Hi I am a total newbie at this.

I have an Icom PCR-100 and I can get shortwave just fine, so I am sure you
should be okay with a good antenna.

As far as shortwave broadcasting frequencies goes I use

http://hfradio.org/swbc/
and
http://www.anarc.org/naswa/swlguide/

I have just made my second antenna and it works great. (thanks to all that
helped)

I took about 80 feet of speaker wire (2 conducter) and hung it on my fence
in my yard.

I then hooked into my reciever via appropriate connectors.

There are some great webpages out there that have all the info you need to
make your own antenna.

One of them is
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=antennas
and
http://www.angelfire.com/mb/amandx/index.html

HTH

Good Luck!


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Hi, i own a IC-R5 scanner and if i scan in the 150Khz - 20Mhz area on
AM i can pick up shortwave radio, however its not very clear the
clearest ive got is The Voice Of Russia World Service which i can
recive on 6.160 AM, i was wondering if a bigger antenna will improve
my reception, or as my scanner is not really designed for shortwave
listening i shouldnt bother, im in the UK and would be prepared to
fork out some cash for a shortwave reciver but i dont really know
anywhere in the UK that sells them!, also i was wondering where i
could find a list of frequencys for shortwave stations for the UK.

Any advice would be welcomed
Thanx