I used to keep up on radio tech but haven't for years.

What is a good reasonable cost bedside receiver for SW
use and maybe even ham, digital, etc?

Prefer a sleep timer as I like to get into bed and
listen to radio with sleep timer on.... but the local
AM/FM programming is crap!

wrote:
I used to keep up on radio tech but haven't for years.

What is a good reasonable cost bedside receiver for SW
use and maybe even ham, digital, etc?

Prefer a sleep timer as I like to get into bed and
listen to radio with sleep timer on.... but the local
AM/FM programming is crap!

I suggest a web radio.

wrote:
I used to keep up on radio tech but haven't for years.

What is a good reasonable cost bedside receiver for SW
use and maybe even ham, digital, etc?

Prefer a sleep timer as I like to get into bed and
listen to radio with sleep timer on.... but the local
AM/FM programming is crap!

I don't think there is such a thing anymore. Depending upon where you
are, you can find several decent beside radios, but unless you have very
specific things to listen to, and those things are the BBC, China (PRC) and
a few others, you are never going to get the good clear signals to fall asleep
to.

You will have to tune around, change freqeuncies and put up with noise
interference and fading (even with a sync detector).

All of which make SWL'ing fun, but could never make me fall asleep.

Geoff.

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dave wrote:

I suggest a web radio.

I don't have Internet where I will be using this radio

"Geoffrey S. Mendelson"
wrote:

You will have to tune around, change freqeuncies and put up with noise
interference and fading (even with a sync detector).

All of which make SWL'ing fun, but could never make me fall asleep.

Good point

Thanks I will forget abt the idea

wrote:
dave wrote:

I suggest a web radio.

I don't have Internet where I will be using this radio

Wow. Is battery life an issue? I just heard about a new Crane/Sangean
portable, but it has a little cheese speaker. That and some little
powered speakers might work nice. Can you put up a full-size antenna?

wrote:
"Geoffrey S. Mendelson"
wrote:

You will have to tune around, change freqeuncies and put up with noise
interference and fading (even with a sync detector).

All of which make SWL'ing fun, but could never make me fall asleep.

Good point

Thanks I will forget abt the idea

There's a lot of web radio that works on dialup internet.

dave wrote:

Wow. Is battery life an issue? I just heard about a new Crane/Sangean
portable, but it has a little cheese speaker. That and some little
powered speakers might work nice. Can you put up a full-size antenna?

No battery life not an issue... but just didn't think
the review on some of the portable units was very
good....hence maybe the desktop model?

Cant put up an outside antenna.

On May 17, 12:04*pm, wrote:
"Geoffrey S. Mendelson"
wrote:

You will have to tune around, change freqeuncies and put up with noise
interference and fading (even with a sync detector).

All of which make SWL'ing fun, but could never make me fall asleep.

Good point

Thanks I will forget abt the idea

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