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Ed Mc Dead posted:Well its a matter of availability, I'm in the UK and from where I live its difficult to get things delivered cheaply despite the internet, so I had to go for the E5. From what I read the E5 is better then the G3 anyways. The sync detector in the G3 is poo poo and with a total redesign of the radio it actually performs worse. If they ever fixed the sync and improved performance then the G3 would be worth the price. The Running Man posted:I have an old chain link fence gate hanging around. I also may have a roll of chain link hanging around too, but I'm not sure. Would this make a good antenna? Worth a try, I've used the gutters on my parents house with some luck. The great thing about shortwave is trial and error in trying to cool in cool poo poo! I'll do an op soon since I've been playing with this stuff since like middle school and joined this forum because of this thread 
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Doc Faustus posted:Just got my first-ever QSL response! CRI sent me a postcard, calendar, and some sort of cutout things that I'm not quite sure what to do with. All told, very cool of them. Got me to throw up my antenna again and take advantage of the awesome weather. Picked up Radio Espania at 0000 UTC, and now Voice of Vietnam at 0100 UTC. Listed in on bits and pieces of other broadcasts, but the signal wasn't clear enough to listen to for an extended period. Congrats! I did a QSL of CRI 8 years ago in high school, even today they keep sending me stuff! Every season I get their magazine called "The Messenger" and every year a calendar and a schedule. I'm probably on some government list because of it! 
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Fredrick posted:Last night I found something out. I'll have to check their signal on Global Tuners more often. It's probably been mentioned here before but Global Tunes is loving awesome for apartment dwellers like me whose shortwave portables only receive awful neighborhood interference from everyone's HDTVs and computers! 
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Illegal Clown posted:Question on radios. I'd like to upgrade from my E5. I'm looking at the G3 and G6. I was waiting on the G3 but I've been reading a lot of bad reviews. I mainly want to get access to the aircraft bands, and maybe easier SSB tuning, so if there is some shortcoming in some other areas then my trusty E5 can pick up the slack. So I ask you all, which is the better radio? For the price tag is won't get any better then the E5. The G6 is a decent radio that trades features like the wide/narrow bandwidth switch and audio fidelity for a smaller size and air band. If the air band is really a focus I would highly recommend an inexpensive police scanner over a shortwave with air band. Two reasons are a scanner will perform better and have squelch so there isn't annoying static between transmissions. If sideband is a big deal I don't find any inexpensive portables are really an improvement over another. I have a Sony ICF-2010 which is supposed to be the golden crown of shortwave portables but its sideband is nothing compared to tuning sideband on a modest amateur radio HF transceiver. I have the Degen 1103 (basically the E5 with horrible interface) and I would say it performs about 85% as well as my much more expensive Sony ICF-2010. From what I've read the G3 and G6 won't perform any better then the E5 you already have. In positive news the latest production of the G3s are a huge improvement over what came out last fall! I'll say go that route but make sure the seriel number of the radio is like 1000+ to make sure it's current (aka fixed from most bugs). Good luck!
