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On Nov 21, 7:32*pm, Bill Baka wrote:
wrote: On Nov 21, 4:55 pm, Bill Baka wrote: Has anyone seen any shortwave radios in cars lately? I remember a few from across the pond back in the 60's but it seems to have died out as a fad. I would like to put one in one of my cars rather than a boom box thing and be able to tune the world from wherever I find myself. The other advantage is that I can drive to a spot with no power lines for miles at night to listen relatively static free. I could (in theory) take a long wire on a fishing pole (28-32AWG?) and put on a disposable weight and toss it as far as possible into some high trees. Once it is stuck firmly just back the car up until the whole spool is used up and connect the car antenna to it. Anybody tried it or anything like it? Bill Baka There is always XM radio. BBC world service all the time, and many other shortwave stations on a rotating basis. The point was I want to do my own searching and not listen to some lame satellite station. I will *never* buy a car that requires me to pay a satellite station $10 every month. If you are going to do any SWL with a fixed antenna, there is really no need to mount it in the car. I have a Welbrook ALA100 that I have used in the field many times with home brew wire loops. http://www.lazygranch.com/images/radio/loop1.jpg Interesting looking setup, could be used as a direction finder too. I have a marine RDF but it uses a pre-mounted loop-stick in the rotating antenna. Too bad it cuts off at just over the old 2805 frequencies. Thanks for the picture. Bill Baka I've done NDB DFing with the loop. It works great for that purpose. However, it is better to use a smaller loop. I find 2ft on a side works best for DFing. I have a setup with a holder for a compass. That loop uses copper pipe. Regarding shortwave radios in the car, the specs on the Sony are pretty poor. I'm not sure it was targeted for the US market, where there is little good shortwave to hear, other than VOA. I've seen people mount those DC to daylight radios in the car under the dash for shortwave. |
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