Introducing myself as a courtesy
 

Hello all. I started reading rec.radio.shortwave hoping to gain some
information about -- of all the crazy notions - shortwave radio. I'm
reading quite a lot of political debate which I think is great, but before
I jumped into the fray with any questions or comments I figured it'd be
polite to introduce myself to explain my interest and to assure y'all that
I'm not some random troll. I know usenet isn't without its games so you
don't have to believe anything I write; my hopes are that sincerity might
be enough proof.

I'm a former Navy submarine electronics technician (both communications
and navigation) with an interest in the construction, operation and
maintenance of sound-reproducing equipment, mainly guitar amplifiers and
radio receivers. I'm interested in learning anything you can relay about
shortwave and will probably mostly read what you have to offer, but with
all this political talk I'm sure I'll be tempted to put in my two cents.

I look forward to reading and learning from this group.

In article ,
"Johnny Lipps" wrote:

Hello all. I started reading rec.radio.shortwave hoping to gain some
information about -- of all the crazy notions - shortwave radio.
I'm reading quite a lot of political debate which I think is great,
but before I jumped into the fray with any questions or comments I
figured it'd be polite to introduce myself to explain my interest
and to assure y'all that I'm not some random troll. I know usenet
isn't without its games so you don't have to believe anything I
write; my hopes are that sincerity might be enough proof.

I'm a former Navy submarine electronics technician (both
communications and navigation) with an interest in the construction,
operation and maintenance of sound-reproducing equipment, mainly
guitar amplifiers and radio receivers. I'm interested in learning
anything you can relay about shortwave and will probably mostly read
what you have to offer, but with all this political talk I'm sure
I'll be tempted to put in my two cents.

I look forward to reading and learning from this group.

Welcome to the newsgroup. The population that post here, other than the
juvenile Trolls, are mostly middle age and older males that have strong
opinions on just about anything.

The number of political posts will decline after the elections but this
is a popular newsgroup that ranges 100 to 200 posts a day normally and
when the political posts drop off something else will take its place so
be prepared to use the kill file and just ignore the threads that do
not interest you.

As a warning if you just post political or other off topic I'll just
kill file you. If you show genuine interest in the hobby with posts to
that effect and post political stuff I'll probably keep reading you. I
think you can see where I'm coming from with this thought.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

I also recommend sticking to shortwave topics here.
I also recommend kill filtering any of these off-topic posters. It'll
help you weed through the trash postings when finding interesting
shortwave radio information. There's been a lot of good stuff posted
in here regarding shortwave radio. Kill filters can almost be your
best friend in here.

MsJuLiE


On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 21:45:41 GMT, Telamon
wrote:

In article ,
"Johnny Lipps" wrote:

Hello all. I started reading rec.radio.shortwave hoping to gain some
information about -- of all the crazy notions - shortwave radio.
I'm reading quite a lot of political debate which I think is great,
but before I jumped into the fray with any questions or comments I
figured it'd be polite to introduce myself to explain my interest
and to assure y'all that I'm not some random troll. I know usenet
isn't without its games so you don't have to believe anything I
write; my hopes are that sincerity might be enough proof.

I'm a former Navy submarine electronics technician (both
communications and navigation) with an interest in the construction,
operation and maintenance of sound-reproducing equipment, mainly
guitar amplifiers and radio receivers. I'm interested in learning
anything you can relay about shortwave and will probably mostly read
what you have to offer, but with all this political talk I'm sure
I'll be tempted to put in my two cents.

I look forward to reading and learning from this group.

Welcome to the newsgroup. The population that post here, other than the
juvenile Trolls, are mostly middle age and older males that have strong
opinions on just about anything.

The number of political posts will decline after the elections but this
is a popular newsgroup that ranges 100 to 200 posts a day normally and
when the political posts drop off something else will take its place so
be prepared to use the kill file and just ignore the threads that do
not interest you.

As a warning if you just post political or other off topic I'll just
kill file you. If you show genuine interest in the hobby with posts to
that effect and post political stuff I'll probably keep reading you. I
think you can see where I'm coming from with this thought.

I suppose that depends on what you already know. I don't want to turn this
into a thread because any gear in a radio room that's REALLY interesting
couldn't be discussed online anyway. ;)

So, without being too coy (or too open):
This might be sacrilege, but for me the "coolest" aspects of Verdin (and
now SLVR - great to see the Navy stepping into the late-20th century) were
the message-processing functions of the system. Receivers will always
rely on the same basics, but it's those subsystems that deal with the data
AFTERWARDS that presented the greatest and most exciting challenges as a
technician and (later) developer. But that's all in the past. I do
websites now; less stress, no life and death decisions (no matter what the
client thinks).

