I got a shortwave about a year ago, but haven’t had a lot of time to play with it. The furthest place we’ve brought in so far was a station in England, and that was only our second or third try at turning it on and searching. Husband is going for his Extra license soon, so we’ve got a little HT, too.
Next on the list is an Internet radio ;-) There are lots of Internet stations running old-timey radio shows.
-JT
dear jamestown,
re: shortwave radio ... are you running an indoor shortwave antenna, or just the extendable rod mounted onto the radio? Also, do you have the ‘clip-ins’ on the back of the radio for an external antenna?
EBay, for what it is, does at times have some indoor shortwave antennae, for a good price, that are quite ingenuous.
Also, have you an external AM antenna? You might be surprised what you can find.
As to ‘internet radio’, I wish you well, and also with the HT.
I’m down in ‘the swamps of Montana’, and on my little Grundig and indoor antenna, i can pick up a pirate radio station form Ireland. Shortwave is an atmospheric bounce broadcast, and is dependent on how the Sun effects the upper atmosphere. There are a lot of Shortwave stations that transmit on ‘sidebands’ of the frequencies, which only the more costly SW radios can decipher properly. Oh, on AM, late at night, I can pick up Denver radio stations.