[BC] am receiver for monitoring at a 20 KW site.

[Lotus Engineering]

Thanks Glen,
        I'm going to try a nostalgic WW2 receiver I have first.  I'll keep you in mind.  Hopefully I can do it with something a bit more modern.  The 20 KW site is KWWN at 1100 with 20 day, 2 night da2.  The site I am trying to monitor is the duplexed KBAD/KENO just about 1.5 miles away.  The 5 KW daytime KBAD 920 signal is the one I'm trying to use.  KBAD is 5 KW ND day .5 KW directional night.  KENO at 1460 is not a factor.  I'm trying to keep this simple and am going to work on some phasing things first, RF and Audio both.  I can live with getting the undesired signal down about 40 DB.
Thanks for all the ideas.
Bill

-----Original Message-----
  From: Glen Kippel

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Lotus Engineering <loteng at lvradio.com> wrote:
>Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced AM receiver that can set at a 20 KW AM site and monitor a 5 KW AM station about 1.5 miles away without having a lot of bleed through?  The 20 goes to 2 at night and the 5 goes to .5 at night and I have no problem with consumer grade receivers at night, but daytime is a pain.  I'm going to try feeding the 20KW signal out of phase to the bleed through in the 5 KW stations receiver to see if I can cancel it, but a better receiver would make life easier.

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I have a Collins R-388/URR, alias 51J-3 here that I don't use any more.  I'm sure it would be RF-proof.  Want to make an offer on it?  The idea of using a tuned loop is a good one, also.

You didn't mention what frequencies are involved.  That would have some bearing on things.

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