Catching coastal shortwaves with the CC Skywave SSB

Thomas

from The SWLing Post on 2018-11-27 13:16 (#43SHZ)

After Thanksgiving Day (here in the States) my family took a little camping trip on the coast of North Carolina. We spent a few nights near Holden Beach and Oak Island-some of my favorite parts of the NC coast.

Weather was splendid on Sunday, so we took a long walk on the beach and, of course, I packed a portable radio-this time, the CC Skywave SSB.

The Skywave SSB is a pricey portable, but it has certainly become my choice travel radio as it covers so many radio bands (AM/MW, FM, SW, AIR and WX). It's also incredibly portable and can hang with the best in terms of sensitivity and selectivity.

I didn't check propagations conditions on Sunday, but there were signals booming in from everywhere. I took a few short sample videos:

Click here to view on YouTube.

Being away from sources of radio interference and standing next to (and occasionally in-!) the Atlantic Ocean certainly helped a great deal with reception.

I had planned to put my Elecraft KX2 on the air while here, but simply didn't have the time to fit it in with family activities.

Post readers: Do you have any radio vacations on the horizon?

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