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Messages - Thefancyyeller
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« on: October 21, 2024, 1817 UTC »
Near Pensacola, huh? Almost nightly, I can hear their 1620AM up here in SW West Virginia, usually battling with 1620kHz out of Cuba, and my own Part 15 AM1620 station. Anyway... Couple of things that you can try. Got any unused speaker wire, trashed telephone, or CAT 5, cables, or even an extra power extension cord? Ideas, for longer Shortwave antennas to clip to that portable's telescopic whip. Are you close to a beach that you can take that portable to? Just be sure that you have some good distance away from the local AM stations, like that 1620AM. Looking at that portable's range, 4.5MHz - 22MHz, from 4.5MHz to like 10MHz, good for most nighttime listening, while 10MHz to 22MHz, mainly daytime. Albeit, about 10AM to mid-afternoon, EST, you could usually hear 40M AM HAM's from 7285kHz - 7295kHz. (That includes me on some Saturdays and Sundays, when I hear a friend calling CQ-CQ there.) After that time, 40M shortwave broadcasters dominate that portion of the HAM Band, like in the evening. Oh.. Got a close-by tree to string a wire up into for an antenna? Oh... In a pinch, even the Dollar Tree should have cheap runs of speaker wire, and a small-gauge spool of what they call 'hook-up' wire. That would work. Hey, I know what it's like to be super cheap. I still dumpster dive.
I didn't realize I could extend this antennas power, I will try that!
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« on: October 21, 2024, 1618 UTC »
Newbie here,
I bought a XHDATA D219 Portable (cheap, I know) and it works great for my FM and AM bands but on the shortwave end I only pick up some Spanish channels and then mostly gospel. Probably 5 stations across the whole range.
For reference i am located near pensacola, florida.
Am I using it wrong or do I need a better radio? I use it indoors. I'm not positive if I am supposed to be able to pick up the big channels or if smaller radios aren't made for that.
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« on: October 17, 2024, 0249 UTC »
I'm also trying to gage if like a $25 short wave would reasonably pick up stuff like BBC
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« on: October 17, 2024, 0248 UTC »
Hi all. I want to get into this hobby and currently don't know anything. I am a broke gradstudent so I am shopping for a cheap used shortwave radio and I keep seeing terns like "shortwave all world band".
Does that matter? Is there a difference? Can I buy any shortwave radio and presumably tune into the channels across the world?
As a side note any suggestions for a cheap and portable radio would be appreciated. I really can't be picky about the sound quality I just care that I would get to listen to some cool stations.
Thanks!
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