Showing posts with label Eton Satellit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eton Satellit. Show all posts

Thursday, 26 January 2017

Trying to copy Radio Afghanistan on 6100 kHz

I've been trying to record Radio Afghanistan on 6100 kHz this afternoon with the Eton Satellit and Bonito Boni whip, but with no success. They've been copied by several DXing fellows on YouTube recently, so try to listen out for them. Severe adjacent channel QRM from China makes the English programme difficult to receive with any discernible audio.

Tuesday, 24 January 2017

The Eton Satellit; is it any good? Moving on to ABC Northern Territories 2325 kHz...


Hi there, wonderful to copy a signal from Tennant Creek on ABC's lowest shortwave band frequency - and one for which the use of SYNC and SSB was appropriate, as a test of those functions and to maximise discernibility. The audio quality on SYNC doesn't seem as clear on the Eton as it does on the Sony ICF-2001D, but it does work, as does SSB. Having said that, a data set of one reception video using SYNC isn't statistically significant, so definitely more to come before my mind is made up. 

It's worth remembering that simply hearing ABC Northern Territories on 120 metres with this little Eton is amazing, given it's (unfair) reputation, thus I certainly wasn't expecting such great things from it! 

Recorded at the woods in Oxford UK on 22/01/17 at 18:56 hrs UTC using a 50 metre longwire. Thanks for watching.

The Eton Satellit; is it any good? Rádio Nacional de Angola 4950 kHz...wonderfully clear signal


Hi there, my clearest reception of Angola to date, using a 50 metre longwire and another vindication of this excellent portable receiver. Rádio Nacional de Angola can be a very challenging DX target, particularly at home, where more often than not, modulation is very low and thus discernible audio difficult to capture. Here on a DXpedition, the Eton really pulls in a strong signal with very clear audio and again, I wasn't anticipating such strong performance. Recorded at the woods in Oxford UK on 22/01/17 at 19:17 hrs UTC using a 50 metre longwire. Thanks for watching.