That is some amount of wire - Those LW & MW stations booming in - in daylight! Impressive down the lower end of SW and up to 11/12m. To me, there was an appreciable lack of noise. The thing would be to set something like that up as a remote receive - using KIWI SDR or something. Easier said than done I know. The noise is killing me at home at the moment, I have a big spurious signal splodged on 20m, sounds like TV. The 12db attenuator on my FT 840 does a reasonable job of negating it before it goes into the SDR (It shares the antenna via a grounding switch) but I know I'm missing out on DX. I'm thinking about a mag loop for receive at this stage.
Wait until I get the whole 500 meters up. I think the biggest problem is noise these days, just as an experiment, get three to four feet of wire and loop it from aerial to earth. This will kill all the noise, strong AM signals will will barely move your s-meter but will still be perfectly readable because of the lack of noise. There are a few home brew loops on the net, a two transistor one like this has got very good results www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showthread.php?t=137089
Your video answered a question I had about my recently purchased R-600. As I watched you tune the 20 meter ham band, I heard the same "wide birdie" on the lower portion on that band that I hear on mine. So I guess it's a normal thing on that model. The noise appears to be generated by the frequency counter chip.
You want to try something mate roll out around 200 - 300 meters right on the ground and hook it up to your R-600. I did it with mine works good for long wave and 160 meters. You also should hook up a ground wire. Give it a try works really good. Great video just crackin. I pull in Manx "1368 khz medium wave Isle of Man" radio late at night early in the Morning here in the states.
Nice wire! Great reception, especially The Buzzer in daytime and also Manx.. I played with fence antennas on the hills sometimes and it's fun - ruclips.net/video/rFRi8Aui86U/видео.html But my Tecsun PL-880 which I take everywhere is prone to overloading on long wires. On shortwave it picks strong signals from medium wave then. Once I looked at a security fencing in the park and it was even more interesting for MW: ruclips.net/video/dReB1oh9vPE/видео.html induction and different thickness of material.
What is your record for wire length in RX ? The longer the wire, the better the reception ? 😀 Is the wire necessarily laid out in a straight line? No return possible ? 😀 Does the wire placed on the ground have the same reception as placed up high ? 😀
Im glad your r600 still works good mine has all kind of problems guess I wore it out
Hi well done for doing this ,really interesting Best Regards Tim
Thanks for your support Tim!
Nice receiver, good sound !! wonderful you can catch 4625 khz buzzer so nice during the day !!
Thanks.
@@IrishvintageTVRadio thanks... are you located closed to the buzzer because it makes me so amazing to listen to it during the day ! 😊
@@aureliusprimus Not that close, I'm in Ireland.
Great work
I'll have a another go with the full 500 meters of wire soon. It would be interesting to try this in the early hours to see if U.S. AM DX is possible.
good antenna & rig , but you still could do with a tunner :)
At that site it might be good for Beverage on the ground (BOG) antenna and it would be more directional. Well done on the video.
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That is some amount of wire - Those LW & MW stations booming in - in daylight! Impressive down the lower end of SW and up to 11/12m. To me, there was an appreciable lack of noise. The thing would be to set something like that up as a remote receive - using KIWI SDR or something. Easier said than done I know.
The noise is killing me at home at the moment, I have a big spurious signal splodged on 20m, sounds like TV. The 12db attenuator on my FT 840 does a reasonable job of negating it before it goes into the SDR (It shares the antenna via a grounding switch) but I know I'm missing out on DX. I'm thinking about a mag loop for receive at this stage.
Wait until I get the whole 500 meters up. I think the biggest problem is noise these days, just as an experiment, get three to four feet of wire and loop it from aerial to earth. This will kill all the noise, strong AM signals will will barely move your s-meter but will still be perfectly readable because of the lack of noise.
There are a few home brew loops on the net, a two transistor one like this has got very good results www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showthread.php?t=137089
Your video answered a question I had about my recently purchased R-600. As I watched you tune the 20 meter ham band, I heard the same "wide birdie" on the lower portion on that band that I hear on mine. So I guess it's a normal thing on that model. The noise appears to be generated by the frequency counter chip.
You want to try something mate roll out around 200 - 300 meters right on the ground and hook it up to your R-600. I did it with mine works good for long wave and 160 meters. You also should hook up a ground wire. Give it a try works really good. Great video just crackin. I pull in Manx "1368 khz medium wave Isle of Man" radio late at night early in the Morning here in the states.
That's some serious DX, getting Manx over there. You East, middle or west?
Wonderful !! Into what connexion behind the receiver did you plug in the long wire ?
With 200 m long wire, don't you afraid about harmonics ?
Only need to worry about harmonics if transmitting.
@@IrishvintageTVRadio by harmonics I mean when you hear to stations in the same time on your RX...
Yes, there is a bit of overloading.
..what language are you speaking? :))
scnr... ;)
Seriously, nice reception, nice old receiver, nice antenna. Thumb up.
Nice wire! Great reception, especially The Buzzer in daytime and also Manx.. I played with fence antennas on the hills sometimes and it's fun - ruclips.net/video/rFRi8Aui86U/видео.html But my Tecsun PL-880 which I take everywhere is prone to overloading on long wires. On shortwave it picks strong signals from medium wave then.
Once I looked at a security fencing in the park and it was even more interesting for MW: ruclips.net/video/dReB1oh9vPE/видео.html induction and different thickness of material.
What is your record for wire length in RX ?
The longer the wire, the better the reception ? 😀 Is the wire necessarily laid out in a straight line? No return possible ? 😀 Does the wire placed on the ground have the same reception as placed up high ? 😀
Where did you plug red wire on the receiver ? 50 or 500 Ohms ? 😀