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Hunting For NDBs In CLE 276
ZQT-263 Thunder Bay, ON (tnx ve3gop.com)It's CLE fun time once again. How quickly time zooms by. 'CLE's are 'Co-ordinated Listening Events, and NDB DXers around the world focus their listening time...
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DX Central's MW Frequency Challenge
If you like DXing the broadcast band, then the weekly‘DX Central MW Frequency Challenge' may be of interest to you. It’s run and organized by Loyd Van Horn, W4LVH, a dedicated DXer and a big promoter...
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Hunting For NDBs In CLE279
It's CLE fun time once again.'CLE's are 'Co-ordinated Listening Events, and NDB DXers around the world focus their listening time on one small slice of the NDB spectrum. It's back to an 'almost...
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Crystal Radio Listening Event
Do you have a crystal radio, homebrew or otherwise? If so and you haven't used it for awhile, here's a great opportunity to try it out again!Facebook's Crystal Radio DX Contest Group ran a DX contest...
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Hunting For NDBs in CLE280
It's CLE time once again. This is a challenge for all newcomers to NDB listening and the ultimate test of your medium frequency receiving capabilities. Can you meet the challenge?'CLE's are...
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FT8 and the Magic Band
Now that 6m is in full swing once again, many of you will be operating FT8 on 6m for the first time! Things are a little different on 6m compared to operating FT8 on HF and here are a few things for...
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Hunting For NDBs In CLE281
YIV-300 Island Lake, MB (ve3gop.com)It's CLE time once again. This is a challenge for all newcomers to NDB listening and the ultimate test of your medium frequency receiving capabilities. Can you meet...
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Neophyte Twins - An Update
Blog readers may recall my last two construction projects, the ‘Neophyte’ 1-tube regenerative receiver and a matching ‘Neophyte’ 1-tube crystal-controlled transmitter. The receiver turned out to be an...
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Hunting For NDBs in CLE282
YLD-335 Chapleau, ON (ve3gop.com)It's CLE time once again. This is a challenge for all newcomers to NDB listening and the ultimate test of your medium frequency receiving capabilities. Can you meet...
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Hunting For NDBs In CLE283
Time marches on and once again, it's CLE time. This is an opportunity for you to discover the KIWI SDR online network and to put it to use for hunting NDBs ... either close to you or on the other side...
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Summer Radio Project Completed
My summer radio project, motivated by a magazine article published in 1936, has now been completed and fully described on my main website. Hopefully we can soon exchange Cycle 25 signals with it on the...
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The DX Central's Weekly MW Frequency Challenge
If you enjoy DXing the broadcast band, then the weekly ‘DX Central MW Frequency Challenge' may be of interest to you. It’s run and organized by Loyd Van Horn, W4LVH, a dedicated DXer and a big promoter...
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Recent Crystal Radio DX Group 'Listening Event'
Crystal Shortwave Receiver of Al Klase (N3FRQ) The Facebook Crystal Radio DX Group’s fall listening event was held two weekends ago over a two-night listening period. Unlike last year’s event, this...
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Hunting For NDBs in CLE285
YPO-401 Peawanuck, ON tnx: ve3gop.comIt's CLE time once again. This is a challenge for all newcomers to NDB listening and the ultimate test of your medium frequency receiving capabilities. Can you meet...
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Ever Heard Of Heathkit's SS-8000 Digital Transceiver? .... Me Neither!
courtesy N8RSThe Heathkit SS-8000 was a unique synthesized HF transceiver (160-10m) originally designed as a kit in 1978. The reason that very few hams have heard of it is that it was never released …...
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Topband's Poor Winter Performance
A recent discussion on the Topband mailing list regarding the exceptionally poor propagation this fall and winter, especially on the polar path, brought forth some interesting opinions as to the...
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Hunting For NDBs In CLE288
YNE - 207 Norway House, MB (tnx ve3gop.com)Yes! It's CLE time once again. This is a challenge for all newcomers to NDB listening and the ultimate test of your medium frequency receiving capabilities....
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Hunting For NDBs In CLE289
YYH-290 Taloyoak, NU - courtesyve3gop.comAnother month has zoomed by and it's CLE time once again. This is a challenge for all newcomers to NDB listening and the ultimate test of your medium frequency...
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Hunting For NDBs In CLE291
ZSJ-258 Sandy Lake, ON (ve3gop.com)This coming weekend brings CLE 291. This is a challenge for all NDB hunters, both new and old and the ultimate test of your medium frequency receiving capabilities....
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CLE 292 Needs Your Input
In preparation for something never done before in a CLE, the organziers are asking for your input. See their quest below. I will post the usual 'Hunting For NDBs..." blog outlining all of the rules in...
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