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If you've been surfing the dial and picked up a shortwave station with oldies/classic rock music then you probably caught test transmissions from Tennesse's new and 3rd (!!!) shortwave station WTWW (We Transmit WorldWide). For the past few weeks its been testing on 5755, 9475 and 9480 running up to 100,000 watts. The station is basically KAIJ moved to Tennessee and will broadcast Christian bullshit soon enough. Tennessee, wasting more shortwave spectrum then any other state! Some Youtube vids of their transmitter and listener reception; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhCM8R8bx8Q <- Transmitter work Reception Shots http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43q5qMTP9jE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIRnAh1txK8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPNPgi6J2kg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tp9pL6tktA Also checking my usual midnight broadcast of Radio Nowhere fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Jan 28, 2010 |
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nmfree posted:I wonder if they realize that their listenership would literally triple if they just played oldies/classic rock all the time instead of yet another preacher program. Then I remember that there's no chance in hell of that happening, get all Well when their audience of nothing (okay a few DXers) triples what would that equal  Before the 80's some US shortwave stations tried to have real formats like rock or top-40. At most these attempts lasted a few years before money ran dry (little to no advertising revenue) and they were forced to go brokered to say afloat or sell to religious groups. The only two US stations that aren't religious based are WBCQ and WRMI though they maintain quite a few religious broadcasts since they pay for the time. Both stations will sell you time if you're willing to pay and they can squeeze you into their schedule. No idea what an hour will cost but I'm thinking in the range of $100-200 an hour but it could be less. These stations are very flexible in how a show gets to them for air. There's this one show on WBCQ called "Goddess Irena" where this kooky woman phones the transmitter and the broadcast is basically her rambling on about new age stuff and playing her own music. Why she does who knows but all WBCQ cares about is she pays for it. So why let all the crazy people buy all the time on shortwave! Reach deep goons and take back the shortwaves! 
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BigHustle posted:Airtime blocks on Radio Miami International cost as little as $1.00 per minute for bulk purchases according to their website. Now we just need a name... Guess we'd have to see what "bulk purchases" means, I bet it's at least 1 hour a week for a year (~$3,120). Not bad if goons got the money together. Only downside to WRMI is they usually throw their signal over the Carribean and South America, very little power over these great United States  Using biglads idea, spending ~$10,080 to spaz out other countries for a week could be fun. Hopefully Cuba would give their jamming of WRMI a break that week (probably not, drat you Arnie Coro! ). BTW WRMI's program schedule is usually anti-Cuba programming and Spanish Christian yelling with some WRN programming as filler.
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BigHustle posted:If all they broadcast is anti-Cuba programming, then we need to just get a week's worth of V3a recordings and play that instead of the G3 chimes. No matter what you air many hours will sound much like this -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48jPh2fTNXo 7365 was an old WRMI frequency and 6030 is Radio Marti (our  ). I was reading something in DXLD that while Cuba has plenty of issues supplying goods to their people they have no problem ordering numerous transmitters to jam outsiders. Keep those transmitters burbling Cuba, save the people!  WRMI along with other shortwave broadcasters like BBC and Voice of America have been beefing up their Creole broadcasts to Haiti lately. This isn't shortwave but pretty loving cool though, the Air Force's Commando Solo flying over Haiti broadcasting AM and FM signals. http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/26/haiti.flying.radio/
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Well this sucks, Voice of America will be shutting down their Greenville, NC site by the end of year according to Glenn Hauser. That's what I usually check to see what we're broadcasting to the rest of the world since I'm a signal hop away. The facility is also used to broadcast Radio Marti to Cuba and at the moment used to broadcast Creole programming to Haiti. Another victim of budget cuts  Less depressing, what the gently caress is this! -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYfKtrgdjK8 R2D2 is calling for help on 80 meters 
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nmfree posted:First there was LPFM, now there's... LPSW? Wasn't DRM (digital shortwave) being pushed as a potential LPSW service around 26 MHz ? I see the potential, with 100 watts into a antenna the size of a CB whip one could probably get coverage equivalent to a LPFM. The downsides would be the listener needs a new radio and if anyone has ever listened to 27 MHz distant skip can play havoc on even a local signal. Doing this in analog at least takes away the need for digital equipment. I guess Germany doesn't have the same shortwave broadcasting rules as the US ? Here a licensed SW broadcaster has to broadcast at least 50,000 watts. One new station in Milton, FL (hey it's not Tennessee!), WJHR, has somewhat skirted the 50,000 watt rule by broadcasting only in single sideband (15550 USB daytime if you're interested, religious poo poo). Even though PEP "peak envelope power" will be 50,000 watts the average power coming from the station will be more around 12,000 to 15,000 watts. I say why have any silly power rule still ? Seems there would be plenty of shortwave broadcasting in the US if it didn't cost so darn much for a license and the cost to run 50,000 watts! Australia has a similar LPSW broadcast going on also, a greek ethnic station at the opposite side of the dial (2 MHz) running 1,000 watts to Sydney. Seems there's no shortage of people wanting real radio stations, it's about darn time government organizations like the FCC actually do something for the people and expand the broadcast band! Wait did I say do something for the people ? Nevermind .... 
