Okay well perhaps I didn’t explain myself properly. ABC Local Radio Wagin is on the AM band on 558KHZ. Wagin is around 2100 miles away from me. Another station - 7BU Tasmania - is a lot closer, around 150 miles - as the crow flies - away from me across water.
> On 30 Sep. 2016, at 4:34 am, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona > <hank.smith...@gmail.com> wrote: > > it is so weird not hearing the fading of shortwave radio > > I have allways wondered what a shortwave station sounded like when it was in > the same country > also nice radio nice and basy to! > <smiles> > On 9/29/2016 11:27 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote: >> I sampled a station from Wagin in Western Australia - about 2100 miles away >> from me - and thought I’d share it with you. >> I sampled this from my new Panasonic RF2200 Vintage World Band radio and by >> new I mean that I’ve just acquired one, the radio itself is around 40 years >> old but now its been fully aligned and you can hear the results for yourself. >> Unfortunately weather conditions around the country - as you’ll hear - are a >> little unstable right now, lots of lightning etc so I think the RF2200 did a >> fantastic job at reception overall. >> What makes the RF2200 unique is the rotating ferrite AM antenna on the top >> so you can nut out other stations in the background to an extent. >> The RF2200 has very finely tuned circuits which make the radio hotter than a >> fire cracker when it comes to AM reception, very reasonable on short wave >> and okay on FM though not as good as many of today’s modern-Day FM radio >> sets though that’s to be expected given most now use DSP technology which >> certainly wasn’t around 40 years ago <smile>. >> The sample was made using the microphones of the Olympus DM4 and you may >> notice a little echo since the Olympus recorder was some distance away from >> the radio to avoid any additional interference being added to the sample. >> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10565527/Panasonic%20RF2200%20ABC%20Local%20Radio%20Wagin.mp3 >> >> <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10565527/Panasonic%20RF2200%20ABC%20Local%20Radio%20Wagin.mp3> >> >> ********** >> Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the >> halfwits in this world behind. >> >> >> > > ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
