{"id":20408,"date":"2016-10-10T07:19:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T11:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=20408"},"modified":"2016-10-10T07:19:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T11:19:51","slug":"matts-review-of-the-bst-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/matts-review-of-the-bst-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt’s review of the BST-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BST-1-Receiver-Label-Alt\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Matt, who shared this review of the BST-1 car shortwave receiver:<\/a><\/p>\n

Overall:<\/strong> a good sensitive receiver, with a very inventive interface. I am looking forward to my long commutes for a change.<\/p>\n

Using the FM RDS info on the car radio is a stroke of genius.\"BSTFM2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Performance:<\/strong> Miles ahead of my old MFJ 3 band heterodyne converter. I could hear 2 or 3 stations in the day, maybe 6 or 8 at night. With this new receiver during my morning and evening commutes in the NE US, I can hear dozens of stations day or night. Performance is roughly on par with a decent shortwave portable using the built in whip. I get 6070 Canada listenable 2 out of 3 days, 9580 Australia one out of 4 days in the morning, Radio Romania is an S5-8 beacon in the evenings.<\/p>\n

Quirks:<\/strong> when the receiver is powered down, it does not save the music\/speech bandwidth setting. It always comes up in the speech mode.<\/p>\n

Also, when you are in tune mode and wrap around from 0 kHz to 33 MHz or vice versa, there is a glitch. Instead of scanning on the even 5 kHz intervals, it changes to scanning on the 3 and 8 kHz or 2 and 7kHz intervals: 32.003, 32.008, 32.013, 32.018, etc. instead of 32.000, 32.005, 32.010, etc. If you go back to preset frequencies, scan, and then go back to tune mode, it is back to normal.<\/p>\n

I have only seen spurious signals around 2 MHz or so. I think it is some 15 MHz broadcasters bleeding through – only one or two usually. No other spurious signals apart from this seen yet.<\/p>\n

Suggestions:<\/strong> restrict the tune mode to the shortwave bands to save time slogging through all that dead space between broadcasting segments (toggle all or band only tune?)<\/p>\n

Make it so you can switch the AM broadcast filter in and out, maybe with an attenuator. I live over 50 miles from the nearest high powered AM station, and it would be nice to be able to BC\/LW DX. The receiver is quite sensitive down there. On 1700khz where the filter doesn’t have much of an effect I can hear an AM station 80 miles away. Instructions on putting in a manual switch to do the same would be good as an alternative to this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks for sharing your review, Matt! I agree that the BST-1 is surprisingly sensitive, especially for a mobile receiver.<\/p>\n

Click here to view the BST-1 order\/information page.<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here to view our review of the BST-1.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Matt, who shared this review of the BST-1 car shortwave receiver: Overall: a good sensitive receiver, with a very inventive interface. I am looking forward to my long commutes for a change. Using the FM RDS info on the car radio is a stroke of genius. 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