas
Thought your SWListeners might enjoy this bit of Canadiana. It’s a bit dated and cheesy, but radio buffs may enjoy it. I did.
Ted
This feature-length documentary pays tribute to CBQM, the radio station that operates out of Fort McPherson, a small town about 150 km north of the Arctic Circle in the Canadian Northwest Territories. Through storytelling and old-time country music, filmmaker and long-time listener Dennis Allen crafts a nuanced portrait of the “Moccasin Telegraph,” the radio station that is a pillar of local identity and pride in this lively northern Teetl’it Gwich’in community of 800 souls.
CBQM, Dennis Allen, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
This is wonderful, Ted, thank you for sharing!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Peter Wilson, who shares the following guest post and recordings from his listening post in Botswana:
Peter’s receiver is a Airspy HF+ Discovery SDR using SDR Console V3
by Peter Wilson
Hello Thomas.
I moved my 16.2 metre random wire slightly farther away from the house, and installed a binocular balun and connected 20m of RG58 at the far end, not the “house end”.
Peter’s random wire antenna with binocular balun
1500 USA WFED Washington DC 12790km
1152 AUS 6PB
ABC NewsRadio Busselton 8469km with ABC News ID
1600 B Radio Nove de Julho ID 7234km
Sao Paulo. Brazil. ID,
Web Address and jingle. Rinsed and repeated.
Portuguese: Radio Nove de Julho [English: Radio 9th July]
1026 kHz MOZ Emissor Provincial de Manica Chimoio 1057km.
A bit parochial but features the radio Mozambique song.
850 USA WTAR Norfolk, Virginia Fox Sports Radio ID 12700km
1296 6RN ABC Radio National. Wagin, Australia 10kW 8644km
558 AUS 6WA ABC Great Southern WA Wagin 8644km
Impressive reception from your home in Botswana! Thank you so much for sharing these recordings, Peter. You’ve certainly made the most of your random wire antenna!