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Old 02-05-2009, 07:38 PM
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Hi Simon,

I have a Sangean ATS505 receiver I purchased a few years ago for Time signals and has an earphone style jack for a SW External Antenna. It covers FM, MW, LW and SW from 1711-29999 khz. Is this any good?

Also, if you just string out an antenna, how do you know you've captured Jupiter and not some other radio source?

The radiojove site seems to be done at the moment.

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Hi david

yes sure you can use that !

the radio jove site will give you the details of the style of antenna and the dimensions

you need to tune around 20.1 MHz .. jupiter is a broad band noise source so its not essential to be bang on .... more important is a clear spot in the band so you can hear background noise not any terrestrial transmitter.

the Jove site also had some sounds of jupiter too .. they are quite distinctive so you should not have a problem finding out what your listening to.

best advice is.. have a go! you will be surprised sometimes of the results you will achieve even with simple kit.

and radio is full of surprises .....!



rgds

Simon
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