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Old January 3rd 09, 10:18 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
[email protected] plimmer@telkomsa.net is offline
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Default Mystery of Shortwave

On Jan 3, 5:28*am, (Jacob Shank) wrote:
I've been having fun listening to Shortwave. I recently bought an
amazing radio. It's the SONY ICF-2010, and it picks up the faintest of
signals! The sync detector works great. I still have the Zenith
trans-oceanic H500, but i use the SONY more. Shortwave is still going
strong! I've been picking up all kinds of weird signals. I think i heard
india on 9425kHz.Then i put on SSB on 20 meters, and i heard a ham from
tokyo! I want to learn how to DX with it.
Jacob


Hi Jacob - enjoy your 2010 = a really great portable, but don't hang
too big a wire antenna on it, as I blew the front end twice on mine
doing that.

An essential to enjoying your radio is to have a copy of the latest
Passport to Worldband Radio, 2009 version. See:
http://www.passband.com/

Have fun and good DX

John Plimmer, Montagu, Western Cape Province, South Africa
South 33 d 47 m 32 s, East 20 d 07 m 32 s
Icom IC-7700, Icom IC-756 PRO III with MW mods
ERGO software
Drake SW8. Sangean 803A
Sony 7600D, GE SRIII, Redsun RP2100
Antenna's RF Systems DX 1 Pro Mk II, Datong AD-270
Kiwa MW Loop.
http://www.dxing.info/about/dxers/plimmer.dx