On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 06:26:13 -0600, J wrote:

|A friend of mine sent me this.... I was wondering if someone here
|could help him with this.... I will forward any replies.

I guess "SWR" meant short-wave radio, not the more familar
standing-wave ratio.

Can't tell much about the radio except that it seems to tune the
short-wave broadcasting bands. Look here for signals that he might
hear.

http://www.voanews.com/NewsNow/artic...1ADC14026AF335


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|I am in China teaching English for 1 week now (will be here 1-2 years
|- did I tell you I was going? in the same town as Mark and Rene
|Strand - they helped me land the position) and the previous British
|teacher residents left their old portable AM/FM/MW/SW 9-band radio
|here. It appears to have shortwave capability and I'd like to play
|around with it and see if I can tune in English-language radio (I can
|get internet radio over my univeristy-supplied broadband Internet
|access but wanted to try SW too). I searched the producton the web
|and found it here
|http://www.tecsun.b2s.com/new_produc...ro=1&pid=17294
|If you click on the pic you can get a closer up view.
|Can you tell from the picture how I would operate it? There is an
|owners manual but of course all in Chinese, and "that's Greek to me"
|so far! I have never done shortwave before so all I'm doing is
|flipping around the spin-dial randomly on the different bands 1-7 and
|only get Chinese stuff. How would I try to get anything else? What
|band and what number should I try to get something from America? Ans
|is it possible with my 10-12 foot external antenna....?
|Thanks for any ideas you have!