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On Mar 19, 6:39*am, Mike Mc Manus wrote:
On Mar 19, 3:40*am, "Brenda Ann"
wrote:





"notbob" wrote in message

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On 2010-03-18, Joe from Kokomo wrote:

1) Strictly speaking, you are correct. It isn't "shortwave".

2) However, from a reality viewpoint, many do post their MW catches here.

So, catching, say, KGO in San Francisco while living in Northern Oregon
would be considered a valid connection for a DXer?

I'm embarrassingly new at this and am trying to learn the ins and
outs. *I've made the above connection before, but didn't realize it
was any big deal, KGO broadcasting at 50KW. *I wasn't trying to score
a long catch, jes hear a radio station I was very familiar with.

nb

KGO from northern OR isn't much of a catch. Anything past about an hour or
so past sundown and you can hear them on a crystal set (much easier on even
a pocket radio). *Ditto for KFI, KFBK, KSL, KBOI, ad inf.

Strictly speaking medium wave listening isn't Shortwave. *I recall
snaking a little plastic transister radio into bed when I was about
eight years old and listening to the Jean Sheperd radio show late in
the PM with the radio under the pillow.
I was in Philadelphia and i heard WKBW from Buffalo NY. *What that was
something! *I still listen to the radio but it is shortwave radio and
I hear the radio signals from thousands of miles away *and I don't
have to sneak the radio into the sack.just wear a headphone so I don't
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notbob wrote:
On 2010-03-18, Joe from wrote:

1) Strictly speaking, you are correct. It isn't "shortwave".

2) However, from a reality viewpoint, many do post their MW catches here.

So, catching, say, KGO in San Francisco while living in Northern Oregon
would be considered a valid connection for a DXer?

I'm embarrassingly new at this and am trying to learn the ins and
outs. I've made the above connection before, but didn't realize it
was any big deal, KGO broadcasting at 50KW. I wasn't trying to score
a long catch, jes hear a radio station I was very familiar with.

nb

That's how it starts...

Can you get KGO in the daytime? That would be more impressive at that
distance.

notbob wrote:
So, what's the deal with the GE Super Radio? I've seen a couple
mentioned, here. I've had one for decades and it still works great.
How do they fit into a shortwave newsgroup?

nb

DC to Daylight.

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, notbob wrote:

So, what's the deal with the GE Super Radio? I've seen a couple
mentioned, here. I've had one for decades and it still works great.
How do they fit into a shortwave newsgroup?


Because like I said, "shortwave" defines not the spectrum, but the
listener. Someone who listens for hobby purposes, generally for the
sake of the reception rather than the content. They had to figure
out something to define name the group, and vague as it is, it's better
than a lot of other choices. So it encompasses listing to FM broadcast
band DX, and listening to AM broadcast band DX, and even "public service
monitoring" though later there were groups created for that sort of
listening.

Time was, most people got interesting in DXing because they simply tuned
their bedside radio up and down the band at night, discovering what too
many don't realize, that lots of distant stations can be received, and
without any special equipment. That primed them, they wanted more, and
they got better equipment and discovered shortwave listening.

Michael

On 2010-03-19, Michael Black wrote:

Because like I said, "shortwave" defines not the spectrum, but the
listener. Someone who listens for hobby purposes, generally for the
sake of the reception rather than the content.

Unless you take into account my haircut, which has such a short wave
you can see your reflection in it, I guess I'm not a shortwave person.
I remember lusting after a Hallicrafters S-120 as a kid and finally
getting a used one when I was in the service stationed in N Africa. I
could get hundreds of stations in Europe, but couldn't understand a
word from a single one. Not my idea of entertainment.

I'm trying to get into ham cuz I want to talk to people, not see if I
can hear them. I hear way too many people every day on my phone! I
jes cancelled cable tv and talk radio is crap. You wanna carry on an
intelligent conversation, I'm there.

nb