{"id":20822,"date":"2016-08-26T08:15:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T12:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=20822"},"modified":"2018-08-28T06:42:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T10:42:16","slug":"radio-fana-6110-khz-ethiopia-excellent-snr-with-elad-fdm-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/radio-fana-6110-khz-ethiopia-excellent-snr-with-elad-fdm-duo\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Fana 6110 kHz Ethiopia; excellent SNR with Elad FDM DUO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Fanaza.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20841 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Fanaza.jpg\" alt=\"Fanaza\" width=\"1152\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Fanaza.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Fanaza-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Fanaza-768x347.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Fanaza-1024x463.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Fanaza-624x282.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\" \/><\/a>The Elad FDM DUO makes for\u00a0a fantastic receiver, in both standalone mode and via the FDM-SW2 software. Thus far it has been demonstrating this by outperforming the Sony ICF-2001D in many of my reception tests\u00a0using an\u00a0experimental longwire antenna. Bear in mind that whilst this might not be such a surprise, the Elad without the FDM-SW2 software driving it has no SYNC, which is often invaluable\u00a0for Tropical Band DXing. To make the point further, here\u00a0is a wonderfully clear signal from Ethiopia, with, in my experience at least, exceptional signal-to-noise.<\/p>\n<p>My 200 metre longwire is still very much a work in progress. I am in the process of building a termination resistance box,\u00a0receiver-end termination\u00a0suitable for high and low impedance inputs and earthing straps for metre-long copper pipes that will remain in-situ. When I have completed these tasks, I will record a video because I know some of you are interested in the details. For now though, it just remains an experiment &#8211; 200 metres of wire and very late nights\/ early mornings!\u00a0\u00a0Recorded at the &#8216;DX woods&#8217; in Oxford UK at 03:23 hrs UTC on 31\/07\/16. Thanks for watching.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zV2OhtCPAtU?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><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zV2OhtCPAtU\">Direct link to Radio Fana reception on the Oxford Shortwave Log YouTube channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i>Clint Gouveia\u00a0is the author of this post and a regular contributor to the SWLing Post. Clint actively publishes videos of his shortwave radio excursions on his YouTube channel:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UChtXnzopFIr6wTIA6QwIeLw\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford Shortwave Log<\/a>. Clint is based in Oxfordshire, England.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elad FDM DUO makes for\u00a0a fantastic receiver, in both standalone mode and via the FDM-SW2 software. Thus far it has been demonstrating this by outperforming the Sony ICF-2001D in many of my reception tests\u00a0using an\u00a0experimental longwire antenna. Bear in mind that whilst this might not be such a surprise, the Elad without the FDM-SW2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[373,3607,399,3196,196,26,746,43,158,5],"tags":[2224,968,4188,2774,4328,5405,4106,157,34,5364,611,25,4087],"class_list":["post-20822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-antennas","category-dxpeditions","category-portable-radio","category-qrm","category-radios","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-software-defined-radio","category-swlers","tag-dxpedition","tag-elad","tag-ethiopia","tag-fdm-duo","tag-oxford-shortwave-log","tag-radio-fana","tag-recordings","tag-sdr","tag-shortwave","tag-shortwave-antenna","tag-shortwave-music","tag-shortwave-radios","tag-software-defined-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5pQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20328,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/medium-wave-dx-cbc-radio-1-gander-1400-khz-remarkably-clear-signal-in-oxford-uk\/","url_meta":{"origin":20822,"position":0},"title":"Medium Wave DX: CBC Radio 1 Gander, 1400 kHz, remarkably clear signal in Oxford UK","author":"Clint Gouveia","date":"August 3, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"CBC Radio 1, Gander, heard in Oxford UK A really great signal from CBC Radio 1 Gander - the best I've ever heard on this or any other medium wave frequency, complete with a clear station ID and very much out of season so-to-speak. I can't remember recording any Medium\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;AM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41908,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/new-elad-fdm-s3-direct-sampling-wideband-receiver-specifications-and-photos\/","url_meta":{"origin":20822,"position":1},"title":"New ELAD FDM-S3 Direct Sampling Wideband Receiver &#8211; Specifications and Photos","author":"Thomas","date":"February 7, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Paul Jones with ELAD who recently shared the following photos and specifications of the upcoming FDM-S3 SDR: ELAD FDM-S3 Direct Sampling Wideband Receiver JAN 2020 SPECIFICATIONS 2 switchable HF Antenna inputs direct sampling 1 VHF Antenna input direct sampling Works with FDM-SW2 ELAD Software & SDR Console\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Products&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Products","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/new-products\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ELAD-S3-Back.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ELAD-S3-Back.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ELAD-S3-Back.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ELAD-S3-Back.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13042,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-romania-international-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":20822,"position":2},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Romania International","author":"Thomas","date":"April 24, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening pleasure: one full hour of Radio Romania International's English language service. This recording was made on April 23 at 00:00 UTC on 9730 kHz. I used my Elad FDM-S2 software defined receiver\u00a0to make this recording. As you can see from the screenshot of the Elad spectrum display\u00a0above,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Screen capture of the Elad FDM-S2 recording RRI's interval signal","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Elad-FDM-S2-Screen-1024x547.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Elad-FDM-S2-Screen-1024x547.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Elad-FDM-S2-Screen-1024x547.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":20733,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/200-metre-longwire-radio-verdad-4054-9-khz-guatemala-unprecedented-reception-in-oxford-uk\/","url_meta":{"origin":20822,"position":3},"title":"200 metre longwire: Radio Verdad 4054.9 kHz, Guatemala, unprecedented reception in Oxford, UK","author":"Clint Gouveia","date":"August 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Radio Verdad, Chiquimula,\u00a0Guatemala is quite a regular catch at home, however,\u00a0their modulation is nearly always weak as the carrier\u00a0struggles to lift above the ubiquitous blanket of local QRM. 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