On 28 Aug 2004 21:55:33 GMT, RFCOMMSYS wrote:

Anything interesting you can tell us about the VLF communications
equipment on subs?

Welcome ..

If its shortwave info you want, ; pirates, new receivers & such, you'll
probably find it here..
Heated debates about the latest Political Commerical content abound;
Kill Filing helps.

Dan / Nyc ( Jwin, JX-M14, R-75 Sangean 606A, a Bicycle & 100 feet of wire)



In article , "Johnny Lipps"
writes:


Hello all. I started reading rec.radio.shortwave hoping to gain some
information about -- of all the crazy notions - shortwave radio. I'm
reading quite a lot of political debate which I think is great, but before
I jumped into the fray with any questions or comments I figured it'd be
polite to introduce myself to explain my interest and to assure y'all that
I'm not some random troll. I know usenet isn't without its games so you
don't have to believe anything I write; my hopes are that sincerity might
be enough proof.

I'm a former Navy submarine electronics technician (both communications
and navigation) with an interest in the construction, operation and
maintenance of sound-reproducing equipment, mainly guitar amplifiers and
radio receivers. I'm interested in learning anything you can relay about
shortwave and will probably mostly read what you have to offer, but with
all this political talk I'm sure I'll be tempted to put in my two cents.

I look forward to reading and learning from this group.

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 03:08 pm -0600 UTC, Johnny Lipps
posted: %MM


I'm a former Navy submarine electronics technician (both communications


The navy of which country? What equipment do you listen with? Welcome to a
moderately informative and frequently controversial forum.

I'm using an Icom R-75 and a 100 m of wire for aerial.

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!

In article ,
says...
Hello all. I started reading rec.radio.shortwave hoping to gain some
information about -- of all the crazy notions - shortwave radio. I'm
reading quite a lot of political debate which I think is great, but before
I jumped into the fray with any questions or comments I figured it'd be
polite to introduce myself to explain my interest and to assure y'all that
I'm not some random troll. I know usenet isn't without its games so you
don't have to believe anything I write; my hopes are that sincerity might
be enough proof.

I'm a former Navy submarine electronics technician (both communications
and navigation) with an interest in the construction, operation and
maintenance of sound-reproducing equipment, mainly guitar amplifiers and
radio receivers. I'm interested in learning anything you can relay about
shortwave and will probably mostly read what you have to offer, but with
all this political talk I'm sure I'll be tempted to put in my two cents.

I look forward to reading and learning from this group.



Welcome to the group, hopefully the political junk will die out after
the election..hopefully.

BDK

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
--
-

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

"Johnny Lipps" wrote in message
...
Hello all. I started reading rec.radio.shortwave hoping to gain some
information about -- of all the crazy notions - shortwave radio.

Quite right Johnny, it should be about shortwave radio.

Mike

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.


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Telamon wrote:

Welcome to the newsgroup. The population that post here, other than the
juvenile Trolls, are mostly middle age and older males that have strong
opinions on just about anything.

The number of political posts will decline after the elections but this
is a popular newsgroup that ranges 100 to 200 posts a day normally and
when the political posts drop off something else will take its place so
be prepared to use the kill file and just ignore the threads that do
not interest you.

As a warning if you just post political or other off topic I'll just
kill file you. If you show genuine interest in the hobby with posts to
that effect and post political stuff I'll probably keep reading you. I
think you can see where I'm coming from with this thought.

--
Telamon

However what Telamon didn't tell you is:

He's in a lot of people's kill files for doing what he just warned you
about. Take a look at the google.groups archive for this group to see
what he's really like. Most of his posts in the past few months were
attacks against a certain person he doesn't like and political rants.


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Johnny Lipps wrote:

I'm a former Navy submarine electronics technician (both communications
and navigation) with an interest in the construction, operation and
maintenance of sound-reproducing equipment, mainly guitar amplifiers
and radio receivers.


Hi Johnny..just out of curiosity, when did the Navy Brass find out that
the sonar was damaging and killing whales and dolphins? Some reports
say there may have been tens of thousands of these animals killed
because of direct damage or a later inability to navigate or swim.

Any insights welcome.



mike

I didn't know anybody in the Navy's marching band so I couldn't tell you
if the brass (let alone the percussionists) were aware of any impact
active SONAR may have on whales and dolphins.
While we're off-topic: some reports indicate a rise in the use of phantom
citations in passive-aggressive Usenet posts.

Cheers,
J

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 07:52:46 GMT, m II wrote:

Johnny Lipps wrote:

I'm a former Navy submarine electronics technician (both
communications and navigation) with an interest in the construction,
operation and maintenance of sound-reproducing equipment, mainly
guitar amplifiers and radio receivers.


