{"id":36558,"date":"2019-03-11T07:55:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T11:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=36558"},"modified":"2019-03-11T07:55:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T11:55:26","slug":"tc-notes-differences-between-kenwood-th-d74-and-th-f6a-on-mw-sw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/tc-notes-differences-between-kenwood-th-d74-and-th-f6a-on-mw-sw\/","title":{"rendered":"TC notes differences between Kenwood TH-D74 and TH-F6A on MW\/SW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Kenwood-TH-D74-v-TH-F6A-e1552304821154.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36566\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Kenwood-TH-D74-v-TH-F6A-e1552304821154.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, TC, who shares the following response to Ivan&#8217;s post about the Kenwood TH-D74 on mediumwave:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A couple of years ago, I published a side-by-side comparison of the TH-F6A and the TH-D74 on YouTube comparing reception of a local AM broadcast station. The F6A was far more sensitive on the AM broadcast band than the TH-D74.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the video here:<\/p><\/blockquote>\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\/Y9EbYWrm7BM?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: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Y9EbYWrm7BM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to view on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I didn\u2019t take the internal orientation of the bars into account, but the D74 is less sensitive in pretty much any orientation compared to the older F6A.<\/p>\n<p>I contacted Kenwood about the difference, and they stated something to the effect of while the TH-D74 does receive MW, it wasn\u2019t necessarily designed for it, and thus the reception there suffers compared to the F6A.<\/p>\n<p>However, the tradeoff here seems to be better shortwave reception in the TH-D74 compared to the F6A. Hook the D74 up to a large wire antenna and you can easily pull in stuff on the shortwave broadcast and ham bands, and the IF filters help quite a bit as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for sharing, TC! I own a few wideband handheld transceivers so I keep a short SMA &#8220;pigtail&#8221; in my EDC pack that I can use to enhance HF performance. I simply clip a 15&#8242; wire onto the pigtail&#8217;s\u00a0 exposed conductor to enhance HF performance. Also, as Ivan points out, inductively pairing any of these tiny radios with a mag loop antenna will also augment performance on mediumwave.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again for sharing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, TC, who shares the following response to Ivan&#8217;s post about the Kenwood TH-D74 on mediumwave: A couple of years ago, I published a side-by-side comparison of the TH-F6A and the TH-D74 on YouTube comparing reception of a local AM broadcast station. The F6A was far more sensitive on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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":[545,3,3196,129,43],"tags":[3436,7657,7658,5919,4099,7659,4046],"class_list":["post-36558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-portable-radio","category-reviews","category-shortwave-radio","tag-kenwood","tag-kenwood-th-d74","tag-kenwood-th-d74-mediumwave","tag-kenwood-th-f6a","tag-mediumwave","tag-th-d74","tag-wideband-receivers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9vE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36394,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/ivan-checks-out-the-kenwood-th-d74s-mediumwave-performance\/","url_meta":{"origin":36558,"position":0},"title":"Ivan checks out the Kenwood TH-D74&#8217;s mediumwave performance","author":"Thomas","date":"March 8, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ivan (NO2CW), who writes: One category of receivers not much talked about are the wideband handhelds. 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