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Loggings => Shortwave Broadcast => Topic started by: alpard on July 02, 2020, 1745 UTC

Title: Zambia NBC Radio 1 on 5915 kHz
Post by: alpard on July 02, 2020, 1745 UTC

Using my XHDATA D-808 and long wire, and Plaster AA-30 preamp, this station was heard in UK in the early evening time.
Reception was good at times, but QSB and QRN was also present.

I put it up into my twitter account. I was quite pleased to hear and log this new station for me on the HF.

https://twitter.com/gm0mop/status/1278419467492605952

Title: Re: Zambia NBC Radio 1 on 5915 kHz
Post by: glimmer twin on July 04, 2020, 0023 UTC

Congrats, alpard. Great catch. Looking at your Twitter feed you seem to do well with your XHDATA D-808. I've always been partial to inexpensive portables myself. You can get surprising results with a cheap handheld receiver and a wire antenna/ atu setup. I've always thought of dx'ing with a cheap barefoot portable as the SWL equivalent of working QRP.

Title: Re: Zambia NBC Radio 1 on 5915 kHz
Post by: alpard on July 04, 2020, 0857 UTC

Thank you GT. :D

Yes, I enjoy using the cheap portables and wire antennas for SWL DXing myself.
It is good feeling to have - wow this cheap gears pulled the DX. I didn't expect that. :DD