crooner
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Today is the first full day of summer. Coincidentially there's a nice FM DX Tropospheric opening in the San Diego area at this time.
I noticed it late last night when tons of adjacent channel DX stations from as far away as Santa Barbara were coming in strong with excellent fidelity.
Right now I am tuned to KCSB 91.9 from Santa Barbara. They are doing a "Summer Solstice" special playing different versions of the Gershwin's classic Summertime. Nice contrast between John Coltrane, Ella & Louis and Janis Joplin's renditions.
With this tropo DX opening I have been able to appreciate my SX-1980's excellent DX abilities. Adjacent channel reception is exemplary. Signals come in noise free and often with full stereo separation. I am using a regular 300 ohm folded dipole as supplied with most receivers.
I noticed it late last night when tons of adjacent channel DX stations from as far away as Santa Barbara were coming in strong with excellent fidelity.
Right now I am tuned to KCSB 91.9 from Santa Barbara. They are doing a "Summer Solstice" special playing different versions of the Gershwin's classic Summertime. Nice contrast between John Coltrane, Ella & Louis and Janis Joplin's renditions.
With this tropo DX opening I have been able to appreciate my SX-1980's excellent DX abilities. Adjacent channel reception is exemplary. Signals come in noise free and often with full stereo separation. I am using a regular 300 ohm folded dipole as supplied with most receivers.
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