Re: [IRCA] Cruise ship dxing

2019-11-04 Thread Volodya S
Right you are, Colin! I've done many cruises, and always bring along a radio, including SDRs at times. If you have a balcony, great. Trying to DX from within is a wasted exercise, mostly. Too much noise within the ship. One can try to tape a magnetic loop on a window, but it's a poor second

Re: [IRCA] Cruise ship dxing

2019-11-04 Thread R. Colin Newell
Walt Salmaniw is the global cruise expert -- he'll likely chime in shortly. On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 4:09 AM Carl DeWhitt wrote: > I will be going on a southern Caribbean cruise soon.I plan to take along a > newly acquired C.Crane Skywave SSB,a Grundig 2 and possibly a Tecsun PL-380 > to do some

Re: [IRCA] Cruise ship dxing

2019-11-04 Thread James Renfrew
When I visited the Dominican Republic many years ago the MW band was awash in Venezuelans, I'm not sure that as many are on the air any more. Jim Renfrew, Clarendon NY On Mon, Nov 4, 2019, 07:09 Carl DeWhitt wrote: > I will be going on a southern Caribbean cruise soon.I plan to take along a >

[IRCA] Cruise ship dxing

2019-11-04 Thread Carl DeWhitt
I will be going on a southern Caribbean cruise soon.I plan to take along a newly acquired C.Crane Skywave SSB,a Grundig 2 and possibly a Tecsun PL-380 to do some dxing onboard.Our room has a balcony which.might be good to dx from.Has anyone in the group done any cruise ship dxing ? Do you have any