Comparing the GE Super Radio 3 to Other Top Performers

 

 

Pianoplayr88key writes:

If the SR3 is garbage,  I can still get listenable reception on a 500-watt station on 1290 from 195 miles away in the daytime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEHpddXU3Gk

then I'd expect the great SR1 or SR2 to blow the SR3 out of the solar system. 
For example, the station causing the het on 1180 kHz inhttp://youtu.be/1Awwywr_xDc?t=14s (1k het generated by LO in other radio - 729+450=1179; 1180-1179=1) is KERN Wasco-Greenacres, CA. Splatter is from local 1170 KCBQ, whose 50kW transmitter blasts me with 112kW ERP from 9.3 miles away and is the strongest station on the dial here in the daytime.

For comparison, here are a couple recordings of Tecsun PL-606 reception on 1180 KERN one day when KCBQ was off the air for several minutes...
barefoot: http://www.mediafire.com/?ao92526zxj2ty6g
with Select-A-Tenna: http://www.mediafire.com/?6k0lm6z97zvy23c
Would the SR1 and SR2 get better barefoot reception from 1180 KERN, with 1170 KCBQ on, than the PL-606 got from KERN with the SAT when KCBQ was off the air? Or better yet, could the SR1/2's reception of KERN compete with this video -http://youtu.be/cq6KSavcVMI?t=32s - of 1242 JOLF? :)

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Comments

[Gary]

I'm sure the signal path from San Diego to Santa Barbara being mostly over water helped in receiving KZSB 1290. It's still pretty cool being able to pick up a 0.5 kW station at almost 200 miles during the day.

[Pianoplayr88key]

I'm sure it made a huge difference. In San Bernardino there's a co-channel 95 miles away that sends 6.5 kW toward me with its DA, but on an all-land path with a conductivity around 4-8 mS/m. If I turned the radio the right way I could maybe get a trace of KKDD buried under KZSB.
Also I'm about 15 or so miles inland. On the beach using that GE, I'd think that if it weren't for splatter from 1kW 1280 KFRN in Long Beach, you'd think KZSB was a local.

[Putty]

I'm not aware that anyone ever thought the AM performance of the GE Superadio 3 was "garbage", although many commenters have excoriated the version put out by RCA.