Get Sirius satellite. It has BBC World Service News 24/7 plus the
World Radio Network schedule of international broadcasters. HF
broadcasting is near death. Satellite is where it's at for cultural
diversity.

http://www.wrn.org.

http://www.sirius.com/servlet/Conten...d=996089493678

http://www.sirius.com/servlet/Conten...d=996089493740

Kudos for kicking TV!

On 15 May 2004 18:43:09 -0700, (ex_cathedra)
wrote:

I am hooked on shortwave.
I have killed my TV a long time ago and now even NPR has become
affiliated with Clearchannel® and it's reflected in the programming.
=-0=========b l e c h ==
So since I've found out my shortwave radio comes in as good as you
can expect by clipping a wire to the bike (almost anywhere)
I started to take a TECSUN PL 230 with me in the car,and have been
strapping it to the sunroof(with the armband part of an old sports AM
FM radio ) handle and was listening to SW in my car a lot.
As long as the antenna is sticking out of the sunroof it comes in
pretty good.
So ....I sold this car and the new one doesn't have a sunroof.
=-(
I'm no radio expert...but I like the shortwave.
(Especially on weekends WBCQ)
I looked for shortwave radios for cars because someone I know used to
have British sportscars and said that they often had shortwave radios.
I also saw Mercedes had shortwave converters o ebay.
But I don't have a Mercedes =-(
Then there was a Subaru radio that had SW.
But I don't think it would fit in my car.
So....I looked up SW converters on google and there are these kits
(and I know someone who could build it for me)
But he says that this would nly be able to pick up 2 stations.
I have old radios here with SW and they have SW1 and SW2 ...
So they seem to get pretty much everything.
So my question is....
Has anybody ever tried these converters,and will they be able to get
the whole SW1 and SW2 ?
(Like from 2.3 to 23.0 ?)
If so I'm buying one.
This is one of them from a google search.
http://www.outpost.com/product/1743108
They all look pretty much the same.
I think it would be a lot cooler than XM in the car.
(PeeeYeww) That'll be the day I pay for radio.
(I still have never had cabal TV or Sad-ellite)
Paying for TV and now radio sets a bad example for broadcasters.




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aside from the fact that it ain't free anymore...

nate

David wrote:

Get Sirius satellite. It has BBC World Service News 24/7 plus the
World Radio Network schedule of international broadcasters. HF
broadcasting is near death. Satellite is where it's at for cultural
diversity.

http://www.wrn.org.

http://www.sirius.com/servlet/Conten...d=996089493678

http://www.sirius.com/servlet/Conten...d=996089493740

Kudos for kicking TV!

On 15 May 2004 18:43:09 -0700, (ex_cathedra)
wrote:


I am hooked on shortwave.
I have killed my TV a long time ago and now even NPR has become
affiliated with Clearchannel® and it's reflected in the programming.
=-0=========b l e c h ==
So since I've found out my shortwave radio comes in as good as you
can expect by clipping a wire to the bike (almost anywhere)
I started to take a TECSUN PL 230 with me in the car,and have been
strapping it to the sunroof(with the armband part of an old sports AM
FM radio ) handle and was listening to SW in my car a lot.
As long as the antenna is sticking out of the sunroof it comes in
pretty good.
So ....I sold this car and the new one doesn't have a sunroof.
=-(
I'm no radio expert...but I like the shortwave.
(Especially on weekends WBCQ)
I looked for shortwave radios for cars because someone I know used to
have British sportscars and said that they often had shortwave radios.
I also saw Mercedes had shortwave converters o ebay.
But I don't have a Mercedes =-(
Then there was a Subaru radio that had SW.
But I don't think it would fit in my car.
So....I looked up SW converters on google and there are these kits
(and I know someone who could build it for me)
But he says that this would nly be able to pick up 2 stations.
I have old radios here with SW and they have SW1 and SW2 ...
So they seem to get pretty much everything.
So my question is....
Has anybody ever tried these converters,and will they be able to get
the whole SW1 and SW2 ?
(Like from 2.3 to 23.0 ?)
If so I'm buying one.
This is one of them from a google search.
http://www.outpost.com/product/1743108
They all look pretty much the same.
I think it would be a lot cooler than XM in the car.
(PeeeYeww) That'll be the day I pay for radio.
(I still have never had cabal TV or Sad-ellite)
Paying for TV and now radio sets a bad example for broadcasters.




---------------------------------
Kill Your Television TurnOffYourTV.com
http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/
The Kill Your TV Website
http://www2.localaccess.com/hardebeck/




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In article ,
says...
aside from the fact that it ain't free anymore...

There are lots of high end communications receivers that mount very
nicely in cars. They are made by cos. like Yaesu, Kenwood etc.

They aren't cheap - probably start around $500 but you can listen to
everything.

You're kidding, right?

Gonna hang an R-8B under the dash like a FrigiKing aftermarket air
conditioner out of the J. C. Whitney catalog?

