I’ve had a lot of radios, including the Texsun PL- 990X. Received this 2 weeks ago from Amazon for 74.95 US. What an incredible radio! This little fella has out performed ANY radio I have ever owned using only the telescoping antenna. Amazing! FM sounds great, AM is full of stations, but the shortwave is phenomenal. Shortwave certainly isn’t dead, that’s for sure. Can’t wait for QODOSAN to come out with SSB. Thanks Andre’ . You’re the best!
I’ve had a lot of radios, including the Texsun PL- 990X. Received this 2 weeks ago from Amazon for 74.95 US. What an incredible radio! This little fella has out performed ANY radio I have ever owned using only the telescoping antenna. Amazing! FM sounds great, AM is full of stations, but the shortwave is phenomenal. Shortwave certainly isn’t dead, that’s for sure. Can’t wait for QODOSAN to come out with SSB. Thanks Andre’ . You’re the best! 👍
Hi Lin, thank you so much for your comment. I was actually wondering how the Qodosen would perform when compared to the PL-990. I am very happy to hear that it outperforms the P:-990, at a much lower price! The Qodosen really is a little wonder and it does make one realise that SW is certainly not dead.
VOA on 1431 is one I get as it’s on a very rare clear channel, there is nothing except 1watt hospital radio in the UK. It’s a great channel for dxers to go for around the world. Great catches! Gotta love no electricity 😆
Indeed :-) VOA on 1431 is a very hard catch for me, I think they beam up towards the north from Djibouti, into North Africa. The Botswana transmitter covers the south of Africa, São Tomé covers West Africa, and Djibouti North Africa, Happy to finally get it!
Hi Marcos, I hope you will enjoy the radio as much as I enjoy mine! Where in Argentina are you? I visited Argentina a couple of times many years ago, Buenos Aires, Mendoza, Salta. The area around Salta was really amazingly beautiful.
Hello, Andre, as you certainly got some great MW catches on your Qodosen DX-286 indeed! I always enjoy your videos! I am still seriously considering purchasing one of these DXing powerhouses! Thanks...
The interesting part of your DX catch is that you managed to lock into the carrier signal but some information in its sidebands didn't really get through all that noise. Still, tuning into a medium wave broadcast that's not meant for domestic propagation is by no means an easy feat! 🙂 For certain stations I hear a voice or music but the speech isn't clear enough to make a proper distinction of the individual words. Low frequency bands behave like this therefore it's not a trait of MW DX'ing as it also affects SW broadcasts in the 160m-60m band region. 🌍📻 Faint signals in the much higher frequency bands aren't that much affected by broad spectrum background noise. The poor S/N ratio on medium wave may be improved by using an external long wire antenna instead of the internal ferrite core, but most DSP receivers are programmed to ignore external antenna inputs when the MW band is selected. 🤔 Good show, Andre! 👍👍
Thank you! The really great thing about the Qodosen is that it works on external antennas for MW, that is why I use the Tecsun AN-200 loop. Works wonderfully, and it is very good at nulling out noise if you turn it the right way. But some of these signals are so weak, no matter the reduced noise, you can only hear traces of words or music above the static. Still, very impressive what this radio can do.
Thanks Andre for part 2 , now if we only travel across the globe as fast as the little “Q” receiver picks up the channels. The downside to that could be you end up in North Korea without a passport…😢😢😢😢…I would have trouble explaining that…😂😂😂! 73! Have a great day!
My pleasure! I wouldn't mind visiting North Korea one day, must be interesting. But definitely with a passport, and a visa, and permission, and whatever else you need to go there 😂 And probably not with a shortwave radio in my bag.
@@swlistening Interesting, yes but in a very clinical and sterile way. 😀 Unlike in the democratic South, in Pyongyang you won't have much freedom while touring the city. Tourists are watched and monitored closely and straying from the guided tour group even for a minute is a big no-no, bru! Your friendly chaperone will make sure that you only photograph parts of the city that the authorities deem as "permissible". No interactions with the local people allowed without the guides' approval and as a visitor, you can only transact in major international currencies (like the Euro or USD) but strangely, not their own North Korean won. 🙄 🇰🇵 You can bring your phone, but you'll have to switch to the local telco's SIM card for internal calls and for heavily restricted/monitored Internet connectivity. Whatsapp and social media apps won't work over there either. 😑
Hi Andre, I have spent some time with my SR-286 comparing with a Realistic DX-360. To me the SR-286 has superior noise rejection. My house in Australia is in a reasonably quiet (for radio interference) urban location however the DX-360 does pick up noise and hash from the household and the outside overhead electricity transmission wires, whereas the SR-286 is much quieter on both MW & SW. Something close by is emitting a dreaded tick tick tick which the DX-360 is rather susceptible to however that sound is completely suppressed by the SR-286. General noise floor is much lower as well.
