{"id":20496,"date":"2016-08-09T20:59:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T00:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=20496"},"modified":"2016-08-09T22:23:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T02:23:47","slug":"from-peru-to-northern-ireland-on-medium-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/from-peru-to-northern-ireland-on-medium-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"From Peru to Northern Ireland on Medium Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello all,<\/p>\n<p>A few nights ago during great propagation in the Medium Wave band I had the opertunity to DX Radio Capital from Lima, Peru all the way to Northern Ireland. I was planning to sleep early but favourable conditions on MW prompted me to have a late night to chase DX. I have had this confirmed to me by a few very well known MW DX&#8217;ers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Swlingperumw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20498 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Swlingperumw-300x151.jpg\" alt=\"Swlingperumw\" width=\"425\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Swlingperumw-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Swlingperumw-768x387.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Swlingperumw-1024x516.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Swlingperumw-624x315.jpg 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Swlingperumw.jpg 1359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The equipment I had used to get this catch were as follows ;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Lack of sleep &amp; plenty of caffeine<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 SDR Play RSP with ferrite chokes<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Wellbrook ALA1530LN Active Loop Antenna with coax running out of the electric field of my house and ferrite chokes attaches at parts<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9hqM8j7YFZg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>Jordan Heyburn (MI6JVC) is the author of this post and a regular contributor to the SWLing Post. Jordan is an avid shortwave listener, ham radio operator and shortwave presenter\/owner of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radionorthernireland.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Northern Ireland<\/a>.\u00a0Jordan is based in Northern Ireland.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello all, A few nights ago during great propagation in the Medium Wave band I had the opertunity to DX Radio Capital from Lima, Peru all the way to Northern Ireland. I was planning to sleep early but favourable conditions on MW prompted me to have a late night to chase DX. I have had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[433,3],"tags":[5258,4099],"class_list":["post-20496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-mediumwave","category-news","tag-jordan-heyburn","tag-mediumwave","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5kA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19990,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/radio-northern-ireland-this-weekend\/","url_meta":{"origin":20496,"position":0},"title":"Radio Northern Ireland this weekend!","author":"Thomas","date":"July 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Jordan Heyburn, who writes: Radio Northern Ireland is going to be broadcasting to Asia and we hope that the propagation gods will be on our side and take us to Australia and New Zealand. 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Ok so it is still called the Belka DX but it has\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Longwave&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Longwave","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/longwave\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Belka-DX-SC-Coast-Dockside-DX-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Belka-DX-SC-Coast-Dockside-DX-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Belka-DX-SC-Coast-Dockside-DX-1.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Belka-DX-SC-Coast-Dockside-DX-1.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Belka-DX-SC-Coast-Dockside-DX-1.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":21692,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/medium-wave-dx-colombia-peru-ecuador-and-venezuela-heard-in-oxford-uk\/","url_meta":{"origin":20496,"position":3},"title":"Medium wave DX: Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela heard in Oxford, UK","author":"Clint Gouveia","date":"October 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi there, I thought I would share a few recent medium wave DX catches from South America. In the past month or so, I've managed to record signals from Colombia, Peru, Venezuela and one that I'm particularly happy about - Ecuador, which is rarely reported in Europe. 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Our show tonight is jam packed with talking and a few special shortwave\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/radio-northern-ireland-weekend-broadcasts\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"RNIe!SLnew","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/RNIeSLnew-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":60962,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/pavels-practical-electronics-homebrew-mediumwave-ferrite-antenna\/","url_meta":{"origin":20496,"position":5},"title":"Pavel&#8217;s Practical Electronics Homebrew Mediumwave Ferrite Antenna","author":"Thomas","date":"October 27, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Pavel Kraus, who shares the following guest post: Mediumwave Ferrite Antenna by Pavel Kraus This antenna for MW was made according to the instructions from Everyday Practical Electronics magazine, September 2000. 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