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On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 18:46:03 -0600, uncle arnie
wrote: The navy of which country? Sorry, should have remembered that I'm dealing with an international group: United States Navy. What equipment do you listen with? That's one of the reasons I'm reading the group: I don't currently have any equipment. It's been over a decade since I've been an active listener and back then I was using a no-name portable received from my father. Recently I've been finding recordings of tapes of broadcasts from Indonesia and was hoping to tune in on my own. The matter of which equipment to use is being cleared up somewhat from posts here and the Shortwave Radio Reviews at http://www.vectorbd.com/sw_review.html. I guess the main question I need to answer for myself is what level of listener I want to be, casual or hardcore hobbyist. I sense it's somewhere in between: I want a receiver that is tunable in smaller increments than the standard portable, but I want to spend less time tweaking than listening. When I have a setup working I'm sure you'll see plenty of questions from me. Thanks to everybody for the welcomes! |
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On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 07:36 pm -0600 UTC, Johnny Lipps
posted: %MM On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 18:46:03 -0600, uncle arnie wrote: The navy of which country? Sorry, should have remembered that I'm dealing with an international group: United States Navy. What equipment do you listen with? That's one of the reasons I'm reading the group: I don't currently have any equipment. It's been over a decade since I've been an active listener and back then I was using a no-name portable received from my father. Recently I've been finding recordings of tapes of broadcasts from Indonesia and was hoping to tune in on my own. The matter of which equipment to use is being cleared up somewhat from posts here and the Shortwave Radio Reviews at http://www.vectorbd.com/sw_review.html. I guess the main question I need to answer for myself is what level of listener I want to be, casual or hardcore hobbyist. I sense it's somewhere in between: I want a receiver that is tunable in smaller increments than the standard portable, but I want to spend less time tweaking than listening. When I have a setup working I'm sure you'll see plenty of questions from me. Thanks to everybody for the welcomes! I moved up the R-75 after using a Sangean ATS-909, Grundig YB-400. I also have an ATS-606 and YB-300. My second fav radio is the 909, but the YB-400 is usually for sale new for round about 100 US $. An excellent radio. I got the 909 to listen to the side bands, for which it is superior to the YB400 (hams and utilities). I travel with the 606 and cart around the YB300 everyday with me, just in case. Wanting to listen to signals more clearly from farther away made me jump for the R-75. In hindsight, I should have bought a better radio at the start of my restarted listening. I listened in the late 1960's and into the 70's before. I would really like a Drake but lots more money. The very great leap in signal clarity with the R-75 convinces me that a radio with all features of the drake must be pretty sweet sounding. It is well worth checking out mail order and used. I have ordered locally and from the US. Arnie -- - |
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On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:11:17 -0600, uncle arnie
wrote: I moved up the R-75 after using a Sangean ATS-909, Grundig YB-400. I also have an ATS-606 and YB-300. That one sentence kicked off a lot of reading! After poring over the archives and looking all over the net, I'm down to the R-75, the PCR-1000 and Ten-Tec's RX-320 as fitting my price-range and having the features I think I'm most interested in. And I found Linux controllers for all of them. From the archives I can see there's been a lot of debate about all three receivers, so I'll take my time and research more before making a decision. Thanks for leading me in a good direction! |
