In article , "jtaylor"
writes:

Subject: Update on 12-year-old's SW radio
From: "jtaylor"
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:47:39 -0300

Grundig S350.

Up here in the Great White North getting a Tecsun from ebay would cost
almost as much as the S350 at Radio Shack, but still I wondered about
spending that much$.

Yesterday I went in and they had a flyer that said get the S350, get a
Grunding P100 free. The only S350 they had still had a sale sticker on it -
$20 off. For that combo, I bit - he can have the little one as well for
travel/camping.

Couldn't get him to go to bed last night.

"Listen - it's from SWEDEN!"

Worth it, as was the advice here; thanks all.


YESSSS ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

- Thats how I felt, hearing all these strange broadcasts when I was a Kid..

Hope you get him a copy of Monitoring times or something similar;

& have fun with some antennas too!

Dan

http://www.hard-core-dx.com/nordicdx...ire/index.html

Diverd4777 wrote:

YESSSS ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

- Thats how I felt, hearing all these strange broadcasts when I was a Kid..

Hope you get him a copy of Monitoring times or something similar;

& have fun with some antennas too!

I still remember listening to the Shadow as I warmed my hands over the
little thermals set up by the 6V6 'valves'.

Transistors stole my childhood. Damn you Bell Labs! g



mike

Mike: I still remember listening to the Shadow as I warmed my hands over the

little thermals set up by the 6V6 'valves'.

Transistors stole my childhood. Damn you Bell Labs! g

LOL As they say... Real radios glow in the dark.

My late wife (N5GIN) of 52+ years, bless her, thought the same thing. She would
have rather had an SX-28A in the living room than one of the super receivers of
today.

73,
Bill, K5BY

WShoots1 wrote:

My late wife (N5GIN) of 52+ years, bless her, thought the same thing. She would
have rather had an SX-28A in the living room than one of the super receivers of
today.


And who could blame her?

http://www.rigpix.com/hallicrafter/sx28a.htm


That is one sweet looking set.




mike

From: (WShoots1)
Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date: 10 Jul 2004 05:32:21 GMT
Subject: Update on 12-year-old's SW radio

Mike: I still remember listening to the Shadow as I warmed my hands over
the

little thermals set up by the 6V6 'valves'.

Transistors stole my childhood. Damn you Bell Labs! g

LOL As they say... Real radios glow in the dark.

My late wife (N5GIN) of 52+ years, bless her, thought the same thing. She
would
have rather had an SX-28A in the living room than one of the super receivers
of
today.

73,
Bill, K5BY

My JRC NRD-525 has a red LED right inside the vent in the top of the metal
cabinet. If I squint my eyes a little it's easy to imagine that it's the
glow of a tube filament.

Greg

"Greg" wrote in message
...
My JRC NRD-525 has a red LED right inside the vent in the top of the metal
cabinet. If I squint my eyes a little it's easy to imagine that it's the
glow of a tube filament.

Greg


Now there you go... I wonder if I could make a job out of installing several
orange or yellow LED's run on low current in solid state gear to give that
tube look to them..

Brenda Ann Dyer wrote:

"Greg" wrote in message
...

My JRC NRD-525 has a red LED right inside the vent in the top of the metal
cabinet. If I squint my eyes a little it's easy to imagine that it's the
glow of a tube filament.

Greg



Now there you go... I wonder if I could make a job out of installing several
orange or yellow LED's run on low current in solid state gear to give that
tube look to them..


Good step one. Now, how to get a working 'cat's eye' tuner tube
equivalent...



mike

"Diverd4777" wrote in message
...
In article , "jtaylor"
writes:

Subject: Update on 12-year-old's SW radio
From: "jtaylor"
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:47:39 -0300

Grundig S350.

Up here in the Great White North getting a Tecsun from ebay would cost
almost as much as the S350 at Radio Shack, but still I wondered about
spending that much$.

Yesterday I went in and they had a flyer that said get the S350, get a
Grunding P100 free. The only S350 they had still had a sale sticker on
it -
$20 off. For that combo, I bit - he can have the little one as well for
travel/camping.

Couldn't get him to go to bed last night.

"Listen - it's from SWEDEN!"

Worth it, as was the advice here; thanks all.


YESSSS ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

- Thats how I felt, hearing all these strange broadcasts when I was a
Kid..

Hope you get him a copy of Monitoring times or something similar;


Noooooo!! Don't ruin half the fun for him by taking the magic out of it by
giving him a schedule.. The thing about SW for a kid (and I remember it
well) is the thrill of discovery. Give him a schedule, and you take that
away.. kinda ruins the wonder part of the experience.

Brenda Ann Dyer wrote:

Noooooo!! Don't ruin half the fun for him by taking the magic out of it by
giving him a schedule.. The thing about SW for a kid (and I remember it
well) is the thrill of discovery. Give him a schedule, and you take that
away.. kinda ruins the wonder part of the experience.

Good point. Let him bandscan for a few months before suggesting a
program schedule. Otherwise he'll get focused on finding a particular
station instead of learning what there is to hear on the entire HF
spectrum.


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Brenda Ann Dyer wrote in message
...

Hope you get him a copy of Monitoring times or something similar;


Noooooo!! Don't ruin half the fun for him by taking the magic out of it
by
giving him a schedule.. The thing about SW for a kid (and I remember
it
well) is the thrill of discovery. Give him a schedule, and you take that
away.. kinda ruins the wonder part of the experience.

Went in last night to suggest he write down interesting station frequencies.
Started by picking up a little spiral-bound notepad on the desk and asked
him if it was empty. He sais "well almost" - I flip to the front page and
there are five freqs and a note beside each.