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March 27th 06, 07:09 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

wrote:

running dogg,

Thanks for the reply.

The GE is just one of my collection of 35+ SW radios, many of which are
newer, digitally tuned ones you mention. Believe it or not, there are
many people who still listen on older analog radios. I've been a SW
listener since the mid 1960's and I've seen better days than now for
the hobby.

The 60s and 70s were really the glory days for the hobby. You could tune
in and hear the Cold War raging LIVE over your radio. Today our enemies
use the internet. It's mostly in Arabic, and visiting the few sites in
English on a regular basis could earn you a visit from the FBI, since
the feds track all internet communication. Iran DOES have that Voice of
Justice broadcast, but I've never heard it here in California with
enough clarity to understand the words.

I just thought that somebody else may have one of these radios and
could help me out.

Actually, I inherited one from my grandfather. The antennas have the
same problem-apparently the little clip or whatever breaks easily, and
the antennas just pull right out. Gramps used his for FM listening only
in his workshop (can you imagine spending $100 in 1964 for a radio that
you'd use only for FM?) and when he was sick and giving everything away
I asked him about the antennas and he shrugged and said it had always
been like that, and he never used the SW portion anyway.

I've been to rec.antiques.radio+phono already, that was my first stop.

Well, I guess I'll just have to go back to listening on my FRG-7, a
radio that I find better than any didgital radio I've owned so far...

The P990 looks like a difficult radio to tune. 6-18 Mc is crammed into a
small space. I would think that the FRG-7 would be easier to tune, since
the bandspread was deliberately spread out to make finding stations
easier.