Thanks for your comment Lindsay. I have experienced the same, some of my other radios seem to pick up quite a bit more noise than the Qodosen. I think it has a built-in noise blanker. The Sangean PR-D4W, for example, is quite a bit more noisy than the Qodosen on MW. I think my location is similar to yours, it is a suburban area that is not too built-up. There is some RFI, of course, but not too bad. That tick tick you mention sounds like the electric fence noise I sometimes hear on my radios. There are some electric fences in my area, but not directly next to my house.
@lindsaymdhbc comments like yours really make me tempted to try a Qodosen one day 🧐 I already have a "hand-crafted" TEF6686-based radio (it's the same chip as the one Qodosen uses) from Aliexpress, and while amazing on FM, it's really ridden by noise on LW/MW, especially from its display. But even with display off, there are birdies every 2 or 3 channels on MW 😩 On the other hand, however, most if not all stations that are supposed to be strong & clear (in nighttime) in my location are strong & clear, except when directly hit by one of these birdies, and on an experiment I made a couple days ago outdoors in broad sunlight and just a passive loop made out of some 3-4m of coax, I managed to pick up a Romanian or two from ~600-700km away via groundwave. So I'm in two minds about my radio 🤷♂ OTOH, SW is OK on an external antenna...
@@swlistening you know, yesterday I did a little scan of the band with the Airspy SDR, and the area between 756 Romania and 792 Radio Dechovka looked just as empty as on the TEF w/ same antenna the other day 😂 the difference was the TEF was boosting background noise quite a lot. So again, it's a mixed bag 🤷♂
@@ArnieDXer True. That's why I generally feel there isn't such a thing as the best radio ever that does it all. Sometimes a certain radio comes close, but many radios are good at various times. Mixed bag indeed, as you say.
I don’t like the lack of power especially in the heat of the summer, but my favourite thing to do in that instance is to listen to shortwave or mediumwave radio because of the complete lack of RF noise. Here I can definitely tell when the power comes back on.
Great catches André, well done! 👍 And special congratulations for Canary Islands 🎉 I thought you'd be more likely to get continental Spain first, on 684 or 774 or 855... But it's Canaries! 😱 As for 1341... Here in Poland, this frequency is usually dominated by Radio Kuwait Cultural programme, although I did hear Egypt on there too. There's a video somewhere on my channel of 1341 kHz actually having Egypt on top at times, identifying as Idhaat al-Quran al-Qarim min al-Qa'hira, so // 864. I'm not sure which country would be more dominant down South, however, especially since there are like 4 transmitters in Egypt on 1341, but focusing on skywave hours only, I think they'd either carry Holy Quran or General Programme, rather than regional broadcasts. That's what they do 🤷♂️ 1413: as much as I hate this station, I must admit they're a distance champ of their own too. I've seen reports of Putler FM in IRCA group making it to Western Canada, where there are a few hardcore MW DXers with Beverage antennas overlooking anywhere from AU/NZ to NE Asia to Trans-Arctic paths... and Vesti FM typically arrived there across the Arctic. 819: actually, I have a feeling that music sounds more like... Indian? If so, it must be... Maldives 😳 I wish your snippet were a bit longer 😞 And how did you know it was Morocco on 612, and not Jordan? 🤨 Cheers from stormy & noisy Poland ⛈️⛈️⛈️
Hi Arnie, thanks! I actually did pick up mainland Spain as my first ever MW catch from Spain, about two years ago. It was 855, there is a video somewhere on my channel, but I can't find it now. Very happy to get the Canaries now! I did not know that Maldives also uses 819, I passed over that frequency so quickly because I had caught Egypt before and just assumed it was the same one... I should have lingered there longer, now that you mention it. I always find it strange that I get Vesti FM often, many times very clearly, but Radio Rossi, double the power, on 999 kHz, remains a rare catch for me. And Kossuth Radio on 540, it uses 2000 kW, I think, I should be able to hear that one often, but I don't. About 612, I actually just guessed that it was Morocco, because the transmitter is stronger than Jordan. In my other video of this night, I also showed 612 and it was Jordan, according to a viewer on my channel in Jordan.
