Actually, the CC Pocket and other earbud radios with no whip antenna use the earphone cord as an antenna, not a counterpoise. Jay

A counterpoise or artificial ground can indeed enhance reception but is always trial and error as its effectiveness may vary from one situation to the next. To do this you need to access the radio's

Auroras have a huge effect on AM reception. A simple google search will turn up lots of information. j

Thanks Randy. This person was interested in "What effect does the Northern and Southern light/aurora have on nighttime am reception?" My thoughts were not much but wanted to check before giving them

Randy is right-- the phases of the moon have nothing to do with AM radio reception. If you think otherwise, that's OK, but please post your messages privately rather than discussing a useless topic on

WPTK 850 Raleigh,NC 0726-0729 UTC Oldies song." 104.7 FM -850 AM,Just Right Radio" Fair to Poor on barefoot C.Crane Skywave SSB. Carl DeWhitt,Knoxville,TN

I am still learning about this and a lot about radio in general. I don't know if it would have much impact but I would also love to know the answer.

I have heard a bit about him, does he post on here much or does he also have a webpage? How do you post something like this?

Read about gray line propagation. Grey Line HF Radio Propagation » Electronics Notes (electronics-notes.com). Has nothing to do with the moon, but does explain the best time to RX signals. Randy

A question has come in via my blog, I don't know the answer: "What effect does the Northern and Southern light/aurora have on nighttime am reception?"

I am not sure how that would work but it is worth a try I guess.-- Paul

Have you had any luck with Turkey on 954, Paul? That's madeit into Victoria a couple of times. Although 1215 is the "early warning" here, once things deepeneda bit last season, Romania and Spain did

There's not a ton of similarity but some of TP/TA DX between me and the guys in western canada and some similarity between them and the east coast... and very little if any commonality between me and

The CC Pocket does something similar with FM reception. They either use the headphones or a special lead to the ground side of the headphone jack as a counterpoise. It definitely does aid RM

Jock, A counterpoise some distance from the house will help close to its natural frequency. It can, however, be tuned like an "earth tuner" to cover a wide band of

A technician at CCrane suggested that, if I wanted to squeeze more performance out of my Skywave SSB on the HF bands, I might consider attaching a counterpoise to the mini (or micro, not sure) USB

Thanks Paul, Paul W. has earned his DXing status the tough way, fighting subfreezing cold in order to explore breakthrough Arctic propagation. He deserves all the help he can get, and he should run

That is an awesome looking aerial and a great video, I am sure Paul will make good use of it.-- Paul

KFUO 850 Clayton,MO 2100-2101 EDT. Good news on KFUO and worldwide on kfuo.org.Fair.C.Crane Skywave SSB barefoot. WVLK 590

For those who need an extremely rugged FSL antenna that can survive the nastiest environments (subfreezing Alaska cold, windstorm-pounded ocean side cliffs or the Kabul, Afghanistan airport) an