From: "Zaphon B."
Organization: "President of the Universe"
Reply-To: "Zaphon B."
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 02:51:28 -0500
Subject: Hi, I'm new

I'm new, so I'd like to wish everyone here a good day and a big HELLO.

OK. I bought a Grudig S350, comments, thoughts, suggestions?

(Snip)
I'm surprised no one has said this yet, so I will. Get the newest edition
(2004) of Passport to World Band Radio from Amazon or your favorite book
seller. It's chock full of SW information, like broadcast schedules,
equipment reviews, and interesting articles. The World Radio and TV
Handbook (WRTH) is another popular guide.

Also, look for a Radio Shack wind-up antenna. It's a 24-foot wire on a
plastic reel with a clip on one end to attach to your whip antenna. It will
make that excellent portable of yours much more sensitive and it makes it
easy to use the radio in different rooms in the house or on camping trips to
St. Andrews State Park.

Have fun.

Greg

You may want to check out this page:

http://www.kiwa.com/GrundigS350.html

Al

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Zaphon B. wrote:
I'm new, so I'd like to wish everyone here a good day and a big HELLO.

OK. I bought a Grudig S350, comments, thoughts, suggestions?

I live in USA, Florida, Panhandle and I really want to catch up
on world news and the local cultures and going ons of various
countries, can someone help me out and toss a newbie a bone or
two?

I also understand Morse code as well as the next boy scout, but
some of it I seem to be picking up seems to be bursting out so fast
that I'm starting to think it isn't even Morse code, is there some
other high speed data burst stuff going on or am I just really
clueless to Morse code?

also any truth to the half murky stuff about random M/C popping up
at random places and times across the world and no one know
exactly what the **** is going on?

Thank You.

Zaphod "stil prez, stil a newbie"

PS. I think that shortwave radio is kinda like the internet only for people
who
have imagination. Am I wrong or a snob?

I'm new, so I'd like to wish everyone here a good day and a big HELLO.

OK. I bought a Grudig S350, comments, thoughts, suggestions?

ooops, my bad. I accused you in another thread of being *Phil*-ebay UFO Antenna
on the head with a Suction Cup *Phil*.

Sorry about that. Did anyone else get a 'truly' weird feeling in looknig at
his site and watching some of those films clips of his? I had to stop, I was
feeling disturbed...lol....seriously....it was like I felt bad for him in a
weird way. {?}


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