People listen to shortwave radio mainly for the diversity and the less
Anglocentric viewpoints. Satellite radio, in particular Sirius, goes
a long way to satisfying that need, without driving you batty with
static and flanging.



On Mon, 17 May 2004 01:44:30 GMT, Tony P.
wrote:

In article ,
says...
aside from the fact that it ain't free anymore...

There are lots of high end communications receivers that mount very
nicely in cars. They are made by cos. like Yaesu, Kenwood etc.

They aren't cheap - probably start around $500 but you can listen to
everything.

On Mon, 17 May 2004, David wrote:

People listen to shortwave radio mainly for the diversity and the less
Anglocentric viewpoints. Satellite radio, in particular Sirius, goes a
long way to satisfying that need, without driving you batty with static
and flanging.

Not to mention the fact that countries are going off shortwave wholesale.
BBC's gone, India's gone, Ausria's almost gone...guess if you want to hear
China, you can do that...

"Daniel J. Stern" wrote:

Not to mention the fact that countries are going off shortwave wholesale.
BBC's gone, India's gone, Ausria's almost gone...guess if you want to hear
China, you can do that...

I don't know what you're using for a shortwave receiver but I'm still
hearing the BBC and India just fine.


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"Daniel J. Stern" wrote in message in.umich.edu...
On Mon, 17 May 2004, David wrote:

People listen to shortwave radio mainly for the diversity and the less
Anglocentric viewpoints. Satellite radio, in particular Sirius, goes a
long way to satisfying that need, without driving you batty with static
and flanging.

Not to mention the fact that countries are going off shortwave wholesale.
BBC's gone, India's gone, Ausria's almost gone...guess if you want to hear
China, you can do that...

I can pretty much find stuff to listen to 6am till midnight...
Late at night theres Aussie radio...
I can handle a little static.
It was no problem listening to a PL230 strapped to my sunroof handle
till I sold that car.
Now I have no sunroof.
I was just wonderin if it would work.
(the converter)
I have steering wheel radio controls so I don't want to redesign the
whole car.
Or get a new steering wheel....
I really wouldn't mind the FrigiKing look.
(It's really not all that big anyway)
Status,style,prestige,impressing the herd and cutting edge hi-tech
mean very little to me.
Sad-o-light radio costs money.
Perhaps if people refused to pay for television,cabal TV would have
been free.
( I've see idiots paying $80.00 a month to get their brains
constipated !)
And what do they get for that?
They get to pay for Dizzney wether they watch it or not.
(And feed the rat)
or they are forced to foot the bill for mind numbing gladitorial
sports stations wether they watch them or not.
Nope....
Poo poo on XM


Thanx anyway!

XM doesn't carry ''SW Broadcasters''. Sirius does.

On 21 May 2004 00:14:10 -0700, (ex_cathedra)
wrote:


Poo poo on XM


Thanx anyway!

"Daniel J. Stern" wrote in message in.umich.edu...
On Mon, 17 May 2004, David wrote:

People listen to shortwave radio mainly for the diversity and the less
Anglocentric viewpoints. Satellite radio, in particular Sirius, goes a
long way to satisfying that need, without driving you batty with static
and flanging.

Not to mention the fact that countries are going off shortwave wholesale.
BBC's gone, India's gone, Ausria's almost gone...guess if you want to hear
China, you can do that...

I can pretty much find stuff to listen to 6am till midnight...
Late at night theres Aussie radio...
I can handle a little static.
It was no problem listening to a PL230 strapped to my sunroof handle
till I sold that car.
Now I have no sunroof.
I was just wonderin if it would work.
(the converter)
I have steering wheel radio controls so I don't want to redesign the
whole car.
Or get a new steering wheel....
I really wouldn't mind the FrigiKing look.
(It's really not all that big anyway)
Status,style,prestige,impressing the herd and cutting edge hi-tech
mean very little to me.
Sad-o-light radio costs money.
Perhaps if people refused to pay for television,cabal TV would have
been free.
( I've see idiots paying $80.00 a month to get their brains
constipated !)
And what do they get for that?
They get to pay for Dizzney wether they watch it or not.
(And feed the rat)
or they are forced to foot the bill for mind numbing gladitorial
sports stations wether they watch them or not.
Nope....
Poo poo on XM


Thanx anyway!

David wrote:

You're kidding, right?

Gonna hang an R-8B under the dash like a FrigiKing aftermarket air
conditioner out of the J. C. Whitney catalog?

People listen to shortwave radio mainly for the diversity and the less
Anglocentric viewpoints. Satellite radio, in particular Sirius, goes
a long way to satisfying that need, without driving you batty with
static and flanging.

On Mon, 17 May 2004 01:44:30 GMT, Tony P.
wrote:

In article ,
says...
aside from the fact that it ain't free anymore...

There are lots of high end communications receivers that mount very
nicely in cars. They are made by cos. like Yaesu, Kenwood etc.

They aren't cheap - probably start around $500 but you can listen to
everything.

No he wasn't kidding. I use a Drake SW8 in the car with a roof mounted
whip antenna. I run the audio through the car stereo. Works great.


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