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Old August 8th 08, 07:40 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
Telamon Telamon is offline
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Default What's a good LONG lasting shortwave radio...

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Dave wrote:

Bruce Watson wrote:


I nearly never monitored SSB stations. AFRTS is so low powered
and utility stations really need scanning (a large, expensive
desktop model) to be interesting. Ham traffic sounded all too
monotonous.


Squelch-based HF scanners don't work very well, regardless of the price.
If you want to monitor lots of utes, you need a lot of radios.


That's funny. I have several SW radios and HF scanners and the squelch
works just fine on all of them.

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