Thanks for the info Wolf, and noted about the warnings to keep the
power down from the 706! I was quite surprised to see it work on MF.
There is another station QRV on 474kHz in Manila, working crossband.
Hopefully a few more will come on and we shall see where it goes from
there.
73 & Happy New Year de George, DU1GM
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 09:47:12 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi George,
>
>I use an IC706 as 'signal generator' on MF, and often as receiver, too.
>Mine produces almost 2 watts "barefoot" in the lowest power setting.
>Details here:
>
>
>http://www.qsl.net/dl4yhf/mf_reception/MF_Reception.html#IC706_on_MF
>
>
>Because the antenna tuner acts like a bandpass filter on RX, the
>performance is acceptable (but an SDR-IQ with digital narrow-band
>filtering is much better).
>
>
>All the best,
> Wolf DL4YHF
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