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[email protected] · October 6th 06, 05:38 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

wrote:
If iboc winds up being on full time,day and night,,,, what is the use in
buying a good DX Radio anyway? About four or five years ago,I bought a
radio at Sears.The radio is Stereo (but not real quality stereo,if you
know what I mean?) AM FM with a CD Player on top of the radio and two
seperate speakers.I have the radio put up somewhere now and as usual,I
would have to move a lot of my junk out of the way to even get at the
radio.It is a grey color radio and I think the brand name is something
like Sound (whatever it is,similar to those GPX radios.Some of those off
the wall brand name radios are really good at DXing AM stations) I paid
about $30.00 for the radio.I am pretty amazed at how well it picks up
long distance AM stations.
cuhulin

With my RS model 12-898 AM/FM PLL, I can pick up 1040 WHO, 870 WWL, and
stations in Canada from Maryland, up to 1,000 miles - same as the
Grundig S350. Actually, I found the wide/narrow filter on the S350
annoying, as it only muffled the sound. The S350's RF Gain switch could
always be left in the max position, so it served the same purpose as
the DX/LOC switch on my RS radio. Too much hype !