493.7375 Wilmington NC "ER"

[ILMRadioMan]

Picking up NBC 17 from the raleigh area on 493.7375 down in Wilmington NC.

Pretty clear.

And if you saw my antenna, you would laugh!

 

[whitehelmet1202]

I'm getting them to. There seems to be a little bit of an opening in the 400 band tonight.

Try me on the antenna.....I'm sure its not that bad...

 

[KE4ZNR]

Picking up NBC 17 from the raleigh area on 493.7375 down in Wilmington NC.

Pretty clear.

And if you saw my antenna, you would laugh!

WOW, I am also picking them up from...oh wait...I am in Raleigh...
Nevermind I am just gonna back out of this thread and go to sleep.
Marshall KE4ZNR

 

[ILMRadioMan]

I'm getting them to. There seems to be a little bit of an opening in the 400 band tonight.

Try me on the antenna.....I'm sure its not that bad...

Heh,

Its the right angle antenna from my service monitor.

Piece of metal with a red ball on top.

 

[whitehelmet1202]

Service Monitor antenna eh?

I used to have a box full of those things around here. They came in handy for scanner antennas and such.

I have used paper clips as antennas many times in a pinch...straighten one out and you have a good 1/4 wave for 800/900....

The antenna I use on my PSR-600 is the cheaper base scanner antenna from RadioShack, for 15.00 a few years ago, and is only about 20 feet up at the moment.

For the last couple of weeks at night, I am picking up all sorts of stuff from all over the place, especially in the 400 800 & 900 ranges, but as soon as the sun breaks over the horizon, it all goes away. I guess it is time to move the antenna higher.

It is mazaing how far the analog tv signals can travel, especially at night. The new digital TV leaves a little too much to be desired...

I used to spend my evenings listening to WSM (650 AM) on an old Motorola desktop tube set. I could begin hearing them just after sunset, and they would fade away around 0600.

 

[KE4ZNR]

This is how my love of radio started as a wee little kid...when I was 7 or 8 (Late 70's early 80's) my parents gave me their old woodgrain stereo receiver which had an 8 Track Tape player...they also gave me the only 2 8 Track Tapes they had: Conway Twitty (Tears of a clown) and CW Mcall (convoy!)...I loved those 2 8 Track tapes but quickly tired of them...so one night I started tuning across the AM Broadcast band...not knowning propagation and all I was amazed that I could hear AM Broadcast stations in NY, Pennsyvania, Ohio, Chicago, and elsewhere clear as a bell!
For my next birthday I begged my parents to buy me a portable radio shack FM/AM Flavor Radio...I would take that thing with me everywhere...for a few years other hobbies would come and go but I always had a love of radio in my heart...and I came back to the best hobby of all...I always say that even though now I know the secrets behind the magic of radio, the child in me still gets pumped to hear a new station or pick up a new monitoring target!
Happy Monitoring!
Marshall KE4ZNR

Service Monitor antenna eh?

I used to have a box full of those things around here. They came in handy for scanner antennas and such.

I have used paper clips as antennas many times in a pinch...straighten one out and you have a good 1/4 wave for 800/900....

The antenna I use on my PSR-600 is the cheaper base scanner antenna from RadioShack, for 15.00 a few years ago, and is only about 20 feet up at the moment.

For the last couple of weeks at night, I am picking up all sorts of stuff from all over the place, especially in the 400 800 & 900 ranges, but as soon as the sun breaks over the horizon, it all goes away. I guess it is time to move the antenna higher.

It is mazaing how far the analog tv signals can travel, especially at night. The new digital TV leaves a little too much to be desired...

I used to spend my evenings listening to WSM (650 AM) on an old Motorola desktop tube set. I could begin hearing them just after sunset, and they would fade away around 0600.

 

[whitehelmet1202]

My interest in radio started with that old desktop Motorola tube set. My grandfather bought it a long time before I was born, and my uncle gave it to me right after my grandfather died.

My next venture into radio was a PRO-38 10 channel scanner from Radio Shack. I still have that scanner too.

Now, the price of my toys have gone up. Spectras, MaraTracs, HT1250, MT1000, XTS2500, Minitor pagers (I, II, III, IV 7 V yes I own one of each still).

I still have a low band Mocom 70 that works flawlessly, and an HT220 on 154.130 that works well too, as long as I can find a battery for it...

 

[ILMRadioMan]

I got started on an old VHF kenwood and CB radios, but I had a HUGE IT background, and was re-thrust into RF when I joined the marine corps.

 

[Robbyboy]

Wow, you bought up the FlavoRadio... Convoy... Remember that one thread where the kid didnt know what a tape deck was?

I miss my crystal scanner monitoring Division Radio in NYPD.

Oh Marshall I'll be in Chapel Hill Tuesday and Thursday this week!

This is how my love of radio started as a wee little kid...when I was 7 or 8 (Late 70's early 80's) my parents gave me their old woodgrain stereo receiver which had an 8 Track Tape player...they also gave me the only 2 8 Track Tapes they had: Conway Twitty (Tears of a clown) and CW Mcall (convoy!)...I loved those 2 8 Track tapes but quickly tired of them...so one night I started tuning across the AM Broadcast band...not knowning propagation and all I was amazed that I could hear AM Broadcast stations in NY, Pennsyvania, Ohio, Chicago, and elsewhere clear as a bell!
For my next birthday I begged my parents to buy me a portable radio shack FM/AM Flavor Radio...I would take that thing with me everywhere...for a few years other hobbies would come and go but I always had a love of radio in my heart...and I came back to the best hobby of all...I always say that even though now I know the secrets behind the magic of radio, the child in me still gets pumped to hear a new station or pick up a new monitoring target!
Happy Monitoring!
Marshall KE4ZNR