DX-160 Shortwave Radio Listening, Circa 1975 build
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2013
- The Realistic DX160! A shortwave receiver from the mid 1970's that covers 150Khz to 30Mhz in 5 Bands. Despite what some reviews have said about it, I was quite impressed with it's sensitivity (once I got it working and properly aligned)! I let you listen to Beijeng China, Bucharest Romania, Russia, Australia, Mexico, South America and a collection of Ham Operators, including one from Milan Italy and another from San Diego! Happy listening! Connected to 80ft wire antenna. Many of those channels came in as clear as local stations!
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I had one of these DX-160 receivers mid to lat 70's, bought it from money I made cutting lawns when I was around 14. I had approx. an outdoor 50 foot long wire antenna, the receiver was very sensitive. Still got the radio, although I haven't used it in many years. I don't know if there are still many SW stations out there anymore. In the mid 70's the SW bands were very active, I used to be up many a night listening to foreign broadcasts.
back when radio shack was still making quality products.every kid wanted this model when i was growing up.
I had this radio before and let it go But now it is coming back to stay
The one huge drawback the DX-160 had that was remedied by the later model DX-200 was the Bandspread was not calibrated for the then active International Broadcasting Bands but had to rely on Bandspread charts inside the manual, although you could use the 80m scale for the old 75m European International Broadcasting band and the 40m scale for the 41m International Broadcasting band which was a favorite frequency range for the long-silent Radio Moscow back in the 70's into the early 80's......
I recapped all the old dried up electrolytics in mine and i had a cold solder joint on the broadcast band board portion of the pcb board. So the B band was intermittent. Works great now. I use a fan dipole antenna that covers the 160 , 80,40, and 20 meter bands.
My second shortwave radio was a brand new DX-160 with it's matching speaker.
i love my dx 160..it sits right by my icom ic 735!!
A truly great radio, as you say when tuned/aligned correctly. Had 1 in 75 for 3-4 yrs. Have near mint unit via Ebay. STILL an awesome radio, rivaling/exceedimg my DX-302 & DX-440. 80' ant also.
Bap, 8 guy I want to get Tecsun s, 8800 mw lw fm streo SW ssb 5 bands receiver
That morse code on band A was most likely NDB's(non directional beacons) used for aircraft navigation among other things. The code reveals where the beacon is as each one has its own unique code, usually three letters like airport codes. Down lower in the 165 to 190 Khz region you will find experimental radio being conducted. Most of it is in morse code using non standard modes such as freq shift and or QRSS(super slow CW with a dot lasting perhaps 10 to 60 seconds) Look up "LOWFER" for more info. It is a license free band open to everybody(it is however, restricted to one watt and 50 foot antenna for the transmitter)
I had one years ago. I don't care what anyone says ..it was a fantastic RX. thanks for posting.
Standby switch was to allow the radio to be used with a transmitter fir hams back in the 70s. It's a holdover from the old days before transceivers were so plentiful.
I used to have one of those
In your opinion would i get furthur/better reception with something like this or a smaller newer portable that has ssb ?
Bap, 8 guy your Dx 160 Realistic Shortwave 5 bands receiver is cool l have the Eton Elite Executive with mw lw fm streo Air SW ssb 6 bands receiver the air band is low ssb does not work with the fine tuning Eton Elite Executive sucks the old shortwave receivers wore built better then new shortwave receivers
Hi, Good Dx. 73's
Some complain of drift with this radio. Drift, in my unit is minor when cold. Non existant when warmed up. I don't remember it bieng a problem back in 75.
what type of antenna do you hook up in the back?
You can use a length of wire...any length pretty much. 50 to 80 feet is really good. My best antenna was one I bought on Ebay for about $50. It was 80 feet of light wire with a balun and 30 feet of coax down wire. Tremendous difference!
Bandspread!!!
How do you stop the SU meter dial from moving?
You don't it moves based on signal strength and in most cases signal strength isn't constant so the meter will move to adjust to it.