Shortwave loggings - 0200 0300 utc 2/15/2009

0200utc 1/15/2009
Grundig G5 using whip antenna
Leesville, SC
English broadcast received

2500 - WWV Time Signal
3145 - USA WWRB Overcomer with Ralph Stair
3185 - USA WWRB
3215 - USA WWCR #1
3330 - CHU Time Signal
5000 - WWV Time Signal
5050 - USA WWRB
5070 - USA WWCR #3
5935 - USA WWCR #2 - Melissa Scott
5950 - TAIWAN Radio Taiwan via WYFR in Florida
5985 - USA WYFR - Family Radio
6000 - CUBA Radio Habana
6010 - SWEDEN Radio Sweden (on at 0230 UTC)
6070 - CANADA CFRX commercial radio station
6090 - ANGUILLA - WLD University Network, Scott preaching
6140 - CUBA Radio Habana
6175 - VIETNAM - Voice of Vietnam via Canada (on at 230 UTC)
6240 - RUSSIA voice of Russia via Moldova
7160 - IRAN - ended at 0230UTC
7250 - RUSSIA Voice of Russia via Armenia
7345 - CZECH REPUBLIC - Radio Prague (ended at 0230 UTC)
7415 - USA WBCQ
7455 - USA WYFR Family Radio
7505 - USA WRNO
7535 - EGYPT Radio Cairo
7811 - USA AFRTS - upper sideband
7850 - CHU Time Signal

6925 - WMR We Monkey Radio in AM we keep song short so monkey's don't lose interest (ID at 0255 utc)
5550 - Airline traffic on USB
5520 - Airline traffic on USB
3455 - Airline traffic on USB
6628 - Airline traffic on USB

Latest AM stations dxed and 2 more longwave beacons

Grundig G5 from Leesville, SC using it's own ferrite antenna

1150 WAVO - Rock Hill, SC playing oldies, daytime (77 miles)
600 WSJS - Winston Salem, NC talk radio (165 miles)
1310 WDKD - Kingstree, SC playing music (99 miles)
1350 WJBY - Gadsden, AL sports radio (259 miles)
1270 WNLS - Tallahassee, FL sports radio (292 miles)
1250 WTMA - Charleston, SC talk radio (O'Reilly & Jim Bohanon)
(117 miles)

2 more longwave beacons

216 CLB Wilmington, NC
414 FDW Winnsboro, SC

Updated list of AM stations I still haven't been able to dx

900, 1250, 1270, 1340, 1350, 1450, 1480, 1490, 1570, 1580, 1610, 1670, 1680

13 of em

Latest 5 AM stations dxing

Using the Grundig G5 internal antenna

1550 - WIGN Bristol, TN
1290 - WHKY Hickory, NC
540 - WFLF Orlando, FL - simulcast of WFLA out of Tampa
1590 - WCSL Cherryville, NC -
1520 - WARR Warrenton, NC - near Henderson, NC

Grand total of 163 stations listened to since Dec 2008

Three longwave beacons picked up on the Grundig G5

Longwave appears to work well with the G5, I think my G6 was defective or suffers from horrible sensitivity on longwave bands. None of these beacons are far away. All are morse code beacons constantly repeating.

329 - CH - Charleston, SC
347 - AIK - Aiken, SC
362 - CA - Columbia, SC

Picked up a Grundig G5 today

One of the Radio Shacks had a slightly damaged model they were selling
off for half price. Just a line on the plastic display, not even a crack. So I
bought it. $75

I'll play with it for a week before giving it a complete comparison to
the Grundig G6 and Grundig S350DL but either I got a defective G6 or
the G5 is simply that much better with reception. While I never picked
up a longwave beacon on the G6, I've gotten several right off the bat
with the G5 on longwave. And yes, I can actually tune into LSB ham
radio operators now that I couldn't do with the G6. And the sound is
much better on the G5. For now, the G6 and G5 might look the same but
reception wise, they are different animals.

it's also possible that my G6 was sort of defective all along and I
didn't realize it.

I know, the G5 is being phased out......

Shortwave DX log - 2/3/2009 0000-0020 UTC

Grundig G6 radio using 30' wire antenna at Leesville, SC
English only broadcasting

3215 - WWRB , playing music (excellent)
5000 - WWV time signal (fair-poor)
5070 - WWCR #3 (fair)
5950 - WYFR , a younger Harold Camping preaching (excellent)
6020 - CHINA , news broadcast (good)
6085 - WYFR, preaching (excellent)
6090 - WLD Network, Scott preaching but 6085 flooding it out (poor due to interference)
6145 - JAPAN via Canada, science update (good)
7325 - AUSTRIA - Osterreich 1 news in English (0013-0016)
7415 - WBCQ, talk show about the economy (fair)
7811 - AFRTS, on USB (good)
9505 - WYFR, a younger sounding Harold Camping (good)
9570 - CHINA, china news (good)
10000- WWV time signal
11720 - WYFR, Harold Camping preaching (good-fair)

Usually shortwave in English picks up at 0100 UTC, (8pm eastern)

As usual a lot of foreign language stations from 9200-10000 khz

Eton FR-500 on sale at Radio Shack

$69.99 instead of $79.99

This radio is soon to be discontinued for the new FR-600 according to Eton.

I was hoping the Grundig G5 would go on sale as it is being discontinued also for the Grundig G3