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Voice of America gets more involved in Cuban broadcasting working with Radio Marti. Who knows maybe in a few more decades these broadcasts could actually work in breaking up the evil communist regime! Now excuse me while I run to Wal-Mart to buy the cheapest products available. http://www.miamiherald.com/581/story/1472809.html?utm_source=Subscribers&utm_campaign=0de6fa41ec-TRI_02-11-2010&utm_medium=email
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foobar posted:Apologies if this has been answered already, but does anyone know of a quality iPhone/iPod Touch app for listening to shortwave transmissions? Specifically, I'd like to listen to the shuttle transmission simulcasts. Try FStream, it's free and just add the following URL: http://www.nasa.gov/178952main_Mission_Audio_UP.asx If you want soft music to fill the silent gaps between communications try this: http://somafm.com/wma128/missioncontrol.asx 
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nmfree posted:The first is correct. Never had it on all 4 but 3 is quite common (usually 5,10 and 15 here). My favorite is 5 MHz at night when it's WWV, WWVH, YVTO(Venezuela) and sometimes others. Something very tranqual about 4 or 5 time signals beeping and ticking away at each other for time dominance! 99% of the time WWV wins on the east coast but I do enjoy that rare 1% when UTC takes the backseat.
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Any hardcore shortwave goons attending this in 2 weeks ? http://www.swlfest.com/
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Here's a YouTube clip of someone playing with Grundig G3 sync-detection, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WqmOimOPSo According to the description that radio was bought last November. Now compare it to this clip where the guy bought their G3 right when they came out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJiusWQZuwg With production fixes the G3 is turning into one kick rear end radio! So very tempted to get since I still use a Degen 1103. Then again I also have a Sony 2010 and a Radio Shack 398 (a rebranded Sangean ATS-909, non-modded) but can one ever have enough gadgets? NEVER.
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computolio posted:Why hasn't there been a recall or an exchange program or something? Has anyone done a comparison between the innards of the two revisions to find if it's possible to do the fix yourself? I believe it's a firmware issue rather then a parts issue (newer firmware allows sync lock with lower signal levels). Not sure if the firmware can be updated in a older G3 by uploading new software or not. Be interesting to find out! Check out the Grundig G3 Yahoo Group, maybe they know. Edit: Some people have had good luck trading their crappy G3's for a newer G3 by contacting Eton. Just send them an e-mail saying your G3's sync works like poo poo and maybe they'll work something out with you. Edit Edit: From the front page of the Yahoo Group Remember: If you have a radio with sync detect problems, send to back to Eton for a replacement! Looks like Eton will replace it for you. So there is an exchange program! Radio Nowhere fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Feb 23, 2010 |
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nmfree posted:If anyone is looking for more information on the G3, there's a review in the February issue of Monitoring Times where the author mentions the initial problems with the early units. He straight up returned his first one before getting a second (and additionally a third) unit; his (typical for a magazine) knob-slobbering review is based off of the newer, updated units. Here's that article on the web, http://radiointel.net/radio-receiver-reviews-info/grundig-globe-traveler-g3/
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I was spinning the dial on my Sony 2010 last night hooked up to a DE-31 antenna at my central MD apartment. It was a little after midnight (EST) tuning across the tropical bands (4500 - 5100) and was surprised how many Brazilian stations were coming in! I forget what stations exactly but I received like 7 total. Three of them were coming in stronger then the usual Tennessee religious nuts which were at like half strength. I'll take Brazilian music over Brother Stair anytime! The radio winds were blowing in my favor 
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Social Animal posted:Are there any good stations that play a lot of music? I know the Cuban station will play music but I want more stations with music. I don't know of any shortwave station that is strictly music but your best bet is just tuning around at any given time. It's rare I scan the shortwave dial unable to find a station playing music. A recommendation though would be WBCQ's "Area 51" block every night from 7-9 PM (EST) on 5110 KHz. Those 2 hours are filled with pirate-radio shenanigans which include plenty of offbeat music. Reception of that frequency can be tough on the east coast, at least it is for me. If no luck on your radio try this stream. Radio Nowhere fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Mar 2, 2010 |
