{"id":46149,"date":"2020-10-25T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=46149"},"modified":"2022-10-28T07:27:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T11:27:37","slug":"taking-the-icom-ic-705-on-a-shortwave-and-mediumwave-field-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/taking-the-icom-ic-705-on-a-shortwave-and-mediumwave-field-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Icom IC-705 on a shortwave and mediumwave field trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, 13dka, who shares the following:<\/p>\n

Yesterday evening, I took the Icom IC-705 to the dike for the first time (got it on Thursday and spent a lof of time with familiarization).<\/p>\n

Since it was already too dark, wet and cold for all the fuss with antennas, I decided to just put a telescopic whip on a tiny magmount on the car roof, curious what the 705 would make out of that. That magmount is the worst thing ever, too much cheap RG-174 seems to attenuate the signal from the whip (possibly some impedance catastrophe), my portables don\u2019t like that thing at all.<\/p>\n

So the antenna was as bad as it gets but…it demonstrated what the 705 can do with extremely faint signals! I had really good and quiet reception even when signals were not at all showing up on the S-Meter or much on the waterfall. I had to turn on preamp 2 and crank up the scope \u201cRef\u201d gain up to see anything, but SNR was great, I didn\u2019t have the feeling that I\u2019m missing many stations and it even worked pretty well on medium wave to longwave, with the signal really tapering off only below 500 kHz and I learned why omnidirectional whips never caught on on MW! ?<\/p>\n

AM band scan:<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n