My Flex-5000 is utterly deaf below the U.S. AM broadcast band. Can't even pick up local airport Non-Directional Beacons.
But I do some longwave listening with my old Kenwood TS-850/HF vertical and often hear European AM broadcast stations in the 150-200 kHz range even from my QTH in Missouri. Radio France Inter can often be heard from local sunset until sunrise in Europe on 162 kKHz. The BBC station on 198 kHz is almost as loud. It's easy to assume that these signals are spurs from local AM stations but they make the very long trip using immense power, often above a megawatt. Even very low power 600-meter ham beacons around 500 kHz can be heard over most of the U.S. Don't sell longwave short. Jeff K0OD _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
