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Title: Radio Pushka 6920 AM 0715 UTC 10 FEB 2022
Post by: Andrew Yoder on February 10, 2022, 0719 UTC

I've been listening to/for R. Pushka for months now & tonight's by far the best it's come in here. Signal isn't too bad & it isn't fading out much. I've heard a few synth new wavish songs so far. Hopefully, conditions stay pretty good

Oh, almost forgot to mention that I haven't heard an ID yet, so I'm assuming it's Pushka

Title: Re: Radio Pushka 6920 AM 0715 UTC 10 FEB 2022
Post by: Radio Krasnoprudskoe on February 11, 2022, 0238 UTC

Thank you very much!

Yeah that's good. The 1/4 vertical has really helped over loaded antennas and antennas with top hats.
time to build a linear amplifier though. 15 watts is doing good.
I also need to guy it down because the antenna is very flimsy.
would you like an eqsl?

Title: Re: Radio Pushka 6920 AM 0715 UTC 10 FEB 2022
Post by: Andrew Yoder on February 11, 2022, 1800 UTC

Thanks much! I'd love an eQSL. BTW, did you receive the reception report & MP3 that I sent on 1/28? Maybe I sent it to the wrong e-mail address?

Title: Re: Radio Pushka 6920 AM 0715 UTC 10 FEB 2022
Post by: Charlie_Dont_Surf on February 12, 2022, 0015 UTC

Quote from: RadioPushka on February 11, 2022, 0238 UTC

The 1/4 vertical has really helped over loaded antennas and antennas with top hats.
time to build a linear amplifier though. 15 watts is doing good.

In terms of transmitting efficiency: a full 1/4 vertical is incrementally better than a shortened vertical with a top hat (capacitive hat) and in turn both of those two are incrementally better than a shortened coil-loaded vertical.

Put another way: 1/4 wave > top-hat vertical > coil-loaded vertical, all other things being equal, like the ground system, etc.

Source: ON4UN Low-band DXing.

Title: Re: Radio Pushka 6920 AM 0715 UTC 10 FEB 2022
Post by: Radio Krasnoprudskoe on February 12, 2022, 0615 UTC

Quote from: Andrew Yoder on February 11, 2022, 1800 UTC

Thanks much! I'd love an eQSL. BTW, did you receive the reception report & MP3 that I sent on 1/28? Maybe I sent it to the wrong e-mail address?

I am not sure I have seen that email. my email address is 87.7fmradiopushka@gmail.com
Charlie, I think you need an eqsl card too.
I will make the cards soon when I have time off from college homework.
Thank you!

Title: Re: Radio Pushka 6920 AM 0715 UTC 10 FEB 2022
Post by: MDK2 on February 12, 2022, 2141 UTC

Rather than start a new thread, will post here that I can get Radio Pushka generally most evenings but with low audio so that I usually can't make it out. I have a lot of high noise which is hard to blank out so that doesn't help. But it was on the evening of Friday the 11th (early Saturday the 12th in UTC time). One of these days it will come in better, I just know it. ;)