Update on 12-year-old's SW radio
 

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.

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

"Diverd4777" wrote in message
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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:

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.

- I guess let HIM decide if & when he wants a broadcast schedule..
Had an old Hally; that had cities & countries on the dial;
- But didn't realize they weren't broadcasting all the time

Radio Moscow was cool, So was VOA, So was the BBC
& So were hams..
Iffen I'd known about Aircraft & Volmats & Police Broadcasts i'd have gone wild

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 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !


Great...

Next, buy the kid a globe.
--
Al Dykes
-----------
adykes at p a n i x . c o m

And a decent atlas, perhaps The Times World Atlas, Comprehensive Edition....



"Al Dykes" 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 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !


Great...

Next, buy the kid a globe.
--
Al Dykes
-----------
adykes at p a n i x . c o m

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.

Al Dykes wrote:

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 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !


Great...

Next, buy the kid a globe.
--
Al Dykes



Not a bad idea. As a novice SWL in the sixties, my most prized
possesion after the receiver and my copy of "White's" was a map of the
world on the wall in my shack.

Tony

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

(New subject):

"Dan" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 07:06:56 GMT, m II
wrote:

Grundig S800, S650, S700, YB400, YB550PE, S350
Degen DE1102, Kaito KA1102
Drake R8, Radio Shack DX-440

I intend to purchase a multi-band (world) DX receiver for global short wave
listening, as well as long-distance BCB. The list above from Dan seems to
include some of the most popularly used and discussed receivers available.

Could anyone assist me with their experiences by suggesting a priority
order - best to worst - for say half of them, based on performance and
features.

Also, what brands and models perform even better than those shown above, in
order of increasing cost?

TIA

Graeme