Danny Radio ☠︎

🎉World Amateur Radio Day! Congratulations to all hams worldwide! April 18 — celebrating the global amateur radio community! #WorldAmateurRadioDay

I stumbled upon WavViewDX this afternoon. Seems like a cool tool for my #MWDX challenge. rweiss.de/dxer/tools.html

I thought about it for a few days, because I don't like showing off my stuff, but this is a very special moment! I have a tidy radio shack now! Now let's hope it stays this way for a while. ;-)

@FMDXIreland @DXCentral This is interesting. I think I'm going to give this a try: n3ox.net/projects/flag. Thanks Paul for the tips! :-)

@DR4D10 @DXCentral The advantage of these terminated loops is that they are unidirectional instead of front and back pckup - Mark Connelly in the US used to use a very small one on the top of his car sometimes.

1320 WILS Lansing, Michigan, this morning at 0500. Pretty decent signal!

@FMDXIreland @DXCentral I can of course build one about 5 meters wide if I want to try to receive the West Coast. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. :-)

@FMDXIreland @DXCentral If you make a KAZ, Pennant or K9AY antenna to small, then it loses the advantages over an active loop antenna. Or we would have to move to a house with a large garden, but I'm afraid that isn't going to happen for the time being. ;-)

@FMDXIreland @DXCentral From what I've read, an active loop antenna is best for me. My MLA-30+ with a larger loop and lower gain (to reduce intermodulation) works well, but it could be better.

@FMDXIreland I know that antenna. @DXCentral has a few too. Unfortunately, that doesn't fit in our garden. :-(

@DR4D10 hey Danny I have a trianglular wire loop - its 3m high 12 m wide - i feed it back to house and then it's gets amplified a little. Google KAZ loop.

@PA9X Congratulations! Plenty of space, no more antenna compromises, and less QRM. :-)

New QTH next month. Idea for the new antenne setup: Double Zepp 2x ±14m legs in inverted V with center 14m up a mast. Feed it through a CG-3000 remote auto tuner, 1:1 balun and 14m 450 Ohm ladder line. Should cover 80 meters up to 10 meters and possibly 6 meters. #hamradio

Staring at the BFM Spectrum of SDR Console during a fading DX signal, hoping that the RDS signal briefly emerges from the noise… the life of an #FMDX-er. 😂

@riprap1 Sennheiser offers logper antennas for their wireless sets. But I don't think you should put that on your head. 😂

@DR4D10 I’ve never heard of wireless mics using that part of the spectrum, they’d be very limited in their range unless the user carries a yagi on their head 🤣

The Best Scanner You Can Buy! - The Uniden SDS200 Scanner. P25, DMR & NX... youtu.be/mN9uFN7OxuM?si… Good review!!!

@riprap1 Especially the one between 512 and 758 MHz. There are a lot of wireless microphones and studio links in that gap. I would personally choose an AOR AR-DV1. But despite that, the Uniden STS200 remains a cool scanner.

@DR4D10 Which gaps in particular?

A fading signal for minutes and a 57kHz RDS signal that is too weak, so you just can't get a PI code… 🫣

And I've dusted off another old IQ recording. This time, one from June 9, 2022. And we kick off with BNR Radio Shumen (BUL). :-) #FMDX

@riprap1 Since they started giving names to storms in Europe, they seem a lot more intense. ;-)

Well I’m up early for a Sunday, I’ve been outside to check my antennas after those winds last night and we’re all still vertical and ship shape. Apparently our highest gust was 70mph….. we’ve weathered Storm Dave rather well I’d say

Last night, for the first time in ages, I listened to the entire MW band with the FDM-S3 and the modified MLA-30+ (NW/SE) in the attic. And this time I did take the trouble to identify most of them. ;-) What a wonderful hobby we have! :-) #MWDX

@riprap1 Isn't that the taxi driver who gave John a lift and regretted it a bit afterwards?

What film are we watching?