Barlow Wadley: the most rare, compact, sensible, strange, innovative shortwave portable radio of all whole world. If you love or dream BW, enjoy this site and you will be in deep love and dream too :)
SOUNDS FROM BW

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Operational condition:

Barlow Wadley with battery and whip antenna - grounded chassis.

R5000 Kenwood flat audio,enhanced 6 Khz AM filter,enhanced 2.8 Khz SSB filter,YEASU passive antenna tuner and Alpha Delta Sloper (18 mt.) antenna.

Shots taken on 4 April 1999 night,from 20.15 to 21.30 UTC

Track

Notes

1) QSO on 80 mt.with BW SSB reception stable but need some adjustment from time to time (battery)
2) Same QSO on 80 mt.with R5000  
3) Another QSO on 80 mt with BW  
4) Same QSO on 80 mt. with R5000  
5) FM Local Intermodulation An annoying feature of BW:
Its prone to collect local FM intermod.
Should be correct with a
Low-Pass filter.
6) BBC World Service on 3955 Khz Only BW.
On R5000 reception is quite the same.
7) Kaduna,Nigeria on BW 4770 Khz  
8) Kaduna,Nigeria on R5000 4770 Khz  
9) Unidentified Mx Ar on BW 4850 Khz  
10) Unidentified on R5000 4850 Khz  
11) 1 Mhz Internal Generator "Hole" Another VERY annoying feature of BW: 1 Mhz "hole" due Internal Crystal Generator.
P.S.Hole is where you "hear" nope...
12) Traffic on 40 mt. on BW BW is a REAL portable Ham DX receiver!

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