Hi Johnny..just out of curiosity, when did the Navy Brass find out that
the sonar was damaging and killing whales and dolphins? Some reports
say there may have been tens of thousands of these animals killed
because of direct damage or a later inability to navigate or swim.

Any insights welcome.



mike

"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

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!

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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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.


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Sad, but probably true. I don't really get it..

BDK

Great answer to an idiot, Johnny! Those band members were always at the
pier when we returned from patrol, and one of the first questions they would
ask us was "how many dolphins did you guys nail?" So I'm pretty sure the
brass, especially the trombone section, knew all along what we were really
out there for!

Welcome to the group from another submariner.

Jack Painter
Virginia Beach VA

"Johnny Lipps" wrote

I didn't know anybody in the Navy's marching band so I couldn't tell you
if the brass (let alone the percussionists) were aware of any impact
active SONAR may have on whales and dolphins.
While we're off-topic: some reports indicate a rise in the use of phantom
citations in passive-aggressive Usenet posts.

Cheers,
J

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 07:52:46 GMT, m II wrote:

Hi Johnny..just out of curiosity, when did the Navy Brass find out that
the sonar was damaging and killing whales and dolphins? Some reports
say there may have been tens of thousands of these animals killed
because of direct damage or a later inability to navigate or swim.

Any insights welcome.



mike

Volker Tonn wrote:

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...


http://radio.linux.org.au/pkgdetail....t=& pkgid=376

http://snipurl.com/8qe8



I haven't set this up yet, so I can't comment on the workings of it.



mike

On 29 Aug 2004 14:43:41 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:

On Sat 28 Aug 2004 06:13:33p, JuLiE Dxer wrote in message
:

I also recommend sticking to shortwave topics here.
I also recommend kill filtering any of these off-topic posters. It'll
help you weed through the trash postings when finding interesting
shortwave radio information. There's been a lot of good stuff posted
in here regarding shortwave radio. Kill filters can almost be your
best friend in here.

MsJuLiE

{snippage}


You aren't going to allow folks to discuss what they actually heard on the
radio?


-=jd=-

JD - you seem to be repeating yourself but hey - we all need to hear
that more than once. Thanks.

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

In article , sirius
wrote:

Telamon wrote:

Welcome to the newsgroup. The population that post here, other than the
juvenile Trolls, are mostly middle age and older males that have strong
opinions on just about anything.

The number of political posts will decline after the elections but this
is a popular newsgroup that ranges 100 to 200 posts a day normally and
when the political posts drop off something else will take its place so
be prepared to use the kill file and just ignore the threads that do
not interest you.

As a warning if you just post political or other off topic I'll just
kill file you. If you show genuine interest in the hobby with posts to
that effect and post political stuff I'll probably keep reading you. I
think you can see where I'm coming from with this thought.

--
Telamon

However what Telamon didn't tell you is:

He's in a lot of people's kill files for doing what he just warned you
about. Take a look at the google.groups archive for this group to see
what he's really like. Most of his posts in the past few months were
attacks against a certain person he doesn't like and political rants.


I will not kill file Bryant. He is too entertaining.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Living in a metal tube, deep under the ocean, with lots of other men,
is a great effort to replicate hell.
In regards to politics, the kingdom of heaven is a dictatorship. It
works because the One in charge is righteous, and true. Welcome to
earth. We're all a little bit corrupt. Democracy equals mob-rules. The
present aristocracy smiles at you whilest they twist the proverbial
blade.
Just some random thoughts... Darren
P.S. your radio prowess will be enhanced by copious cash infusements...





http://community-2.webtv.net/DEMEM/L...mes/page2.html

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:13:11 -0600, uncle arnie
wrote:

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 (!)


Eventually I want to use Linux as a multimedia controller and have a
laptop on which I've been running different releases to get a feel for
them. Started with Knoppix, then Debian, Suse, Fedora, Slackware...Xbox
Linux intrigues me as well (there's a brief explanation as to why on my
website : http://www.benhellmann.com/ . Johnny Lipps is my stage name.
Figure if I'm gonna be here awhile, y'all oughta know who you're reading
-- let the recriminations begin). It seems TK75 would run fine on all, so
it's really a matter of determining the strengths of each release for my
goals, which are really general at the moment.

As far as using computer control less, is this because you became more
comfortbale with the hardware interface or that you've dialed in all the
settings you need to with TK75 and can now operate the R-75 without having
to change those settings?

The archives have been extremely helpful in sorting through what can be an
overwhelming set of possibilities, and I thank everybody for their input.

