[CommiesOut]

CNN or Radio Tirana?

[battlecry]

Shortly after 9/11, I ordered a Sony 2010 from Universal Radio and heard they are backordered 45 - 60 days. I'm waiting...

[calmseas]

I liked to listen to the BBC, but I've heard they discontinued their world service broadcasts last summer--due to the popularity of the internet. So now I guess I'll need to buy a generator so I have power for the computer when the lights go out.

[japaneseghost]

Could someone pls post the specs to buy a good one? thanks

[calmseas]

As a public service, anyone with frequencies for good conservative--even downright extremist right-wing--frequecies, please post.

[samtheman]

And then there's Ham Radio Online.

[Nogbad]

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[Darth Sidious]

Pirate radio bump :-)

[glock rocks]

qsl

[Shermy]

Assistance required:

I own a circa 1975 Sony Earth Orbiter (10 bands, 5 s-wave plus mw, lw, fm, "air," and "public". It needs a couple of mechanical adjustments, foremostly a "string job." The string guiding the channel selector is all tangled up inside. Anyone know a person or store in S. California that could fix it? Much obliged.

[John Farson]

All:

Does anyone know if the CCRadio provides better AM reception/selectivity over the Sony 2010?

My only complaint about the 2010 is that sometimes I get bleed through from the FM bands (because of the plastic housing).

Is the CCRadio really worth the expense?

[madrussian]

Question to short-wave radio enthusiasts: what's the cheapest model that can be used to reliably get stations around the world?

[dr_who]

My old shortwave was was funnest when I pulled in all sorts of stuff using the dipole antenna up on my parent's roof. Radio Moscow was exceedingly tame due to Perestroika and therefore a bit of a letdown. Mind you, a few nights I picked up all sorts of stations in/around the continental U.S. using a simple crystal set. Don't ask me how. One of the most interesting things I pulled in were my sister's conversations with her new cordless phone, heh, heh, heh. Not a very reliable medium though. Doubt digital shortwave radio will ever have a following because Internet will have totally swallowed up that audience by then. If you ever find a cheap used dial type receiver (the cheap PLL one I bought was crap), go for it. There's almost always something on.

[hillary's_fat_a**]

My mother always said I was on an FBI list as a kid because I collected QSL cards from around the world....including Radio Moscow and Radio Havana. In fact, Radio Havana sent me a lot of propaganda literature back then!!

Of course, now I know I'm not on some FBI list because of those activities......but Freepin' and sending e-mail to the 'Toons, well I'm not sure about that one! LOL!

DX '73

[jennyp]

Here's an irritating thing about SWL that finally did it in for me: So many stations, when they fade in & out, sound garbled.

As I understand it, the reason is that when the signal fades in & out, it fades slightly more at one frequency than another - so the lower sideband ends up coming in slightly louder or softer than the higher sideband. So the combined audio signal gets that garbled quality to it.

I seem to remember reading many years ago about the "new" crop of shortwave radios, that were supposed to fix that, among other things. Did that ever happen?

[steveo]

Just how many Freepers are Hams?

[Leroy S. Mort]

Ahhh...Good press just about the time I'm putting my classic 70's Panasonic RF-4900 up for auction this coming weekend on Ebay.

[malarski]

"It started right after the terror attacks," says John Smith, director of operations for Grundig's U.S. operations. "The first week, our orders went up 100 percent, then 200 percent. Lately, it's averaging 500 percent. It shows no signs of slowing down." ionosphere and travel thousands of miles over mountains and across oceans, providing live news from the other side of the world.

The American people found out that they can get more truthful information from the foreign stations than from our dominance group controlled media. Just imagine that I can find out more on a foreign radio, what is our State Department saying, than in our media.

[Black Cat]

I started listening to SW after Waco on the recommendation of a friend. There's a lot of weird stuff on so you need to watch out for the conspiracy goofs and the religious maniacs, but occasionally you'll pluck a diamond from the coalbin...

SW was really fun in the run-up to Y2K -- there was a man named Jeff Bennett who was peddling MREs and other survival stuff and as the date grew nearer, his stories grew wackier and wackier...

[Nogbad]

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