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  1. Listening to baseball on the radio. #WLW 700 kHz via an #Airspy HF+ and a #YouLoop antenna. Transmitter is about 200 miles direct from here, nearly due south along I-75.

    There is some noise under the signal but it's very copyable.

    Cubs leading the Reds 14-6 bottom of the 7th inning.

    Here is a snapshot from #GQRX. I have stations labelled with the baseball team to listen to.

    #amdx #baseballdx

  2. #AirspyHF SDR and a #Youloop mag loop antenna, listening to Pop Shop Radio via WRMI Okeechobee. Show starts 900p Eastern Sundays, on 5950 kHz.

    I do not understand loop antennas, but they are fun to experiment with. The lowest noise floor I can get on shortwave (-110 dB) gives me -60 dB signal for WRMI. The same antenna configuration has -55 dB noise at 950 kHz.

    I need to find a hula hoop?

    Antennas, how do they even work?

  3. It's the TV! Damn, time to move the #YouLoop to the other side of the room. :(

  4. CW: AM DX, baseball DX

    Opening Day of the 2022 MLB baseball season!

    I've been using web-based #SDR to do DX'ing of AM stations that have baseball broadcasts. The few #WebSDR systems out there (specifically K3FEF) can support lots of simultaneous listeners; the many #KiwiSDR systems out there have a lot of geographic diversity, to pull in weak stations that just happen to be nearby.

    New this year is #SDRPlusPlus on Android, which with an Airspy HF+ and a #Youloop antenna is very portable.