We had been today in various stores and couldn`t found anything that worked. In St.
Eustache, I tested several radios: one of them had huge overspills from CKAC-730 on
747, and another one had pretty distorted, but still fairly comprehensible splatter
from CFRA on 590, something I can`t tolerate either. I wonder why in any normal
radio, the people don`t put a ceramic filter. Is it just because of the fucking money
question; the commercants of CKAC et al that have ads do contracts with people to NOT
putting ceramic filters to avoid persons from listening to Radio Coro 780 and to jam
it with CJAD, 2 channels away ?
I`m frustrated and I`m bored too.
I think: is it possible to install an outboard tape recorder to the broken Sanyo
MCD-S830 and to use it without repairing the in-built tape recorder ? What do you
think ?
Also, if anyone wants to help me with a radio, here is my address:
4190 Edward Higgins
H8Y 3M9
Pierrefonds, Quebec, Canada
Maybe a solution would be to send the Sanyo MCD-S830 to a DX`er.
Will be going out again to se if we can find somethin`: we will go to Radio Shack
again (yesturday we went to Radio Shack too).
73 and good DX,
Bogdan
- Original Message -
From: Henrik Klemetz
To: aurel chiochiu
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: new receiver
There are good receivers and less good receivers. I had an RF29 (Panasonic) which
was much less sensitive on MW than the Sony ICF6500 which endured
longwire antennas without any kind of overloading.
With one exception I have not been using inboard tape recorders. I think such
receivers / those with inbuilt tape recorders / are very prone to breakdowns.
I think you should seriously consider some other receiver. Why not ask for some
additional receiver to use alongside for comparison. Or talk to someone who
is DXing from a car. I can think of Chris Dunne in Florida to name one.
Henrik
- Original Message -
From: aurel chiochiu
To: Henrik Klemetz
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: new receiver
The biggest problem is that the GE superradio models don`t came with a tape
recorder, and I`m ready to leave this hobby if I can`t do that. I always like to
listen to IDs, announcements and even music (I`m really gratefull for the help with
the Pastor Lopez tune). Without a tape, identifying the interesting tunes I hear on
Latin American MW and SW stations will be almost impossible. And music is a big part
of the DX hobby for me. When you go to a world music store there is only a very
limited quantity of foreign music, like only the most artistical or commercial artists
unfortunatly, people don`t made compilations on CDs with songs that DX`ers hear when
they DX Caribbean and South American signals on AM.
Also when I pick up a non-identified station, it always helps to review the tape
to catch an ID or at least an announcement.
And finally I really loved the Sanyo MCD-S830, especially because I heard a lot of
pretty much seldom heard Caribbean and Latins with him like 570 YVLX Radio Rumbos,
RJR-580 (in the Jamaican location of Galina), 610 HJKL Radio Difusora Nacional de
Colombia - La Voz de la Cultura, and also the tentative Peruvian OBZ4X-760 wich may or
may not have been Radio Mar Plus because the announcer didn`t start immediatly to talk
live after the song and also because I couldn`t hear the Radio Mar Plus, la
universidad de la salsa en Peru over the songs (or may have been something else as
well like XEABC in Mexico wich is a seldom heard Mexican in eastern North America). I
also heard some splits like ZIZ-555, RFO-1375 and a tentative het from the Saudi-1521
on the high side of WWKB, probably my only trans-atlantic with this radio. It`s really
a tough thing to loose such a great radio.
I wonder what your Sanyo did look like; did it come with 2 tapes (one for
recording and listening and the other one for listening) and a CD player like the mine
was and hopefully will be again or just with the tapes and radio or just the radio ?
Where did you used: at your home QTH in Sweden or in Latin America (like Colombia
or Ecuador) ? I think that my Sanyo MCD-S830 is a type of radio specially designed for
Europe, because of the extremely good resistance to overloading (when I was in Jersey
City in the southern suburb of New-York, I was surrounded by locals all over the band,
yet I could still hear some DX, even a few Latins on my Sanyo MCD-S830, the best
catche being XEX-730, while my Sangean 606 was badly covered with mixing products from
say WLIB-1190 and WQEW-1560 all over the non local channels, despite using it`s
ferrite bar antenna, it is a slightly less sensitive receiver than my Sanyo MCD-S830
and despite the batteries were weak during our trip to NYC). Did in Latin American
overloading with strong MW transmitters like HJJX RCN Bogota on 770 with it`s
powerfull 100 kW or especially HJCY
