Tips & Tricks
On this page, I present a few tips and tricks, which help you in DXing.
The tips are strictly sorted by date.
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If you can't determine the exact frequency of a shortwave emission,
use the single sideband mode and see, where the whistling stops.
From this frequency, subtract a constant amount, and you'll get
the original frequency.
On the Grundig Satellit 3400, you have to use the LSB-mode, center the BFO-knob and substract exactly 1kHz. - Many foreign stations can easily identified by their internet adresses. On russian, the dot is called tatschka.
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Most stations identify themselves in the last minutes before
the full or half hour and not past.
Because of this, a clock, which chimes at :25 and :55 is very handy and can easily be realized by a crontab entry like
55,25 * * * * /usr/bin/play /usr/local/share/sounds/gong.au 2>/dev/null - Noises can have different Reasons. An electro motor or a computer near the antenna. But even the power supply of a switched off inkjet printer can cause disturbances between S7 and S8.