best scanner for HF use?
 

Next Christmas is closer than we think. I need to prepare the
subliminal messages early to make sure a worthy person gets what
they deserve under the tree.

Sort of OT, but the frequency coverage is right. I realize these are
not as good as a dedicated receiver, but I'd like to find out which
rates well for short wave reception.

Yupiteru MVT 9000
Yupiteru MVT 7200
AOR 8200 II or III
Alinco DJ-X2000

or any others which may score well..any insights welcome


mike

I once had a scanner that could get shortwave but it was a godawful
performer on SW. (selectivity and sensitivity) The main thing I bought
it for is that I passed through OJ's old housing project in San
Francisco on a bus and I saw a buncha kids selling something on the
street using cell phones and the scanner I got was one of the last
ones sold in the U.S. that got cell phones without any modifications.

I also thought maybe I would hear about a merger or something and I
could do some insider trading and get rich.

Two weeks of listening to "honey I'll be home in half an hour" and
"we've got a TV repair order at 252 Balboa Street" did more to turn me
off cell phone monitoring than any number of laws.

I don't need to say this here but don't say anything that you don't
want the word to hear when talking on a cell phone or a wireless phone
connected to a landline. At one time, I could pick up what I think was
a restaurant reading credit cards just past 1600 kHz and I recently
picked up a neighbor at the low end of the FM band (second harmonic)
but she was just talking about TV programming and other banal stuff.

I once had a Yupi 7100. Great sensitivity on everything above 25 MHz.
Useless, though, on SW and MW.

Handheld: VR-500
Tabletop: VR-5000


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I once had a scanner that could get shortwave but it was a godawful
performer on SW. (selectivity and sensitivity) The main thing I bought
it for is that I passed through OJ's old housing project in San
Francisco on a bus and I saw a buncha kids selling something on the
street using cell phones and the scanner I got was one of the last
ones sold in the U.S. that got cell phones without any modifications.

I also thought maybe I would hear about a merger or something and I
could do some insider trading and get rich.

Two weeks of listening to "honey I'll be home in half an hour" and
"we've got a TV repair order at 252 Balboa Street" did more to turn me
off cell phone monitoring than any number of laws.

I don't need to say this here but don't say anything that you don't
want the word to hear when talking on a cell phone or a wireless phone
connected to a landline. At one time, I could pick up what I think was
a restaurant reading credit cards just past 1600 kHz and I recently
picked up a neighbor at the low end of the FM band (second harmonic)
but she was just talking about TV programming and other banal stuff.