Strangest place you ever took your radio?

[atrainradio]

For me, It was in the caves in nevada. MW wasn't too bad but no SW at all down there.

So, I ask you, where was the strangest place you ever took your radio?

[Fried Chickin']

I sat in a cemetery in Randsburg, CA with my Satellit 750 for a few hours. If you have never heard of Randsburg, it's a ghost town in the middle of the desert. Very good signals coming through there!

[tybrad]

Not really strange, but I do take my portable up on my roof and listen in the summer month eve and nights while stargazing.  Interesting mix.

[outhouse radio]

about 1000 feet or so up a tower   rx was great    tx didn't do to bad either  

[glimmer twin]

I used to & in fact still do carry some type of shortwave radio pretty much everywhere I go. I have DX'ed & received QSL's from stations I picked up while riding the bus to & from work with the antenna poking out the window (KOL Israel, Radio Cairo & Radio Australia). I used to have a 20-30 minute wait at a bus stop that was next to a large & empty parking lot that had a chain link fence surrounding it, an entire city block with a loop around it. I would couple my DX398 to the fence & DX while I waited & a few times just waved the bus on & caught the next one when conditions were real good.  I carried my DX398 on the lobster boat I worked on when I lived off the coast of Maine. I have coupled my PL880 to the fence surrounding the football field at the high school where I work & dx'ed during football games. I once made a crude dipole from two parked cars in the parking lot of the restaurant where I was a sous chef & would DX during smoke breaks. I have used most everthing I can think of as an antenna for quick,on the spot dx'ing.

[atrainradio]

I always take my portable into the shower with me and put on the shower rack and listen to in the morning R.Australia on 9580 and at nights R. Romania Int'l on 9700

[jFarley]

Into a lead-lined booth used for testing x-ray tubes.  Actually, the radio was inside the booth, and I was outside with headphones cause to do otherwise would be stupid for even me. 

As a young engineer I was studying low-level phenomena which might be precursors to catastrophic breakdown in CT tubes.  Some common noise sources such as increased shot noise, particles flying around in the tube, fluorescence on the glass envelope, and gas bursts (arcing farts) all were detectable in the HF region, and sometimes in the FM band, before they could be observed on a 'scope.

That was a Sony ICF2002.  I used this at work for about a week IIRC, and even though it probably got a good dose, it still works as well as it did back then.  Which ain't saying much because it's a piece of crap.

[Chanter]

I took my PL-660 out into the middle of Devil's Lake in Baraboo, WI.  I didn't get as much actual DXing in as I would have had I not been, you know, sharing paddling duties in the canoe at the time, but I still managed a booming AIR and a readable Algeria, as well as a Kuwait sign-off.  I need to try that again... 

[Nella F.]

I was stationed on submarine tender (repair ship) home ported in the Med. back in the day. I strung a wire from my top bunk through the overhead pipes to a port hole and out. It actually worked though not all that great.

   And Yes It Was Above The Waterline, Smart Ass!
  (The tender was 40 years old @ the time I served on it)

[Pigmeat]

Fansome's trailer.

[Kage]

I have a crappy C. Crane SW Pocket radio in the restroom. I use it to listen to pirates and WWCR when alex jones is on and I missed it earlier, and sometimes WBCQ.
I hate to say it but that radio deserves restroom use. It has a terrible FM front end and its SW band has a ton of images. Only thing it does half ass is MW and even then the audio is bleh.
Just think pirates... Someone out there is on the shitter listening to you sometimes

[atrainradio]

C.Crane though I know makes good radios. Sometimes even though the greatest of all radio companies makes a piece of crap one that makes a better paperweight.

[John Poet]

The Mens room at Sky Harbor International.


Naw, I wasn't trying to listen in there, but I did have it with me