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G6Tanuki · 23rd Aug 2018, 7:15 pm

Today I replaced the 10-year-old and progressively-deafer-with-every-year Sony CD/radio-player in my Defender with a Pioneer CD/FM/MW/USB-enabled radio.

£39 via an Amazon resaller.

The Sony struggled; the Pioneer gets Radio Caroline on 648KHz with truly-listenable qualith even down here in rural Wiltshire.

[I'm feeding it via a relay-controlled switchbox/diplexer from an old-style "DX27" 5/8-wave-on-27MHz-CB antenna that's been nibbled-back and peaked on 28.5MHz and so doubles-up to handle 50 Watts of 10M SSB]

A 'long'-ish antenna for mobile MW reception is a good thing to use.

23rd Aug 2018, 7:15 pm	#21
G6Tanuki Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Wiltshire, UK. Posts: 13,998	Re: Good MW reception conditions Today I replaced the 10-year-old and progressively-deafer-with-every-year Sony CD/radio-player in my Defender with a Pioneer CD/FM/MW/USB-enabled radio. £39 via an Amazon resaller. The Sony struggled; the Pioneer gets Radio Caroline on 648KHz with truly-listenable qualith even down here in rural Wiltshire. [I'm feeding it via a relay-controlled switchbox/diplexer from an old-style "DX27" 5/8-wave-on-27MHz-CB antenna that's been nibbled-back and peaked on 28.5MHz and so doubles-up to handle 50 Watts of 10M SSB] A 'long'-ish antenna for mobile MW reception is a good thing to use.