"Johnny Lipps" wrote

website : http://www.benhellmann.com/ . Johnny Lipps is my stage name.
Figure if I'm gonna be here awhile, y'all oughta know who you're reading
-- let the recriminations begin).

We still don't know who you are. A poster in radio communications hobbys who
refuses to state his name. You're a real SHIPMATE, yep.

Jack Painter
Virginia Beach VA

Actually Shippy, I'm not a radio-communications hobbyist, nor am I
interested in the dead-end tribal bickering or demonization of oppposing
views that goes on in this newsgroup. Following mark's random hostility
(a question akin to "When did you stop beating your wife?"), I explained
to my girlfriend what a troll was and her only question, sensibly enough,
was "Why would anybody do that?" Indeed.
I stated from the get-go that I'm looking to tune into broadcasts for
Indonesian music. I provided my background in electronics to convey that
I have an understanding of the fundamentals of radio and that therefore
the typical newbie handholding wouldn't be necessary. I want insight on
gear, and leads on broadcasts. So far I've deleted more bad-faith
political threads and personal attacks than I've read information on
equipment. Uncle Arnie and Mark Holden have been quite helpful, while
most others saw my introduction as another chance to vent their particular
gripes.
If for some bizarre reason anybody wanted to know anything about me beyond
my interest in radio, they could have asked instead of assuming (as many
apparently did) that my status as a veteran automatically meant that I was
a right-wing android. Since it became apparent that continued involvement
on the board was going to engender senseless snipes, I dropped the thin
veil of anonymity so that if anybody wanted to learn my political views
they could go to my website instead of reading yet another useless post
(which this has now become).

I'm going with the RX-320. Now I have to read up on constructing the best
antenna for an apartment in an urban area.

Ben Hellmann,
Providence, RI
USA


On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:56:39 -0400, Jack Painter wrote:


"Johnny Lipps" wrote

website : http://www.benhellmann.com/ . Johnny Lipps is my stage name.
Figure if I'm gonna be here awhile, y'all oughta know who you're reading
-- let the recriminations begin).

We still don't know who you are. A poster in radio communications hobbys
who
refuses to state his name. You're a real SHIPMATE, yep.

Jack Painter
Virginia Beach VA





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"Johnny Lipps" wrote (in essence)

I'm going with the RX-320. Now I have to read up on constructing the best
antenna for an apartment in an urban area.

Ben Hellmann,
Providence, RI
USA

I don't care what your political leanings are and I will be glad to offer
constructive comments about SWL.

You made your choice on receivers, now whatever your neighbors/owner etc
will tolerate is all that's left to bring in best reception possible.
Hanging a temporary wire out to a tree, pole or even the ground works great
if nothing permanent is allowed. We've done this from hotel rooms on the
oceanfront with great success. Even had a police helo take an eye-level look
at our yagi and aerials on the balcony, and long wires strung down to
lightpoles on the boardwalk. Six of us waved back and nobody stormed the
place. ;-)

If you are on the top floor of an apartment, atic-access might allow a real
network of random wire, or even a loop antenna. This could outperform many
kinds of random wires in the yard.

Best regards,

Jack
Va Beach

Johnny Lipps wrote:
snip
I stated from the get-go that I'm looking to tune into broadcasts for
Indonesian music.
snip

I'm going with the RX-320. Now I have to read up on constructing the best
antenna for an apartment in an urban area.



Hi

I've never had an RX-320, but folks seem to love them.

A neat feature is you'll have quite a few programmable IF filter choices available.

Your mileage may vary, but if you're listening to music, I suggest starting with a filter in the range of 6.0 khz for AM mode, and 2.9-3.2 khz for sideband.

As for your antenna, if you're in a wood frame building that doesn't have aluminum siding, and you can't have an outdoor antenna, you might try an antenna like one of my friends has.

It's a loop of wire around the perimeter of his living room, up near the ceiling. He uses thumb tacks or push pins every few feet to hold it up. You can see it if you look for it, but most folks don't notice it because the he used wire wrap wire (it's
thin) and it and the pins are the same color as the walls.

He uses an impedance matching transformer where the antenna connects to the coax.

I like loop antennas indoors because they don't pick up as much RFI as a random wire. Another popular low noise design is a dipole.

He feeds his into a multi coupler and from there into three rack mount HF radios.

If you can use an outdoor antenna, you might try something like the "Doty style" antenna - it's a random wire away from the house with an impedance matching transformer. Mine is down at the moment because my impedance matching transformer got vaporized
by lightning strike, but it's normally as quiet as when I'm camping in the woods.