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Doc Faustus posted:Right now on 4840 there's some crazy anti-abortion, pro-survivalist, anti-world-government thing on. Just identified as GCN Network with Alex Jones. That's WWCR's latest frequency test according to "Ask WWCR" last Saturday. The story is someone complained about WWCR interference on their old home of 5070 KHz which they had been using for years so they've been bouncing around the 4700 - 4900 KHz range testing new frequencies for coverage. The thing that sucks for DX'ers is a lot of local and regional "tropical band" stations are being squashed by these new WWCR frequencies. Hard to hear that rare African DX when Alex Jones' super signal is preaching doomsday like two channels away! I will admit though his craziness is entertaining, that gravelly voice makes him sound way older then he really is.
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nmfree posted:If you're really interested in air monitoring the March issue of Monitoring Times is devoted to monitoring air shows, which isn't exactly the same but has enough parallels and similarities to make it a useful read. There's another piece in the March issue about general air monitoring also, highly recommend getting it. I'm 1/2 mile from the local airport and in my experience my police scanner trumps my shortwave with airband. But like nmfree said, YMMV. One thing to consider is any radio will probably hear the plane side of the communication. When airplanes are a few miles up in the sky they get helluva range! Ground control is another story where one has to be pretty close, say 10-15 miles, to hear both sides of communication. Some people make a hobby of going to airports with their scanners just to listen to both sides of communication. I won't get into the homeland security angle of that but only hearing one side with no talkback can be confusing. A good test of being able to hear ground control is to try an airport's ATIS (Automatic Terminal Information Service) channel. If you can hear the repeating automated weather conditions transmitter you can likely hear ground control too. Here's a good frequency resource if you haven't already bookmarked, http://www.airnav.com/
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SentinelXS posted:The highlight of my listening time was when I came upon a classic Southern preacher's fiery sermon, who sounded like he was talking in an open room like a basement. This guy was the real deal, it's exactly what I imagine when thinking of a crazy fire and brimstone preacher. He was screaming at the top of his lungs at random parts of his sermon, and I could hardly understand him because he was so frantic. I almost poo poo myself when I was just casually going down the dial and then my ears were blasted with "This is the real prophecy! You can't hide what you've done! God saw it! GOD SAW IT! Aaaghh!" What did this lunatic sound like? If he had a Elmer Fudd'ish lisp it was probably Brother Stair (lovingly called Brother Scare). Did he have a super racist overtone to his ranting ? That would be "Pastor" Peter Peters. Did he cuss a little more then expected of a preacher? Old recordings of Gene Scott still haunt the shortwaves, he's dead. Maybe the sermon just made you sleepy? Family Radio's Harold Camping can do that, he's almost 90. A very small sampling on what the US broadcasts to the world. God bless America And welcome to the shortwave cult!Social Animal posted:Awesome I'll check that out. Hopefully I can get it since it seems like I can't pull anything. I made a mistake, according to WBCQ's website "Area 51" due to lack of funding is down to weekends only. This weekend they covered the SWLfest in Kulpsville, PA. I caught an hour of coverage and it was general pirate radio weirdness. I remember hearing WKRP clips, warped classic rock songs, mock WBCQ jingles and telephone dial tones. Radio Nowhere fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Mar 7, 2010 |
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Next Saturday I'm having a new headunit installed in my car. So loving what right ? The headunit is a Sony CDX-GT470U I won on Australian e-bay and is only sold in Africa/Middle East/Asia/Australia (okay anywhere not Europe or America). Again so loving what ? Really nothing special about the headunit feature wise (CD, MP3, USB, Aux, yada yada) except for one major thing, loving shortwave! Most aftermarket headunits do FM1, FM2, FM3, FM-infinity, AM1 and AM2; but this headunit does SW1 and SW2 !! Coverage is like 2300 to 7500 then 9500 to 18900 KHz I think. I'm also getting it interfaced with my steering wheel and hopefully I can have what is usually preset up/down can be tune up/down instead. Can't wait to be crusing the highways just tuning around the shortwave bands listening to crazy poo poo! 
