{"id":45970,"date":"2020-10-16T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T14:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=45970"},"modified":"2020-10-16T10:04:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T14:04:50","slug":"using-the-icom-ic-705-to-record-a-local-am-broadcast-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/using-the-icom-ic-705-to-record-a-local-am-broadcast-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the Icom IC-705 to record a local AM broadcast station"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In my previous post<\/a>, I mentioned how much I enjoy the built-in digital audio recorder in the new Icom IC-705. While I wouldn’t buy a QRP transceiver specifically for built-in audio recording–there are less expensive options out there–it is an incredibly<\/em> useful feature in my world.<\/p>\n

After publishing that post, I was reminded that Monday morning (October 12, 2020) I connected the IC-705 to my homebrew Noise-Cancelling Passive Loop antenna<\/a> mounted indoors at my parents’ house.<\/p>\n

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My NCPL antenna<\/p><\/div>\n

Their house is like so many others in that it is inundated with RFI (radio frequency interference). I find that the NCPL antenna does a fine job mitigating most of that noise on the mediumwave band when I position it so that the bulk of the interference is nulled.<\/p>\n

Monday morning, I tuned the IC-705 to my favorite local AM station: WAIZ<\/strong> on 630 kHz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Weekday mornings, Dave and his “Wacky Wake-Up Crew” always put me in the right mood. They’re incredibly goofy\/corny and 100% original.<\/p>\n

It’s extraordinarily<\/em> rare these days to find a local radio station, with local talent, creating a local daily radio show. Almost all of their ads are local, too.<\/p>\n

I made the following off-air recording for myself, but decided to upload it for others to enjoy. I’m not sure what the receiver audio EQ or bandwidth filter was set to when I recorded this. It’s not a demo of receiver performance, just a little radio fun.<\/p>\n

Enjoy:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/waiz-630k-hz-20201012-103557\/WAIZ-630kHz-20201012_103557.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my previous post, I mentioned how much I enjoy the built-in digital audio recorder in the new Icom IC-705. While I wouldn’t buy a QRP transceiver specifically for built-in audio recording–there are less expensive options out there–it is an incredibly useful feature in my world. After publishing that post, I was reminded that Monday […]<\/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":[373,3607,3,746],"tags":[625,7978,2884,7977,4106],"class_list":["post-45970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-antennas","category-news","category-recordings","tag-am-radio","tag-ic-705","tag-icom","tag-icom-ic-705","tag-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-bXs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47470,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/the-icom-ic-705-is-about-to-achieve-holy-grail-status\/","url_meta":{"origin":45970,"position":0},"title":"The Icom IC-705 is about to achieve ‘Holy Grail’ status","author":"Thomas","date":"January 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"In 2019, shortly after Icom announced the Icom IC-705, I speculated that this rig might be a contender for \"Holy Grail\" status. 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