12-11-2011, 05:27 PM
Thanks Andrew. I must confess that 'from the top of my head', none of those radios are immediately known to me. I'm from the 'old school' of ex-WWII receivers, Eddystones and the like, although I do have a couple of Yaesu-Musen radios and a Icom IC-R7000 in the shack, and a Marconi CR100 should be joining them soon.
Anyway, today, November 12, mid-afternoon, I had a quick listen around the 10-metre Amateur Radio band on my Eddystone 888A: what a surprise! I copied stations from Malta (Gozo Island), Russia (European and Asiatic) and Greece amongst others: all at signal strengths between good to very loud; most with occasional slow fading. A few USA stations were heard - at much weaker signal levels, but perfectly readable. The most surprising was a European Russian station, UR5QGC, towards the top end of the band on amplitude modulation. However, by dusk, the band had gone very quiet - as you would expect.
I've always had a fondness for the 10m. AmRad band: you never know what to expect, and when 'conditions' are right, signals do come stomping in!
Al.
Anyway, today, November 12, mid-afternoon, I had a quick listen around the 10-metre Amateur Radio band on my Eddystone 888A: what a surprise! I copied stations from Malta (Gozo Island), Russia (European and Asiatic) and Greece amongst others: all at signal strengths between good to very loud; most with occasional slow fading. A few USA stations were heard - at much weaker signal levels, but perfectly readable. The most surprising was a European Russian station, UR5QGC, towards the top end of the band on amplitude modulation. However, by dusk, the band had gone very quiet - as you would expect.
I've always had a fondness for the 10m. AmRad band: you never know what to expect, and when 'conditions' are right, signals do come stomping in!
Al.
