{"id":31140,"date":"2018-03-11T10:01:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T14:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=31140"},"modified":"2018-03-11T10:01:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T14:01:21","slug":"the-sony-icf-m780sl-peter-catches-some-serious-mw-dx-on-gran-canaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/the-sony-icf-m780sl-peter-catches-some-serious-mw-dx-on-gran-canaria\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sony ICF-M780SL: Peter catches some serious MW DX on Gran Canaria"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Peter Wilson<\/a>, for sharing the following guest post and DXpedition report:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sony ICF-M780SL MWDX on Gran Canaria<\/h2>\n

by\u00a0Peter Wilson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain<\/p><\/div>\n

I have spent the last two months in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean.
\nI travelled light and didn’t bring my radio\/SDR collection with me.<\/p>\n

A portable I saw in a local department store caught ny eye, and I ended up buying one from a local electronics retailer which had it on special at \u20ac55. It is a Sony ICF-M780SL which as turned out, is something rather special. It is a four band (LW, MW, SW,FM) DSP receiver, with an AM IF (LW, MW,SW) of 45 kHz and an FM IF of 128 kHz.<\/p>\n

There’s too much hash in my apartment block to use it at home, but as I am a couple of streets away from the Ocean I intended to use it there.<\/p>\n

Problem is there almost as much RF hash at the oceanside as at home. Also the Atlantic breakers crash loudly on the shore, and the wind can howl quite loudly. I did have some limited success and have included a couple of clips.<\/p>\n

I discovered a better DX location at a small Plaza a short distance inland from the Ocean. There is an early morning peak for MW TA leading up to about 07:30 UTC (= local time)<\/p>\n

The radio is used barefoot in each clip. There is some camera hash.<\/p>\n

Here are the highlights:<\/p>\n

USA Transatlantic<\/h2>\n

1500 WFED booming with ID 5736 km<\/strong><\/p>\n