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![]() Johnny Lipps schrieb: On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:11:17 -0600, uncle arnie wrote: I moved up the R-75 after using a Sangean ATS-909, Grundig YB-400. I also have an ATS-606 and YB-300. That one sentence kicked off a lot of reading! After poring over the archives and looking all over the net, I'm down to the R-75, the PCR-1000 and Ten-Tec's RX-320 as fitting my price-range and having the features I think I'm most interested in. And I found Linux controllers for all of them. If you're mostly interested into shortwave go with the R-75 or the RX-320. There is some _very_ nice software for the RX-320. The newer RX-320'D' will also support DRM. Don't know about Linux software supporting DRM... If you like a standalone receiver go with the R-75. The PCR1000 is comparable with the Sony 2010 on shortwave performance, not too bad for a widerange receiver of that price. But the PCR-1000 is far behind the R-75 on shortwave. .. .. (T)RX: NRD-525 with serial interface PCR-1000 without UT-106 DSP Yaesu FT50-R Sony ICF-2001D (2010) Albrecht AE300 100Khz-2.060Ghz AM FM SSB no gaps Loewe Opta LO50 stereo radio with valves FM AM LW SW Trio 9R-59DS audio: Datong FL2 analog audio filter in series with Dierking GD 82NF analog audio filter in series with Kenwood HiFI-amp with integrated equalizer feeding AKG K-240Monitor headphones and/or hifi-speakers antennas: Magnetic loop 18-31Mhz remote tuning Discone 25-1300Mhz FD-antenna 40.5mtr/ 135 ft FD-antenna 13.8mtr/ 44 ft rain gutter areal app. 150 mtr/ 495 ft Yaesu FRT7700 preselector Yaesu FRA7700 selective active antenna/ modified for selective preamp ....and last but not least a bunch of computers... |
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On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 03:33 am -0600 UTC, Johnny Lipps
posted: %MM On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:11:17 -0600, uncle arnie wrote: I moved up the R-75 after using a Sangean ATS-909, Grundig YB-400. I also have an ATS-606 and YB-300. That one sentence kicked off a lot of reading! After poring over the archives and looking all over the net, I'm down to the R-75, the PCR-1000 and Ten-Tec's RX-320 as fitting my price-range and having the features I think I'm most interested in. And I found Linux controllers for all of them. What Linux are you running? I have a debian-based system, running tk75 for the R-75. http://www.parnass.org/tk75/ , though I am using computer control less often these days. I think I want to run the receiver from my palm pilot (!) From the archives I can see there's been a lot of debate about all three receivers, so I'll take my time and research more before making a decision. Thanks for leading me in a good direction! I've found that some features and options and some things listed as deficits with receivers are simply a matter of getting used to. Good luck with your shopping. Arnie |
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![]() "Johnny Lipps" wrote in message news ![]() On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:11:17 -0600, uncle arnie wrote: After poring over the archives and looking all over the net, I'm down to the R-75, the PCR-1000 and Ten-Tec's RX-320 as fitting my price-range and having the features I think I'm most interested in. With that kind of price range, you may also want to read about the Japan Radio Company NRD-545, if you haven't already. Mark. |
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Johnny Lipps wrote:
I guess the main question I need to answer for myself is what level of listener I want to be, casual or hardcore hobbyist. I sense it's somewhere in between: I want a receiver that is tunable in smaller increments than the standard portable, but I want to spend less time tweaking than listening. When I have a setup working I'm sure you'll see plenty of questions from me. Thanks to everybody for the welcomes! The review site you posted doesn't appear to have been updated in a few years, so it's missing most of the current radios, and for that matter several out of production favorites. Here's a web site with basic information on about 100 of the more popular radios available on the used market. http://www.dxing.com/rx/rxindex.htm If you tell us the kinds of features you think you want, how you'd like to use it, and your general price range, odds are you'll get plenty of suggestions for radios we think are worth considering. Participants here use everything from portables to tube era boat anchors to state of the art rack mount radios. You might also want to start considering your antenna options, because this will probably be a factor when it comes to picking a radio. Regards, Mark |
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BDK wrote:
Welcome to the group, hopefully the political junk will die out after the election..hopefully. BDK They'll go back to harassing MWB. -----= 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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![]() "sirius" wrote in message ... BDK wrote: Welcome to the group, hopefully the political junk will die out after the election..hopefully. BDK They'll go back to harassing MWB. Yes welcome to the group. Amongst the annoying off topic stuff each day there are some interesting dx items which are great to read, thanks to all of those contributors. I hope the other ones will realise that they are wasting their time posting to this list. I kind kill file helps. Mike |
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