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wolrah posted:I really should try that too. Most BMW head units for the last few years are international receivers, so if I pop in to the service menu and put it in to European mode it unlocks shortwave, but I think it screws up my FM. Your FM should be fine, would change the channel steps from 200 KHz to 50 KHz (so instead of 88.1->88.3->88.5->etc. it would be like 88.1->88.15->88.2->etc.). The AM steps would hurt you though since near everything outside the Americas uses 9 KHz steps as opposed to our 10 KHz step. So instead of 530->540->550->etc. it would be 531->540->549->etc., good if you DX European signals that might hide between American channels but useless for local stations. I wonder if opening up European mode would give you the longwave band (150-283 KHz) ?
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wolrah posted:I checked it out and you are correct that it's AM would be hosed, which of course doesn't affect me in the slightest since US "AM" radio bores the crap out of me pretty much universally. Some of the region settings apparently do open up MW and LW, so I think I'll have to go play with it later today. Awesome about LW! If you're on the east coast maybe you can snag some European or African stations at night, if not you can listen to plenty of morse code beacons from airports Did any of the modes open SW ? I remember old BMW's having the 49M shortwave band since a few European countries had regional transmitters. They carried national network feeds to areas that couldn't be reached by AM or FM radio I guess. I know in Germany when they realized nobody really used them anymore they kept them running but if a transmitter failed they let it go. Last time I checked only one 49M shortwave transmitter was still going in Germany carrying the main public radio network.
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nmfree posted:If anyone else wants to get shortwave in their car, there are a few electronics shops in East Asia/Australia that will export to the United States; I'm pretty sure that I've linked to them before in this thread, so if you don't want to go the eBay route look around. My Sony CDX-GT470U was discontinued so it was uber cheap from many overseas stores when they were around. I came across my radio on Australian eBay used for even cheaper then the stores. Shipping was like 25% of the cost coming from Australia but still only cost me $115. I think some US eBay sellers were selling this model too but at a ridiculous price ($300+). I passed. The Canadian shortwave store use to have car stereos with SW but hasn't had anything for about a year now. -> http://www.shortwavestore.com/ nmfree posted:Personally, I'd like one of these, both for the rarity/WTF factor and because it has better sensitivity/selectivity than the Sony units do. I wanted that more then anything in high school! My car was 15 years old anyways so another archaic device wouldn't have hurt it. I was too poor though and never did it. For my new car I wanted a headunit that at least did the things a normal car stereo does (CD, MP3, USB, etc) so the Sonys were my only real option. Performance wise they do pretty well, strong to moderate reception. Here's some vids of it in action; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0py2w3h7HG0& http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1twuxGIskuI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWu50QR1YIc
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Radio Sweden done with shortwave October 31st, the usual "focusing more resources on interwebs" excuse  http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/International/nyhetssidor/artikel.asp?ProgramID=2054&format=1&artikel=3562645
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Got my new shortwave car stereo installed (Sony CDX-GT470U) and it's pretty sweeeeet!! Driving home I listened to a Radio Canada International news show, a station with Greek music, classic country on WWCR and a Spanish soccer game complete with "Goooooaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllll." All this was during the day, too, so I can only imagine what night will bring in! The stereo is interfaced with my steering wheel so I can seek/tune all while never taking my eyes off the road  The only downside, and I should have caught this, is the MW interval. For some reason I thought the 470U was switchable between 9 and 10KHz, but it turns out only the 470US is switchable. My 470U can only do 9 KHz on AM so I'm pretty limited there now. I can tune in most of the real local stations even though they're a few channels off (ex. AM-930 at 927, AM-820 at 819, etc.), but since most AM stations are right-wing yack, I can live without. If nothing else, maybe I can get some European stations since I'm on the east coast while cruising around at night. I'll slap up some video/pictures later.