@@swlistening when in doubt, try comparing with live streams for the stations listed. I think MWLIST provides links to these, so try it out on a phone if you can :) When you hear Maldives on 819, you can also try their other 2 frequencies. 684 is a French service (and it sounds quite like a French station, not as African 😆), while 1575 kHz is a BBC World Service relay. That one may be delayed quite considerably, like when I listened to it on Reunion KiwiSDR (which sadly went offline not long after I discovered it 😥), it was about 14 minutes late. I didn't know about your 855 Spain catch. But now with the Qodosen, I think it can make it again, with a better signal 😁 Same with Kossuth and the other naZi invaders' station, keep trying! 😼
@@ArnieDXer Thanks for the information about the Maldives frequencies Arnie, I will try for them. I do use the live streams to compare, but in the case of this particular video, which I made during that long power cut I had, I was unfortunately unable to check the love streams while recording, as my laptop battery was flat. And the phone was used for recording, so I was a bit stuck without any way to check the live streams 🙂
Hello andre, I want to buy a new world band radio and I am stuck between Tecsun PL-368 and Qodosen DX-286. Could you please suggest me one out of these two radios. Also I can not buy qodosen in india, can you help with that?
Do you listen to SSB signals? Or do you already have a radio with SSB? If you need SSB, the Tecsun PL368 is the obvious choice here, as the DX-286 does not have SSB. The PL-368 is a very nice radio, and you can also look at the PL-330, they share the same performance. But if you don't need SSB, then I would definitely recommend the Qodosen DX-286. It is more sensitive than the PL-368 on FM, MW, SW and LW.
Very true, some of these signals are too weak to actually hear clearly. I'm still impressed that the Qodosen could receive them, as weak as they were here at my location.
No EMI... Wish there was blackout in my area for at least 30 mins.... * It's strange that Vesti FM could be heard on 1413 kHz but not Radio Rossii on 999 kHz - it must have stronger signal.
A blackout does help :-) Radio Rossi is a real enigma, I pick it up, sometimes, but Vesti FM is always the stronger one here for me. And Radio Rossi has 1000 kW of power, Vesti FM is 500 kW. I don't understand it. It might have to do with the direction of the signal.
@@swlistening For me RR signal is literally 2x stronger, as I live dozen times closer. Yeah, very likely, the transmitters directions differ, so from a greater distance it works differently.
I have tried it with a long wire, outside in a park. It worked very well. At home the long wire does not work well on MW, it is too noisy. I don't have other antennas, except the MLA30+, which I actually haven't tried on the Qodosen yet. I will try!
I did a medium wave scan yesterday and found out that I can currently receive several of those low power mediumwave stations from the netherlands. I live very close to the dutch border. I think I counted 10 or 12 of them. I just don't know if that's a good thing or not because these nearby but low power stations might block other signals wich arrive from a much larger distance 😅
Hi there and thanks for your comment! I think it must be so much fun to be able to listen to those low-power stations from the Netherlands, you are very lucky!
I am not a youtube content creator but if you would be interested, i could create a video from LW and MW scan and maybe another video showing some local SW stations from germany and from the netherlands.
Hello André. You did recieve the Egypt station on 819 khz - 300 kw. But did you already try to receive another Egyptian station, the Holy Qoran radio on 864 khz - 500 kw? When the atmospherics are good then I can receive both Egyptian stations here in the Netherlands, but usually 864 khz is best to receive here. I recieve them just only on the internal ferrite bar antenne of my analogue Sony ICF 7061.
Thank you for your comment! I have received 864 before, it was about a year ago, and also a few weeks ago. It's great that you can hear both these station on your Sony with just the internal ferrite! By the way, I really envy people who live in the Netherlands for all the low-power MW and SW stations you have there. Should be lots of fun to listen to those!
