On Oct 7, 2010, at 6:41 PM, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson wrote:
You might have to listen to the station on the hour and half hour to
catch a station ID and maybe frequency. If they don't announce the
frequency the FCC data base of call signs should give it. Then you
might
be able to connect a coil and capacitor as a trap at the antenna
connection to minimize that station.
My bet is that it is an AM broadcast station. When I lived in Philly I
bought an HW-7 to use to take to the "swim club" and while I was out
relaxing in the sun, listen to the radio. The club was close to
transmitters of several high power AM stations, and all I ever could
get on it was Rush Limbaugh (all over the dial).
I lived about the same distance from the towers in the other direction
and did not have much luck with it at home. I ended up so disgusted
with it, I gave it to a ham who was going to "fix" it. I replaced it
with an Argo 509.
An easy test if it is a twinlead or open lead fed dipole is to connect
a Radio Shack (or similar) TV balun between the twinlead and the
radio. They have a trap (usually a capacitor across one of the coils)
to filter out anything below 5 mHz.
Geoff.
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