In article k2GYc.112201$Lj.103853@fed1read03, "Jack Painter"
writes:



"Johnny Lipps" wrote (in essence)

I'm going with the RX-320. Now I have to read up on constructing the best
antenna for an apartment in an urban area.

Ben Hellmann,
Providence, RI
USA

Ben Consider the design below:


Outdoor Antenna for Apartment Dwellers . .
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

MATERIALS

Some Stranded, Insulated copper wire from Radio shack
Colors so it matches the bricks / outside of your building

Some stick-on Cord holders
One tube clear Silicone sealer glue
One black magic marker
One Rusty red magic marker
A roll of Duct tape color of outside of apt.

One Mop
One piece of twine or string.
One Small soft edged weight.

PROCEDU

See how far it is in between two windows of your Apt..

Measure out a piece of string this distance + ~ 6 - 8 feet.
Attach a small soft edged weight to it.

( Look Outside to see no one is looking !! )

Secure curious household pets

Open Both Windows.
Insert mop part way out one]
Close that window to secure mop handle

Run over to the other window QUICK!
Take the twine with the weight on it & (without risking life & limb)
Toss the string over the mop sticking out the other window.
Secure the end of that end of the string with a bit of slack
Close that window
Run over to the other window with the mop that has the twine handing down off
it

Pull the mop in
Close the window.

( Breath deeply )

NOW....

Attach the stranded wire to the end of the string.
Slightly open window
Run over to the oher window.
Open it & pull in string until wire / string connection is through..

Pull in enough so that wire will reach SWR
Attach wire to SWR.
Close window.

- That's basically it. Modify as needed.

You can take Square stick -on cord holders
Camouflage them with magic Marker color , &
Silicone glue them to the outside corners of the window,
Then loop more wire

( DONT FALL OUT WHEN DOING THIS !!)

around the cord holders. This makes the antenna longer.
repeat for other windows..This should help lots..

( Works for me !!)

Jack Painter wrote:
"Johnny Lipps" wrote
website : http://www.benhellmann.com/

We still don't know who you are. A poster in radio communications hobbys who
refuses to state his name. You're a real SHIPMATE, yep.

Yeah, how could anyone EVER guess his name from what he wrote there?

--
"The truth, which is what elections are all about, is that the tax burden of
the middle class has gone up while the tax burden of the middle class has
gone down." -- John Kerry, August 26, 2004

"Johnny Lipps" wrote in message
...
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.

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 07:02 pm -0600 UTC, Johnny Lipps
posted: %MM

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:13:11 -0600, uncle arnie
wrote:

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 (!)


Eventually I want to use Linux as a multimedia controller and have a
laptop on which I've been running different releases to get a feel for
them. Started with Knoppix, then Debian, Suse, Fedora, Slackware...Xbox
Linux intrigues me as well (there's a brief explanation as to why on my
website : http://www.benhellmann.com/ . Johnny Lipps is my stage name.
Figure if I'm gonna be here awhile, y'all oughta know who you're reading
-- let the recriminations begin). It seems TK75 would run fine on all, so
it's really a matter of determining the strengths of each release for my
goals, which are really general at the moment.

As far as using computer control less, is this because you became more
comfortbale with the hardware interface or that you've dialed in all the
settings you need to with TK75 and can now operate the R-75 without having
to change those settings?

I think it's b/c I have the R-75 set up for band scanning the way I like it.
A few fav frq in memories and then various typical band upper and lower
limits in others. Then I just spin the dial. Some of my listening is also
late night insomnia and ear phones and dial spinning are less domestically
disruptive than firing up the laptop, so says the wife.



The archives have been extremely helpful in sorting through what can be an
overwhelming set of possibilities, and I thank everybody for their input.

--
-

Yep, he's a blubbering idiot.


On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 03:04:10 -0400, sirius wrote:

Telamon wrote:

Welcome to the newsgroup. The population that post here, other than the
juvenile Trolls, are mostly middle age and older males that have strong
opinions on just about anything.

The number of political posts will decline after the elections but this
is a popular newsgroup that ranges 100 to 200 posts a day normally and
when the political posts drop off something else will take its place so
be prepared to use the kill file and just ignore the threads that do
not interest you.

As a warning if you just post political or other off topic I'll just
kill file you. If you show genuine interest in the hobby with posts to
that effect and post political stuff I'll probably keep reading you. I
think you can see where I'm coming from with this thought.

--
Telamon

However what Telamon didn't tell you is:

He's in a lot of people's kill files for doing what he just warned you
about. Take a look at the google.groups archive for this group to see
what he's really like. Most of his posts in the past few months were
attacks against a certain person he doesn't like and political rants.


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