Anything in New England to hear?

[mainetrunk]

Right now I am getting alot of faint hits between 3400 khz and 3500.... 3475 just hit me, sounds like a mixture of stuff..

 

[majoco]

You're right, the BFO is a fixed frequency and the indicated frequency is off by 1.5kHz.

Here's what my Degen 1103 sounds like....

De1103 vs. Alinco Dj-X11 at HF - YouTube

Not my Youtube of course!

 

[mainetrunk]

And this is the sound I am dealing with... Alinco DJ-X11T Meteo (SSB).avi - YouTube

 

[majoco]

All those frequencies you had dialled in were Russian Volmet stations - unfortunately the problem you seem to be having is overloading the input of the radio and the AGC time constant is far too short for good SSB - all those stations are on USB -here is the info...

SW Volmet Broadcasts

...in the 9Mhz section. Try 10.051Mhz on the hour and half hour for New York and Gander.

 

[mainetrunk]

I heard airport wx, on 10.052.30... Best I could get it. Thats through Thats 15 foot wire to 100 ft coil 16 gauge, to uhf connection, grounded, coax to Alinco..

 

[mainetrunk]

With a new whip, I just got 11175 talking to someone, ended up telling him to switch 11220, I am hearing someone talikg, short chats on 11220, untuned.. 1410z

 

[mainetrunk]

Heres a new 1 ( to me ) 6755.10 .usb.... Airport wx. , just shut off... Lucky catch, pure luck..

 

[SCPD]

Heres a new 1 ( to me ) 6755.10 .usb.... Airport wx. , just shut off... Lucky catch, pure luck..

No... not quite. Trenton Volmet is on 6754khz. I thought you calibrated your Alinco??? I think it's time to buy yourself a working HF receiver.

 

[mainetrunk]

I re-set it.. Now its saying 6755.25

 

[SCPD]

I re-set it.. Now its saying 6755.25

Per the service manual for the X11, the offset is 1.5khz +/- 300hz.

So for you, you would need to take the 1.25khz difference that you're seeing and subtract that value from the displayed frequency in USB mode. It would be reversed in LSB mode.

USB 6755.25 - 1.25 = 6754khz
LSB 6752.75 + 1.25 = 6754khz

So this 1.25khz value is your radio's specific reference value. (Hopefully it won't change.)

So you can do this manually in your head... or per the service manual, you can enter into the Adjustment Mode and modify the values such that the displayed frequency is shown to be correct.

If you don't feel comfortable doing this then just calculate it in your head.

Alinco

Look under the Service Manual section for the documentation.

 

[mainetrunk]

Thanks nick, what fun! Aint the 1st time I've gone left instead of right.

 

[mainetrunk]

I just got a hit--4725. Saying oscar, lima, kilo,,,,,