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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 - $20 off. For that combo, I bit - he can have the little one as well for travel/camping. Couldn't get him to go to bed last night. "Listen - it's from SWEDEN!" Worth it, as was the advice here; thanks all. |
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In article , "jtaylor"
writes: Subject: Update on 12-year-old's SW radio From: "jtaylor" Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:47:39 -0300 Grundig S350. Up here in the Great White North getting a Tecsun from ebay would cost almost as much as the S350 at Radio Shack, but still I wondered about spending that much$. 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; & have fun with some antennas too! Dan http://www.hard-core-dx.com/nordicdx...ire/index.html |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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"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.. |
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"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. |
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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. -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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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. |
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