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Here are some videos and pictures of my new shortwave car stereo in action; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4ZTZTi-Or4 -> Wish I had started this video 2 minutes sooner, last 20 seconds of a Glenn Beck bit on "Le Show" on WBCQ. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAbaUZINLp8 -> Next clip surprised me later when I saw the radio picked up both Family Radio 6085 KHz and Gene Scott 6090 KHz with awesome selectivity! Normally stations only 5 KHz apart spill into one another on average radios. Entire clip is a 2 minute scan using the seek function of 49 Meters (just tapping up on my steering wheel). I had a third video of WWV but YouTube didn't want to take it  I also took some still photos with the Blackberry. http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/tmode93/CDX-GT470UClose.jpg http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/tmode93/CDX-GT470YFar.jpg
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So I figured out I can switch my Sony car stereo to 10 KHz steps on AM! Unlike MOST car stereos where the setting is in a advanced menu Sony decided to make it a slide tab underneath the unit. So I got to pop out the radio, find tab, slide tab, pop in radio and redo all presets and settings. Thanks Sony for making a simple setting change so easy One thing I noticed when I changed from non-American radio settings to American radio settings is AM sound quality really took a hit, anyone know why ? I know the US caps AM bandwidth at like 10KHz(5KHz really), does Europe have much better sounding AM radio !? If anything I would believe it to be worse since they have smaller channel steps (9 vs 10KHz) to work with. Maybe they just make the most of it while we reduce our AM radios to telephone quality, bah! I've been enjoying listening to Radio Australia every morning driving to work. Such a great signal considering it travels over 7,000 miles to reach here!
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JammyLammy posted:How is C-Crane radios in general? Nay. I don't own the SWPocket or have any real experience with it but it seems steeply priced for its features(like most CCrane products). It doesn't cover ALL shortwave frequencies and it doesn't have single sideband (SSB) which has some cool stuff. For a little bit of extra money ($10 in my link) you can get a better featured radio with the Degen 1103 (see thread OP). I love mine, only downside is the strange interface but the performance makes up for that. One man's opinion. Ebay Linky Radio Nowhere fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Mar 24, 2010 |
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Damnit, driving home tonight my steering wheel stereo controls crap out! Guess the steering wheel control interface is wonky, another thing to fiddle with on my shortwave car stereo. Probably not too safe cruising around constantly reaching for the center console tapping "tune" to find some rare DX  Haven't DX'ed anything too rare lately, Radio Australia still a regular catch on 9560 KHz in the morning. Yesterday evening I could actually hear Miami's WRMI 9955 thanks to gray-line propagation, the station normally shoots its 50,000 watts entirely over the Caribbean/South America so a hard catch here in Maryland. Also I've been checking out Radio Havana Cuba's new 5040 KHz national service for tourists. Like the Radio Rebelde transmitter on 5025 KHz the antenna, called a NVIS (Near Vertical Incidence Skywave radiating system , also known as a "Cloud Warmer"), shoots the signal straight up intended only for strong nearby reception. Fortunately shortwave doesn't really work like that and 5025 and 5040 carry well beyond. The 5040 services carries like an hour of various languages intended for vacationers. Jokes on them, few foreigners even know what shortwave is .... Radio Nowhere fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Mar 26, 2010 |
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HFX posted:Why not? I do it all the time. It only becomes a problem if you can't operate the radio by touch. I can but I paid money to do it on my steering wheel damnit! Working progress trying to fix it, still haven't quite figured it out. Listeners in the Florida Keys and South Florida have reported uber strong signals from both 5025 and 5040, like S9+40. Here in central Maryland the stations maybe tap out at S9 during the night. I can still hear 5025 during the day but with around S3 strength. Guess my point was the shortwave signals will carry beyond intended local coverage though not exactly crushing me with signal (Cuba does that with int'l RHC on 6000, 6010, 6060, 6140, and so on ).
