Bell & Howell 9 Band Shortwave Radio / ??
 

Soames123 ) writes:
All:

getting a new SWR; Bell & Howell 9 Band Shortwave Radio
- as a gift; $20, I mean, why not !

- Anyone have one ?
Anyone hook it up to a REAL long antenna & see what obtains??

Anyone find any neat stuff to do with it once you take it apart ??

Thanks

Harvey



Hooking it up to an external antenna should make it overload more
and also add to the images from 910 kHz higher up. See if you can
get images from 2x(f+455) +/- 455. BTW, you really ought to check
eBay to get one for under $10, as was the Coby 12-band radio. Both
should do very well for AM stereo stations due to mild filtering,
and may even provide good audio for ordinary AM in headphones.

Yes have one. Is OK in a pinch, needless to say gets better reception at
late hours. Will overload badly with a wire attached, suggest no more than a
foot. Is VERY sensitive to ambient electrical noises. Sliderule dial is off
by varying amounts band to band. Is very battery efficient especially when
earplug is used. (Pick your own, the included buds are painful.)

"Soames123" wrote in message
...
All:

getting a new SWR; Bell & Howell 9 Band Shortwave Radio
- as a gift; $20, I mean, why not !

- Anyone have one ?
Anyone hook it up to a REAL long antenna & see what obtains??

Anyone find any neat stuff to do with it once you take it apart ??

Thanks

Harvey

Definately worth $20. I took mine to work the other day (3-11 shift), I work
in a steel mill, and our shop is a building within a building. I was able to
get quite a bit reception wise with it, mostly towards night, especially for
such an inexpensive radio. The Dial is off quite a bit, I listen to 5.825,
technically this shouldn't be on this radio, but since the dial is off, I am
able to receive it, somewhere in the 6MHz range. The radio drifts a lot, and
produces squeals when 2 significant stations are very close on the dial, but
for the most part the squeal can be eliminated by very carefully tweaking the
tuning.

http://www.carolwright.com/index.cfm...4615&category=

Regards.


In article ,
(Soames123) wrote:
All:

getting a new SWR; Bell & Howell 9 Band Shortwave Radio
- as a gift; $20, I mean, why not !

- Anyone have one ?
Anyone hook it up to a REAL long antenna & see what obtains??

Anyone find any neat stuff to do with it once you take it apart ??

Thanks

Harvey


Never say never.
Nothing is absolute.

But not $20 when you can get Grundig analogs for that on eBay.
And some of them will have a windup generator.

However, for $10 like the Coby 12-band it's a great buy, esp.
for listening to the extended audio (10-15kHz) on AM stereo
stations (played back in mono of course).

"" ) writes:
I have a B&H , and, it's a helluva lot of radio for the price !
It may not be a SONY, but it is an inexpensive introduction
to short wave.....

I'm amazed at the reception on mine.
and BCB is excellent too.

It's become my "beach&camping" radio......
and, if it gets lost, or stolen, no big loss.
( it has been dropped numerous times, and still keeps on tickin' )



On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 00:39:40 -0400, "Ernesto Beans"
wrote:

It's another cheapo Chinese made piece of crap.
Spend the money on a vintage SW portable on
e-Bay. You'll be much better satisfied.

(Soames123) wrote in message ...

Bell & Howell 9 Band Shortwave Radio

Details, etc.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...3D100%26sa%3DN

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"Subject: Bell and Howell 9-Band Shortwave Radio" beginning on
2002-11-29.


I was clearing out the newspapers when I came across an ad for this
radio in last week's _USA Weekend_ magazine. _USA Weekend_, for those
of you who have not seen it, is, like _Parade_, inserted with various
newspapers' weekend editions.

For shortwave coverage, this radio has the 49 m, 41 m, 31 m, 25 m, 21
m, 19 m, and 16 m bands. Further, it appears from the photo in the ad
that those bands overlap, so there might be nearly complete coverage
of frequencies from 5.5 MHz to 19 MHz. It also has MW (US AM) of
530-1600 kHz and an FM band that covers 54 MHz to 108 MHz.

The radio's dimensions are 5" by 3" by 1", it weighs 8 oz. , and power
is provided by two AA cells. The price is "only" $19.95. Shipping and
handling are another $3.95. If you order over the phone
(1-800-889-4926), they'll throw in another radio for the cost of its
shipping and handling. That's two radios for $28.

Wait - don't order yet.

Unable to remember the seller's URL, I Googled, and it found it even
cheaper.

The company advertising in _USA Weekend_ is PublishersChoice, which
has the URL http://publisherschoice.com/product....roduct_id=RP58
.. Carol Wright, however, sells the radio for $9.99. The URL for Carol
Wright is http://www.carolwrightgifts.com/index.cfm?page=home , and
the radios' SKU is 94654. There are no doubt a few other sources for
it.


From what I read at RRS, the Coby at Big Lots is a better deal. I
don't own either the B+H or the Coby.

Best wishes.

"Beloved Leader" wrote

From what I read at RRS, the Coby at Big Lots is a better deal.

They were at around $8 but I doubt you could find one now. Nice
little radio, actually.


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re COBY radio;

I found a place on the net that sells COBY radios.
I spent another $20 ( w/shipping, handling, tax, etc )

The radio looks impressive, but
sad to say, it suffers from "the whistles"......
( perhaps poor alignment ?? )

It sits in the junque drawer.



On 8 Jul 2003 15:01:44 GMT, (Maximo Lachman)
wrote:

But not $20 when you can get Grundig analogs for that on eBay.
And some of them will have a windup generator.

However, for $10 like the Coby 12-band it's a great buy, esp.
for listening to the extended audio (10-15kHz) on AM stereo
stations (played back in mono of course).

"" ) writes:
I have a B&H , and, it's a helluva lot of radio for the price !
It may not be a SONY, but it is an inexpensive introduction
to short wave.....

I'm amazed at the reception on mine.
and BCB is excellent too.

It's become my "beach&camping" radio......
and, if it gets lost, or stolen, no big loss.
( it has been dropped numerous times, and still keeps on tickin' )



On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 00:39:40 -0400, "Ernesto Beans"
wrote:

It's another cheapo Chinese made piece of crap.
Spend the money on a vintage SW portable on
e-Bay. You'll be much better satisfied.


rj