Melbourne to Brisbane MW

[zl2taw]

Last night local time at approx midnight (1300utc)
I logged Magic1278 pumping here in Brisbane, thats about 852miles as the crow flies.

Thats 3EE running 5kW

That would the furthermost station I have heard at my qth on that band

the radio is a Kenwood R-5000 & Wellbrook ALA 1530

Pretty stoked here

[ab3a]

Not bad. I've copied stations from Miami from my location near Baltimore, though with a bit more power on their end.

Be thankful you don't have much in the interior of your country that would interfere with the signal. We have the midwest here and unlike Australia, it is quite full of radio stations.

[majoco]

That's a good haul - unfortunately I have a 2kW station about 60miles away - a loop might be required. I'm still happy when I can hear the Port McQuarie NDB!

[BDM123]

Not to steel any fire here. But check this video out by one of our members Kilokat

702 KHz ABC (2BL) Sydney, Australia | Medium Wave DX | Perseus SDR from Michigan - YouTube

[zl2taw]

Originally Posted by BDM123

Not to steel any fire here. But check this video out by one of our members Kilokat

702 KHz ABC (2BL) Sydney, Australia | Medium Wave DX | Perseus SDR from Michigan - YouTube

no worries, no fire taken

still happy here with my result

[BDM123]

As you should be. Listen up for one of the NA stations :-)

[ridgescan]

uh-kilokat's station is an entity far beyond us mere mortals, not to be compared.




even his antenna description in all its simplicity slays
mine: "PAR EF-SWL /100' blah blah blah.."

his: "phased bogs"

HAHA!!!! and you just know his is so superior lol!!

[TassieJay]

My best domestic catch: Tassie to Albany WA, 6VA on 783 kHz. Also on a Wellbrook 1530. 5kW, 1650 miles. Helped by being mostly over water path.

But my best overall was Tassie to somewhere in the USA, 1580 kHz. Made a few years ago with nothing more than an indoor Tecsun AN200 loop & Jaycar 1747 (Redsun RP2100). I don't have the detail as the website I submitted that log to has 'reinvigorated' itself so many times, losing all that historical data, but do recall it wasn't one of the clear channel stations, and do recall it was to the US mid-west. That was a fantastic evening, the station was listenable for over an hour, fading in and out. Never had another evening like it.

[ridgescan]

You "down under" folks are pretty lucky living there-I wonder if you all have a geographical advantage being surrounded by ocean, especially N.Z. being an island. I know here, being close to the shore gives me a helluva shot at Asia and you guys and all that. I know for sure that I receive Africa and pretty much that whole side via the water because the signals overseas come in better than signals from my own continent. I could be getting S. Africa at +15 but at the same time get Alabama down near the noise at s7.

[Boombox]

Originally Posted by TassieJay

My best domestic catch: Tassie to Albany WA, 6VA on 783 kHz. Also on a Wellbrook 1530. 5kW, 1650 miles. Helped by being mostly over water path.

But my best overall was Tassie to somewhere in the USA, 1580 kHz. Made a few years ago with nothing more than an indoor Tecsun AN200 loop & Jaycar 1747 (Redsun RP2100). I don't have the detail as the website I submitted that log to has 'reinvigorated' itself so many times, losing all that historical data, but do recall it wasn't one of the clear channel stations, and do recall it was to the US mid-west. That was a fantastic evening, the station was listenable for over an hour, fading in and out. Never had another evening like it.

One possibility would be KMIK, Phoenix, AZ (throws roughly 100 kw out towards the Pacific because of its night pattern). Good catch with just a loop and a portable.