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In Reply to: RE: Not only do I listen to shortwave but I talk on shortwave posted by Michael Samra on July 01, 2009 at 14:24:46
Hi,Michael Samra! I was hoping you would responsed! I remember you saying you are a Ham operator! I have been listening to Shortwave and Ham radio for years on my Zenith Transoceanonic from 1973 and I later bought a
Radio Shack DX 375 cause the price was right and it had digital tuning.I do not plan to ever sell it but could use some advice on either building or buying an Indoor Antenna for it!Also do you think I'll need to use an external speaker?I have several vintage headphones that I use with my other 2 Shortwave radios and have found out that when listening to faint distant signals nothing beats a good set of headphones!Thanks again for responding so quick!Brian
... in snagging any available signals, Brian. Just remember there's a lot of digital rfi nowadaze, which this qth suffers from in over-abundance. You can plug your Drake R8B into your hi-fi rig, & enjoy enticin' fidelity from those stations who still maintain their transmitters. Have done so for three-plus decades(currently utilizing a Carver MXR-130 Receiver, which gets astounding audio from ICOM R-75 & Sony ICF-2010, though both are rumoured to deliver less-than-stellar sonics), & you'll be amazed by how good some of Michael Samra's angel music(as SoCal'r K(W?)6LGL calls amplitude modulation) brethren sound. Some use modded Collins transmitters from back in radio's hey day. Since today's the first Wednesday of the month, if you park on 3.880 Mhz, you should be able to listen to the monthly Collins A.M. Net from coast-to-coast, propogation permitting.
Thanks for all the info!I read on the Internet that some people have had good luck using an old 300 ohm FM Dipole antenna like I'm using now on my Fisher for FM for an indoor Shortwave antenna.Also thank you for reminding me about the Rabbit Ears as back in the mid 70's Sony's Color Trintron TV's had an interesting
set of Rabbit ears that came with them sets.I used a set of those years back on different portable Shortwave radios I had and it worked very well on most shortwave Bands where as other rabbit ears did not do as good!Go figure!I'll have to look in my storage bin to see if I still have them or if I gave them away.
Edits: 07/01/09
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