{"id":1028,"date":"2016-12-28T17:25:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T22:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.amdxer.com\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2016-12-28T17:25:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T22:25:18","slug":"bcb-2000-logged-from-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/12\/28\/bcb-2000-logged-from-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"BCB #2,000 logged from Michigan!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I had hopes of hitting #<span class=\"il\">2000<\/span> before the year ended, and that goal was accomplished yesterday afternoon when a faint 1490 KLGR was heard.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t count call letter changes and all logs between 530-1710 kHz have been from my same suburban West Michigan location.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I started my logbook in 2009 with a &#8220;barefoot&#8221; DX-440 that was good for a few hundred medium wave stations, but I wanted more!\u00a0 Enter the DX Tools Quantum Loop, which worked wonderfully with the DX-440, and netted me a few hundred more stations including my first ever Trans-Atlantic station (1134 Croatia) and several more TAs to follow, most of which are now history.\u00a0 Still wanting more, but reaching the limit of the Quantum Loop, I knew it was time to go bigger.\u00a0 I bought a 500 FT spool of wire and laid it on the ground in a straight line in the back yard, connected it to the DX-440, and started logging a whole new mix of more distant stations.\u00a0 I learned more about BOGs and discovered how Neil Kazaross was phasing two of them and soon went back to DX Tools and purchased a Quantum Phaser to try it for myself.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It didn&#8217;t take long to hit #1000 with this setup.\u00a0 At this point I&#8217;m pushing the DX-440 to its limit, so I decided to try SDR and eventually opted for the Perseus which I still use today.\u00a0 A reversible D-KAZ loop was also added to the mix a few years ago.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Some obligatory stats since starting this adventure in 2009: 47 states heard with AK, HI &amp; DE still needed (keep dreaming).\u00a0 Most distant catch: 702 2BL Sydney @ 9,345 miles\/15,039 km.\u00a0 Nearest unheard: WBCH @ just 59 miles! \u00a0169 graveyarders and 37 countries heard on MW.\u00a0 Recordings of some of my more interesting catches are posted to YouTube here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/kilokat7\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/kilokat7&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1491859488471000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGG2aP7eFULfFYsPCImSlGKc-pZZQ\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/k<wbr \/>ilokat7<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Happy New Year &amp; Good DX!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had hopes of hitting #2000 before the year ended, and that goal was accomplished yesterday afternoon when a faint 1490 KLGR was heard.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t count call letter changes and all logs between 530-1710 kHz have been from my same suburban West Michigan location. I started my logbook in 2009 with a &#8220;barefoot&#8221; DX-440 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-logs","category-perseus-sdr","category-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}