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Friday night I was listening to WBCQ and the owner's program "Allan Weiner Worldwide" was broadcasting on 3 of its 4 transmitters (5110, 7415, 9330; later two were the strongest) around 8 PM EST. I was treated to what sounded like a Glenn Beck-like rant of how socialism/fascism is taking over and Americans are loosing their freedom and this loss is being felt around the world. Huh ? Is this the same Allan who not even 3 years ago said things like "Never Vote Republican" and actually took his station's slogan "Peace, Love and Understanding" seriously !? Maybe if I listened to Brother Stair (which WBCQ carries many hours of) enough I'd loose it too but disappointing since I considered Allan one of the normal broadcasters on the shortwaves. If you read his book about his pirate radio days you'll understand what I mean. http://www.amazon.com/Access-Airwaves-Fight-Free-Radio/dp/1559501634/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269868502&sr=8-1
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Finally got my steering wheel control working, the remote input on the back of my shortwave Sony car stereo is a little wider then it should be to properly hold the input cable so I did the old duct tape trick. I drove around for 20 minutes and everything finally works as it should. I listened to Holy Quran singing the whole drive on 11820 KHz, pretty good signal from the Middle East this evening. On the flip side caught this Michigan Militia piece on Google News, http://www.annarbor.com/vielmetti/michigan-militia-then-and-now/ I'll paste the shortwave part, quote:After Koernke's release from jail, he went back online and on the air under the name of Liberty Tree Radio, broadcasting from Dexter. Koernke is back broadcasting on shortwave radio with a show called The Intelligence Report, which runs from 6-7 p.m. on 9.265 kHz. Checking the frequency it's WINB from Red Lion, Pennsylvania. This station is also the radio home of jailed child molester Tony Alamo which Glenn Hauser points out every DXLD. Classy station. Add: Anyone been listening to AM 730 "The Wobbler" coming from Cuba ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9r5Ul7-zgk Radio Nowhere fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Mar 31, 2010 |
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People on the Spooks list-serv have been hearing "The Buzzer" (4625) on random nearby frequencies, pretty loud too leading many to question if they are spurs or not! Listen to the clone Buzzers every 42.1 KHz from the main frequency. If all these Buzzers do stop for broadcast your rear end goodbye! 
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Catastrophe posted:Regarding the comments on the last few pages about the Grundig G3: Is there any way to know if one I'd pick up at a local Radio Shack is a newer, updated model or just some old dusty one from two years ago they've had sitting around forever? Is there a manufacture date where people know they 'got better' or anything? Look at the serial number, the higher the better (I think 1000+). The G3 has only been around a year so it can't be any older than that. Ask the store if you can go outside and play with it. Check the sync feature to make sure it will lock and hold onto signals, that's been the big issue. Worst case you buy it and then find it's still crappy you can return it to the store for exchange/refund. If you can wait even Eton(Grundig) will exchange your radio under warranty. Many people did that when Radio Shack had a sale on them for $90, bought the radio and exchanged it through Eton for a current "fixed" radio. It's a good radio if you get a later production model, why Eton had to screw it up when it first came out I don't know. Why alienate an already tiny customer base, shortwave listeners ?
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