@@swlistening Yes indeed, since a few years we do have some LPAM stations here. They are allowed to transmit with 100 watt maximum. Most of them just let their pc`s play their "hit songs" non-stop, which I do not consider that interesting. But some of them they bring an interesting presented program with music aswell. I do have an LPAM kit of 100 milliwatt myself which I only sometimes use to relay an internet radio station for myself, and listen on a Philips tube radio from the 1960`s. (You can see that on my own RUclips video channel). But more often I use my own build FM stereo oscillator to relay internet stations. That FM signal reaches out for a few hundred of meters as I use an open dipole antenna for FM. That is also a hobby of mine, since I was 17.
@@hmdbxpz I got my first tube radio today! The Hammarlund HQ-129X, in almost perfect condition. I was surprised by how good it sounds, almost noise-free. Really impressed, even though it is a huge thing that fills half my desk now 😀
Maybe you can buy the SR-286 from Ali Express? It is the same radio. The price is a bit higher, but I see it has gone down now, about $100, before it was $120.
@@remopkr198 It really is just the same as the SR-286, except for a few very small changes. But maybe soon the DX-286 will become available more widely.
I’ve had a lot of radios, including the Texsun PL- 990X.
Received this 2 weeks ago from Amazon for 74.95 US. What an incredible radio!
This little fella has out performed ANY radio I have ever owned using only the telescoping antenna.
Amazing! FM sounds great, AM is full of stations, but the shortwave is phenomenal.
Shortwave certainly isn’t dead, that’s for sure.
Can’t wait for QODOSAN to come out with SSB.
Thanks Andre’ . You’re the best!
I’ve had a lot of radios, including the Texsun PL- 990X.
Received this 2 weeks ago from Amazon for 74.95 US. What an incredible radio!
This little fella has out performed ANY radio I have ever owned using only the telescoping antenna.
Amazing! FM sounds great, AM is full of stations, but the shortwave is phenomenal.
Shortwave certainly isn’t dead, that’s for sure.
Can’t wait for QODOSAN to come out with SSB.
Thanks Andre’ . You’re the best! 👍
Hi Lin, thank you so much for your comment. I was actually wondering how the Qodosen would perform when compared to the PL-990. I am very happy to hear that it outperforms the P:-990, at a much lower price! The Qodosen really is a little wonder and it does make one realise that SW is certainly not dead.
Wow! Those are some great catches. You just never know what you're going to receive.
Indeed, that's why I enjoy DXing so much. You never know what you will hear.
Very impressive Andre. Looks like I will be getting this power house MW radio.
Thanks Dan, I think you will not be disappointed.
VOA on 1431 is one I get as it’s on a very rare clear channel, there is nothing except 1watt hospital radio in the UK. It’s a great channel for dxers to go for around the world. Great catches! Gotta love no electricity 😆
Indeed :-) VOA on 1431 is a very hard catch for me, I think they beam up towards the north from Djibouti, into North Africa. The Botswana transmitter covers the south of Africa, São Tomé covers West Africa, and Djibouti North Africa, Happy to finally get it!
Following your channel, this morning I finally decided to purchase a dx286. Hope it will arrive to Argentina in the middle of July😊😊 Thank you and 73!
Hi Marcos, I hope you will enjoy the radio as much as I enjoy mine! Where in Argentina are you? I visited Argentina a couple of times many years ago, Buenos Aires, Mendoza, Salta. The area around Salta was really amazingly beautiful.
Hello, Andre, as you certainly got some great MW catches on your Qodosen DX-286 indeed! I always enjoy your videos! I am still seriously considering purchasing one of these DXing powerhouses! Thanks...
Thanks John.
Nice catches! My Sr 286 just arrived yesterday!
Thanks Alex, good choice!
The interesting part of your DX catch is that you managed to lock into the carrier signal but some information in its sidebands didn't really get through all that noise. Still, tuning into a medium wave broadcast that's not meant for domestic propagation is by no means an easy feat! 🙂
For certain stations I hear a voice or music but the speech isn't clear enough to make a proper distinction of the individual words. Low frequency bands behave like this therefore it's not a trait of MW DX'ing as it also affects SW broadcasts in the 160m-60m band region. 🌍📻
Faint signals in the much higher frequency bands aren't that much affected by broad spectrum background noise. The poor S/N ratio on medium wave may be improved by using an external long wire antenna instead of the internal ferrite core, but most DSP receivers are programmed to ignore external antenna inputs when the MW band is selected. 🤔
Good show, Andre! 👍👍
Thank you! The really great thing about the Qodosen is that it works on external antennas for MW, that is why I use the Tecsun AN-200 loop. Works wonderfully, and it is very good at nulling out noise if you turn it the right way. But some of these signals are so weak, no matter the reduced noise, you can only hear traces of words or music above the static. Still, very impressive what this radio can do.
