[HCDX] Couple Logs

["Charles B" <ka4prf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peru, 6193.08, Radio Cuzco, 1101-1122  Noted steady Spanish comments which may have been news, during the period. Signal was fair.  (Chuck Bolland, March 8, 2007)

Peru, 6173.87, Radio Tawantinsuyo, 1048-1100  With a very weak signal, steady Huaynos music until about 1053 when a person comments in Spanish.  Noted a canned TC every minute or so over the music.  Lot's of QRM here.  (Chuck Bolland, March 9, 2007)

Bolivia, 5952.35, Radio Pio Doce, 1038-1048  With a number of persons in Spanish discourse.  Signal at this end was fair.  (Chuck Bolland, March 9, 2007)

Comment:  Trying for the difficult DX this morning.  Just purchased the WR-G305E/PD and I am finding it surprisingly good compared to my NRD545.  I checked each one of the loggings above on both the NRD545 and the WR-G305E/pd and decided that the 305 was superior in cleaning away the QRM.  For example, Radio Tanwantinsuyo, above, is surrounded by other stations and one is just 2 KHz above.  I filtered out that second station completely with the WR-305, but narrowed the filter on the NRD545 as far as it would reduce and still had the QRM bleeding through, which made copy difficult on the NRD545 and fair on the 305. 
So I am very satisfied with my new receiver so far.   It could use a notch filter and a tone control.  However, with the sharp filtering, a notch filter may be redundant?  Time will tell.


Chuck Bolland
Clewiston, Florida, USA
WR-G305E/PD



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