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In Reply to: RE: Does anyone here at the Vintage Asylum listen to Shortwave? posted by Brian McGowan on July 01, 2009 at 14:08:34
I've spent some evenings painstakingly tuning the shortwave bands using not very good receivers, and got a few QSL cards. (A perfbox Radio Shack kit with clip-in coils for changing bands, then a 3 band Sony, as in AM and two shortwaves.)
Since then I've acquired a vintage tube Hallicrafters s40 (? maybe S38) semi basket case... no case, no output tube or transformer, so I just used an external audio amp. And a big vintage transistor Sony multiband portable, with squelch, RF gain, and BFO. The Sony just gets used for listening to local FM, and the Hallicrafters has just gathered dust since the last move.
Anyway, for an apartment, I've heard of antennas disguised as flagpoles. Another idea is to attach a fishing line and weight to the end of a Slinky, and lower it off the balcony. Or some fine magnet wire, or maybe electric fence line (rope with wire intertwined) could work.
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