Great catch! My congratulations!
Thank you very much Alexey!
Thanks Andre for part 2 , now if we only travel across the globe as fast as the little “Q” receiver picks up the channels. The downside to that could be you end up in North Korea without a passport…😢😢😢😢…I would have trouble explaining that…😂😂😂!
73! Have a great day!
My pleasure! I wouldn't mind visiting North Korea one day, must be interesting. But definitely with a passport, and a visa, and permission, and whatever else you need to go there 😂 And probably not with a shortwave radio in my bag.
@@swlistening Interesting, yes but in a very clinical and sterile way. 😀
Unlike in the democratic South, in Pyongyang you won't have much freedom while touring the city. Tourists are watched and monitored closely and straying from the guided tour group even for a minute is a big no-no, bru! Your friendly chaperone will make sure that you only photograph parts of the city that the authorities deem as "permissible". No interactions with the local people allowed without the guides' approval and as a visitor, you can only transact in major international currencies (like the Euro or USD) but strangely, not their own North Korean won. 🙄 🇰🇵
You can bring your phone, but you'll have to switch to the local telco's SIM card for internal calls and for heavily restricted/monitored Internet connectivity. Whatsapp and social media apps won't work over there either. 😑
@@StratmanII All true 🙂 But I still think it will be quite an experience, unlike anywhere else I have been. Maybe one day I will get the chance.
Hi Andre, I have spent some time with my SR-286 comparing with a Realistic DX-360. To me the SR-286 has superior noise rejection. My house in Australia is in a reasonably quiet (for radio interference) urban location however the DX-360 does pick up noise and hash from the household and the outside overhead electricity transmission wires, whereas the SR-286 is much quieter on both MW & SW. Something close by is emitting a dreaded tick tick tick which the DX-360 is rather susceptible to however that sound is completely suppressed by the SR-286. General noise floor is much lower as well.
Thanks for your comment Lindsay. I have experienced the same, some of my other radios seem to pick up quite a bit more noise than the Qodosen. I think it has a built-in noise blanker. The Sangean PR-D4W, for example, is quite a bit more noisy than the Qodosen on MW. I think my location is similar to yours, it is a suburban area that is not too built-up. There is some RFI, of course, but not too bad. That tick tick you mention sounds like the electric fence noise I sometimes hear on my radios. There are some electric fences in my area, but not directly next to my house.
@lindsaymdhbc comments like yours really make me tempted to try a Qodosen one day 🧐 I already have a "hand-crafted" TEF6686-based radio (it's the same chip as the one Qodosen uses) from Aliexpress, and while amazing on FM, it's really ridden by noise on LW/MW, especially from its display. But even with display off, there are birdies every 2 or 3 channels on MW 😩 On the other hand, however, most if not all stations that are supposed to be strong & clear (in nighttime) in my location are strong & clear, except when directly hit by one of these birdies, and on an experiment I made a couple days ago outdoors in broad sunlight and just a passive loop made out of some 3-4m of coax, I managed to pick up a Romanian or two from ~600-700km away via groundwave. So I'm in two minds about my radio 🤷♂ OTOH, SW is OK on an external antenna...
@@ArnieDXer Time for a Qodosen 😀
@@swlistening you know, yesterday I did a little scan of the band with the Airspy SDR, and the area between 756 Romania and 792 Radio Dechovka looked just as empty as on the TEF w/ same antenna the other day 😂 the difference was the TEF was boosting background noise quite a lot.
So again, it's a mixed bag 🤷♂
@@ArnieDXer True. That's why I generally feel there isn't such a thing as the best radio ever that does it all. Sometimes a certain radio comes close, but many radios are good at various times. Mixed bag indeed, as you say.
I don’t like the lack of power especially in the heat of the summer, but my favourite thing to do in that instance is to listen to shortwave or mediumwave radio because of the complete lack of RF noise. Here I can definitely tell when the power comes back on.
