RadioBanter - View Single Post - Newbie question.. Listening to shortwave in East US and Europe only??

March 19th 04, 06:15 AM

In article ,
says...
Passports article would also lead one to believe that California is
not a good place for SW DX. *Several* posters to this group get
excellent results in California. Admittedly, these people are using
good receiver and antenna setups,
but with the $125 investment I spoke of earlier, you can still fill a
small book with basic loggings.

I regularly take a $30 handheld to the park at lunch here in Southern
California and pull in 30 to 40 listenable signals using just the built-
in 18" whip. I have to admit most of those signals are in languages I
don't speak, but they're coming in strong and clear. Of course, I'm
sure this doesn't qualify as DXing.

-- Jay