Just getting my feet wet with HF listening. Here is my setup, and help me understand what I'm doing wrong. So far my receiver appears deaf on anything below VHF.
Alinco DJ-X11 wideband receiver with AM/FM/SSB capabilities.
I made a random wire antenna using some speaker wire and a piece of shielded cable terminated to BNC. I took several pieces of speaker wire and soldered them together. I also soldered the cut end of the shielded cable to the speaker wire. I've approx 45'-50' of antenna outside at about 15' above ground in the trees.
I'll scan 10m, 20m, and 40m bands and get nothing but noise not counting AM radio. I've tried AM, USB and LSB. I was particularly interested in decoding PSK31. I listened on several of the calling freq for PSK, and can't hear anything.
As a last resort, I piped the audio to SDR# hoping some of the digital filters would help, and still no luck.
I've tried day time and evening hours, into approx 10pm local, EST.
Alinco DJ-X11 wideband receiver with AM/FM/SSB capabilities.
I made a random wire antenna using some speaker wire and a piece of shielded cable terminated to BNC. I took several pieces of speaker wire and soldered them together. I also soldered the cut end of the shielded cable to the speaker wire. I've approx 45'-50' of antenna outside at about 15' above ground in the trees.
I'll scan 10m, 20m, and 40m bands and get nothing but noise not counting AM radio. I've tried AM, USB and LSB. I was particularly interested in decoding PSK31. I listened on several of the calling freq for PSK, and can't hear anything.
As a last resort, I piped the audio to SDR# hoping some of the digital filters would help, and still no luck.
I've tried day time and evening hours, into approx 10pm local, EST.