Same here, when there is no power I don't have hot water to shower, it's winter here now. But, SW and MW DXing is just great!
Great catches André, well done! 👍 And special congratulations for Canary Islands 🎉 I thought you'd be more likely to get continental Spain first, on 684 or 774 or 855... But it's Canaries! 😱
As for 1341... Here in Poland, this frequency is usually dominated by Radio Kuwait Cultural programme, although I did hear Egypt on there too. There's a video somewhere on my channel of 1341 kHz actually having Egypt on top at times, identifying as Idhaat al-Quran al-Qarim min al-Qa'hira, so // 864. I'm not sure which country would be more dominant down South, however, especially since there are like 4 transmitters in Egypt on 1341, but focusing on skywave hours only, I think they'd either carry Holy Quran or General Programme, rather than regional broadcasts. That's what they do 🤷♂️
1413: as much as I hate this station, I must admit they're a distance champ of their own too. I've seen reports of Putler FM in IRCA group making it to Western Canada, where there are a few hardcore MW DXers with Beverage antennas overlooking anywhere from AU/NZ to NE Asia to Trans-Arctic paths... and Vesti FM typically arrived there across the Arctic.
819: actually, I have a feeling that music sounds more like... Indian? If so, it must be... Maldives 😳 I wish your snippet were a bit longer 😞
And how did you know it was Morocco on 612, and not Jordan? 🤨
Cheers from stormy & noisy Poland ⛈️⛈️⛈️
Hi Arnie, thanks! I actually did pick up mainland Spain as my first ever MW catch from Spain, about two years ago. It was 855, there is a video somewhere on my channel, but I can't find it now. Very happy to get the Canaries now!
I did not know that Maldives also uses 819, I passed over that frequency so quickly because I had caught Egypt before and just assumed it was the same one... I should have lingered there longer, now that you mention it.
I always find it strange that I get Vesti FM often, many times very clearly, but Radio Rossi, double the power, on 999 kHz, remains a rare catch for me. And Kossuth Radio on 540, it uses 2000 kW, I think, I should be able to hear that one often, but I don't.
About 612, I actually just guessed that it was Morocco, because the transmitter is stronger than Jordan. In my other video of this night, I also showed 612 and it was Jordan, according to a viewer on my channel in Jordan.
@@swlistening when in doubt, try comparing with live streams for the stations listed. I think MWLIST provides links to these, so try it out on a phone if you can :)
When you hear Maldives on 819, you can also try their other 2 frequencies. 684 is a French service (and it sounds quite like a French station, not as African 😆), while 1575 kHz is a BBC World Service relay. That one may be delayed quite considerably, like when I listened to it on Reunion KiwiSDR (which sadly went offline not long after I discovered it 😥), it was about 14 minutes late.
I didn't know about your 855 Spain catch. But now with the Qodosen, I think it can make it again, with a better signal 😁 Same with Kossuth and the other naZi invaders' station, keep trying! 😼
@@ArnieDXer Thanks for the information about the Maldives frequencies Arnie, I will try for them. I do use the live streams to compare, but in the case of this particular video, which I made during that long power cut I had, I was unfortunately unable to check the love streams while recording, as my laptop battery was flat. And the phone was used for recording, so I was a bit stuck without any way to check the live streams 🙂
1341 is Kuwait second program that's correct I can hear it at night in Saudi Arabia
Thank you so much for the confirmation!
Hello andre, I want to buy a new world band radio and I am stuck between Tecsun PL-368 and Qodosen DX-286. Could you please suggest me one out of these two radios. Also I can not buy qodosen in india, can you help with that?
Do you listen to SSB signals? Or do you already have a radio with SSB? If you need SSB, the Tecsun PL368 is the obvious choice here, as the DX-286 does not have SSB. The PL-368 is a very nice radio, and you can also look at the PL-330, they share the same performance. But if you don't need SSB, then I would definitely recommend the Qodosen DX-286. It is more sensitive than the PL-368 on FM, MW, SW and LW.
Impressive distances, but you can’t really hear some of them in the static.
Very true, some of these signals are too weak to actually hear clearly. I'm still impressed that the Qodosen could receive them, as weak as they were here at my location.
I will organize a MW listener contest at the end of 2024. 73 de frank SWL F14368 also organizer of the SWL contest 2024.
936 is SBA Quran radio from Riyadh👍
Thank you for this confirmation also Walid!
No EMI... Wish there was blackout in my area for at least 30 mins.... * It's strange that Vesti FM could be heard on 1413 kHz but not Radio Rossii on 999 kHz - it must have stronger signal.
A blackout does help :-) Radio Rossi is a real enigma, I pick it up, sometimes, but Vesti FM is always the stronger one here for me. And Radio Rossi has 1000 kW of power, Vesti FM is 500 kW. I don't understand it. It might have to do with the direction of the signal.
@@swlistening For me RR signal is literally 2x stronger, as I live dozen times closer. Yeah, very likely, the transmitters directions differ, so from a greater distance it works differently.
Can you try the wounderful DX-286 with long wire or other wire antennas (Flag, Delta loop or K9AY)
I have tried it with a long wire, outside in a park. It worked very well. At home the long wire does not work well on MW, it is too noisy. I don't have other antennas, except the MLA30+, which I actually haven't tried on the Qodosen yet. I will try!
I did a medium wave scan yesterday and found out that I can currently receive several of those low power mediumwave stations from the netherlands. I live very close to the dutch border. I think I counted 10 or 12 of them. I just don't know if that's a good thing or not because these nearby but low power stations might block other signals wich arrive from a much larger distance 😅
Hi there and thanks for your comment! I think it must be so much fun to be able to listen to those low-power stations from the Netherlands, you are very lucky!
I am not a youtube content creator but if you would be interested, i could create a video from LW and MW scan and maybe another video showing some local SW stations from germany and from the netherlands.
@@SWL_JO32 That will really be very interesting for me, especially the low-power MW and SW stations. I can never hear those stations in South Africa.
Okay, i will try to create videos on the weekend :)
1341khz most likely radio Kuwait second program
Thanks Ali, I wasn't sure about this one, just guessed it was Egypt.
Hello André. You did recieve the Egypt station on 819 khz - 300 kw. But did you already try to receive another Egyptian station, the Holy Qoran radio on 864 khz - 500 kw? When the atmospherics are good then I can receive both Egyptian stations here in the Netherlands, but usually 864 khz is best to receive here. I recieve them just only on the internal ferrite bar antenne of my analogue Sony ICF 7061.
Thank you for your comment! I have received 864 before, it was about a year ago, and also a few weeks ago. It's great that you can hear both these station on your Sony with just the internal ferrite! By the way, I really envy people who live in the Netherlands for all the low-power MW and SW stations you have there. Should be lots of fun to listen to those!
@@swlistening Yes indeed, since a few years we do have some LPAM stations here. They are allowed to transmit with 100 watt maximum. Most of them just let their pc`s play their "hit songs" non-stop, which I do not consider that interesting. But some of them they bring an interesting presented program with music aswell. I do have an LPAM kit of 100 milliwatt myself which I only sometimes use to relay an internet radio station for myself, and listen on a Philips tube radio from the 1960`s. (You can see that on my own RUclips video channel). But more often I use my own build FM stereo oscillator to relay internet stations. That FM signal reaches out for a few hundred of meters as I use an open dipole antenna for FM. That is also a hobby of mine, since I was 17.
@@hmdbxpz I watched that video of your relay of the internet radio on your channel just now, what a beautiful tube radio you have there!
@@swlistening Thanks. Yes it is a great radio with a great sensitivity and sound. I did change all the tubes for new ones and its like new again now.
@@hmdbxpz I got my first tube radio today! The Hammarlund HQ-129X, in almost perfect condition. I was surprised by how good it sounds, almost noise-free. Really impressed, even though it is a huge thing that fills half my desk now 😀
What antenna setup are you using?
I used the Tecsun AN-200 loop antenna here, plugged in to the Qodosen.
i would like to buy this one.unfortunatly this radio not available where I live 😢
Maybe you can buy the SR-286 from Ali Express? It is the same radio. The price is a bit higher, but I see it has gone down now, about $100, before it was $120.
@@swlistening I hoping and waiting for DX 286
@@remopkr198 It really is just the same as the SR-286, except for a few very small changes. But maybe soon the DX-286 will become available more widely.